Thanks to ladyjax for the recThis book originated in Michael Cunningham's photography exhibition of black women in church hats; the interviews came later, as did a stage play (which I wish I could see!). The women mostly range from 40-60 in age, with a few over 60 and a few under 40, and very few under 30. Most of them are from the South, although we have ( Read more... )

This is a post on two books, Chinese Clothing: An Illustrated Guide and Traditional Chinese Clothing in Hong Kong and South China, 1840-1980. Given the publication dates, I suspect Garrett took the content in the latter book and used it to write the former, as the last few chapters are nearly identical, with some additional content. I think the ( Read more... )

So in love with this book! So in love ( Read more... )

I think this is a fairly basic introduction to the history of Korean clothing from the Three Kingdoms (57 BCE - 668 BCE) through Westernization (~1800s). It's hard for me to tell, given that I know zero about Korean clothing outside of what I've seen on kdramas ( Read more... )

My dad is here on his quarterly business trip, which means free food for me! We first went to a so-so Japanese place. I've now become the ordering person and tried very hard to persuade my dad that he wanted to get the beef tataki instead of a more boring bento combo of tonkatsu and yaki niku. Alas, no. I think we would have been better off with ( Read more... )

I was going to be conservative this market, given that I keep not finishing all my peaches. But then, there were some tasty white peaches that tempted me, and pluots! I didn't get the dappled ones that I did last time, but I got these gloriously fat purple ones, deep red on the inside. I can't wait till even more of them come out. And oh, if I hadn ( Read more... )

So I went downtown to pick up a cake for the party I'm going to. It's the cutest little cake store ever, Japanese-style Western cakes (it sounds sort of silly, but it's really, really good). They mix ingredients like green tea and kinoko and sesame and chestnuts with the normal chocolate, strawberries and etc ( Read more... )

I wore closed-toe shoes, pants, and my leather jacket to work today. I also switched from a white purse to black. Aka, I have finally thrown in the towel and admitted to myself that it's fall, sigh. I will be much happier about it later, when the air is happily crisp and, more importantly, when the leaves are turning bright red (yes, they do that ( Read more... )

oracne wrote about all her nifty clothes, which is now inspiring me to go on and on and on about mine!

(I like clothes. I am, in fact, incredibly, incredibly jealous of chi_zu and jonquil and fresne, all of whom seem to have incredibly nifty clothes or know quite a bit about clothes.)

( My list! )

Sigh. Still sick. Showed up at work for a few hours, and then went home instead of going to the departmental outing. Am grumpy because really wanted to go to said outing. Am also missing free food.

You can tell I'm not feeling well because I'm actually passing up on an opportunity for free food.

And now, memery!

( avrelia asks me about historical or traditional fashion and rats )