Weekly Whimsy: would you give this hitchhiker a lift?
This week’s whimsy is courtesy of a weirder than usual fashion photo from Queen magazine in 1960. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
The 44th Down Under Feminists Carnival
This is the 44th monthly Down Under Feminists Carnival. This edition of the carnival gathers together December 2011 feminist posts from writers living in Australia and New Zealand.
Quicklink: China and fashion spending
Chinese men spend more on fashion clothing than women. More than twice as much ($1.1 billion to $439 million).
3 posts on butch/femme & disability – read ‘em.
First, bfp at Flip Flopping Joy: “what is butch?” but then i see sites specifically for butches–and all i see are women who clearly are spending hours and hours and tons of money getting dressed up–with plucked eyebrows even! –and i wonder, what makes those women any different than femme girls? aren’t they ‘performing’ the [...]
Frontless shoes: The worst of all worlds
In the interest of completing our schedule of Ridiculous-Shoes blogging, I just wanted to show you these shoes. I do feel sorry for the model’s poor toes, which look battered and bruised, probably from whatever other ridiculous shoes she’s been in.
Pirelli 2009 calendar hits every -ism in the book
Warning: most of the images below the cut are wildly offensive, racist, and contain strong sexualised violence triggers. The same applies to all of the links in this post. Sociological Images features some photos from Pirelli’s car-tyre calendar. The calendar is distributed only to selected so-called “movers and shakes”; it is considered a status symbol [...]
What the fuck, Germaine?
Germaine Greer in The Guardian’s World News section: “If Michelle Obama’s such a great dresser, what was she doing in this red butcher’s apron?” The one sour note to resound through the jubilation at the election of Barack Obama was an undercurrent of fear and loathing of the dress Michelle Obama wore on election night. [...]
Shoes, Remedial
It’s school holidays, so my blogging is light. Today’s post is entirely in pictures. Shoes. Not shoes. Related posts: Summer Slowdown appears to have arrived SRSLY: If Your Shoes Are Causing You Pain, Wear Different Shoes Can’t blog Sorry for the slow news day Frontless shoes: The worst of all worlds
Blogplug! “Oohsome”.
Some real-life friends of mine have started a new blog project, “Ooh, I’ve got something to show you!” over at oohsome.blogspot.com. From the Welcome blurb: Oohsome has evolved out of almost daily instant message discussions between Acanthus and whoozqueen on the gorgeous art, craft, fashion and design things that we find on the web and [...]
Torture couture from Galliano
Speechless. Via the SMH, the new men’s collection from John Galliano, inspired by Abu Ghraib, and complete with bleeding neck and chest wounds, black hoods, and nooses. Photos below the cut. Related posts: Torture was central to both the witch scares and the Inquisition United Nations: Elder’s heatstroke death in police van possible torture or [...]
Prostitots and babywhores
I blogged a while back about the disturbing trend of sexualised dolls as toys for little girls. There’s a very interesting article in the SMH on Turning Girls Into Eye Candy. “We can’t allow marketers to colonise this nor should it be demonised by the right either. It’s the corporate exploitation of children’s sexuality that [...]
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