a taxonomy of pants

i just thought it might be about time for me to start writing all this down.
i was just thinking about the history of pants and really, if you just focus on pants you can find out about pants.

In New Zealand in the 1930s, farmers reportedly had trouble with exploding trousers as a result of attempts to wipe out the weed ragwort.

but i was more thinking about the actual words for different silhouettes, shapes, whatever -- more like a taxonomy than a social history. though once we've got a good layout of the species, trying to lay that in with the cultural implications could be ----------------significant.

the idea here though, and i'm only going to say this once (not a promise), this blog is going to deal with things as long as my attention span allows. i always promise myself i'll come back to things ---- but, like the taxonomy of pants, we'll see.

so anyway, i was also thinking about the dada movement from the 20s and how i really dig the fonts.

i was in the 'h' part of the art section of the neukoelln library, and there was a book about hanna höch, and it's uncanny, first of all, her haircut is exactly like my friend hanna's, but also her collages look just like mine. not this one, but this is an example, kind of, of the cool fonts:



i also came upon david hockney, who i've always sort of disregarded, but this painting took my breath away:



actually, it wasn't this one. the one that took my breath away was called, "domestic scene, 1963". when i googled "domestic scene," however, this is what i got:



he got his inspiration from the magazine "physique pictorial"



makes you wonder what those man onesies are called. anybody got an idea? some sorta leotard.

It was made famous by the French acrobatic performer Jules Léotard (1839–1870), about whom the song "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze" was written.