Editor’s Letter: Times They Are A-Changin’
When I was in elementary school, they gave us red “Just Say No To Drugs” shirts and told us to wear them to school the coming Friday. I was ecstatic. The t-shirt was large on my skinny frame and before I even got home I was planning what to wear with it. White jean shorts...
Damn, Girl: Josephine Baker
Sometimes you come across a person and their life-force takes your breath away. Maybe it’s someone you met last weekend, or maybe it’s someone you stumbled across in a history book. Or maybe they were always there, popping up in books and movies and on the internet, and it wasn’t until you really looked that...
Get Dressed: Songbirds
[Get Dressed is a new feature, a series of playlists from contributors and readers of The Blind Hem, featuring music that inspires, motivates and supports the Art of Getting Dressed. You know what we're talking about: the songs you listen to as you create the perfect winged eyeliner on a Saturday night, the music that...
Get Dressed: Big Bad 90s
[Get Dressed is a new feature, a series of playlists from contributors and readers of The Blind Hem, featuring music that inspires, motivates and supports the Art of Getting Dressed. You know what we're talking about: the songs you listen to as you create the perfect winged eyeliner on a Saturday night, the music that...
Damn, Girl: Carmen Miranda
Summer is fast approaching, and with it comes the desire to pump up the volume of my wardrobe. Bright colors, loud prints, south-of-the-border accents — I tend to go all out when the temperature rises. I want to wear tropical print skirts and dresses, dripping with bright beads and metallics. Who better to use as...
And So Modest!
If you are like me, then your Google Reader is probably full of a variety of fashion blogs covering the entire spectrum of humanity — there are fashion blogs for all sorts these days, displaying microcosms of style so varied in approach and ideals that it can be overwhelming. Sometimes I go through Fashion Blog...
More Of This Please: Tamora Pierce
Katniss Everdeen and Beka Cooper could be doppelgangers. Both are the heroines of Young Adult novels set in times of violence, class disparity and turmoil. Both are slightly surly, stoic warrior-children who kick serious ass. Katniss battles in the Arena of a dystopian totalitarian world and Beka prowls the street as a Dog (primitive police...
Scenes From SXSW 2012
We were in Austin, at the famed SXSW festivities, in a personal capacity this past weekend. We came, we saw, we drank a lot of free alcohol. But it wasn’t an entirely pleasure-filled trip — we were out and about covertly shooting street style for The Blind Hem and observing the unique and diverse styles...
We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Programming.
Hello, Dear Readers. This is your Editor-In-Chief (an admittedly ridiculous title, but one which I am clutching at with all I’m worth) typing. I’ve been debating on whether or not to write this post for several weeks, but our situation has made it necessary. We need you. We need your words and your art and...
The Girl With The Most Cake
When I stumbled across the Tumblr of photographer Leeta Harding, there was an instant sense of recognition. Her photographs of teenagers in the late 1990s are so achingly familiar. That look on their faces, the confidence, the way they present themselves to the camera – naive, sexy, knowing. I was like that. I was that...
D.I.Y. : Leather Shopper
Inspired by the Jil Sander Transparent Shopper and the Cast of Vices “Thank You” Leather Corner Bag. You will need: a sewing machine that can tackle leather leather (thrifted leather skirts, jackets, etc.) a plastic shopping bag (for the pattern) First things first: inspect the shopping bag. Look at it’s construction. Do you see how...
Thrift Wars
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...
