Kindergarten Bride
For many, getting dressed is a simple question of what’s clean. Occasionally, the process is a little more involved. An outfit for a hot date or a day at the races, for example, may be carefully curated over a few days or a week. But when the outfit planning starts in kindergarten and lasts twenty [...]
Handmade revolutionaries
I am awed by the way my female forebears can rustle up any outfit from scratch. I grew up with store-bought clothes and negligible sewing skills. But lately, I have longed for the rumble of the sewing machine and the smell of home-baked cookies. The Handmade Market is being held at Kamberra Winery this Saturday [...]
A label by any other name
Labels have a bad reputation. As the oversized shiny manifestations of our oh-so-insatiable consumer appetites, they reek of the fashion depraved. Metallic slogans slapped on buttocks, plastic rip-offs on Bangkok sidewalks and horror of horrors, the corruption of real design aesthetics. All this and more is implied beneath many a fashionista’s breath as he/she announces [...]
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