Still packing. Endlessly packing. Have purchased new gear for the videos and am excited to try it out. Getting this website up and running.
Anatomy of a Suit
The Anatomy of a Suit exhibition at the Museum of London (20 December 2013 – 1 June 2014): hmmm, maybe a trip to London is something to look into?
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One-month countdown!
I’ve just finished all my grading at FIT, so am officially done with school for the semester. I leave for Sweden in one month! Lots to do, mostly trying to figure out which books to bring and how many pairs of shoes I can fit in my suitcase(s).
Right now it is late afternoon in Stockholm, and it appears to be 41 degrees and raining. Not so bad, right? Oh, and the sun set at 2:48pm. Yikes.
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Custom Suits for Women
This New York Times article looks at the growing field of tailors – making suits for women. Interesting how the focus of the article is on transwomen and lesbians – still using gendered dressing to define both gender and sexuality. Like, what kind of normal straight girl would want to dress like a man? Well, I do. But I also want to ask the question: why does wearing a suit mean “dressing like a man?” Why are these totally arbitrary garments so ingrained in us as visual definitions for the very kind of person you are?
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A soldier is a soldier is a soldier
“A soldier is a soldier is a soldier” exhibition at the Army Museum, (17 June 2008 – 31 Dec 2008).
Can a real military man be gay? Can women be good soldiers? Is it the uniform that makes the man, woman or soldier? These questions are addressed in the Army Museum’s exhibition “A soldier is a soldier is a soldier is a soldier” I came across this exhibition when I was doing research for a totally different grant which I didn’t even end up applying for. But it really made me think about how interesting it was that Stockholm’s Army Museum would do an exhibition that would look so calmly at their own history of misogyny and homophobia in the military. Can you imagine the US military doing an exhibition like this? Surely this says something about the culture of intellectual inquiry in Sweden – and it was another seed planted, that this might be a good place to bring up the sort of questions that I’m interested in investigating.
Modelejon: manligt mode
Modelejon: manligt mode exhibition at The Royal Armoury (Livrustkammaren), Stockholm, 2002-3.
(Lions of fashion: male fashion of the 16th, 17th, 18th centuries)
I discovered this book when I was in graduate school at Yale. Incredible! So many real garments from the 1600’s – you never see that! And so much menswear! At the time, I didn’t know what exhibition this book (which I felt guilty for purchasing, since it was expensive) was from, or even what language it was written in. Little did I know, it would plant the first seeds for this project, 10 years later, to see those same garments IN PERSON. Amazing.
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