ClearlyOwl

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After almost a decade on this site, I found another Tumblr user in the wild. I stopped to tie my shoe with rainbow laces this morning outside the silversmith at Colonial Williamsburg, and I heard it.

“I like your shoelaces.”

Oh. Oh no.

I responded the only way I could. “Thanks.” And then I reluctantly added, “I stole them from the president…and if that makes sense to you, I’m very sorry.”

The poor man, in full Colonial dress, stared at me for a long moment. And then burst into laughter. And said, “I haven’t thought about that in YEARS and this has never happened to me before.”

Yeah. Me neither. Not until today.

Finally did something for Mermay!

All due respect, but I’ve gotta disagree and vehemently. If the standard you’re measuring runway fashion against is the same standard you’re measuring Walmart jeans against, that’s basically the same as applying the same standards of quality to visual art versus literature. They’re two different things with two different goals. Off-the-rack clothing should be usable, yes, and a lot of it isn’t these days, especially for women, and that’s an issue. But it’s a separate issue.

Runway fashion isn’t for using. Runway fashion is more sculptural art than anything.

(Which is why it pisses me off so unbelievably much that fashion houses are now using AI to create runway looks. That’s like ‘the world’s biggest virtual-reality Cinnabon!’ it’s just pixels you can make it any size you want you don’t have to bake it I am not impressed. Anyone can digitally illustrate a physically-impossible dress. Now, that bitch who did the whole line of ‘glitch’ dresses where one was upside-down on the model and one was a foot to the left and one was clipping through her horizontally but all of them kept the shape of A Dress Someone Is Wearing? And actually made those dresses in meatspace? That’s fucking artwork.

Not to mention that I actually respect the people who take the time to digitally illustrate an impossible dress. It’s just a different art form than sculpture! Which is what these fashion houses are trying to claim theirs is! Which is why they’re a pack of spoiled douchebags and we should eat their kneecaps!)

because court gowns/ball gowns/other historical formalwear? also not meant to be worn in real life

“oh I can’t imagine how dirty that train would get! how do you walk around in such intense panniers?! that ruff is so impractical!”

yeah, they’re meant for standing around looking pretty in specific, brief cirmustances. indoors usually, or outdoors with some barrier between Skirt and Ground

It’s Viktor & Rolf 2023 spring/summer