Comments on: Smitten http://www.knittingneels.com/?p=521 all things woolly Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:43:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 By: Léan Ní Chuilleanáin http://www.knittingneels.com/?p=521&cpage=1#comment-55291 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:43:22 +0000 http://www.knittingneels.com/?p=521#comment-55291 Interesting take. Hm. I love clothes – love making them, wearing them, planning them. Hate clothes shopping, because what I can afford is usually so shoddy, and because I am insanely picky about fabric, colour, cut (the whole shebang, in other words). Moreover, “fashion” intimidates the hell out of me. I’ll try thinking of it as “costume” and see if that helps 🙂

Gorgeous knitting, as usual, by the way – and what a tragedy to run out of yarn! I look forward to seeing more of that cardigan.

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By: DMP http://www.knittingneels.com/?p=521&cpage=1#comment-55290 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:28:39 +0000 http://www.knittingneels.com/?p=521#comment-55290 I agree that fashion is better interpreted as a sense of costume. How we use fashion should be an understanding of what highlights both our personalities and our physical appearance. I like to think knitting (and sewing) allows me to express myself outside of what is on the rack this season and what I can find through thrifting.

Love both The Sartorialist and Garance Dore – every sort of dress from the woman in Chanel (I think) and plastic bracelets shown on The Sartorialist the other day to people who are truly dressed in a way I think of as performance art.

Thanks for a fun and informative blog.

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