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久しぶり | Of Ravens and Writing Desks...

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Of Ravens and Writing Desks…. Explorations and experiments with textiles, dress history, and life's adventures. The Clark Centre for Japanese Art and Culture. Is a small cluster of buildings set back from the road, in the centre of a walnut grove outside of the small, central San Joaquin Valley farm town of Hanford. It is very easy to miss if you don’t know to look for it. Once you find it, it is hard to believe you are in the Dairy Belt of California. Photo by Elliot Kallen for Google Earth. There are n...

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For the love of Paisley | Of Ravens and Writing Desks...

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Of Ravens and Writing Desks…. Explorations and experiments with textiles, dress history, and life's adventures. For the love of Paisley. I am happy to present Of Ravens and Writing Desks’ first ever guest post from my Worn Through colleague and one of my dearest friends, Monica D. Murgia. Monica has an MA in Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice from FIT. Her focus was curatorial, with an emphasis on twentieth century fashion designers. Artistic collaboration with fashion designers.

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Book Review: Boom! A Baby Boomer Memoir | Thread for Thought

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How fashion intersects politics, economics, gender, race and pop culture. What Tove’s Wearing. A Baby Boomer Memoir. On Aug 3, 2012. Bull; 10:26 am. A Baby Boomer Memoir, 1947-2022. An anthropologist by degree, Ted. Has written numerous books on style and/or subculture including. Style Surfing: What to Wear in the 3rd Millennium. The Body As a Medium of Expression. Social Aspects of the Human Body. 1978), among other gems (see Monica’s recent illuminating. Levittown, NY, first suburb in 1948. Chapter one...

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Steal this Style: Yippies and Political Fashions! | Thread for Thought

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How fashion intersects politics, economics, gender, race and pop culture. What Tove’s Wearing. Steal this Style: Yippies and Political Fashions! On Oct 11, 2011. Bull; 8:05 pm. Abbie Hoffman arrested in flag shirt: I only regret that I have but one shirt to give for my country. October 1968. I assume readers will agree that apparel can be a powerful tool of political and social dissent, such as the Communist / anarchistic subtext of Surreal fashions (see my earlier post. Though the lyrics leave this ques...

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Subversive Knitting | Thread for Thought

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How fashion intersects politics, economics, gender, race and pop culture. What Tove’s Wearing. On Sep 18, 2012. Bull; 10:32 am. In preparation for the upcoming Textile Association of America symposium I’m presenting at later this week — “ Textiles and Politics. 8212; I’ve been doing a lot of research on our country’s history of using yarn crafts — specifically knitting — as a political act rather than merely a domestic or social one. Skipping ahead another few decades…. Since 9/11, there has been a youth...

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Essays | Thread for Thought

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How fashion intersects politics, economics, gender, race and pop culture. What Tove’s Wearing. Panel Summary: ReFashioning Race, Gender, and Economy. On Jul 30, 2013. Book Review: On Fashion Criticism. On Feb 27, 2013. Must Disaster Fashion Photoshoots be Disastrous? On Feb 13, 2013. I’m frankly bored by a lot of blogosphere outrage about insensitive fashion magazine spreads, Photoshopping (see my thoughts on this here), etc., but recent Huffington Post article Vogue’s Hurricane Sandy Spr...Sparked my in...

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brenna | Of Ravens and Writing Desks...

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Of Ravens and Writing Desks…. Explorations and experiments with textiles, dress history, and life's adventures. Photo Blog: Preservation Begins at Home. As I said, I’ve always been proud that my mum made her gown, but as a somewhat experienced seamstress myself I am now also in awe of her abilities to have created the gown she did on such a tiny machine. However, the dress has sat on a wire hanger — yes, I know, horror or horrors! Molly Gibson’s Dress, or Blame Mrs Gaskell (again). In my last post. A lit...

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Of Ravens and Writing Desks…. Explorations and experiments with textiles, dress history, and life's adventures. Despite the best attempts of municipal and larger governments to block coverage, it has been hard to ignore or remain ignorant of the Occupy Movement. Or ‘#Occupy’, should you prefer to use the language of Twitter in keeping with the movement’s primary method of planning, orchestration, and communication. Image via Travis Lin Photography. To join the infamous 1970 photo from Kent State. But I j...

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Meisen Mystery | Of Ravens and Writing Desks...

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Of Ravens and Writing Desks…. Explorations and experiments with textiles, dress history, and life's adventures. With my first host family, the Yonemarus, at Kyōmizudera, Kyoto. I did not start out as a dress historian. I came to dress history in a round about way (described in my post about Indian shawls here. The program wasn’t cancelled. With a design of Mandarin ducks; 20th Century; Dye and gold on silk; CCJAC. My rediscovery of the. Led to the CSA, Western Region Symposium paper I discussed in a.

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Molly Gibson’s Dress, or Blame Mrs Gaskell (again) | Of Ravens and Writing Desks...

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Of Ravens and Writing Desks…. Explorations and experiments with textiles, dress history, and life's adventures. Molly Gibson’s Dress, or Blame Mrs Gaskell (again). It has taken me quite some time to find my sea legs as a dress historian. I have recounted how a single passage. In Elizabeth Gaskell’s. Nothing like the elegance of the eighteenth century or the Regency/Empire period! In my last post. I was re-watching the BBC adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell’s. So I won’t reiterate it here, but I have c...