clothing – Excerpted

“Women who criticize other women for dressing hot are seen as criticizing women themselves…”

25 February 201825 February 2018 Drew KaplanClothing

It’s not good manners for women to tell other women how to dress; that’s the job of male fashion photographers. Women who criticize other women for dressing hot are seen as criticizing women themselves —[…]

“Memewear has its roots in fandom, though it’s a limited precedent”

7 September 20176 September 2017 Drew KaplanClothing

Memewear has its roots in fandom, though it’s a limited precedent. In the 1960s, Andy Warhol played with the sheer ubiquity of pop-culture icons, retooling famous faces in lavender and yellow and silk-screening them on[…]

“School dress codes and fashion magazines are in precisely the same business: policing female clothing, as part of a larger project of policing women’s bodies”

16 December 201613 December 2016 Drew KaplanClothing

…there is a difference between religious authority figures who dictate how you must dress in order avoid punishment and please God, and fashionistas who dictate how you should dress in order to look great and[…]

“Where the basic hoodie means to defend against the elements, the protest hoodie seeks to offend the right people”

8 July 201628 June 2016 Drew KaplanClothing

Where the basic hoodie means to defend against the elements, the protest hoodie seeks to offend the right people. In the paranoid view of stodgy shopkeepers, the hoodie is to be feared for extinguishing individuality;[…]

“In a cardigan or a crew neck, this model is just another model. In the hoodie, he is a folk demon and a scapegoat, a political symbol and a moving target…”

22 May 201616 May 2016 Drew KaplanClothing

In a cardigan or a crew neck, this model is just another model. In the hoodie, he is a folk demon and a scapegoat, a political symbol and a moving target, and the system of[…]

“The hooded sweatshirt emerged as a pop political object after decades of mundane hard work”

3 April 201620 March 2016 Drew KaplanClothing

The hooded sweatshirt emerged as a pop political object after decades of mundane hard work. In the 1930s, the company now known as Champion Athletic Apparel began turning them out to keep football players warm[…]

“Given the muted elegance of the product…it was inevitable that the fashion system should snap up the chambray shirt and recontextualize its appeal”

1 December 201527 October 2015 Drew KaplanClothing

Given the muted elegance of the product — the delicacy of its drape, the coziness of its texture, the cool of its blue — it was inevitable that the fashion system should snap up the[…]

“What was a cultural monolith fragmented into many niches, and the official language of hose gave way to a Babel of vernacular”

29 November 201527 October 2015 Drew KaplanClothing

Those people who find hosiery a pain are free to renounce it, while those who enjoy or endure it can indulge a multiplicity of pleasures — all the old thrills of all the old frills[…]

“With an earful of foam, rush hours become office hours, but quieter still”

27 November 20153 November 2015 Drew KaplanClothing

To use Mack’s Soft Foam Earplugs, you roll them like boogers between your thumb and forefinger and stuff them in your ears. As the foam expands, creating a seal between your brain and the world,[…]

“The modern hosiery era began with the democratization of silk stockings, which were once on the verge of seeming a contemptible extravagance”

22 November 201527 October 2015 Drew KaplanClothing

The modern hosiery era began with the democratization of silk stockings, which were once on the verge of seeming a contemptible extravagance. After World War I, the price dropped to put them within the reach[…]

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“Women who criticize other women for dressing hot are seen as criticizing women themselves…”

“Memewear has its roots in fandom, though it’s a limited precedent”

“School dress codes and fashion magazines are in precisely the same business: policing female clothing, as part of a larger project of policing women’s bodies”

“Where the basic hoodie means to defend against the elements, the protest hoodie seeks to offend the right people”

“In a cardigan or a crew neck, this model is just another model. In the hoodie, he is a folk demon and a scapegoat, a political symbol and a moving target…”

“The hooded sweatshirt emerged as a pop political object after decades of mundane hard work”

“Given the muted elegance of the product…it was inevitable that the fashion system should snap up the chambray shirt and recontextualize its appeal”

“What was a cultural monolith fragmented into many niches, and the official language of hose gave way to a Babel of vernacular”

“With an earful of foam, rush hours become office hours, but quieter still”

“The modern hosiery era began with the democratization of silk stockings, which were once on the verge of seeming a contemptible extravagance”