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August 16, 2007
one week he's in polka-dots, the next week he's in stripes
Today was the first day of classes, and I taught my first litho class today. It's also the day I chose to kick off a little performance project I'll continue until I graduate, in which I'll wear clothes made from my prints every single day. I'll continue to print and draw on the clothes as I wear them, and date stamp each item every day that I wear it. Eventually I'd like to have both tops and bottoms printed/drawn/made or altered by me, but for now, since I didn't really get all any of the sewing done that I wanted to over the summer, I'm mixing and matching with plain things. All of my tops and skirts that are not a plain solid colour, and t-shirts not printed by me, I left back home. I'm also going to whip out some plain jumpers on the knitting machine that I can print on and print from and wear. They'll get kind of gunky with ink but I think it could be fun.
This project isn't just about making clothes, but rather than write about it just yet I'm just making the work and thinking about a lot of things that are all tangled up together, some of them contradictory. More later when I start to weed out all of the less important ideas and whittle it down to why I'm doing this.
Here's the new skirt I wore today, and my "first-day-of-teaching" outfit (who's the dumbass who gives a litho stone graining demo in high heels? me, of course):
I don't have a good close up photo of the fabrics, but the skirt will get printed on some more anyway. The shirt will too.
I'm working on a skirt tonight in this yellow/green fabric, and can't decide whether this little fragment of last year's embroidered drawings would make a nice patch pocket or whether it's gawdawful ugly. I'll probably end up putting it on there anyway, because ugly doesn't actually matter that much to me and I need pockets.
Posted by jodi at August 16, 2007 08:14 PM | categories: wardrobe project
Comments
Gawd, is summer really almost over?
Posted by: Rich at August 16, 2007 11:13 PM
I love the skirt and the shoes.. those are GREAT shoes! You'll have to give me a list of clothing items you might need and I can check my local thrift store that has a 99 cent day... since Athens thrift stores aren't actually a bargain and are usually overpriced and totally picked over.
Posted by: mouse at August 17, 2007 12:42 PM
If you have to teach all day in heels, at least they are darned funky, cute heels. I like the pocket.
Posted by: Kikipotamus the Hobo at August 17, 2007 07:34 PM
Love the heels & the pocket, the green fabric is awesome.
Posted by: elan at August 18, 2007 04:48 PM