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the most recent episode of Articles of Interest: The Courduroy Appreciation Society is really beautiful and insightful but the set up was so much like a tma episode i was a little on edge the entire time but it was actually really sweet
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Put on your Docksiders for a stroll through history with Avery Trufelman, who shows us how Ivy style became “preppy,” and how preppy fashion escaped the campus and took over the world. We’re talking about clothing, class, race, and the American dream: you may be through with the polo shirt, but the polo shirt isn’t through with you.
Here's where to find Avery:
Articles of Interest on Substack
Articles of Interest podcast
#Where Have All the Preppies Gone#you're wrong about podcast#podcasts#podcast#you're wrong about#Articles of Interest#Avery Trufelman#cultural critique#Society and Culture#pop culture#culture#cultural criticism#fashion history#fashion#history#clothes#preppy#polo shirt
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Devoured the whole series this week. How Japan is an integral part of the classic American look. Currently scouring the internet for vintage Ralph Lauren and a gakuran.
Unexpected feature from the author I'm currently reading W. David Marx (Reading Status and Culture. Which has an almost uncomfortably direct pov on how and why we aspire for status. I look forward to picking up his other book, Ametora, featured frequently in this series.)
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I'm fascinated by a new podcast, Articles of Interest, by Avery Trufelman. It's about clothing—what we wear, why we wear it, and what it says about us as people. They did a series a couple of years ago, and now they're back with a new season.
The new season is about Ivy style--better known, to me at least, as "preppy" clothes. The podcast traces Ivy style to Princeton University in the 1920s-30s, and ties it all together with Japan from the 1800s to the 1960s, England in the 20s and 30s, manufacturing and democracy in the US, and Brooks Brothers (which is, apparently, the oldest continuously running company in the US).
Ivy style is so ubiquitous we don't even notice it. In the West and much of the rest of the world, Ivy style is how most people dress most of the time, including midcentury Black jazz musicians, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Here's a summary of the second episode in the series (which I listened to first), with lots of excellent photos.
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HETEROSEXUAL CIS-PEOPLE LOOK HERE
Snaps my fingers at you as you scroll past this post
Look at me. Listen.
I'm not the best at serious posts, but that article up there reminded me of how important it is that people like you stand up for us. So hold on while I try to get this out of my mushy end-of-work-day brain.
We could fight this fight ourselves for decades trying to reach the equal laws, gender affirming trans healthcare that doesn't have a 2-5+ soul-eating years of waiting time, medical care with equal knowledge of lgbtqia+ bodies, and, what is often forgotten, inclusion in the little everyday areas of life like our way of speaking or things being set up or designed with the existence of queer people in mind.
But you joining in could get us there so much faster.
The power you have as a hetero cis person is that you set the standard for what is seen as the average way of treating us among other hetero cis people. You have been given the power of deciding what's "normal" and I'm begging you to use it.
Richard Green is a great example of to what extent your actions can help our situation, and smaller ways of support still add up to a great impact on society, and could make the days of the queer people you interact with.
Educate yourself before you speak up, but don't be silent.
#lgbtqia+#lgbtq#lgbtqia#lgbtq+#lgbtqia+ rights#lgbtq+ rights#lgbtq rights#interesting#article#psychology#mental health#psychologist#reading#culture#cooking#drawing#music#nature#science#baking#pets#inspirational#gaming#photography#fashion#writing
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when the academic article is so good it has you giggling and kicking your feet
#im sitting in my uni library trying really hard not to jump around with joy#this article is soo fascinating and has so many interesting points ugh#also itll be very helpful for a paper im writing so double yay#its 'the trick of the runes in the husband's message' by john d. niles btw and its available on jstor#in case anyone is interested#OE studies#aca#studyblr
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The UN passed a humanitarian pause resolution- 12 in favour, 0 against and 3 abstained (Russia, US, UK). This will allow fuel, aid and evacuations into Gaza for the first time since October 7th.
This is binding international law, but Israel has already stated that they will defy this resolution.
#the full article is very interesting about the specifics of the deal#I hope and hope and hope that this works out#palestine#🦢
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I enjoy every episode of the podcast Articles of Interest by Avery Trufelman, but her series on Ivy style is absolutely wonderful.
In searching for clothes and how to wear them, I came across this man, who is my new style icon.
Photo from this photoset on ivy-style.com.
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well….it finally happened
#rip rt#the good times were certainly good <3#rt#roosterteeth#rooster teeth#honestly this is how i’m finding out it was officialy rooster teeth and not one word#if anyone doesn’t read the article but reads my tags (??) it looks like only the podcasts are carrying on for the time being#they’re shopping around rwby and shows like that and the roost which is the podcast side of things but otherwise#also apparently there’ll be a stream on the rt site tomorrow talking about it if anyone is interested#idk this sucks#be good to the people who were still there they deserve it#warner media on the other hand…..rot <3
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To my anon(s) who love Articles of Interest, looks like Avery’s launching a new set within the series about Cher’s closet in Clueless, cannot WAIT!
#articles of interest#podcast#god i just want her back!#her newsletter today had the cutest update on how she met one of the guys who's actually IN the Take Ivy book#cute!
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I’m sure everyone remembers the article from 2020 where researches found three-ply cordage made by Neanderthals.^
But did you know that in the supplemental material for the article, it mentions that pine needles can be made into textiles?^^ As someone who works with textiles myself, I had come across pine needles as a dye stuff, but not as a fibre.
The source is listed as "L’acquisition des matières textiles d’origine végétale en Préhistoire" by Fabinne Médard. It talks about how other fibres, including brambles and broom could have been used prehistorically for a similar purpose, as well as flax. However, it contains only one metion of pine needles.
“Les aiguilles du pin sylvestre (Pinus sylvestris L.) fournissaient, après rouissage, une matière textile appelée « laine des forêts » qui remplaçait la ouate et l’étoupe dont on faisait également des tissus (Mathieu [1858] 1897)" *
The needles of the Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) provided, after retting, a textile material called “forest wool” which replaced wadding and tow from which fabrics were also made.
So Scots pine needles were processed, spun and woven, or simply used directly after processing, potentially prehistorically.
If you follow the source for the quote above, it takes you to a book from 1860 called Flore forestière; description et histoire des végétaux ligneux qui croissent spontanément en France et des essences importantes de l'Algérie. It says:
“On fabrique depuis quelques années, avec les faisceaux fibreux, allongés, et tenaces des aiguilles, une espèce de drap grossier.” **
For several years, we have been making a kind of coarse cloth using the fibrous, elongated and stiff bundles of the needles.
So this processing of pine needles was also happening in the 1800s.
Another souce from the 1840s describes the texture of forest wool as resembling "...horsehair, and has been used for stuffing mattresses"** and that an industry sprung up in Humboldtsau, near Breslau for processing it. Manufacturies for forest wool then spread to Sweden, Holland and France, which may explain the mention in the 1860 Flore forestière.
Despite looking a bit more, but couldn't find much else on the subject expect a recent masters thesis in German (which I couldn't access) and an article on the designer Tamara Orjola.
Orjola's work investigates the modern use of pine needle fabric, showing there is still interest in it. She says:
"Forest Wool began with research on the forgotten value of plants. Valuable local materials and techniques are left behind due to the unwillingness of mass-production to adopt more sustainable practices. In the old days the pine tree was used as food, remedies, to build homes and furniture and for many other purposes. Nowadays, it is only valuable for its timber." ***
I find the line from prehistory to now facinating - that people have looked to something as mundane as a pine needle to spin, especially as researchers are discovering a lot of what they thought was linen fabric is actually ramie (from nettles).
As far as I can tell, only Pinus sylvestris L. and one other variety was used. I am not sure what makes that tree more suitable than other pine trees, or if it was simply a question of availability. In terms of processing, the answer as far as I can tell is retting, presumably followed by scutching and hackling - similar to how flax is processed. However I have not done that myself and cannot speak to the specifics.
It would be something intresting to try though.
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^ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-61839-w#MOESM1
^^ https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41598-020-61839-w/MediaObjects/41598_2020_61839_MOESM1_ESM.pdf
* https://journals.openedition.org/nda/602
** https://www.proquest.com/openview/276605d708970d416923b94e8856d20b/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=41445
*** https://lampoonmagazine.com/article/2021/05/15/recycled-wood-pine-needles-byproduct/
#fabric#history#i was consumed by the spirit of academia and could not stop reading french articles#please excuse the use of Google translate#my French is okay but not academic article good#it’s just a super interesting topic#the variety of plant fibres used for textiles is always larger than I think
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The amount of posts/fanart/memes I've already seen surrounding Cooper and Hancock only proves to me that Hancock NEEDS to make a cameo in a later season. Somehow. I need them to get in a knife fight. I need them to get up in each other's faces and kiss intimidate each other.
Cooper's look was originally supposed to have black eyes and have scars identical to the Fallout 4 design, but the idea was ultimately scrapped. Boy oh boy, who else has black eyes and- HANCOCK. Hancock does. HE looks like that. This was clearly a sign from the universe.
#/hj but also /srs#could you imagine TWO hot iconic ghouls on-screen???#I just think it would be funny#Especially considering a few years ago they used images of Hancock in the articles about Walton playing a ghoul#and even Danny jokingly commented on it saying “THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!”#you could easily get away with a Hancock cameo as well because he has zero faction association. His appearance wouldn't contradict anything#also it would be interesting to see two characters with such similarities (who ultimately turned out differently) in the same room#I'm not just saying this because I wanna see live-action Hancock in action (I sort of am)#I would only accept a such a reality if Hancock was played by Danny though. Anyone else and it's not even worth it#Idk if it's just me who genuinely would want this to happen or if I'm living a pipe dream#fallout#fallout amazon#fallout prime#fallout 4#the ghoul#cooper howard#hancock#john hancock
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Hello friends, just here to tell you I might not be able to post daily because of what's happening in my country, I'm just very preoccupied with that and I'm always on protests and I barely manage to use social media for anything else now. I'll continue posting as frequently as I can, but just for now it might be irregular. ✌🏼
#if you are interested in whats happening in Georgia I can share some general news articles which explain what's going on#🏷️
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#this article was very interesting to read#and to learn more about how the sudden fame affected him and the struggles he's been through#veikko kerman#jesse voss#mikke pöyhönen#jaakko jokela#aleksi nurmi#jukka sorsa#häärijä#erika vikman#käärijä#jere pöyhönen#mine
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