The Dress and the Idea of the Dress
Friday, March 17th, 2006Tags:
I just read this post about The Idea of the Dress via Sew? I Knit!. I knit for a lot of reasons, but this is definitely one of them.
For those who are interested in the more sarcastic side of fashion:
A still-life of less prosaic nature was painted by one Dr. Casagrandi in 1900. Reading a paper before the medical association in Rome, he reported on his bateriological examinations of trailing skirts, for which experiments he had employed a number of women to walk for one hour through the city streets. To his satisfaction he found large colonies of germs including those of tuberculosis, typhoid fever, tetanus and influenza, not to mention lesser bacilli, all of which were represented on each skirt.
