July 23, 2010

picnic wear

Posted by dogpossum on July 23, 2010 3:24 AM in the category lindy hop and other dances and old sew and sew | Comments (0)

Every year dancers go to the Governor's picnic, and to the Gatsby picnic, wearing late 20s/early 30s clobber and having a lovely time dancing to a live band, picnicing, chatting and so on. This year and last the Sartorialist took some lovely photos.

There's also a story on Citizen Couture about one of the dancers. I like the pics, there, but it bothers me that he used staples to keep his vintage trousers' hems up - the damage they'd have done to the fabric under those conditions!

Rick has also posted a story about the day.

I like the summer fashion of these events, and wish we had that sort of thing here. I can never decide what I'd wear, though. I like the light summer dresses of the period, but they do NOT suit my body shape. I do, however, also like the men's fashions - straw boater's, strongly coloured striped jackets, linen trousers, bow ties... It's all good.

Garance Dore made a comment a little while ago about plus sized models being 'unhealthy'. I can't remember what happened with that story, but it caused a bit of a flurry. I liked the way it highlighted the hypocrisy of the Sartorialist's commitment to 'everyday' fashion on 'ordinary' people but only shooting the same old body types.

Posted by dogpossum on July 23, 2010 3:24 AM in the category lindy hop and other dances and old sew and sew