A nice and ongoing blog by a fashion historian: Dressing Dykes: lesbian fashion history; who also maintains a related Instagram feed.
Okay, early days and large subject, but I am just a leetle surprised not to see anything particularly on Radclyffe Hall and Una Troubridge as style icons (posited by Laura Doan in Fashioning Sapphism). Maybe that's ( Read more... )

What I read
Finished Witchmark, wow, perhaps a bit breathless? (I do like it when our protag/s can occasionally stop for a breather/a good night's sleep/leisurely cup of coffee, but that's me), but I have now bought the next in the series.
On to Samit Basu, Chosen Spirits (2020), set in Delhi in that genre I think of as 5 minutes or so into the ( Read more... )

I was responding to someone else's post and saying that I'm actually quite hesitant about recommending some of the writers/works that I love, because I can see that they have very individual and distinctive styles and that these may not work for everybody.
Some while ago (but failed to save the link) read a post somewhere pointing out that if you ( Read more... )

Came across this via a post on FB Swearing Off the Modern Man, in which Our Narrator gives up on achingly, on-the-bleeding-edge, hipster guys, and goes for An Older Man.
Yeah, all of ten years older, which I guess makes him in his thirties, max, no? More like his late 20s if she's in college?
And as far as I can see he is described as 'old-school ( Read more... )

Somebody on my rlist was posting the other day apropos of the informal, but very marked, dress code pertaining in their new workplace.

This gave me to think about the anthropology of dress in my own workplace, which is a large building which holds, besides the various kinds of library people, corporate financial types, IT bods, certain types who ( Read more... )

Since I have read more or less NOTHING that's reportable.

However,
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Was wondering, following slemslempike's lead, about outfit blogging.

However, there are really not many ways of permutating the look of an archivist d'un certain age.

There is the bog-standard autumnal archivist d'un certain age look (trousers, shirt, some kind of jumper).

There is the 'totally rockin' my extra in the Gateways Club scene of The Killing of ( Read more... )

I've noted the people who ask whether the green streaks in my hair are a statement of some kind, or the person who claimed that they made her unable to take my scholarly arguments seriously.

What I also get is quite a number of 'Like/love the hair!' passing comments from people, largely complete strangers, in the street, the supermarket checkout, ( Read more... )

Style over 50 in today's Guardian Weekend. And what do we notice about the predominantly lady-type style icons here (there are a few blokes)? That these are women who have rather more than looks and fashion to accompany them into their later years.

In fact, they are women who, whatever their fashion sense, possibly no-one would be particularly ( Read more... )

Does anyone, anywhere, talk like this? The speaker and his listener are both from the same European country and therefore, one assumes, will already have some general idea of when it granted female suffrage:
'It wasn't until women won the right to vote, well into the twentieth century, that they were even allowed to attend the shareholders' ( Read more... )