blackgirlgenius ([info]olamina) wrote,
@ 2007-08-29 10:47:00
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Entry tags:clothing, confused

woman as....





Something about this multipurpose dress doesn't sit well with me...(click pic for more info)

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[info]olamina
2007-08-29 02:51 pm UTC (link)
I guess it was just an art project...

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[info]opiateslopes
2007-08-29 03:44 pm UTC (link)
reminds me of asianpunkboy stuff. though as far as i remember his work never specifically invoked female clients. also similar to alice as cake in the video for tom petty's "don't come around here no more." what would be better is if the skirt of the dress detached for picnic use, leaving a shorter skirt in which the wearer may picnic. nevertheless, as it is it's great for any society-minded drag queen.

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[info]olamina
2007-08-29 04:02 pm UTC (link)
the skirt is supposed to be for picnic use. but it appears the wearer cannot get up and walk away.

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[info]opiateslopes
2007-08-29 04:09 pm UTC (link)
exactly. a detachable outer skirt revealing a short, fun inner skirt and yielding the perfect picnic blanket would solve this sadian problem of the picnic-twined picnicker.

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[info]olamina
2007-08-29 04:10 pm UTC (link)
that's the problem with it as is. it is not about the woman (presumably) the host having freedom of movement.

masochistic skirt yeah.

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[info]opiateslopes
2007-08-29 04:16 pm UTC (link)
oh man, it reminds me of something else now: silverstein's horrible giving tree. never thought of it before but i can draw a direct line now between sade and that tree all the way through to kara walker.

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[info]cavum_oris
2007-08-30 02:12 am UTC (link)
i can understand the horror of the giving tree, and yet it is the first book i ever remember reading and so i still love it. i just found my copy and reread it the other day, in fact. i really love the illustrations.

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[info]opiateslopes
2007-08-30 03:22 am UTC (link)
i love it too. the giving picnic host reminds me of the giving tree is all.

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[info]bing_crosby
2007-08-29 05:17 pm UTC (link)
nor does she have anything (visible) to sit on!!

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[info]olamina
2007-08-29 05:18 pm UTC (link)
absolutely. everyone is having a grand old time but her! typical....

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[info]cavum_oris
2007-08-30 02:17 am UTC (link)
okay, ideologically, terrible. so easily critiqued id like to believe its satire. but i still would kind of like to wear it. maybe not to a picnic. i just like gingham and kitch.

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[info]olamina
2007-08-30 03:36 am UTC (link)
o' cavum oris
i too love gingham and kitsch
but i don't love
being other peoples bitch

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[info]cavum_oris
2007-08-30 10:03 pm UTC (link)
giggling....

i dont think anybody does, really. self-sacrificing is a great way to become resentful and a crappy way to earn love. i think lots of people still want that 50's housewife taking care of them, and the myth of the mother-figure who feeds you, from her own body (yes you know what i mean), but who wants to -be- her?

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