GWU Textile Museum Exhibitions: "Intrinsic Beauty", "Art Uncovered", "Textiles 101"
Despite being native to the Greater Washington DC Area AND attending George Washington University I never visited GWU's Museum museum, having recently launched their centennial celebration.
The current exhibitions, "Intrinsic Beauty: Celebrating the Art of Textiles" and "Art Uncovered: Visionary Textile Scholars and their Archives", as well as the "Textiles 101 Gallery", all offered a thoughtful and detailed yet easy to grasp take on the history and merits of the curated pieces.
Given it's cost (free) and location (near the White House and a 10 minute walk from the closest metro station), I recommend it if you're in the area or visiting, whether you have a deep interest in textiles, enjoy discovering new information on fabrics, or want to learn more about fabric. ...
Yakkeks Embroidery Diary
I decided to move all my embroidery posting into this space. That way I can wax as long as I want about my process and thoughts and all that stuff without clogging up the #DIY channel with it.
The goal of this thread is to share the thoughts I have on my projects, but absolutely feel free to ask questions, give feedback and so on....
Wardrobe Analysis 2.0
Link to analysis 1.0 from last year
https://discord.com/channels/1116793467654381685/1202997506821333002
One of the first things I did after joining here last year was to do a wardrobe analysis series of outfits. After a year on here and MFA discord I wanted to do it again. The basic idea is to do a little lookbook that features essentially everything I own (there are a few ties, a navy sweater, a hat and maybe a scarf missing but I think that’s it). I tried to do it by repeating as few items as possible, mostly just a few jeans and a couple shoes. I didn’t have time to do all new pictures so some are from fits in the last few months. ...
Is this ring for men, women or unisex?
Hey, wjen I bought this ring I was told that men can wear it. However, some people tell me that it's a ring primarily for women. Wjat do you think?
Merch Madness
Have you noticed an uptick of merch collabs? Have you found yourself buying more merch recently? Share merch you've bought in the past year!
>In the last year, 13-39-year-olds in the U.S. who
purchased merch estimated they spent an
average of $168 per person. This equates to...
Yale's 20-Item Dress Study Style Guide
Found the style guide drafted by Yale's dress study group in the translation of Take Ivy (c 1965) and thought of it as the spiritual ancestor to the Basic Bastard, especially compared to the other articles being printed at the time (c 1961).
Me being me, I saw an opportunity to try something out and followed the guide for a month (this was in March but I got sidetracked by fit battle and such). I posted my thoughts on Substack because there's a lot of pictures and Discord formatting sucks lol.
https://imgur.com/a/ozsrUr2...
