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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Patrick McManus
Sent: 13 May 2013 21:22
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Subject: Re: designer label clothing... question
Catherine you have just reminded me -when I was a kid and my father had
'disappeared' she at one time had a job of sewing in 'designer labels' into
all sorts of dodgy clothes!! At a fairly recent Royal Academy summer show
there was a jacket? completely made out of designer labels -a nice comment
Cheers Patrick
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Catherine Daly
Sent: 13 May 2013 15:36
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Subject: Re: designer label clothing... question
When my family lost everything, Mom had used clothing stores, and I was her
buyer. Dad had shoe stores, and I read Footwear News everyweek, and advised
him. I have a lot of great friends in the industry, and I know a lot of
poets who use that fashion... young, old, whatever.I do this as well.
Sonia Delaunay
I think Charles Bernstein rag trade interview by Susan Schultz is nice.
http://www.jacketmagazine.com/14/schultz-bernstein.html
All best,
Catherine
On 5/13/13, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Certainly, it tends to be first world,' Chris.
>
> A lot of us dont really notice, but probably do wear the stuff, just
> because it's in the stores (where I look for stuff on sale if possible).
>
> Like you, I want the cloth etc to feel good...
>
> Doug
> On 2013-05-10, at 8:25 PM, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> For most of my life I have taken it for granted that I wear designer
>> label clothing and I still do. It's an unspoken requirement in my
>> creative profession.
>>
>> But recently, reading realist writings from the USA, I have come to
>> understand this is an elite privilege. (And I, some sort of wealthy
>> snob for wearing designer clothing.)
>>
>> Designer clothing becomes a sign of wealth rather then good taste and
>> a sense of elegant style as well as feeling so nice to wear. Dressing
>> with style and elegance, that is something that money cannot buy;
>> even if you are a boy band member and hire a stylist. I could still
>> dress those boys better, and with ease being such handsome young men.
>>
>> I wear YSL shirts, because they feel good to wear on my skin and
>> thick cotton is warm and soft, as I do polo short sleeve shirts, with
>> a French designer name, I cannot spell or pronounce; and my jeans are
>> mere Levis or something less. I refuse to pay inflated designer
>> prices for a worn out pair of fading blue jeans... I expect better...
>> fawn soft woollen fabric designer label trousers to match an Italian
>> designed blue wool jacket, hand stitched, if nothing less. My shoes,
>> something else, even if brown leather brogues. And ties, if needed,
>> are always silk and at least hand finished. Nothing less then silk in
>> a
tie can be permitted.
>>
>> But I am still very curious as to how and why designer labels have
>> become this sign of wealth... for sure, most of us who wear this
>> stuff do not pay the advertised retail price... often it is given to
>> us to wear... and I do wear flannelette shirts from a discount
supermarket.
>>
>> Designer clothing fits easier on the body and remains visually
>> elegant, being less trauma to wear. Form comes after comfort.
>>
>> --
>> BLOG http://abdevpoetics.blogspot.com.au/
>>
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