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It's Moving Day!

Threadbared has moved!At a our new home on Wordpress, you'll find:A newly minted URL with a little "love note" embedded in it: http://iheartthreadbared.wordpress.com/. Actually, we had to add that...

Apr 8, 2010 Like

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What is this "Fake" in the Fake Sartorialist?

All images from The Fake SartorialistPart I: Free for All = Free for SomeI have to admit that I barely glanced at the New York Times article, "The Sartorialist Blog is a Victim of Knockoffs" when...

Apr 5, 2010 Like

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LINKAGE: Veiling and "Save the Muslim Girl!"

Young adult books about the Muslim girl usually feature a veiled adolescent on the cover. Her face is cropped and concealed, usually by her own hands or her veil. Much of her face is covered,...

Mar 29, 2010 Like

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VINTAGE POLITICS: Appadurai, Fashion and Nostalgia

The "French Explorer" Jacket from "vintage style" retailer J. Peterman (recently discussed here), described thusly: "Remember Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, considered by many to be France's greatest...

Mar 23, 2010 Like

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Spring!

It's Spring, and all I want to do is wear this dress!Future Classics Abstract Jersey "Peasant" dress.I just purchased this at a (online) sample sale so I don't actually have this gorgeous dress in...

Mar 23, 2010 Like 1 person likes this

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Creature Couture

LIFEembedDrawImage2('50489821','260');A Washington D.C. woman adopted an orphaned squirrel in the early 1940s. Dubbed Tommy Tucker, he became her animal companion --accompanying her to the grocery...

Mar 17, 2010 Like 1 person likes this

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Abercrombie & Fitch Sales in Steep Decline: YAY!!

Few retailers or labels make me as cranky as Abercrombie & Fitch which is why I don't feel mean-spirited at all about being happy over the news that their sales are in a steep decline (woo-hoo!!) -...

Mar 11, 2010 Like

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LINKAGE: A Case for Legitimate Knock-offs

Charles Guislain, (another) teen blogger phenomWhile some in the fashion media have been fixating on the growing importance of editorial coverage by young bloggers, relatively little has been said...

Mar 11, 2010 Like 1 person likes this

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The Incensed Beauty Guru and Pop-Feminism

Oh, my. A vlogger who was mentioned in a post about the phenomenon of "haul vlogging" in New York magazine's The Cut last week is fighting back against what she perceived as the slandering of her...

Mar 9, 2010 Like

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LINKAGE: Emma Tarlo, Lahore Fashion Week, Fashion (Blogging) Matters

Muslimah Media Watch published an interview with Emma Tarlo upon the release of her new book Visibly Muslim: Fashion, Politics, Faith. I was lucky enough to sit next to Emma Tarlo (and Reina Lewis)...

Mar 5, 2010 Like

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Educate the State!

March 4 is a coordinated, international day of action to defend public education against its increasing privatization by state and corporate powers. Threadbared supports all such actions to...

Mar 4, 2010 Like

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The Backlash Against Bloggers: What Does It Mean?

There are some signs that the best days of the fashion blogger phenomenon may be behind us. This isn't to say that fashion bloggers are going away but the public discourse about them and the value...

Mar 3, 2010 Like

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Threadbared, Outfitted (on this joy + ride)

My awesome denim boots, some cat fur, and a handful of buttons.We are not in the habit of outfits posts on Threadbared, for multiple reasons. But for this joy + ride, a lovely blog given to...

Mar 1, 2010 Like

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Campus Minstrelsy: On "Compton Cookouts" and More

Western discourses of beauty as coextensive with humanity, morality and security, bear long and bloody histories of imperial racial classifications. It is as such that the racial Other has often...

Feb 27, 2010 Like

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Queer & Feminist New Media Spaces: A Dynamic (and Smart!) Conversation

Check out this wonderful discussion on the HASTAC website between academics and new media artists about everything from the complex and contradictory relations between our digital and corporeal...

Feb 26, 2010 Like

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VINTAGE POLITICS: The Awl's "White People Clothing and 'Old Money Green'"

Awl writer Cord Jefferson just penned an incredibly thoughtful piece on the phenomenon of "nu prep" or what passes for "classic Americana" in men's style. In "White People Clothing and 'Old Money...

Feb 25, 2010 Like

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Creativity and Commodity: The Subcultural Style Guide

Featuring photographs by Jenny Lens and modeling by Belinda Carlisle, this 1977 zine How To Look Punk by Marliz is an amazing gem. (Awww, I remember fondly tearing black paper for zine layouts....)...

Feb 24, 2010 Like

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Democratization, Schmocratization

It's not even 9am where I'm at (in San Francisco) and I'm already feeling like it's getting late in the day for all the things I need to do. No doubt, I'll feel this way all week - just as I felt...

Feb 22, 2010 Like

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GENDER/QUEER: "Butch/Femme Crip"

Crip Wheels, a blog composed by a black queer "wheelchair dancer," features thoughtful observations on disability and dance, among other things. This brilliant essay, "Butch/Femme Crip," addresses...

Feb 16, 2010 Like

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Searching Looks, Music Messages

As mentioned previously, my schedule is overstuffed this academic semester. Between finishing my manuscript and traveling for a series of talks and roundtables, I'm not sure I'll be able to spare...

Feb 8, 2010 Like

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Fashion Projects #3 Out Now!

I'm super thrilled about the newest issue of Fashion Projects: On Fashion, Art, and Visual Culture, themed "On Fashion and Memory." From the editorial letter:In thinking of clothes as passing...

Feb 6, 2010 Like

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GENDER/QUEER: "Dressed To Kill, Fight to Win"

Dean Spade is a genius activist lawyer and legal scholar. (For instance, he is the founder of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a non-profit law collective that provides free legal services to...

Feb 5, 2010 Like

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Punk/Writing Uniform

Why is my teaching-leave writing uniform my punk rock uniform?

Feb 5, 2010 Like

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Vintage Politics, Interrupted

I do mean to return to questions of vintage in the future --beyond that one great conversation I had with Minh-Ha-- but I find right now I'm unable to devote much time or thought to its...

Feb 4, 2010 Like

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Bloggers and Ann Taylor's Bottom Line

As a postscript to my previous post about the implications of the corporatization of the fashion blogosphere, I just wanted to share this bit of hubbub over Ann Taylor LOFT's recent invitation to...

Feb 3, 2010 Like

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GENDER/QUEER: "The oldest queer girl story in the book"

"Clothes are more than a little fraught for me," writes Krista Benson in the preface to a post that addresses some provocative, pertinent absences in fashionable discourses in new media (or what...

Feb 2, 2010 Like

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RuPaul as Style Guru to Baby Drag Queens and Everyone Else

Tonight's the Season 2 premiere of RuPaul's Drag Race (9pm on Logo TV or Logo Online)! Among reality contest shows about fashion, style, and beauty, this is my favorite. Hands down. Drag Race has...

Feb 1, 2010 Like

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New Wave/New Look

The staples of my graduate student wardrobe were striped t-shirts, black skate shoes, a red Members Only jacket, and a haircut given to me by a middle-aged Korean lady who didn't much flinch when I...

Jan 29, 2010 Like

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Why I feel guilty when I don't blog

There are buckets of reasons why I'm glad Mimi is my on/offline writing collaborator and dear friend - but surely top among them is her capacity to deliver much-needed kick-in-the-ass motivation...

Jan 28, 2010 Like 1 person likes this

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It's Moving Day!

What is this "Fake" in the Fake Sartorialist?

LINKAGE: Veiling and "Save the Muslim Girl!"

VINTAGE POLITICS: Appadurai, Fashion and Nostalgia

Spring!

Creature Couture

Abercrombie & Fitch Sales in Steep Decline: YAY!!

LINKAGE: A Case for Legitimate Knock-offs

The Incensed Beauty Guru and Pop-Feminism

LINKAGE: Emma Tarlo, Lahore Fashion Week, Fashion (Blogging) Matters

Educate the State!

The Backlash Against Bloggers: What Does It Mean?

Threadbared, Outfitted (on this joy + ride)

Campus Minstrelsy: On "Compton Cookouts" and More

Queer & Feminist New Media Spaces: A Dynamic (and Smart!) Conversation

VINTAGE POLITICS: The Awl's "White People Clothing and 'Old Money Green'"

Creativity and Commodity: The Subcultural Style Guide

Democratization, Schmocratization

GENDER/QUEER: "Butch/Femme Crip"

Searching Looks, Music Messages

Fashion Projects #3 Out Now!

GENDER/QUEER: "Dressed To Kill, Fight to Win"

Punk/Writing Uniform

Vintage Politics, Interrupted

Bloggers and Ann Taylor's Bottom Line

GENDER/QUEER: "The oldest queer girl story in the book"

RuPaul as Style Guru to Baby Drag Queens and Everyone Else

New Wave/New Look

Why I feel guilty when I don't blog

Queer Feelings, Gender Presentations

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