Why Do Girls Wear Pink?
No, it’s not an immutable law of nature. In the 1920s, retailers began encouraging pink (a strong color) for boys and blue (a dainty one) for girls, before the trend reversed after... The post Why Do...
View ArticleThe Power Of Clothing Labels To Shape Your Life
In another experiment, volunteers watched one of two videos of the same man being interviewed for a job. In one, his shirt had a logo; in the other, it did not. The... The post The Power Of Clothing...
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Wikileaks: U.S. Forced Haiti To Nix Raising Its Minimum Wage To 62 Cents
Wikileaks unveils an incredibly infuriating revelation, via the Nation. To sum up: desperately poor Haiti planned to raise its minimum wage from 24 cents per hour to 62 cents, angering the contractors...
View ArticleJoint Stockings Are Eerie
As androids/dolls/CG figures become more lifelike, flesh-and-blood humans may desire to head in the other direction. Girls (and boys) can now pick up chic joint stockings to give themselves the look...
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‘Air-Conditioned’ Clothes Keep Japan Cool
With temperatures rising the last thing you'd want to do is put on a jacket, but Japan's 'air-conditioned' coats have built-in fans to keep you cool. Via France24: As jackets go it looks far from...
View ArticleMushroom Death Suit
Someday the lifeless bodies of all of us may be laid into the cold earth zipped snugly in the outfit at right. Artist Jae Rhim Lee designed her mushroom burial suit to address how... The post Mushroom...
View ArticleOccupy Melbourne Tent Monsters
Occupy Melbourne protesters pull a pleasing prank on local police -- in their city, it's illegal to camp in parks, so they realized that turning tents into clothing would make the perfect cop-baiting...
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Why Couldn’t Congressman Bobby Rush Wear a Hoodie in Congress? (Video)
The ONLY person to beat Barack Obama in an election. Reports Peter Grier in Christian Science Monitor: Hoodies on the House floor are verboten, apparently. Rep. Bobby Rush (D) of Illinois was scolded...
View ArticleA Non-Muslim Spends The Day In A Burqa
Looking for an easy way to make people treat you differently? Via Vice, Annette Lamothe-Ramos conducts a social experiment by wearing Saudi-style burqa in New York City for a day: I figured... The post...
View ArticleMayor Of Reykjavík Dons Balaclava And Dress In Support Of Pussy Riot
Has the "Pussy Riot ski mask" supplanted the Trayvon hoodie as the political protest fashion piece of the moment? Somehow I'm unable to envision NYC mayor Mike Bloomberg doing this. Reports the Iceland...
View ArticleA DIY Hat To Prevent Your Visibility On Cameras And Video
Via Quora, how, with a couple dollars and a few spare minutes, to make yourself invisible to Big Brother: Most cameras (especially black and white security cameras) will see low levels of... The post A...
View ArticleStealth Wear: Drone Proof Counter-Surveillance Fashions
Stock up for the future? Artist Adam Harvey, previously noted for his CV Dazzle project revealing how to style hair and makeup to avoid detection by facial recognition software, has developed a...
View ArticleSaudi Arabian Cleric Calls For Babies To Wear Burqas
I suppose the idea is that we are born sinners. The Telegraph reports: A Saudi cleric’s declaration that babies should wear burkas to protect them from sexual attacks has drawn widespread criticism....
View ArticleGazing Into Police Culture Through Cop T-Shirts
Cop t-shirts: For when merely acting like an abusive asshole doesn’t send a strong enough message. Via the Huffington Post, Radley Balko runs down a litany of disturbing examples of custom t-shirts......
View ArticleThe Terrifying Beaked Plague Mask Of Historical Europe
The Chirurgeon’s Apprentice on the disturbing origins of raven-nosed masks, which were worn by so-called “plague doctors” during times of mass death in Early Modern Europe: The earliest textual...
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