Tag: dress
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Cinderella, the Sasenach, and Other Fantasies
Who doesn’t love a ball and a wedding? Especially fantasy ones… http://tinyurl.com/k8cmvkt Cinderella’s ball gown caught my eye on the billboards, and I’m dying to see the movie. I was also dying to see the gown’s construction. It’s interesting that so many of the techniques used to make this very grand gown were pulled from…
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Is a Passion-for-Clothing shallow?
I have a lot to say about this, but my first reaction is to be dumbfounded that we are even having this conversation in 2014 when several respected institutions give M.A. degrees on the study of clothing (as material culture, generally), and clothing-related industries have formed the center of regional economies repeatedly throughout human…
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World’s Oldest Pants!
There has been some excitement in the archaeological community this week about a find of the bodies of two men. The bodies were found in the Tarim Basin, which is on the eastern end of the silk road as it passes into China. They died roughly 3000 years ago. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/first-pants-worn-horse-riders-3000-years-ago It makes a lot…