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Angela Antunovic
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Totally agree with this - I use a foot brace to help me walk and had to buy 2 different size trainers to make it work… this article explains why brands need to change their attitude but also gives practical advice on where single trainers can already be bought #disability #fashion #accessibility @disability | Just do it: Why I'm challenging Nike, Puma and Adidas over single shoes - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cewnje717rqo
Totally agree with this - I use a foot brace to help me walk and had to buy 2 different size trainers to make it work… this article explains why brands need to change their attitude but also gives practical advice on where single trainers can already be bought #disability #fashion #accessibility @disability | Just do it: Why I'm challenging Nike, Puma and Adidas over single shoes - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cewnje717rqo
Alex, the Hearth Fire
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@anderlandbooks Thank you very much! When I presented #visibleMending at a festival, a designer approached me and asked if I knew the legendary record cover of Neil Young.
This #fashion was my childhood and certainly influenced me.
Rags to Rufus by Rufus, 1974. A funky album inspires by Youngs older cover. This one is coloured, mainly in red tones on bright blue jeans fabric.
Old b/w photo of Neil Young in his legendary visibly mended jeans and some guitars. It's the only proof that the jeans existed. Collectors tried to find it in vain, it would have been worth a lot of money.
Neil Young: After The Goldrush, 1970. The cover showing a part of his "hippie jens" was legendary at the time.
Tom
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The Nigerian export agency says 71% of Nigeria's leather products are exported to Italy and Spain. . . . The shoes, bags, and belts assembled from this leather will bear labels like "Made in Italy" but give no credit to the Nigerian workers who did the dirty first steps. . . .
The first step of the tanning process is called sanwa ko patoz. The workers soak hides in a mixture of ash, sodium chloride, pigeon droppings, and ram dung. This makes the hides softer and easier to peel, [tannery worker Aliyu Garba, called "Baba"] explains.
- Temiloluwa Johnson, Hide and seek: Meet the Nigerians who make your genuine 'Italian' leather, Issue 214 of The Continent #Africa #Nigeria #fashion
@anderlandbooks Thank you very much! When I presented #visibleMending at a festival, a designer approached me and asked if I knew the legendary record cover of Neil Young.
This #fashion was my childhood and certainly influenced me.
Rags to Rufus by Rufus, 1974. A funky album inspires by Youngs older cover. This one is coloured, mainly in red tones on bright blue jeans fabric.
Old b/w photo of Neil Young in his legendary visibly mended jeans and some guitars. It's the only proof that the jeans existed. Collectors tried to find it in vain, it would have been worth a lot of money.
Neil Young: After The Goldrush, 1970. The cover showing a part of his "hippie jens" was legendary at the time.
#ScribesAndMakers 9/25. How would you describe your #fashion sense?
I don't follow #trends and I don't let anyone tell me what to wear. It has to be comfortable, made from natural fibres. I mostly buy second-hand and I love #upcycling and #visibleMending.
Sometimes I wear boring grey or leggings, sometimes I get compliments like "how dare you at your age!" Then I dare even more: I do love colours! I love jeans.
A bright green patch with red intuitive stitching covers a hole in a dark blue linen shirt. Why throw clothes away when you can embellish them with visible mending!
A checked blazer in English country style had a worn collar. I revamped it with a traditional, cheerful yellow Provençal print featuring chickens and added patches at the bottom and on the side pocket for a more harmonious look.
A long jeans coat was so boring that I coloured it up with applications of patches and spirals of saree silk.
very colourful jeans with visible mending, inspired by a famous 1960s cover.
@unchartedworlds @amPennyfeather
Check out my summer suit. #fashion #oldmancore #seersucker
LVMH is ramping up its expansion in South Korea, with the luxury conglomerate looking to diversify its global presence as geopolitical and economic uncertainties hurt the consumer spending outlook in the U.S. and China. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/25/markets/lvmh-south-korea-us-china/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #lvmh #southkorea #us #china #fashion #luxurygoods
I got judged often for not dressing like a poor disabled woman 'should' dress. WTAF is wrong with people?!?! Just because I'm physically disabled for life & am of working poor class, doesn't mean I can't fucking look fabulous!
I've always been great at repurposing/upcycling shit before those were actual terms. I grew up very physically & neurologically disabled, was extremely poor & I learned how to adapt very well because both my parents taught me multiple useful skills. I adapted clothes & made myself outfits because nothing on racks fit people like me too well. I started doing adaptive fashion designs for myself & still do.
I am starting to look at making my childhood dreams, much bigger. I want to start designing super cool fashions for other physically disabled folks, of all ages - who also don't want only drab basics but want to expand their fashion styles to bigger horizons.
I can do this.
The Nigerian export agency says 71% of Nigeria's leather products are exported to Italy and Spain. . . . The shoes, bags, and belts assembled from this leather will bear labels like "Made in Italy" but give no credit to the Nigerian workers who did the dirty first steps. . . .
The first step of the tanning process is called sanwa ko patoz. The workers soak hides in a mixture of ash, sodium chloride, pigeon droppings, and ram dung. This makes the hides softer and easier to peel, [tannery worker Aliyu Garba, called "Baba"] explains.
- Temiloluwa Johnson, Hide and seek: Meet the Nigerians who make your genuine 'Italian' leather, Issue 214 of The Continent #Africa #Nigeria #fashion
Alex, the Hearth Fire
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BBC: 'Girls need to carry things too!': How women's pockets became so controversial
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250909-how-womens-pockets-became-so-controversial
Alex Akselrod
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This cool exhibit of Black women’s historical clothing is opening in #SanDiego soon
https://www.clothesstoryexhibit.com/
and the local news did a nice interview with the curator (not paywalled)
It reminded me of Patricia A. Montgomery’s series of quilted civil rights coats
This cool exhibit of Black women’s historical clothing is opening in #SanDiego soon
https://www.clothesstoryexhibit.com/
and the local news did a nice interview with the curator (not paywalled)
It reminded me of Patricia A. Montgomery’s series of quilted civil rights coats
The man credited with inventing red-carpet fashion, Giorgio Armani, has died at the age of 91. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/09/05/style-design/giorgio-armani-obituary/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #styledesign #fashion #giorgioarmany #italy
The founder of a fashion and design concept store in Lagos who had a pop-up store and exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, is working to elevate African fashion both at home and abroad. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/02/companies/nigeria-designer-afro-lux-fashion/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #nigeria #africa #fashion
Trying to find either a dry oilskin or a waxed cotton in a red tone (I really want a rusty red, but I could settle for a burgundy or a slightly brighter red with no pinky tones to it) and I'm not having a lot of luck. I've found a few places with either black or brown tones, but I wanted something brighter for a winter raincoat. (I know winter is almost over, but it's probably going to take me until next winter to make one.) I tried DIYing it some years ago and it... did not go well (the resulting fabric still smells awful, and it developed a weird brownish bloom on it too).
I'm considering Merchant & Mills in the UK (I like the rust or oxblood dry oilskins) but I'd really rather be buying from somewhere in Australia for the sake of getting it sometime this year. Anyone know of any sellers with more of a colour range? Or any other options that are reasonably breathable?
EDIT: I've caved and looked into ripstop nylon and even Goretex, and I swear everyone only has black, brown, maybe a dark blue if I'm lucky, and sometimes virtually any colour but red. (Including yellow, which I know is rather traditional for raincoats but I don't think I look good in it.) Am I just buying at a really bad time?
I guess I could test the pattern by making up the liner first (haven't really decided on what I'm making that in yet, I want the raincoat to be a bit lighter to account for humidity but not too light; I've had bad experiences sewing with flannelette before and I haven't had any luck finding single-side brushed cottons or similar, and I think shirting cotton is probably too light) and I probably should do some tests of how to sew in Hi-Vis tape so I know how it's going to behave.