Tag: clothing

• 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. […]

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  September 2, 2020

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

• They didn’t ask for it

  Sometimes, you just have to take a stand! Sometimes, enough is enough! How many times do we read about lawyers –or even judges- wondering about the effect of clothing on sexual assaults? And it’s not just the criminal justice system that asks the question; I fear that it is a question that floats just beneath […]

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  July 4, 2018

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  BBC news, blame, Blank Noise, Cause and Effect, clothing, I Never Ask For It, India, Jasmeen Patheja, Justice, post hoc propter hoc, Robbie Burns, sexual assaults, sexual harassment

• Hi, Heels!

  I find it interesting that I can be so blind to something I see every day. How it can fade so completely into the Gestalt, that it is invisible. Not there. Is it just me, or do we as a species, always attempt to accommodate to that which is constantly present –block it out like […]

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  June 27, 2018

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  Beauty, CBC News, clothing, corset, discriminatory dress codes, Elizabeth Semmelback, fashion, footwear, heels, high heels, Kevin Fraser, patterns, pedorthist, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto Bata Shoe Museum