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#TailorSnarkWars

2019 Spring Runway: Free Shots of Brain Bleach Edition
Step Away From Pinterest Edition
Designers are Agents of Patriarchal Oppression Edition
We’re in the Fucking Stupid Timeline Aren’t We? Edition
Dear Hecate How Can We Appease You & Make This Stop? Edition
Commence repetition

Links to earlier #TailorSnarkWars fashion threads:
This one is mostly me being a Sewist who really does love fashion & fabric being appalled that I can’t get paid hundreds of millions for this shit.

It’s not models’ fault; this is a capitalist scam. I don’t even entirely mind the scam part that separates $$ from wealthy dicks.
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Battle 7.1: Pants Planet In the Beginning
**Battle 7.2: Rubber, Plumbing, Roadsters: 20th Century Pants**
Battle 7.3: Everybody Else Is Doing It

Long promised, fully overdue, women & trousers.

The 20th c is massive, because this is when we start wearing them.
Sunday, we talked about several thousand years of garment history that basically condenses to this: trousers are an inefficient garment if you don’t have
good heating,
good plumbing, or
good fasteners.

When we have at least two of the three, trousers start becoming universal.
(How do I know this? Places where trousers were more common had less cold, wet weather than Little Ice Age Europe & invented better fasteners/fabrics much earlier. Shalwar kameez & Mongolian riding trousers and Han/Manchu ku and most of the pueblo-building Native peoples, and...
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**Battle 7.1: Pants Planet In the Beginning**
Battle 7.2: Rubber, Plumbing, Roadsters: 20th Century Pants
Battle 7.3: Everybody Else Is Doing It

Long promised, fully overdue, women & trousers.
I will consistently use the term trousers to refer to the outer garment consisting of two tubes of fabric that join at the torso. I will use culturally appropriate terms when referring to specific garments, but mostly, they’re just trousers.
While pants has fewer characters, it means undergarments for a considerable part of the world. Less ambiguity in language, please. A legging means a long tube garment that covers from waist/hip to foot; leggings include the crotch seam.
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MetaBattle: Self-perception&Cognition
I. Our brains are out to get us
II. Dementia comes for us all
III. Narcissism is an underlying feature/bug of consciousness
IV. Try not look like a 40 year old vampire even if you are

***V. Defense Against The Dark Arts***
This is gonna be a continuing series, because it’s complex. How we think about fashion is just one aspect of how we think and perceive. I’ve been working on this for a while. It’s foundational. Per usual, I’m just articulating what you already know.
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MetaBattle: Self-perception & Cognition: Toddler Narcs

I. Our own brains are out to get us
II. Dementia comes for us all
***III. Narcissism is an underlying feature/bug of consciousness***
IV. Try not look like a 40 year old vampire even if you are
This is gonna be a continuing series, because it’s complex. How we think about fashion is just one aspect of how we think and perceive. I’ve been working on this for a while. It’s foundational. Per usual, I’m just articulating what you already know.

End of repetitive content.
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