mumblingsage: yamino: iamingrid: yamino: omgthatdress: Half-Mourning Dress 1910-1912 The Victoria & Albert Museum What’s a “half-mourning” dress?  Mourning in the front, party in the back? Half-Mourning was the third stage of mourning for a widow. She would be expected to mourn her husband for at least two years, the stages being Full Mourning, Second Mourning and Half-Mourning. The different stages regulated what they would be wearing, with Full Mourning being all black and with no ornamentation, including the wodow’s veil, and the stages after that introducing some jewellery and modest ornamentation. When in Half-Mourning you would gradually include fabrics in other colors and sort of ease your way out of mourning.  Wow, I am happy you made that joke so I could interpert it as a serious question and have an excuse to ramble on about clothing customs of the past, I am a historical fashion nerd. That’s very informative, but I’m going to stick with my original head canon: I love both the informed fashion history and the hilariously off-the-wall halves of this post.
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Half-Mourning Dress

1910-1912

The Victoria & Albert Museum

What’s a “half-mourning” dress?  Mourning in the front, party in the back?

Half-Mourning was the third stage of mourning for a widow. She would be expected to mourn her husband for at least two years, the stages being Full Mourning, Second Mourning and Half-Mourning. The different stages regulated what they would be wearing, with Full Mourning being all black and with no ornamentation, including the wodow’s veil, and the stages after that introducing some jewellery and modest ornamentation. When in Half-Mourning you would gradually include fabrics in other colors and sort of ease your way out of mourning. 

Wow, I am happy you made that joke so I could interpert it as a serious question and have an excuse to ramble on about clothing customs of the past, I am a historical fashion nerd.

That’s very informative, but I’m going to stick with my original head canon:

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I love both the informed fashion history and the hilariously off-the-wall halves of this post.

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Why is there very little utility to women’s clothing? Why don’t we get pockets which actually open? Why do we have to put up with the ‘false pockets’ that are frequently sewn onto women’s jackets and pants to give visual interest without ruining the ‘line’ of the garment? Why, when pockets are actually present, are they so rarely large, stable, or loose enough to accommodate a phone or a wallet? And why, given this is the case, do women go on to cop so much flack for carrying handbags around with them?

Oh wait. Is this one of those double standards which we feminists are always going on about; one of those innocuous little things which everybody just accepts because it is the norm?

Women carry handbags. It is known.

But why? I have watched my male friends get ready to go out. They slip their wallet into one pocket, their keys into another, their phone into a third pocket, and some of them even still have spare pockets large enough to carry a novel for the journey. Those of my friends who wear women’s clothes, though, face an entirely different situation. If they are wearing the right jeans or jacket, they may have up to two usable pockets (not at all guaranteed). However, in most cases they won’t have any pockets at all. Utility and style rarely meet in women’s fashion, so they grab a bag.

Contrary to all the jokes, most women don’t ‘have’ to leave the house with everything they pack in their day-to-day handbag. Most of the items in a woman’s everyday handbag are in there because, if she’s going to have to carry it anyway, she might as well make it worth her while. Excuse us for making use of the one useful item we find in our wardrobes.

, “The Feminist and the Handbag” (via athenasaurus)

Oh lord, don’t get me started on this. This is a little thing that highlights a big equality problem between men and women. We need the same supplies as men to do the same job. When I stocked shelves it was impossible to find pants that would hold my wallet, my box knife, my badge, my keys, my gloves (I worked dairy/frozen) and my phone. I actually ended up not carrying my wallet or keys at all. Fuck if I’m carrying a purse *ever* but that certainly wouldn’t have helped on the job.

My husband? He holds all of that plus his insulin, packets of honey in case his blood sugar drops (or a vial of glucose tablets), glucometer, headphones, markers, and pencils. With plenty of room to spare. I’ve even seen him slip paperback books into empty pockets.

When we bought sweatpants together so we could start working out? I had zero pockets. He had four. Four. When we wanted some boots for added protection working around 1.5-ton pallets and slippery surfaces, he was able to go to the nearest store and buy steel-toed, non-shock, no-slip boots in his size, no problem. I had to look online to find mine. Because women don’t work dangerous jobs. I hate shopping for clothes in general, but when it has to be online it really sucks because you never know if they will actually fit or be decent quality. Especially because, guess what, women’s sizes are far less standardized than men’s.
I’m going to guess this is all some remnant from the “women should be in the kitchen, not out in the world doing practical things” days that has held over and made it harder for us to…you know, do practical things, even nowadays. If I ever end up working a job like that again, I’ll probably just buy men’s pants and hem them for my 5-foot-tall frame, because I deserve the same supplies for my job that men do. And no, I don’t care if the men’s jeans don’t highlight the curve of my ass superbly. Do they hold up under tough conditions? Do they carry what I need carried? Practicality and efficiency only in my wardrobe, please.

(via solluxisms)

I remember watching I think it was Project Runway and the contestants had to design a new uniform for female postal workers.  The one designer put utilitarian pockets on her design, and the judges yelled at her for it.  They said something about it not being flattering, because you know, the key part of any uniform is not that it works for the job, but that it shows off your body in the best light possible.

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…omg women are Katy No Pocket

a book which ends with a construction worker dude giving her an apron that’s entirely covered in pockets

anyway my point is, the cargo pants trend of the 90s is really due for a comeback

(via delirious-bitter-gardens)

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(via Oscars Well Played: Naomi Watts - Go Fug Yourself: Because Fugly Is The New Pretty) I was underwhelmed by the dresses at the Oscars. Naomi sort of wins best dressed by default, in that she didn’t have too much competition because everything else was boring. Don’t get me wrong, Naomi looks amazing here. I just wish more people had looked anywhere near as amazing.
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I was underwhelmed by the dresses at the Oscars. Naomi sort of wins best dressed by default, in that she didn’t have too much competition because everything else was boring. Don’t get me wrong, Naomi looks amazing here. I just wish more people had looked anywhere near as amazing.

Source: gofugyourself.com

(via SKECHERS Bobs World - Hand Hold at VIP.Zappos.com) Okay, so Skechers can make “BOBS” and not get sued, but Samsung can’t make a phone that looks kind of like the iPhone? The fuck? Although apparently an appeals court just sided with Samsung, so that’s good.
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Okay, so Skechers can make “BOBS” and not get sued, but Samsung can’t make a phone that looks kind of like the iPhone? The fuck?

Although apparently an appeals court just sided with Samsung, so that’s good.

Source: vip.zappos.com

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thisisthinprivilege:

Thin privilege is being able to walk into Olympic Stadium in an outfit that makes you feel part of the team, instead of being forced to wear the only outfit that fits because Ralph Lauren won’t make the outfit you want to be wearing in your size.

“Before heading to NY for the P&G announcement, I had a photo shoot. We were supposed to wear white button up shirts. The woman’s shirts that were provided were too small in the back and the shoulders. My only option was wearing a man’s shirt. It was very ill fitting and I was feeling pretty self conscious about it. I hate not being able to wear a majority of woman’s clothing. When I got to NY they had a different man’s shirt for me to wear that was much better looking. I rolled the sleeves up and tried to look as feminine as possible.  My mother was the only mother there who hadn’t a jacket like the other moms because there wasn’t one provided in her size.” - Sarah Robles, Team USA Olympian

I’d strongly suggest clicking through to read the full article by Sarah Robles. Depressing, but very illuminating.

(via queenofattolia)

Source: thisisthinprivilege

A 2008 study done by Clairol found that 75 percent of American women dye their hair. According to a 2011 report published in the Daily Mail, 32 percent of British women under the age of 30 have already begun to go grey. Twenty years ago the percentage of those under 30 who admitted to seeing grey was just 18 percent. Hair care brand John Frieda has coined a term for these young grey ladies: GHOSTS, aka Grey Haired Over-Stressed Twenty Somethings, a result of our increasingly tumultuous financial and political times.

Dress With Courage: Curl up and dye: On making the decision to cover grey hair.

I don’t know if John Frieda means this to be a pejorative or not, but I kind of like the idea of being a Ghost. I can float through rooms and haunt people with my frightening gray hairs!

Source: dresswithcourage-elissa.blogspot.com