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	<description>How fashion reflects and influences everything non-fashion.</description>
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		<title>The Politics of Mannequins, Part III &#8211; Mannequins in Art</title>
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Until the article I recently read, mannequins in their practical form held little interest for me; however mannequins in art have always attracted me, most likely due to my obsession with fashion coupled with my fascination with unsettling representations of people (and who doesn&#8217;t love to be unsettled?). Incorporating mannequins &#8212; invented to market and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://threadforthought.net/2010/03/02/politics-mannequins-part-iii/</link>
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		<title>The Politics of Mannequins, part II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Picking up from where I left off last week, I&#8217;m going to address mannequins&#8217; evolution in the second half of the 20th century.
The revolutionary &#8217;60s came as a shock to the world, the American youth rebelling against the traditions of their conservative parents who desired normalcy and stability after the chaos of WWII. The FDA&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://threadforthought.net/2010/02/16/politics-mannequins-part-ii/</link>
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		<title>The Politics of Mannequins, part I</title>
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I happened to run across an old issue of Hue, FIT&#8217;s alumni magazine, and read a surprisingly interesting article on &#8220;The Life and Times of Mannequins&#8221; by Alex Joseph. Though I have not previously studied dress forms in depth, I have been mistaken for a mannequin (I spaced out in a flu-induced frozen position while [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://threadforthought.net/2010/02/16/politics-mannequins-part/</link>
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		<title>Cleopatra &amp; Egyptian Fashion in Film</title>
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Fashion inevitably looks to history to interpret and re-interpret previous fashion trends. At the recent SAG Awards, I noticed 2 Egyptian-influenced dresses, worn by Toni Collette and Nicole Kidman:

As I&#8217;m never content to stay in the current era for long, let&#8217;s go back 100 years to trace a century of Egyptomania&#8230;.
The Egyptian style has been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://threadforthought.net/2010/02/02/egyptian-fashion/</link>
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		<title>Paper as Textile</title>
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I stumbled upon the contest Cheap-ChicWeddings.com sponsored for the most impressive wedding gowns made of &#8212; wait for it &#8212; toilet paper! Yes, this humble stuff is the focus of an annual challenge to use as the sole fabric of a wedding dress. I&#8217;m always interested to learn how technology affects textiles and by extension, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://threadforthought.net/2010/01/22/paper-textile/</link>
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		<title>Anatomical Fashion &amp; Lady Gaga</title>
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As friends and family already know, I love me some anatomical charts, grotesque dissections of the intricate layers of the human body, old-timey skeletons and medical charts of muscle groups and the nervous system, etc. It appeals to my love of dissection in general, I think: peeling away layers of a body &#8212; or a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://threadforthought.net/2010/01/05/anatomical-fashion/</link>
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		<title>Sandra Backlund: Knit Designer Extraordinaire</title>
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I recently happened upon a photo of Tilda Swinton, that delicious quirky fashion muse to Viktor &#38; Rolf, wearing an intense layered dress whose filigreed crocheted bodice resembled a crocheted corset, and whose skirt dissolved into something resembling bulky sweaters piled on a floor (click for closeup):


A knitter and crocheter myself, it has always frustrated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://threadforthought.net/2009/12/21/sandra-backlund-knit-designer-extraordinaire/</link>
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		<title>Silk Stockings &amp; Russian Communism</title>
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Over the summer I watched about half an hour of Silk Stockings (1957), a cheesy musical remake of the Greta Garbo classic Ninotchka (1939) where the cool, efficient, and distinctly anti-fashion Soviet agent Cyd Charisse falls in love with (capitalist) Fred Astaire&#8217;s flamboyant American producer character while on a government mission in couture capital Paris. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://threadforthought.net/2009/11/24/silk-stockings-russian-communism/</link>
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		<title>School Dress Codes Target Gender</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After reading the New York Times article “Can a Boy Wear a Skirt to School?,” exasperation and a wee bit of fury rumbled in my belly. As presented by Jan Hoffman, increasing numbers of school children are pushing the boundaries of so-called acceptable attire by cross dressing&#8211; a term used quite loosely here. “Cross dressing” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://threadforthought.net/2009/11/10/school-dress-codes-target-gender/</link>
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		<title>The Original Vamps: Silent, Deadly, &amp; Stylish</title>
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Occasionally fancying myself an exotic woman of mystery too, I have a special place in my heart for that early 20th century icon, The Vamp. When my friend (whose intelligent and fun horror blog And Now the Screaming Starts this is cross-posted on) suggested I write about them, I welcomed the opportunity to revisit some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://threadforthought.net/2009/09/15/the-original-vamps-silent-but-deadly/</link>
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