الموضة تحت الغطاء
اقرئي قصص الموضة تحت الغطاء، حيث نمرح مع الموضة. اسمحي لنا بتقديم بعض إرشادات "افعل" و"لا تفعل" فيما يتعلق بالموضة:
ارتدي الزبالة
شاهدي فيلم كاترينا درابكين "أغطية"، حيث ترتدي ثوباً من معلبات الطعام التي تم تدويرها لتستدعي الانتباه إلى ثقافة "السرعة" المتزايدة لدينا.
ارتدي شعرك خارج حجابك
انظري إلى صور وهيبة مال الله المرحة في موضوع "الغطاء"، حيث تستكشف طرقاً جديدة لتوضيح المفاهيم السيئة عن الحجاب.
استخدمي نفسك كمائدة طعام
في موضوع "خزانة ربة المنزل المثالية" تنظر ماريا إزكورا لوكوتي إلى الملابس باعتبارها امتداداً لذواتنا. تقدم تركيباتها المرحة وجهة نظر لاذعة حول أدوار المرأة.
لا يوجد مكان هنا لشرطة الموضة! ما هي الموضة اليوم، وإلى أي مدى نحن مرتبطات بكعوبنا العالية وشرائنا للملابس المستعملة. انضمي إلينا ونحن نسترجع ما تعنيه الموضة بالنسبة لنا!
شاركينا النقاش!
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I have been on many worst dress lists and frankly I don’t really care.
Recently I went to a black tie function in jeans and a T-shirt. I’m not into sparkly spike heels; I’m very much about my clogs. I don’t really want to go to a make up artist or get my hair done: because that’s not who I am and not what my message is about. How much do you care what your clothes say about you?
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Posted on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 2:34 PM
Fashion plays a major role for woman, and I think that it always will. When you go to an interview, you don't wear something you would wear to a night club, you make sure you look presentable and sophisticated enough to accomplish the job they are hiring for.
Fashion is kind of like the saying "Don't judge a book by it's cover" it's nice to know that people know the saying but in reality everyone knows that if you walk into church with a mini shirt and bikini top you are going to be looked at with shame. And although it's not fair that guys are able to get away with a lot more than woman, woman have to be care of what they wear because they are "supposed to be" respectful of there bodies and more. Honestly I thought everyone was supposed to be; but this is why I came to the conclusion that fashion amongst woman will never change. |
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Posted on Monday, August 27, 2007 5:57 AM
Danielle, do you think the way you dress affects the way you act? We use clothes to define our "personalities" and how others perceive us -- whether we intend/want to or not. Wearing a lovely dress that makes me feel confident, makes me flirtatious. This may be subconscious, but it certainly gives off the vibe that I'm a person who seeks or needs this type of attention.
Although many of us probably don't want to be a slave to fashion, I definitely think we subconsciously allow it to tell others who are as people. |
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Posted on Wednesday, August 22, 2007 12:36 PM
I love reading the stories and the conversations on this website. It really brings together the experiences and voices of so many different kind of women that are all forced to grapple with their identity as defined/expressed through/constricted by their appearance. It also reveals a lot about the complexity of these issues and how our understanding of ourselves is impacted by how others (friends, strangers, the media) view us. No one here has raised the question of whether clothes say anything about you; the only question seems to be about the weight of what your clothes say about you.
Like most of the women responding, I've had a complex relationship with clothing. Growing up in NYC, I've had times when I was overtaken with fashion. Every other week I was convinced I absolutely needed some hip article of clothing or else...I'm not quite sure I knew the alternative, but it didn't seem like a happy one! And I've also had times when I wore the same ten articles of clothing for months at a time. In trying to find a way to be at peace with my external image, I found that the important thing to remember is that I can either wear my clothes or my clothes can wear me. Only when I mentally move beyond defined by my clothing or style (whether its been punk, grungy, hippy or proper and classy) do I stop trying to live up to pop culture's definitions of a beautiful woman. And that helps me realize that women are so multi-dimensional and entirely entitled to express all those facets of themselves (whether through clothing, written and spoken communication, their actions, etc.) The last thing we want to do is to reduce ourselves and each other to a single dimension that fails to appreciate the depth of our character and beauty. |
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Posted on Tuesday, July 31, 2007 3:13 AM
There is no harm in wanting to look good - that's perfectly normal. It's when it gets overboard that it becomes ludicrous. It all boils down to survival and the ego, I think. We generally judge a man's ability to attract a mate by his physique and strength. In the same vein, a woman is more attractive when she looks good according the standards of her time. In the past, it might have been a matter of survival - perhaps it still is today, and maybe some habits simply die hard. Since celebrities tend to lead the way in fashion, there's the pressure on those of us wishing to escape the monotony of routine grind to achieve similar, if not the same standards of beauty. For many of us who may be star-struck and find stardom literally quite unattainable, achieving a 14 inch waist and porcelain-complexion through dangerous diets and intrusive chemical skin peels may be the closest we can get to perfection. Perhaps, some believe that physical beauty is the first step to the success they hope to achieve. Some women may be under the impression that by looking good they now have what it takes to get what they want. Being the scruffy person that I am, I pose no threat to most women and tend to get away with observing, unnoticed, how some women size up their competition. I think it's an instinctive behaviour as well as oversized egos to soothe or miniscule self-esteem to boost. It's the same with some men who work out at the gym to build muscles I'd steer clear of - makes you wonder about the ego. Don't get me wrong. I'm not advocating frumpy frocks, dull-skin and anything dowdy - it's all very subjective anyways. Beauty is best seen in its natural state. As for attaining the impossible - I think for some of us its encoded in our genes - the desire for conquest, achievement and pride. For some looking good regardless of the cost gives them that all time high. |
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Posted on Monday, July 30, 2007 9:42 AM
Waheeda, can you tell us some more about this project?
I find that while there are different beauty standards around the world, they are starting to conform to Westernized ideals. And I think that Westernized ideal is really poisonous because it’s a kind of beauty that is almost impossible to attain. It’s an emphasis on youth and that we only have that time in our life and it’s brief. As women, we know how intense the pressure to conform can be, so why do we accept this standard of beauty and try to mold ourselves into it? Why do we, who the standard affects most, tolerate it? |
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Posted on Sunday, July 29, 2007 1:01 AM
Project: Shatana, International Artist Workshop in Jordan
Place: Shatana village – Irbid - Jordan
Title of Work: With all due respect
Type: Video
Artist name: Waheeda Malullah
With all due respect
Comb, Faces and an Eastern girl
To my body, to injustice, and to those who do not come close,
A movement to liberate my hair strands from the chain of the (Islamic or eastern) cover/veil; with the participation of 12 volunteers both men and women, to comb their hair for a moment on exhibition, and to remove a burden off me that the (other) does not understand. This is placed together with the appearance of the back side of (Waheeda) without (cover/veil). This comes after difficult attempts to remove what my body refuses.
Note:
To my family, this is my life, with all due respect. |
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Posted on Thursday, July 26, 2007 5:17 PM
once, i got off a plane wearing an admittedly dirty head scarf, some shitty ripped jeans and a sweatshirt. my mother was incensed---she said, "you have to dress better, you never know who you'll run into..." as though the queen mother would've been on a commercial flight from ohio to philadelphia. i shrugged her off at the time, but it stuck with me...so i'm finding it hard to answer the question: "do i dress to please others?" do i? don't we all, in a way? i know my boss always gives me the eye if i wear an article of clothing more than once in a week (which i often have no problem doing). i wouldn't show up on a date wearing my ripped jeans and a sweatshirt--even though i'd hope whomever i'm out with wouldn't be so concerned w/ my appearance. i frequently wonder what it is that makes me, who prefers flip-flops and jeans to anything, so concerned with my outward appearance. nature vs. nurture? my mother's insistence on lace socks and patent leather shoes with i was a toddler? cheaply priced but cute clothes at H&M? the massive amounts of seventeen magazine i absorbed as a teenager? it's an interesting question. who's to blame for our obsession? |
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