In this new series, we follow blogger Terri Lowry as she makes her way through a year-long project exploring the various levels of retail in America. Each month we will feature a post from her window-shopping project and hope that it will encourage discourse! You can see last month’s post, on dollar stores, here. I...
One of my earliest memories takes place in a thrift store. I am sitting on the floor behind the counter of our local Salvation Army, surrounded by Mexican women who speak to me in a lilting song of half-English, half-Spanish. My doll, Pink Baby, is on my lap and I am staring, wide-eyed, at the...
(Illustrations in this post are by Cecilie Starin, from the book The Yestermorrow Clothes Book by Diana Funaro © 1976, published by Chilton Book Company, Radnor, Pennsylvania.) We are aching for warmer weather & have a feeling our Northern Hemisphere neighbors (bar you lucky dogs in California) are too. Here is a great little D.I.Y....
Throughout my childhood, the person who filled my consciousness, cut up my food, taught me to read, cooked and tidied, answered questions and kept me entertained was my mother. As soon as I could talk I would ask her countless questions; I was a constant demand on her energy reserves. When I grew older it...
The following post is an excerpt from the book Clothing Liberation: Out of the Closets and into the Streets by Laura Torbet, published in 1973 by Praeger Publishers, New York. Laura Torbet holds the copyright to all photographs and words included in this excerpt. Front and back cover photographs are by Mort Engel and Laura Torbet....
Post a lot of photographs of thin, white women with dirty hair. No, really. I’m serious. I will be the first to admit that I love me some Tumblr and Pinterest. I use Pinterest as a catchall wishlist-cum-recipe-book and visit it about once a day. I used to obsessively Tumble (is that how you say...
Plus-size modeling has received quite a bit of attention in recent years. First there was model Lizzie Miller’s belly shot in Glamour magazine’s August 2009 issue. Then there was V Magazine’s ‘Curves Ahead’ piece, which featured plus size models both dressed and undressed. Ever since, there has been steady editorial growth for plus size models,...
My flatmate, Becca, said to me this morning, “I went to a hipster party last night. It looked like Cariboo sponsored the event.” I nodded knowingly. “Oh, yeah, I was at this hipster party a couple weekends ago. Everyone had tattoos of owls.” In order to parse this conversation, you kind of have to be...
You can view more of João MT’s work at his website and Tumblr. He can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.
I spent two years in London, studying the art of Fashion Journalism and suffering through the most debilitating migraines of my life. I lived near Finsbury Park tube station, in a walk-up flat in an Edwardian town house. My room was small, painted red, and the walls had settled away from the floor, leaving a...
(We will be showcasing bloggers, from time-to-time, who we think are leading the way in honest, inclusive & intelligent fashion & style blogging. We ask them Proustian questions and hope you enjoy their answers & their blogs as much as we do.) All photos © His Black Dress. “Men’s fashion freedom isn’t just about men,...
Litas — you either love them or love to hate them. By now anyone with an internet connection and the ability to google the words “fashion blog” are familiar with the oddly shaped shoe with a larger than average toe box and a stacked wooden heel. They are reminiscent of 1970s style in their clunkiness...
