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Rhinestone Nudie Suits and the Queering of Country Music

They're sparkly, they're colorful, they bear images of palm trees and wagon wheels - so why were they worn by dudes who claim to be more interested in race cars than music? Hope and Jackie dissect the meaning of Nudie Suits, sewn for country music stars in the 1940s by Southern California immigrant tailors, before country music turned its back on camp. The story of country music and its dress is one of working class branding, evolving masculine identities, and yes, Orville Peck (though we ALMOST forgot to bring him up.) Go on, get to listenin'!

 

Source:

• All That Glitters: Country Music, Taste, and the Politics of the Rhinestone “Nudie Suit” By Peter La Chapelle (2001)
• Hillbilly Deluxe: ‘Country Couture’ and the Performance of Masculinity in Country Music by Janet Aspley (2013)
• Drag Queens, Cowboys: Cultivating Queer Country Music Through Postmodern Camp by Zamirah Hussain (2022)

Music:

• Lefty Frizzell - If You've Got the Money I've the Time
• The Flying Burrito Brothers - Lazy Days
• Lavender Country - Crying These Cocksucking Tears
• Lonestar - Mr. Mom

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Poly Styrene and Dayglow: Energy turned to Screaming Color

Hope and Jackie are back at it again, returning with some ear hole goodness. This time we discuss fashion icon, punk musician, and writer Poly Styrene. She wore a highlighter color scheme that interlaced with her sound, poetry, and art. Her fashion shouted out to the world how scrupulous her frenemy relationship to Dayglo could be. So we dove into the world of Dayglo and asked the important questions, like wtf is Dayglo anyway?

Well we get into it and it isn't what you think it is. Tune in to find out!

 

Some resources for this episode:

Punk Legend Poly Styrene’s Untold Fashion Influence by Scarlett Newman

Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliche Documentary

Poly Styrene wikipedia

https://rbkclibraries.wordpress.com/2013/11/20/fade-to-grey-fashion-and-music-from-the-1980s/

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/82792/brief-history-day-glo

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-09-03/la-me-col1-day-glo-art-fading-lacma-saturn-yellow

 

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Chromophobia and the Truth about Plato

Hope and Jackie are back with a full spectrum take on David Batchelor's book Chromophobia and the conversation around the disappearance of color from our world. It's a topic that touches everything from minimalism to Bauhaus, Beige Moms to the Kardashians, Aristotle to... Jesus? Be there or be austere.

 

Sources:

Chromophobia by David Batchelor

Science Museum Group Digital Lab study

 

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Lee Miller: WWII, Farming, and Norwegian Cooking (Pt 2)

First off, her son who wrote her biography, knows way too much about her sex life. Or are we being to judgey? Second off, Lee Miller is known not only to be war correspondent for Vogue during WWII, she also was the world renown chef for some of the worst food. She really can do it all. 

Apologize for those who got this episode with the not so good sound quality from before. Would it be a fashism epsiode tho with out some technical difficulties?!

 

Sources:

The Lives of Lee Miller by Antony Penrose

Lee Miller in Fashion by Becky Conekin

 

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Surrealist Muse, Vogue Photographer, and Tortured Taurus: Lee Miller (Pt 1)

Hope and Jackie have fallen for Lee Miller (1907-1977), an iconic 1920s Vogue model, surrealist photographer, and champion of the sad girl aesthetic. Did she meet Conde Nast on the street after almost running into traffic? Was her relationship with her dad creepy by any decade's standards? How did she sneak breast tissue out of a surgery and why did she take a picture of it on plate? These are all topics up for discussion.

Sources:

The Lives of Lee Miller by Antony Penrose

Lee Miller in Fashion by Becky Conekin

 

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Marxist Fashion Predictions 2023 *updated*

Jackie got off her meds for a few weeks, and while high on a slight tinge of manic, got to writing on this episode. It's a jam packed episode - we go over last year trends, including indie sleaze and cottage core and then take a peak forward to see what to expect for the year of 2023. 

We used WGSN 2023 consumer white page reports, the free ones essentially. We also took from The Daily podcast, and discussed their episode on unions. 

Lesbian Knitting: From Self-Sufficiency to Self-Representation by Eleanor Medhurst

I can't cite every tangent, but you get the idea. 

 

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Seattle and the Antifashion of it All

It started with some click bait from The Stranger, touting Seattle as the antifashion capital of the world. Hope and Jackie, famously unenthused by Seattle's relentless dependence on outdoor wear, nevertheless had to set the record straight about what exactly antifashion is. The resulting episode melds their thoughts on The Stranger piece by Charles Mudede, the history of antifashion as told by documentarian Olivier Nicklaus, as well as a collection of tangents that for whatever reason you keep coming back for.

 

References:

Seattle is the Antifashion Capital of the World by Charles Mudede

It's Time to Admit that Seattle is a Style Capital by Andrew Matson

Antifashion documentary

 

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Edward Enninful Part 2: Rising through the Ranks of the 90s Fashion World

Hope and Jackie continue to recap A Visible Man by Edward Enninful, featuring anecdotes about Kate Moss and very sad attempts at Italian accents.

 

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Edward Enninful Part 1: The Younger Years, From Ghana to London to i-D

We are starting our Edward Enninful deep dive!

We read A Visible Man by Edward Enninful, hot off the press. Then we discuss are parties still happening? Jackie says no, Hope disagrees. Listen in!!

 

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Harajuku, According to Some French Philoshophers

Jackie and Hope are dissecting Power Play and Performance in Harajuku, an article by writer, art historian, and baby bangs icon Amelia Groom. It's basically a who's who of fashion theory and philosophy so get ready to chew on some ideas from Roland Bartes, Pierre Bourdieu, Jean Baudrillard, and even Plato! Please hold their hands as they wade through this delightfully jam-packed text.

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