a lot of fashion writing feels too inside baseball. most people don't care about super niche trends, designer collections, or the latest happenings with famous people. but they may get inspired by a story about how fishermen in the north sea wear some specific kind of sweater
i feel like a lot of fashion writers would be more engaging to a general audience if the pulled from sociology, politics, economics, and such. things that relate to people's actual lives. or tell interesting stories that feel relatable.
not to self-promote (but also to kinda self-promote), if you like this sort of thing, i try to tell stories about clothes through the lens of social culture. some here:
the fashion of people who frequent bookstores:
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the fashion of people who frequent bookstores:
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the history of a distinctly American-style sweater that dovetails with the history of a niche Christian sect and some American revolutionaries
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a post about how LGBTQ+ fashion gets mainstreamed,
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a story about samuel beckett, nazis in France, and the color ochre
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and finally, my theory for why we don't wear suits anymore
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dieworkwear.com
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