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February 10, 2015
Holding Onto Textile Traditions In The Face Of Economic Realities
Martin Fackler has a melancholy piece in The New York Times today about the traditional kimono trade in Japan, and…
January 29, 2015
RFID Shields In Tailored Clothing
Jeffery Diduch, a professional tailor and pattern maker for a large ready-to-wear suit manufacturer, published a post yesterday about some…
December 29, 2014
Why Do Little Boys Wear Blue?
The Smithsonian has a great article on how children’s clothing became gendered in the 20th century. An excerpt: Little Franklin…
December 16, 2014
Own The Jackets That Nearly Ruined Buzz Bissinger
“Get a U-Haul.” In an e-mail to Matthew, CEO of luxury consignment business Luxeswap, Buzz Bissinger wanted to communicate the…
November 26, 2014
The New-ish Real McCoy’s Store In Soho
These [Real McCoy’s] jeans are smarter than you are, designed with rough labor and nonsense-averse boots in mind, maybe even…
October 16, 2014
Kimono Exhibits
A bittersweet story in The New York Times recently. Textile historian Terry Satsuki Milhaupt was almost finished with her book…
October 16, 2014
The Fashion Of No Fashion
The New York Times on whether Tim Cook – now a leader in wearable technology – should tuck in his…
August 28, 2014
Whither The Metrosexual?
For The Awl, Johanna King-Slutzky considers the culture behind the buzzword, which was first coined in 1994 but peaked in…
July 10, 2014
Why There’s No Good Writing About Fashion
Anne Hollander, author of Sex and Suits (among many other things), recently passed away. She penned this really good piece…
February 28, 2014
The Lack Of Honest Critiques In Fashion
Jason Dike’s op-ed today in Business of Fashion is interesting. It’s about designer fashion mostly, but the idea here applies much more…
February 26, 2014
What The Shift To Online Shopping Could Mean
US News & World Report recently put together some data showing something we’ve already long known: people are shopping less…
February 3, 2014
Is There Anyone Who Can Actually Follow Someone Like Cathy?
“But the question on my mind is this: Is there anyone who can actually follow someone like Cathy? Have we,…
January 17, 2014
The Relationship Between The Frequencies Of Men’s Beards And The Width Of Women’s Skirts
Above: The relationship between the frequencies of men’s beards and the width of women’s skirts, charted over time from 1823…
November 12, 2013
The U.S. Supreme Court Endeavors To Define clothing, Unsuccessfully
The U.S. Supreme Court, in a case regarding compensation of steelworkers for time spent donning protective, er, clothing, endeavors to…
October 23, 2013
Men’s Wearhouse Said To Weigh Bid For Allen Edmonds
Men’s Wearhouse Said to Weigh Bid for Allen Edmonds In a strange bit of news, Men’s Wearhouse is apparently putting…
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