Tag: clothes

• Thou art not for the fashion of these times

  Do you ever think about clothes? Not about what to wear, or what’s hanging in dark corners of your closet or anything, but clothes. I mean, why are clothes, what are clothes, and who invented them? Existential stuff like that. There must be something important about them, otherwise we’d only spend our money on food and…

  gozzter

  October 23, 2024

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  agriculture, clothes, clothing, fashion, History of clothes, lifestyle, style

• Wearing Life but as the fashion of a hat

  Every once in a while I find that I am confronted by an idea which, even were I to have thought of it first, I would have put aside as of little relevance -or worse, of little consequence. Clothing, has always been one of those for me: it’s something you wear, not something you are.…

  gozzter

  September 2, 2020

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  clothes, clothing, fashion, ideas, Kahlil Gibran, philosophy, Plato, Queen Mary University of London, Samuel Johnson, Shahida Bari

• The Temple of Clothes

  I caught someone inspecting me the other day. Okay, it wasn’t an inspect exactly –it was more of a look… Well, maybe a glance, but it bothered me all the same. I could feel her eyes doing a quick little dance on me. They started on my mud-caked running shoes, before appraising the hem of…

  gozzter

  September 6, 2017

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  Afghanistan, anticipatory dresser, chador, clothes, eyes, forest, inspection, names, Pashto, trail, translator, vocabulary, woods