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politics of fashion...

who ever thought one thing had anything to do with the other but i  recently came across this article in the new york times called the newly uptight and the title caught my eye.  read the article, it's really quite funny and very amusing!  a lot of things influence fashion and those who design that fashion and those who tell us what is in fashion. never did i connect the dots between fashion and politics.  perhaps i should have but i never did.  according to this fashion writer the current political climate has altered what we will be wearing or what we will want to wear this year. because we as a country are nervous about the impending recession and the current social ills such as global warming and teenagers overdosing on drugs no longer are the influences of the spirited  warhol years going to be reflected in our clothing.  we as a people are looking for comfort and unalloyed optimism...whatever that us...and we are about to get it from fashion designers in the form of bourgeois clothing, business suits, little beige dresses, opera gloves and kitten heels that hearken back to our days of camelot when jackie o was the dictator of what was fashionable.  young people are now abandoning the fads in fashion for the conservative quality pieces of timeless clothing to add to their wardrobes to show that they want to be taken back to a time when everything was wholesome, respectable, optimistic and well mannered.  huh!  no longer will we be seeing platform shoes, mini skirts, disco boots, babydoll dresses and young hollywood's disheveled style.  huh! i suppose tie dye will also be out of the question and any way who's wearing disco boots?  if as they say we are hesitant about the recession and about global warming which i dare say we are and with good reason why oh why is it that the fashion industry thinks these problems will be helped, solved or changed by purchasing expensive pieces of couture?

take a stand. amuse yourself. wear whatever you like or better yet wear what you already have!  just don't wear it all at the same time like i do!  global warming will not go away because we buy a little beige dress or a suit and neither will teen age drug use.  see more politics here.  peace.

political...

i don't want to protest or boycott the spc challenge this month after all. i really don't have the time for it this week and i considered taking a pass but let's face it i don't want to keep my mouth shut.  i don't want to to keep my opinions to myself. i don't want to avoid pissing anyone else off who might not agree with me.

if you ask  me i don't feel like that's the noble thing to do. if you ask me it isn't smart and it isn't what i want to do. let's face the facts. silence is not golden, if we don't speak our opinion then we might as well not have one.  if we don't speak out against something then we are in a sense approving or endorsing it with our silence. there is no other way to look at it.  this is the politcal statement of an artist by the name of jeremy deller who participated in the carnegie international in 2004-2005...it may not be my political statement but i was smart enough to buy the tee shirt and to wear it and by the way the color of this shirt is red with bright yellow letters so it's not like you won't see me coming!  see more political here at spc this month.  peace.

blue is for...

blue toes and tatoos and saturdays with time on your hands and nothing to do but play around.

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blue is for...

eyeliner.  the whole subject of makeup came up recently for me when i considered getting my hair cut short. not shorter like i did get it cut. short like i planned to get it cut and didn't but may some day sooner than later.  makeup. i know. i know you can't imagine that i  even know what the stuff is. i can see why you think that.  you've never seen evidence that i am familiar with the stuff.  until now.

 

my relationship with makeup goes back to my years as a not quite teen when my cousin and i went to the 5 and 10 and much to my aunts dismay we slathered our young virgin eye lids with baby blue powdered eye shadow.  i assume it was a tester and that we did not open a new eye shadow in the store and slather it on our eyelids but i really only remember the blueness of it. blue is not my color. it was pretty horrid actually but it started a ball rolling that would continue to roll into my adult years. i was born in the 50's so i was a teen age girl during the days of carnaby street and twiggy. short short skirts and textured tights and big makeup and white lips with white eyeliner and thick black eyeliner and very long lashes and very geometric hair and short hair. i participated in all of it and continued to follow all the changing trends in hair and makeup until in my adult years when the colors i applied to my face consisted mainly of browns and roses with the exception of my favorite teal eyeliner.  i stopped wearing any makeup at all about twenty years ago.  i became accustomed to my own looks and became content with myself in more ways than just my face and on those occasions when i did try to wear makeup i cringed from the oddness of it.  so i gave it up.  it still scares me now but for the sake of art i decided to purchase an new eyeliner in blue. the youngladygrandaughter and i went on a makeup shopping trip where i learned that buying makeup is no easy task.  the choices are many and blue is still not my color but i persisted and found the teal eyeliner of my dreams and of my past and i have discovered that i still love the teal eyeliner.

i probably won't wear it again but on the other hand maybe i will. just maybe. i may just wear it out in public. i have also been advised by the teen ager in my life that i need to use a lip plumping gloss.  one similar to the one i borrowed from her to try out...just to see if it works. it stings a little and burns some. the little guy "i don't see anything."  the guy  "wow i do see a difference."  the little guy "oh yeah i can see the difference."  the youngladygrandaughter  "now you have have an upper lip."  i wasn't aware that i was missing an upper lip. by the way i am not wearing the lip plumping goo err gloss in this photo of myself so does anyone know where my upper lip has gone off to and more importantly where oh where has my upper eyelid gone???

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blue is for...

those days when everything seems like purple haze...only blue.

blue martini anyone?

i know it's early in the morning and i'm in my pj's bottoms still but...martini anyone?

cheers...bottoms up!

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