Out of Shape

Research for my book about the discontents of clothes. Read more at http://footpathzeitgeist.blogspot.com

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Really nifty way to create a personalised dress form when making clothes for yourself – or for a regular client. I like that it's an analogue method. Before the advent of tape measures, tailors would measure their clients with specially notched strips of paper, which they would then retain for a precise record of each client's body.

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Disco jeans, 1979.

Molly Alice Hoy's comic rejects orthovestia – the cultural idea that you need to 'diagnose' your body shape and then dress it in the 'correct' ways. Body Love, Loving Your Body, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Body Image Project, Beauty Standards, Positive Body Image, Fat Positive, Positive Things, Positive Messages

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Molly Alice Hoy's comic rejects orthovestia – the cultural idea that you need to 'diagnose' your body shape and then dress it in the 'correct' ways.

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Burt Glinn GB. London. 1957. A Gentleman's London, Shirt Fitting

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Robert Clark, head cutter, Turnbull & Asser, London, by Slim Aarons, 1955

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1920s: French tennis player Suzanne Lenglen wearing a Patou tennis outfit.

'Jeune fille vert', Tamara de Lempicka. I've been meaning to write something about the wardrobe malfunction of having your drapery pressed against you in high wind to reveal every detail of your body's topography. Arte Art Deco, Moda Art Deco, Estilo Art Deco, Art And Illustration, Art Deco Paintings, Art Painting, Dress Painting, Modern Painting, Cubist Paintings

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'Jeune fille vert', Tamara de Lempicka. I've been meaning to write something about the wardrobe malfunction of having your drapery pressed against you in high wind to reveal every detail of your body's topography.

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Easter Parade, New York, 1957 by Brassaï. We rarely get so dressed up these days.

'Boyfriend jeans' are back this year, after getting their name when Katie Holmes wore her then-husband Tom Cruise's jeans to a Broadway rehearsal. The idea is to dress in a very ladylike way except for the jeans, to give the impression you've picked them up off some dude's bedroom floor. I find the style dispiriting as it implies a heterocentric sexual transaction that's made a woman the property of a man. New York Fashion Week Street Style, Spring Street Style, Street Chic, Spring Summer Fashion, Spring 2014, Summer Wear, Boyfriend Jeans, Boyfriend Style, Looks Style

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'Boyfriend jeans' are back this year, after getting their name when Katie Holmes wore her then-husband Tom Cruise's jeans to a Broadway rehearsal. The idea is to dress in a very ladylike way except for the jeans, to give the impression you've picked them up off some dude's bedroom floor. I find the style dispiriting as it implies a heterocentric sexual transaction that's made a woman the property of a man.

1938-1942 zoot suit: 2 different pattern striped wools, long fitted coat, oversize padded shoulders & exterior pouch pockets, red plastic buttons, high-waist balloon pants, pegged cuffs, 4 slash pockets, crudely made suspenders in cinnamon wool. Sold at auction for $ 78,000 1930s Fashion, Vintage Men, Balloon Pants, Fitted Coat, Glad Rags, Sharp Dressed Man, Textiles, Historical Clothing

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1938-1942 zoot suit: 2 different pattern striped wools, long fitted coat, oversize padded shoulders & exterior pouch pockets, red plastic buttons, high-waist balloon pants, pegged cuffs, 4 slash pockets, crudely made suspenders in cinnamon wool. Sold at auction for $ 78,000

Here, unfortunately, is Robyn Lawley on the cover of Vogue Italia in a much more typical 'plus-size' spread focusing on exploitation imagery. Vogue Covers, Vogue Magazine Covers, Steven Meisel, Top Models, Curvy Models, Guess Models, Models Style, Robyn Lawley, Fashion Cover

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Here, unfortunately, is Robyn Lawley on the cover of Vogue Italia in a much more typical 'plus-size' spread focusing on exploitation imagery.

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Editorial: Robyn Lawley by Max Doyle for Vogue Australia September 2011

This is Vogue Australia's 'Belle Curve' editorial starring Robyn Lawley: the first ever spread in that magazine to feature a plus-size model. Her agent expressed surprise & pleasure that Lawley was actually wearing clothes rather than being naked or in lingerie, which is usually the fate of plus-size models in regular magazines.

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No word on how to achieve this mystic body love, however, except maybe by getting your kit off to 'prove' how happy you are with your body.

Topless men were banned from the beaches of Atlantic City in New Jersey because the city didn’t want “gorillas on our beaches.” It wasn’t until 1937 when men finally won the right to wear just swimming shorts without a shirt. Vintage Beach, Vintage Photographs, Vintage Posters, Moda Do Momento, Nike Swim Shorts, Body Art, Vintage Circus

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Topless men were banned from the beaches of Atlantic City in New Jersey because the city didn’t want “gorillas on our beaches.” It wasn’t until 1937 when men finally won the right to wear just swimming shorts without a shirt.

Women's magazine articles about swimsuits are always about correcting "problem areas". How is any part of a woman's body a "problem area"? There should be an article in a men's magazine like "How to Hide Your Moobs & Beer Gut at the Beach." This swimsuit could be a solution for their problem areas. Beer Gut, Moobs, Male Magazine, Magazine Articles, Vintage Bathing Suits, Women Magazines

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Women's magazine articles about swimsuits are always about correcting "problem areas". How is any part of a woman's body a "problem area"? There should be an article in a men's magazine like "How to Hide Your Moobs & Beer Gut at the Beach." This swimsuit could be a solution for their problem areas.