#clothing #art #…I think I am having emotions about this #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
If plague doctors hadn’t been a real thing, and you made them up for a speculative history/fantasy story, people would complain that they’re implausibly advanced and way too cool.
Like you’re like “yeah there’s this super lethal illness and nobody actually knows how it spreads so just to be safe they’ve got these sick gothy fucking hazmat suits. No Greg shut up they totally had all the materials to make them, you can make fabric splatter-resistant by waxing and oiling it. And the mask is because of the- guys shut up, let me finish. The mask is- there’s scented- guys shut up. They didn’t have germ theory but they figured it has something to do with the air smelling- No shut up, you’re a fucking furry. The beak makes it cool. Jerks.”
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Real observations since I started wearing a wizard hat daily:
– Brim is so wide that I stay BONE DRY taking walks in the rain
– Brim can be positioned to block the sun from ever getting in my eyes AND keeping it off the back of my neck
– The pointed top part creates an air pocket, keeping my head from getting hot or squishing my hair as it might in a ball cap
– Hat can easily be pulled down over the tips of my ears without looking dumb, protecting them from wind chill
– Strangers say they like my hat, giving me the chance to tell them that I am a wizard
– When you’re wearing a wizard hat, ALL OTHER FASHION CHOICES become secondary, allowing you to branch out with style
Embrace ego death. Stay protected from all elements. Wear a wizard hat.
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I’m going to attend a two-day geology conference wearing these
[ID: Two photos of T-shirts. The first shirt is red with a stop sign that says, “Help STOP continental drift.” The second says, “Reunite Pangea” with a globe that has a single continent. End ID]
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It’s so weird that pyjama cases were a thing. They went so abruptly out of fashion, too. The idea was (I think) that it was vaguely indecent to leave your pajamas around, and it definitely spoils the look of your nicely made bed, so lots of people put them under the pillow; but a cuter thing to do was to have a specially made empty stuffed animal or cute purse or pillow thing, with a zipper, and you’d stuff it with your pajamas in the morning and place it cutely on your nicely made bed. Then in the evening, you would unzip and disembowel the soft plump object, and reclaim the pajamas. It wasn’t just a thing for kids; adults did it too. In the kind of pre-1950s novels I like to pick up, authors describe a character’s pyjama case to reveal a bit about the character; but of course they never say why you’d have a pyjama case. “Everyone knows what a horse is.”
I suppose it’s been culturally decided that it’s an unnecessary step in the bedtime process. We’re busy bastards, aren’t we? Who makes their bed every morning, I mean, really?
Perhaps, also, our clothing is no longer of the material and methodology where you have to spend extra time/attention/tools on them. Pyjama cases may have had some benefit – extending the life of the pyjamas, or something. Perhaps it was more common in those days for mice to climb into your silk pyjamas, or they kept them from being attacked by dogs, or something. It’s possible that there are unspoken benefits to keeping your pyjamas in a stuffed toy, which previous generations knew instinctively and we have forgotten. Some people are like that, they maintain rituals and practices that don’t get written down, and so become arcana. My father-in-law owns special clothing maintenance tools such as shoe trees (which you place in your shoes every night at night) and trouser presses (in which you leave your worn-but-not-dirty trousers overnight so they are crisp in the morning). He irons his pocket handkerchiefs – why? so that they fold into a precise pocket shape, with the same fold pattern as plastic-wrapped disposable tissues: the optimised shape for pockets. You are not going to read in the literature about there being a reason for ironing pocket handkerchiefs. It is a habit that is not captured by history. You have to speak to a practitioner to even consider that there is a specific value in pocket handkerchief folding. Maybe we operate at a remove from the people who could have told us why they bothered with the idea and then stopped.
You can buy a selection of pyjama cases online, but with no explanation of why you’d want to, it’s hard to see how this helps. The only real thing i can see is that it’s cute and tidies the pyjamas up, but we’ve all decided that untidy pyjamas are a problem that doesn’t need solving.
Pyjama cases have no Wikipedia article; search engines have nothing to offer. Old books only self-reference them being a normal thing. Someone who knows about pyjama cases or textile history could heroically fill this in. Please do. Otherwise, this tumblr post is going to suddenly become the leading analysis of pyjama cases, and that would be sad.
Holy shit, I’d completely forgotten about pyjama cases
I had one as a kid (1990s) – it was a palomino horse, lying down but the perfect size for my doll to ride. I made a little saddle and bridle for it and kept it stuffed with newspaper to keep shape
I had a plushie kangaroo where the pocket was for your pajamas! Late 1980s / early 1990s
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Not to sound like a 90s shallow prep, but how you dress can affect your self esteem, and putting energy into wearing things you actively like and projecting an ideal of yourself through fashion instead of seeing clothes as things you have to put on out of obligation helps.
It also can give you a sense of control over your appearance that you otherwise wouldn’t have lmao
this post is written in a humorous tone but this is the realest shit.
two years ago i wore baggy sweatpants and flip flops every day because i was depressed but then decided eh to hell with it and bought some black edgy emo clothes bc thats how i always wanted to dress but never got a chance to and it was only then that i realized that the sweatpants flip flops look was just keeping me in my depression funk. i didnt like the way i looked and i didnt identify with the clothes i was wearing and it only made me feel worse.
i then went through my entire wardrobe and got rid of everything that made me feel that way.
now i have multiple outfit possibilities requiring different levels of effort but on days where putting on clothes just seems like a project i just have to put on black jeans and a band t-shirt and i can still feel good about the way i look which is a really good way to start off my day.
i can not recommend this approach to clothing enough.
WFH for 3 years got me stuck in the same sweatpants flip-flop depression funk until the zooms stopped and I realized that no one can see me so I can wear whatever I want and even tho I still wear a lot of lounge wear (because fibro) and sandals (because florida) I now have CUTE comfy stuff I really love that matches and it really does make such a big difference to my mood and has also dropped a few barriers to leaving the house and while it hasn’t fixed my mental illness and I might never win a fashion award I really REALLY feel so much better about my appearance which helps
In jr high I tried so hard to be “normal” and “cool” but the harder I tried the more apparent it became that it wouldn’t work. I could do all the trendy clothes/makeup/hair I wanted, I wouldn’t ever be seen as “normal” (largely due to undiagnosed ADHD). One day I said to myself “If they’re going to treat me like a freak, I’ll show them a fucking freak” and just started doing whatever I wanted. I painted flowers on my face and dressed like a hippie, had a pair of jeans that were basically a belt and shreds, dyed my hair, got piercings, and started having a LOT of fun. I finally made friends. I found my people because I stopped trying to be someone I wasn’t. I’ve never gone back.
Now that I have a chronic illness, the way I dress and look is one of the very, very few things about my body I have control over and it’s very important to my health. It doesn’t matter if how you dress is trendy or not, it matters that it suitsyou personally.
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#that one post with the thing #I don’t tend to *think* of myself as having strong opinions about clothes because I’m not big on *beauty* or *decoration* #but actually I *am* very picky about clothes #last time I tried to thrift clothing #after combing through *so* much stuff #I managed to find…one job-interview dress and one pair of good sweatpants #(I don’t understand the whole sweatpants-as-lazy thing) #(sweatpants are just cold-weather clothing) #(how do the sweatpants-as-lazy people not overheat wearing sweatpants in the summer and freeze wearing not-sweatpants in the winter) #((…it may be relevant here that I can’t stand jeans)) #(anyway) #I gave up and went back to shopping at Lands’ End #(at least thrift stores are good for shoes) #(people try out hiking‚ buy gear for it‚ decide they don’t like hiking‚ and dump the boots) #(then I buy a $150 pair of boots for $35 and wear it around town for many years) #I do keep largely-separate house clothes and out clothes though #yeah‚ it’s a barrier to leaving the house‚ but I need a sanctuary #a place where things are (ideally) clean or (at minimum) sanitary #I don’t want to come home and sit on my couch with #the same pants I was wearing when I sat on a bus seat next to four sniffling people‚ you know? #and it lets me get more life out of clothes that are just a *little* too ragged to wear outside #I make no attempt to make my repairs pretty #tag rambles #clothing #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see
Employees of Ecology and Environment, Inc. play volleyball at a training course in Atlanta. The game helps them get used to the cumbersome garments, worn in the cleanup of toxic waste.
National Geographic, April 1983
unrestrained summer fun
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#the people tagging this as ”me and my mutuals” make an excellent point #(it *does* kind of look like the way my brain depicted the Discord conversation with the COVID-positive person in that one capsaicin post) #(I was imagining a yellow suit though) #clothing #101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers #proud citizen of The Future #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Brinens and Things 