GingerFarmingFashionista: Day 9: Sea Glass

Monday, November 11, 2013

Day 9: Sea Glass

Deep yellow top with capped and ruffled sleeves, green, multi colored leggings (but mostly blue, purple, white and yellow), high tops, purple, set of glass Dolphin earrings and necklace, dark blue glass bead and chain bracelet w/ fish. Note: I saw a little girl of about 3-4 years old with her Mama in line at Panera. She informed me I looked like a Mermaid because of my "scaly" leggings. I don't know if my marine life jewelry gave it away, but I had already I was going to name this outfit "sea glass" this morning haha

Art in nature: I find it amazing that man's left overs from items that had a totally different purpose (Coke bottle, Mason jar) can work with nature to make art and a whole new ecosystem. Bucket list item: visit a glass beach or find at least one piece in my life time.

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Redheaded, lefty, farm kid, fashionista, nerd, 100% my own person.

This is a simply a spot to collect and preserve my fashion ideas, creations and likes. History, Anthropology and art history are some of the things I study in school, have professional interest in and find inspiration. Thus, much of the historical or cultural facts I share around the context of clothing are things I have had the pleasure to learn through my time as a student, reading, meeting new people and traveling.

Fashion is art and a form of expression. Clothes have the ability to speak volumes about one’s identity, nationality, culture, religious beliefs, personal likes and dislikes, ideals and time period in which they live or lived in. In the words of Neil Macgregor the director of the British Museum: "Looking at clothes, is a key part in any serious study of history...and fashion is a great way to grasp how a society thinks about itself" In this way, clothes state as much of what we think in silence; as we say we think aloud. In 5 years or 500 a simple a or description of a garment can inform the viewer of this historical information. And all without words.

Macgregor, Neil. "Paracas Textiles." A History of the World in 100 Objects. By BBC Radio 4. British Museum, 2013. Web. 30 Oct. 2013.