Tag Archives: teaching fashion

Labor Day Edition! 10 Narrative Films About Garment Workers (and why there aren’t many more than that)

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Sara Tatyana Bernstein

This post can now be found on our new site, Dismantle Magazine: Fashion, Popular Culture, Social Change! Check it out here: 10 Narrative Films About Garment Workers  

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Making Fun of Fashion: Subjective and Non-Comprehensive Thoughts on the 1990s, Irony, and Deliberately Ugly Street Style

Posted on July 21, 2015 by Sara Tatyana Bernstein

This post can now be found on our new site, Dismantle Magazine: Fashion, Popular Culture, Social Change! Check it out here: Making Fun of Fashion…

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Comfort Makes Me Uncomfortable: Why We Love To Hate The Maxi Dress

Posted on May 10, 2015 by Sara Tatyana Bernstein

A recent spate of digs at this fashion trend has been making me uncomfortable. See for example this by John Oliver (funny) or this on Jezebel (less funny/misfired satire?) (But props to the author for citing Heather Vaughan’s excellent history … Continue reading →

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