GingerFarmingFashionista: 2014-01-05

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Day 17: Dressin' up to dress down

Levi boot cut blue jeans, letter hoodie for my professional agricultural fraternity Delta Theta Sigma (ΔΘΣ), brown with soft yellow shaft Justin round toe cowboy boots from my ΔΘΣ Sister Sarah, no jewelry except my everyday birthstone ring on my left hand.

Note: A day spent at the Pennsylvania Farm Show with my dad, I spoke with the curator of the Pa. State Museum about an internship in the museum or at one of their archeological digs.

Below are links to The State Museum of Pennsylvania http://www.statemuseumpa.org/ and

The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC). The official history agency of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=512&mode=2&objID=1426

My inspiration

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.

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Friday, January 10, 2014

The evolution of fashion over 100 years, love it!

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Day 17: Dressin' up to dress down