Rendered Thoughts
Why is that at balls and parties, when man comes dressed in his usual style, fashion requires woman to display her person, to bare her arms and neck? Why must she attract man's admiration? Why must she secure his physical love? The only object of a woman's life is marraige, and the shortest way to a man's favor is through his passions; and woman has studied well all the little arts and mysteries wby which she can stimulate him to the pursuit. Every part of a woman's dress has been faithfully conned by some French courtesan to produce this effect. Innocent girls who follow the fashion are wholly ignorant of its philosophy. Woman's attire is an ever-varying incentive to man's imagination- a direct and powerful appeal to his passional nature.
-Elizabeth Cady Stanton
In the United States, invitations often indicate appropriate dress for a formal occasion by only stipulating (or at least suggesting) appropriate male attire with phrases such as 'White Tie' or 'Black Tie.' This indicates that a specific mens' ensemble of coat style, trousers, shirt and accessories is preferred wear. Women subsequently define their dress according to current fashion to fit with the injuction for male dress. Dependong on current fashions in silhouette and other details such as skirt length, this usually means that women often choose an appropriate gown, or in contemporary times, a 'dressy' trouser ensemble.
-Dress, Gender, and the Public Display of Skin, Joanne B. Eicher
The first reminds me of Captivating, the second is something I've never thought about but an interesting note.
Crazy Salesman
Yeah so today I was out for five hours shopping with Bonnie. We had to go to the Salvation Army to find something for a garment assignment which was annoying because I really wasn't inspired by anything I saw there. I miss Value Village.
We also went to the bank and I found out I withdrew too much money before I came back so I had to pay an overall $300 fee. :( I feel sucky now. I feel like the Shopaholic but I spent it on house stuff- I thought I could buy all the stuff beforehand so when I returned back, I didn't have to go out buying toilet cleaner and whatnot. Sigh. So I have to go to the bank on Monday to beg them to waive the $300 or at least half of it. I really need to learn how to do online banking. That was the downer on my day.
For the most part it was pretty good- Bonnie and I went to this shoe store she really wanted to go to and she went to buy this pair of $80 shoes which she said she couldn't stop thinking about. The guy was a little weird- two ladies started talking to us about vintage stores and the guy kept asking me to try stuff on and said we looked so beautiful in our volumous attire. He also gave Bonnie $10 off of her purchase so she 'could buy dinner' and said we should go out for drinks. He also asked us when we got drunk, if we kissed. I was like "what are you on??? Because we dress alike, we're considered lesbians?" No, I told him I didn't drink because I didn't like the taste. He was bewildered and constantly asked me why I didn't drink: is it really too much of an answer to say I hate the taste of alcohol? He asked me if I would just have water at the bar. I said I would have juice. For some reason he thought that was hilarious and cracked up. Yeah but he was nice though. We found out that they drink in the store and by late afternoon, all the salespeople are drunk. Hm, that really answers a lot of questions I've had about that store. It's a nice store but the people are crazy in there.
Design and Meaning
I learnt that when someone creates a product- it will only be successful if a meaning is attached to it. We are so deeply attached to things like fashion and basketball because we've found some meaning behind it. We create meaning. Why else is there such thing as consumer loyalty? We all know that the Ipod is not the greatest invention ever made for portable music players but there is a meaning attached to it that has people buying them up. I don't have an Ipod because I don't see how they're so much better than the ones in HK.
Partying
On Friday night, Allie asks Bon and I if we wanted to go to this hippie party with her and Liz. I said I didn't want to and Bonnie seems quite annoyed at me and asks why. I said I don't like going to a party where there is so much drug consumption and drinking and she said I didn't have to participate in it. She gets so frustrated as to say, "God Sam, why are you so boring! I wish Allie was my roommate." She said it in a really sarcastic way- sounded like she was half joking but I was really hurt by that. She said that she could say things like that to me since we were "so close" and even if I did care, she would not. By then, I got kind of pissed at her and refused to talk to her for a good half hour. I don't understand why people don't give up on asking me about parties- I'm not into that kind of atmosphere and activity. Anyway, Bonnie didn't end up going anyway.
On that note, she randomly comes up to me last night and tells me she's jealous of me. I was a little surprised and asked why. She said it was because whenever she looked over to my desk, I was always talking to someone on MSN and that her conversations with her friends back home were pretty shallow. The funny thing is is that I really haven't been talking to many people the past week. But I have my good friends. :)
Are we gay or what.. we take pictures of ourselves with my baked goods. HAHAHA. It's worse but I'll leave that out lest you think I'm semi crazy/retarded.
Anthropologie
If my teacher asked me what brand I'm loyal to, it would be Anthropologie except they carry other brands. Haha. Anyway I was at the store yesterday because it was raining and gloomy outside and I went to their sales section and guess what I found?? MY RICHARD AVEDON PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK!!! Though it is primarily a clothing store, they always have the greatest design books and they're always going on sale. Omg I was going nuts because the price was slashed from $65 to $30 and the book was still wrapped in plastic. Yeah so I hauled that upstairs and the cashier was admiring it and the cashier next to her started eyeballing it too and asked if there were anymore downstairs. They said it would be gone by the end of the weekend. What a find!! I love my design books- my dream is when I get a house, to have one room for all my design books so I can always find some inspiration from them. :D
16 Blocks
An H&M is opening a few blocks away from me. As soon as that opens, I really have no need to wander out of my ten block vicinity. It's so sad. I have all that I need right within this area of Manhattan: school (except for the Fashion building), movie theatre two blocks away, a chocolate bar, two grocery stores, two banks, H&M, park, anthropologie and other stores. It's really sad how lazy I'm getting. I only need to really get out of this vicinity when I go to Chinatown, church, Fashion building or on a field trip. LOL.
Men and Women
Our teacher told us this story from Kosovo. Many of the women during the war, were raped and abused and will not speak about it anymore. Anyway, many of them are unemployed so this couple of men, who owned a wood workshop, trained about seven of them to become skilled at the art of carpentry. Eventually when they graduated, two of the women set up their own shop right across from the men's workshop. Because women's hands are more skilled for very small and detailed work, they decided to give them the projects that required such talents such as constructing honey boxes for bees. And I thought that was so cool- that the men would rise to the challenge to help train these females in utter selflessness though they were ridiculed by their peers and even though two of their students set up their own shop across from them, they still gave them business! They knew that they were not as skilled as the women were in detailed work so they decided to pass the job to them and didn't view them as competition. And I thought that was so incredible because there were two men humble enough to help others. These women also started training other women to be carpenters as well. Cool cool cool. Those are the inspiration stories that really gets me.
-Elizabeth Cady Stanton
In the United States, invitations often indicate appropriate dress for a formal occasion by only stipulating (or at least suggesting) appropriate male attire with phrases such as 'White Tie' or 'Black Tie.' This indicates that a specific mens' ensemble of coat style, trousers, shirt and accessories is preferred wear. Women subsequently define their dress according to current fashion to fit with the injuction for male dress. Dependong on current fashions in silhouette and other details such as skirt length, this usually means that women often choose an appropriate gown, or in contemporary times, a 'dressy' trouser ensemble.
-Dress, Gender, and the Public Display of Skin, Joanne B. Eicher
The first reminds me of Captivating, the second is something I've never thought about but an interesting note.
Crazy Salesman
Yeah so today I was out for five hours shopping with Bonnie. We had to go to the Salvation Army to find something for a garment assignment which was annoying because I really wasn't inspired by anything I saw there. I miss Value Village.
We also went to the bank and I found out I withdrew too much money before I came back so I had to pay an overall $300 fee. :( I feel sucky now. I feel like the Shopaholic but I spent it on house stuff- I thought I could buy all the stuff beforehand so when I returned back, I didn't have to go out buying toilet cleaner and whatnot. Sigh. So I have to go to the bank on Monday to beg them to waive the $300 or at least half of it. I really need to learn how to do online banking. That was the downer on my day.
For the most part it was pretty good- Bonnie and I went to this shoe store she really wanted to go to and she went to buy this pair of $80 shoes which she said she couldn't stop thinking about. The guy was a little weird- two ladies started talking to us about vintage stores and the guy kept asking me to try stuff on and said we looked so beautiful in our volumous attire. He also gave Bonnie $10 off of her purchase so she 'could buy dinner' and said we should go out for drinks. He also asked us when we got drunk, if we kissed. I was like "what are you on??? Because we dress alike, we're considered lesbians?" No, I told him I didn't drink because I didn't like the taste. He was bewildered and constantly asked me why I didn't drink: is it really too much of an answer to say I hate the taste of alcohol? He asked me if I would just have water at the bar. I said I would have juice. For some reason he thought that was hilarious and cracked up. Yeah but he was nice though. We found out that they drink in the store and by late afternoon, all the salespeople are drunk. Hm, that really answers a lot of questions I've had about that store. It's a nice store but the people are crazy in there.
Design and Meaning
I learnt that when someone creates a product- it will only be successful if a meaning is attached to it. We are so deeply attached to things like fashion and basketball because we've found some meaning behind it. We create meaning. Why else is there such thing as consumer loyalty? We all know that the Ipod is not the greatest invention ever made for portable music players but there is a meaning attached to it that has people buying them up. I don't have an Ipod because I don't see how they're so much better than the ones in HK.
Partying
On Friday night, Allie asks Bon and I if we wanted to go to this hippie party with her and Liz. I said I didn't want to and Bonnie seems quite annoyed at me and asks why. I said I don't like going to a party where there is so much drug consumption and drinking and she said I didn't have to participate in it. She gets so frustrated as to say, "God Sam, why are you so boring! I wish Allie was my roommate." She said it in a really sarcastic way- sounded like she was half joking but I was really hurt by that. She said that she could say things like that to me since we were "so close" and even if I did care, she would not. By then, I got kind of pissed at her and refused to talk to her for a good half hour. I don't understand why people don't give up on asking me about parties- I'm not into that kind of atmosphere and activity. Anyway, Bonnie didn't end up going anyway.
On that note, she randomly comes up to me last night and tells me she's jealous of me. I was a little surprised and asked why. She said it was because whenever she looked over to my desk, I was always talking to someone on MSN and that her conversations with her friends back home were pretty shallow. The funny thing is is that I really haven't been talking to many people the past week. But I have my good friends. :)
Are we gay or what.. we take pictures of ourselves with my baked goods. HAHAHA. It's worse but I'll leave that out lest you think I'm semi crazy/retarded.
Anthropologie
If my teacher asked me what brand I'm loyal to, it would be Anthropologie except they carry other brands. Haha. Anyway I was at the store yesterday because it was raining and gloomy outside and I went to their sales section and guess what I found?? MY RICHARD AVEDON PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK!!! Though it is primarily a clothing store, they always have the greatest design books and they're always going on sale. Omg I was going nuts because the price was slashed from $65 to $30 and the book was still wrapped in plastic. Yeah so I hauled that upstairs and the cashier was admiring it and the cashier next to her started eyeballing it too and asked if there were anymore downstairs. They said it would be gone by the end of the weekend. What a find!! I love my design books- my dream is when I get a house, to have one room for all my design books so I can always find some inspiration from them. :D
16 Blocks
An H&M is opening a few blocks away from me. As soon as that opens, I really have no need to wander out of my ten block vicinity. It's so sad. I have all that I need right within this area of Manhattan: school (except for the Fashion building), movie theatre two blocks away, a chocolate bar, two grocery stores, two banks, H&M, park, anthropologie and other stores. It's really sad how lazy I'm getting. I only need to really get out of this vicinity when I go to Chinatown, church, Fashion building or on a field trip. LOL.
Men and Women
Our teacher told us this story from Kosovo. Many of the women during the war, were raped and abused and will not speak about it anymore. Anyway, many of them are unemployed so this couple of men, who owned a wood workshop, trained about seven of them to become skilled at the art of carpentry. Eventually when they graduated, two of the women set up their own shop right across from the men's workshop. Because women's hands are more skilled for very small and detailed work, they decided to give them the projects that required such talents such as constructing honey boxes for bees. And I thought that was so cool- that the men would rise to the challenge to help train these females in utter selflessness though they were ridiculed by their peers and even though two of their students set up their own shop across from them, they still gave them business! They knew that they were not as skilled as the women were in detailed work so they decided to pass the job to them and didn't view them as competition. And I thought that was so incredible because there were two men humble enough to help others. These women also started training other women to be carpenters as well. Cool cool cool. Those are the inspiration stories that really gets me.
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