Feb 24 2025 - Who What Wear

 

It is easy to feel like an 8th grader.  Read the headlines and guess what these acronyms mean:  SAG Awards.  And then FW85.  The clue is looking at the pictures.  They are all movie celebrities dressed up and posing. Women's outfits have a source, but men's clothes are just there. (Well, you'd have to read the description to find out the designer, if listed at all). Some of the women were wearing "archival" dresses such as Chanel FW85 Read-To-Wear.  That would be the Fall/Winter of 1985.   Pamela Anderson was wearing "Custom Pandora Lab-grown diamond jewellery." These all came from marie claire HERE.  The headlines are "standout looks"  "unforgettable looks"  and so on.  I guess the news media gets to weigh in on who they think were the best dressed, best makeup, best hair, best everything to do with looks.   Scroll down and there is the bait click section with the headline "Actress Spills Hollywood Trick for Slim Body:  "We All Do It" Seems to match the pictures from the event.  Everyone had a very smooth face - even Jane Fonda.  And that's a bit startling as she's 87 years old.

I like the idea of a toad to prince transformation.  Here's the toad. Read more daily posts here: marilyncornwellblogspot.com Purchase works here: Fine Art America- marilyncornwell.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca

Feb 26 20223 - Let's Play Dress-Up - Milan Fashion Week

 

Let's play Dress Up - perfect for playing pretend.  Sometimes kids just need something extra special to keep their dress up play neat and today! With a bright white finish, our dress up unit is perfect for storing and organizing play clothes, shoes, toys and more! This is Milan Fashion Week, so there will be a definite interest in adding clothes to the Dress Up station.  Check out what came out off the station this week.  Be astonished by the attendees and what they are wearing HERE. It answers the all-time question of what drives a person to be a celebrity?  Because it allows adults to dress-up any time in any thing.   What do we know about Dress-Up? Dress-Up is a children's game.  Here's the google entry on adults playing dress-up. "Adults do not usually play dress-up, but entering recovery and participating in the therapy process allows you a chance to engage in the grown-up version of dressing up." “Dress-up play allows anyone to dream, hope, and use their imagination. It gives kids permission to pretend to be someone or something different and extraordinary that reflects their personality and current interests and promotes more independence by allowing kids to practice self-care skills.” From around the age of 3 years, your child might enjoy dress-up games. Dress-up games let your child act out different roles, explore ideas about the real world and develop their imagination. Children dressing up as the opposite gender is very common (almost as common, in fact, as parents who are worried about this behavior.) But rest assured, it is perfectly normal.   Our picture today shows an old-fashioned party-dress close-up.  This would be from about 10 years ago - days gone by in such a short time. Read more daily posts here: marilyncornwellblogspot.com Purchase works here: Fine Art America- marilyncornwellart.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca

Sep 8 2022 - School Days - What to wear

 

Here are nine trends for children in back to school fashion for 2022: Wide-leg pants Barbiecore Matching athleisure  Platform shoes Belt bags Oversized sweaters Tie dye Bucket hats Head to toe denim My favourite trend is the platform shoes - the platforms are on the top of running shoes.   Think Nike and think expensive.  And what about "athleisure" - isn't that a great expression - hybrid clothing is what it is considered - for athletic activities and in other settings.  Think leggings as that seems to be the dominant item.  The barbiecore trend is how to wear pink.  It is considered a much-welcomed mood-booster for 2022.  Embrace those vibrant hues.  "Barbiecore is for everyone - not just back to school. " School uniforms? Here in Ontario they exist in the Roman Catholic school system and in private schools.  There are advertisements for trendy school uniforms as well.  I'm not sure how that would work.   Do you remember what you wore on one of your first days of school?  This likely applies to women more than men.

This is Laura Secord Public School in Queenston.   A public school named after a national hero who never went to school.  Read more daily posts here: marilyncornwellblog.com Purchase works here: Fine Art America- marilyncornwellart.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca

How Do I Look?

That's a question that has changed drastically in our time.  It is a 'loaded' question.  The expected answer is a positive one complimenting a person's style choice.  It is particularly targeted to women and became a popular television series built around the style-impaired in need of a makeover, according to two of the victim's friends.  The fashion victim's two friends turn her/him in and they all get to pick out a clothing collection she/he likes best.   Every culture and every age has had its standards of beauty.  However in this age, that standard has changed towards the comfortable and casual.   So while I may lament the sloppy way of dressing in North America, it is here to stay - it is now considered middle class normal. This from Deirdre Clemente of Zocalo Public Square:  "I study one of the most profound cultural changes of the 20th century: the rise of casual dress. I study casual dress as it evolved on the beaches of Miami. I study casual dress as worn by the Black Panthers and by Princeton undergraduates. As a professor, I teach seminars on material culture and direct graduate students as they research and curate costume exhibitions, but my bread-and-butter as a scholar is the “why” and “when” our sartorial standards went from collared to comfortable. " Find the article in Time magazine HERE.  She says that casual clothes are "the uniform of the American middle class and that everyone in America considers themselves middle class." I think the emphasis is on comfortable - here's a visual summary of the king of comfort style: Our pictures today show a previous convention contest winner - A Maine Lobster Wharf by Don Railton.

Taking Labels for Granted

Here's our website:  tedium.co - it answers my question about putting our clothes on front-ways is easy because of the labels on the back.   The answer is unusual:  the roots of modern clothing labels start with unions.  At the turn of the 20th century, union labels were used by a variety of labor groups, both inside and outside of garments. In fact, the first example of such labels came from cigar-makers in 1874, who used it as a way to highlight the higher product quality compared with products made elsewhere. But the most famous use of this tactic came from clothing-makers, particularly the International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU), which used the tags almost as a branding strategy for the union. In fact, the union became noted in the ’70s and early ’80s for its television commercials, in which members of the union sing a ditty called “Look for the Union Label.” Now labels convey many things - place or origin, materials, warnings for hazardous materials.  And there are labels on everything - remember when bananas didn't need to have a label on them?  Labels are now regulated requirements.   The internet covers labels today in various ways:  Ways to remove clothing labels, get custom clothing labels made, get name stickers for your kids, how to sew a label into a garment, and so on.  Tomorrow we'll explore more things we take for granted - things that make our everyday activities easy and efficient. Our pictures today are the front garden - taken yesterday.  I am always amused to see vertical perennials in the front garden tilting - they do whatever the wind tells them.  There is definitely a southern wind here on Sunnylea Crescent.