when when i say i'm in love you better believe i'm in love L-U-V

how did these girls

turn into these?

(note once again the pairing of tight pants and dude on bike)



good girls from queens go bad.

kind of. good girls from queens get catapulted into the market espousing a gnarly bad girl image. "leader of the pack" caused a furor. the furor of course accompanied the transition from skirt to pant.

The Shangri-Las had a 'tough girls' persona that set them apart from other girl groups. Having grown up in a rough part of Queens, they were by nature feisty and outspoken, and far less demure than many of their contemporaries. Rumors about their supposed escapades have since become the stuff of rock and roll legend. Whatever degree of truthfulness these stories may have, they were firmly believed by many fans in the Sixties, and they helped cement the group's reputation. According to Weiss, that reputation helped fend off unwanted advances from various male musicians on tours.

source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangri_Las

interestingly here the tight pant isn't considered a 'come-hither' thing as much as a 'fuck off' thing. but in a read 'em and weep kind of way.

pedal pushing / draintree/drainpipe part II

another branch of the drainpipe tree:

they say the capri pant was emilio pucci's invention for the jetset on the isle of capri in the fifties... not to be confused necessarily with the pedal pusher, another crotch-riding invention that ostensibly augered some sort of ladies' sexual liberation.....


the lovely sandra dee with her leopard print capri pants

pedal pushers: supposedly if your pants are short and tight, they won't get tangled up in the bicycle chain. this got transferred into the world of the motorbike, here we have again sandra dee with dream lover bobby darin, i suppose early 60s --



but what really got the goat was mary tyler moore as laura petrie bouncing around the dick van dyke family stead with ass clingy capris

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.