Let me tell you the story of the State Lege trips.

My mother comes from a small town; her family has been in the area for almost 200 years now. Her g’g’grandparents on both sides founded 3 of the small towns in the area. She’s related to everyone.

#TailorSnarkWars Foundation (Yes, it’s possible to be both local aristocracy & white trash.) She’s also one of those people who will claim someone else’s tragedy if it attracts attention to her, especially if she’s far enough away that she doesn’t have to actually DO anything about the tragedy.

#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:

https://twitter.com/czedwards/status/1028443538629881857?s=2

1. This does not fit into #TailorSnarkWars
It doesn’t fit into #Fiction.
Maybe #MediaCrit and #RecentHistory with a dose of #HowTherapyActuallyWorks

It’s my experience, and not everyone’s. I’m a behaviorist, and trauma is my jam. 2. So new tag: #MediaPTSD
Superheroes Need Shrinks: Batman, Wanda & Pietro Maximoff, 9/11 and mass casulty events

(or how we and our government participate in mutual gaslighting, and some thoughts on breaking the cycle for the benefit of our politics.)

Ruffles are not Melanoma’s fault. They’re what happens when fabric and assembly labor gets too cheap, and designers are allowed to exploit it.

Florals come around when fabric print tech has an incremental improvement.

A relatively short thread.

https://twitter.com/CZEdwards/status/1039314187825033216

#TailorSnarkWars
Battle of Opportunity
Floof, folderol, furbelows, ruffles and the horrors that are trends of technology.

Florals first: Printing a floral fabric takes good printing tech. When chintz first hit the scene in the 1720s, it was block printed in 2-3 colors, thusly.

B-C cup. All side boob, probably cuz he’s blown the clavipectoral fascia; he’s got a shit golf swing & doesn’t practice, tears up connective tissue. 44-48 band.

Look at thin & fragile hair under cap. He’s been letting the Miss Clairol sit too long.

#TailorSnarkWars driveby

https://twitter.com/thistallawkgirl/status/1038983974855602177

Since this is a common misunderstanding: Cup size is a designation of the difference in circumference between the largest part of the chest (usually over the nips) and the smallest part, over the ribcage, with no breast tissue. 1/4

A= 1
B= 2
C= 3
D= 4
DD/E= 5
DDD/F= 6
DDDD/FF=7

A bad word day can mean a good hardware day.

Spouse worked at home; is having gout flare. At least flares are rare.

I couldn’t settle, because Friday=end of sprint=phone calls.

My 99UK is gorgeous; its replacement case was stinky/fragile.

I built the grey base. And the secondary Frankentreadle that shouldn’t exist.

6 months ago, that treadle base told me the bearings were failing, no parts available. It’s 106 years old. I rebuilt, but had little faith. It seized.

I put it in garage to turn into a table. Replaced it w/ working base...

#TailorSnarkWars #Metabattle: Satanic Panics, Daycare, Memory, Pantsuits, Nerve clusters.
The war for all the marbles.

(Or at least one of the wars.)

ALL THE FUCKING TRIGGER WARNINGS I HAVE EVER MADE.

EVERY CONTENT WARNING.

THIS WILL BE A TOUGH THREAD. When last we left our protagonists...
our brain’s hacker was deep in the throes of writing subroutines

women were wearing pants as they flooded the workforce in the late 1970s & 80s

breastfeeding & daycare were about to crash into a mess.

Welcome to the collision point.

#TailorSnarkWars

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.

#TailorSnarkWars

**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.

#TailorSnarkWars
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.

#TailorSnarkWars
MetaBattle: Self-perception & Cognition

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***
V: Defense Against 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.

#TailorSnarkWars

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 Prior 2 threads in this series:

https://twitter.com/czedwards/status/1029094521798242304?s=21

https://twitter.com/czedwards/status/1029449327377174528?s=21

#TailorSnarkWars

MetaBattle: Self-perception & Cognition: Battle II

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 will 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.

#TailorSnarkWars

MetaBattle: Self-perception & Cognition

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 to cognition.

Per usual, I’m just articulating what you already know.

#TailorSnarkWar

Battle 3.1: the 1st Women’s Wear Air Assault.

It’s much easier to show behavioral fashion going wrong than getting it right.
I’m giving this a caveat: for once, it’s not her politics driving my snark. It’s her background. For that, I pity her.

A thread. 2. I present Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Modesty Culture, and the perils of trusting yourself or your stylist without having any fluency in the language of fashion. It makes you susceptible to ridicule & scams.

As promised to @SamuraiKnitter, a thread on Obama’s suits.
And his other clothes. Compare and contrast time. (With guest stars!)

Starting off: White tie. His fit is on point; per Michelle, he’s owned 1 & only 1 for 8 years, he knows how to wear it. Experience counts! Allow me to stipulate now: I think Barack Obama is absolutely getting my maximum feminine gaze. He’s hot & cool, and easy to dress. So I’ll try not to just repeat how good he looks. Or drool.

But he is a handsome, fit, confident man, comfortable in his skin. That matters more.

Okay, I’m doing this. Donnie & Vladdie wear the clothes. And starting with a history lesson. @SamuraiKnitter tagged.

https://twitter.com/czedwards/status/1018689303453491200

To understand Russian tailoring, you have to understand the 300 year relationship of Russia, London & Paris. Always delicate, but Russia has always consumed and modified western culture for their own use rather than supplying it to London & Paris. Especially under Lenin/Stalin.

Trigger Warning: A thread on the commodification & conscription of women’s bodies. You’ve been warned. Exploring relationships between childbearing, work, coercive control, breast feeding, formula, gig economies, capitalist exploitation, colonialism and colonialist paternalism... 2. In this week’s culture war, the Leche Paratroopers have attacked the Working Parents Brigade. I’m making my stand: I’m Team #FeedBabies I will not cede ground to either side. I posit that both sides are oppressive. Formula is an undeniable good for economic & social justice.

The hardest thing about being a therapist isn’t the emotional labor, or dealing with insurance, or even everyone & their brother wanting free help.

It’s patience. It’s being able to clock the client’s problem in the first 15 min but spending 6 months nudging their agency. (Spoiler: Big Little Lies)
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One of the best sequences in BLL is Celeste & her therapist. Doc knows from first meeting with Celeste & Perry that he’s an abusive shitstain, but Celeste isn’t ready for that. Respecting Celeste’s agency demands working through her process of ...

In my pinned thread, I talk about insecurity & anxiety of gun ownership. This piece is a textbook example.
He needed talk therapy for decades. Instead, he bought guns.

After his family died, he threatened to kill himself. So the police took his guns. wapo.st/2Iyo3BQ?tid=ss… Let’s start with career: a police officer. He seems like he was a good one, but two aspects of personality are drawn to law enforcement: a need for control, and authoritarian thinking. These are the two traits that tend to lead to dysfunctional behavior.

Thread for tracking bad accounting in the DJT campaign expenditures for 2015-2016. I will add to this thread as I find them.

Notes: Schiller batched his expense reports. It’s possible to track his McDonalds’ purchases for campaign events by city, but not by DATE. In May-June 2015, everybody in Iowa & NH seemed to require all campaigns to pre-pay for events. Makes sense: they know campaigns become deadbeats in 12 hours. Short notice rentals. Got soaked for NH campaign office.