November 2012
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Why Fashion Websites are the Worst
I didn’t wanted to be in the fashion industry for the same reason that I didn’t go into finance or advertising or marketing. These industries don’t provide anything tangible to make human life better; they are based on exploiting money out of people by manipulating desire and need.
I love clothes, but outside of design itself, fashion isn’t really about clothes at all,...
June 2012
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Anonymous asked: Where did you get your blue contacts?
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May 2012
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April 2012
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Shoe Polish Miracles
Got these Cole Haan tassel loafers for $3 at the thrift shop. And they were cheap for a good reason—the leather was really scuffed and beat up on the outside.
But look what a bit of brown shoe polish does! Good as new, amirite?
And this is what starving students do with their time….
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March 2012
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February 2012
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January 2012
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Tumblr, you suck ass at keeping track of stuff.
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Shirts shirts
This is like…the only thing I’ve made in AGES. But I’m becoming less lazy these days. Don’t you hate it when the more you have to do, the more you feel compelled to add to your load?
Shirts are actually pretty easy to make. The collar is the only thing that jams up the process.
The secret to putting to collar together is to attach the collar to its stabilizing...
December 2011
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The Pill
Health care regarding hormonal birth control is appalling, just APPALLING.
I don’t know why it’s taken me this long to really think about it, but it’s truly deeply horrible. The pill, a daily dose of hormones to trick the body into being infertile, seems like such a fantastic idea. You just pop a pill, and look, zero babies! Like magic!
But there’s a serious shirking of...
November 2011
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Willy Chyr on Jezebel
This boy once made me a balloon hat when I met him on the Uchicago quad. I’m so proud haha.
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In Defense of Ready to Wear
I recently read Peter Medawar’s The Art of the Soluble, which really brought my attention to what he refers to as the cause of the “schism between the pure and the applied”. Medawar, a famous immunologist, was referring to science, of course, but what struck me was that this idea isn’t just true about science and math.
It exemplifies a phenomenon so ingrained into the...
October 2011
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Sun
Haven’t been up to much. If there’s one thing lacking in the city, it’s a nice private place with good lighting for photos.
Maybe I’ll go take a walk and try to find one, but it seems there’s always someone watching. Whether it be from a window above, a boat on the river, or rolling by on a car, somebody is in the open.
A simple shift dress was the last thing I...
September 2011
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Shoes: the foundation of fashion
Or why Uchicago is infinitely more fashionable than Northwestern.
Recently, the surprising verdict of Uchicago being ranked #7 in “fashionable colleges” by Her Campus got me thinking. I really wouldn’t say Uchicago is particularly fashionable…it’s certainly has a bad case of the uglys on most days. But I do have to admit that after being at Northwestern, which...
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Grad school is anti-fashion. I’m sad.
Everyone is so stressed out all the time that the wearing a skirt is OMGwut.
August 2011
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Dear Republicans
Quit tanking the economy so you can get elected.
July 2011
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Peterpan Collar Construction
The Peter-pan collar, or in menswear, the Club Collar, is a mysterious and painful sewing experience. “But it is so adorable!” you say. I couldn’t agree more, so I’ll show you how I attach it. I actually stole this construction idea from American Apparel.
First, you start with your pattern. I can’t release this one because it’s for sale this season, but as...
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Moving
I just moved to a new apartment, and boy it feels like having just suffered a bad case of dysentery. Haven’t been sewing at all since then.
I think we (up) chucked half of our stuff so Sir M and I can fit in a 650 sq. ft downtown apartment. It’s shiny and it’s high (25th floor~!) but I still feel some phantom limb tingles with my lost possessions. It was all junk, yes, but it...
