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First Post!
So, ladies and gents, this is where it begins. "The Life Sartorial" will be my blog about fashion, costume, and other sorts of related things. Fashion theory, costume process, dress diaries, whatever...
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On Costumer's Process
When I was working Chautauqua (the student play festival) as a costumer, Wendy had asked me what it was like to costume a show. So I wrote this out, and now I'm reposting it, since it might be of some...
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1950's fashion, Family Values, the 1920's and flapper fashion
I sit at an interesting confluence of subjects: I'm interested in period (and vintage) dressmaking techniques, and the cultural and social factors which create and change fashion. I'm interested in the...
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On the evolution of Regency Fashion.
(The picture is titled "The Three Graces in a High Wind", and is a semi-satirical cartoon poking fun at the scandalously revealing fabrics and lack of layers of the second phase of the Regency.) Any of...
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Curvy Women and War
"The opposite of war isn't peace, it's creation!" -'La Vie Boheme', _Rent_ by Jonathan Larson Not at all linked, you may wonder? During my costume history class, we discussed how, during the height of...
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On Laundry
Alright, so I admit it: I am a thrift store junkie. I really am. Recently I managed to turn an addiction into a profitable activity by collecting things that could be used as costume parts at Dickens,...
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...to tell you that I've had my first brush with Big City Crime. Yeah, my car was broken into. A bunch of my stuff is gone. More about it on my LJ. And yes, I filed a police report. Not that I expect...
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The Semiotics of Corsetry in Design
-or- Why That "Corset top" is really a "Shoelace top" Semiotics is the study of signs and symbols. It's used particularly by folklorists and theater people, since the former are studying the signs...
View ArticleDecisions, decisions...
I'm migrating The Life Sartorial to somewhere with less of a habit of claiming ownership over content it didn't create. So to that end, it'll be http://thelifesartorial.blogspot.com/ Now I need to...
View ArticleOn the brink...
Well folks, I'm moving. Goodbye Santa Cruz, helloooooo San Jose. First weekend of Valhalla, it looks like, curse the luck... But the place is pretty awesome. So if anyone isn't busy on the weekend of...
View ArticleGoodbye Santa Cruz
You were good^H^H^H^H^H^H^H bad^H^H^H^H^H^H there for me. Hello San Jose. I don't know you very well yet, but I hope we'll get along fine.
View ArticleSome people are idiots
http://people.tribe.net/ladykalessia/photos/f1dc61c8-852c-4854-876b-bea5315c6f31 By which I mean, if I was going to show you nipples, you'd be paying for it. And you'd be paying me a LOT for it. Asshole.
View ArticleLand of the Gods
No Valhalla for me. I'm sort of on the fence between sad (Dammit, I really, really wanted to go to this) and angry (goddammit stupid cars and argh always at the worst time when I have no money post...
View ArticleNew Tribe, New Content
I suppose now that the evil that was Old Tribe is... well, at least promising to better itself, I'll start adding new content again. Well, okay. I actually have a bunch of new pictures I ought to put...
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I really ought to clear out my camera more often...
I dug this picture out of my "Raw files" folder on my computer the other day. Yes, that's me in my full victorians. Yes, that's a power drill. YES, I was using it, NO it's not just staged. I'd been...
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New Tribe
So this going through my friends list one by one and trying to remember who lives in the South Bay thing is for the birds. Especially since we all put "California" or "SF Bay Area" these days. :P So...
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The End of an Era
I'm standing in a parking lot in the late afternoon sunlight, shivering in the onslaught of a wind that brings a thick blanket of wet, cold, gray creeping over the nearby hills. In front of me is a...
View ArticleEn Fuego
So it looks like I'm going to Burning Man after all. I guess I shouldn't have griped so much about not going. I now have three weeks to get my shit together - good thing I camp Faire as much as I do,...
View ArticleA few good playaheads
Looking for a few good Burners who know who Rick Astley is. Ping me for more details. Muahahahaa.
View ArticleSo long...
Farewell...? Tribe was down so long that the Burn was over twelve days ago, and I can only *today* take down the gone-to-burning-man thing. If you need me, google this name. Or this name at yahoo, or...
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