It is finished!

1/4/2015

This blog is retiring today! What a marvelous opportunity this was! The Jerome Foundation kindly helped fund this crowd sourced study of women and clothing in the work place. I have learned so much, technically and culturally and it is leading on to new areas of feminist discourse.

On December 28, my son did a photo shoot ofthe project for me. Then yesterday, I wrapped it all up and took it down. Currently it is residing in my car! It is too blased cold to stand around in the parking lot and empty it! But soon, that will happen as well. I will carefully wrap the uniforms in acid free tissue and box them up for another day.

Thank you everyone who contributed your voices to this project!

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WEARING MY AGE

I have received a grant from the Jerome Foundation to work on a project that I have called "Wearing My Age."

The premises that I am working with are that our clothes communicate and they communicate somewhat differently depending on age and gender. You might think of it as "fashion as self-publishing."

The key area I am curious about surrounds the uniforms that women wear in the work place. Indeed, I will be making a uniform body of work, comprised of near identical 3 piece work outfits comprised of: a jacket, a dress, a petticoat.

Each piece represents of body of language/meaning which I will make manifest with digitized machine embroidery typography and design.

The Jacket represents the public self: what you are trying to say, how you wish to be identified, how you want to feel in the market place.

The Dress represents a more personal statement: this is closer to the real me, Within the constraints of the market place I can be creative here, This is the part of me I am generally willing to reveal

The Petticoat represents the secret self: Here lies the true language of self, these are the secrets I do not share, This is what I really think about myself, This is how I feel deep down.

It is finished!

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