Salon.com just had a feature in Broadsheet, "10 tragic moments in pants", a venomous attack on any sort of non-normative cut of pants. Very unscientific. More later...
Sunday, April 25, 2010
"10 tragic moments in pants"
Salon.com just had a feature in Broadsheet, "10 tragic moments in pants", a venomous attack on any sort of non-normative cut of pants. Very unscientific. More later...
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Eldridge Cleaver's Penis Pants
The black activist and author behind Soul on Ice put the royalties towards developing Eldridge Cleaver Ltd., which aspired to create pants more sympathetic to the male form:
"We've been castrated in clothing, and my pants open up new vistas. I'm against penis binding. Mean wear their penis either down the right pants leg or the left. Now, if you cut away a piece of the material on wither side you'll see that the penis is strapped to the leg. Pants were orignially designed to corral the penis." Eldridge Cleaver, from Jet Magazine, 1978.
Via Dangerous Minds
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Things Fall Apart
The Suddeutsche Zeitung reports on the comeback of the jogging pant to the runway in a little photo essay (in German) called "Sacks that Call Themselves Pants" which chronicles Alexander Wang's (see above) de-hag of the baggy bags. This falls, I suppose, firmly within the postmodern camp, in that the low sign signifies the high or whatever. I suppose it would earn the designation of post-post modern if the banality of it's high-low mixup elicited no comment at all?
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Friday, July 10, 2009
history of pantyhose
though not pants per se, a bipedal phenomenon nontheless, check out here a history of pantyhose
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
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.
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.
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