Category Archives: Past

Pinbacks and "Property Of" T-shirts

Don’t you love it when a question leads you to an entirely unexpected answer? The question I’m particularly pleased with at the moment is “Where do those ‘Property Of’ T-shirts come from?”  Clearly they’re everywhere, and having seen a lot of tourists walking around wearing them lately, I decided to finally find out. Obviously universities [...]

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The Ribbon Choker

If there is one accessory I would love to see making a comeback, it’s the ribbon choker. Over the past two summers, I’ve been doing independent research on seventeenth and eighteenth century fashion.  While many of the sartorial designs of that time period are super complicated and impractical for modern times (not to mention way [...]

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