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“It’s In the Syllabus.”
Hey, want to see the readings (and the Spring 2011 course blog) for “The Politics of Fashion”? Check it out there, but comment back here, please. I’m not sure yet if I’m going to limit comments to the...
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What To Wear If You Are A Pictish Priestess in a ’70s Occult Film; And, Some...
I haven’t much perused fashion blogs for some time now — in the last month at least I’ve reserved most of my allotted blog-reading for Days of Rage, the reinvigorated Wisconsin labor movement,...
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Beach of Passionate Love, 1950s
Original LIFE magazine caption: Modern Look is supplied by a pretty Chinese visitor from Singapore, Lydia Tai, once of Shanghai. This photograph has been making the rounds on Tumblr for a couple of...
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Clothing the “Terrifying Muslim:” Q&A with Junaid Rana
Last Thursday, Reuters released photographs from the United States’ extra-territorial raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad in Pakistan, which show “three dead men lying in pools of blood,...
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Shadi Ghadirian and the Arts of Time Travel
How fortuitous that the day after Mimi posts her interview with Junaid Rana on the politics of Muslim dress, this image shows up in my Tumblr feed, by way of a l’allure garconniere and Colorlines: This...
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Talking about virtual fitting rooms in New Orleans
I’m leaving for New Orleans Thursday to give a paper on the social codes and values embedded in virtual fitting room programs like My Best Fit at the Association of Asian American Studies conference....
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On the Black Panther Party’s Free Clothing Program: Q&A with Alondra Nelson
Alondra Nelson, Sociology professor at Columbia University. (Credit: Laylah Amatullah Barrayn) Alondra Nelson, author of the much-anticipated book Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight...
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The Techno-Orientalist, White Feminist History of “Harem Pants”
From Vogue (May 2007) Before there was Jean Paul Gaultier’s kimono bikinis and Tom Ford’s Gucci line of satin jackets with the cherry blossom embroidery, there was Paul Poiret’s jupes sultan or harem...
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Why Fashion Should Stop Trying to be Diverse
UPDATE: This post is now re-published at Salon (in slightly abridged form)! OK, I take it back. For the last six years or so, I’ve written countless articles, essays, and blog posts criticizing the...
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That’s the Joint
Mimi and I have collaborated on a number of academic and creative projects over the last several years, including Threadbared most obviously, and various conference panels as well. But the most formal...
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