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thekalpar

My spouse and I were talking last night and the jeans problem came up so I want to talk about it with tumblr here.

The jeans problem was the favorite lecture one of my philosophy professors in college gave about the history of jeans and how it ties into capitalism/mainstream culture absorbing and monetizing any counterculture it encounters. So prior to the 1950s jeans were mostly an item of work-wear that you wore on the job as a farmer or factory worker or miner because they were cheap, durable, and hard-wearing. If you were off the job you'd wear what we'd call now dress pants or slacks. This changes in the 1950s when youth culture start wearing jeans as regular clothing, again because they're cheap, durable, and hard-wearing. But then jeans get absorbed by the culture and we start getting designer jeans, acid-washed jeans, pre-ripped jeans, and now we got people shelling out hundreds of dollars for "povertycore" aesthetic. And now jeans aren't even cheap, durable, and hard-wearing.

This came up because my spouse was talking about thrifting and spooky things (two of her favorite things) and how there was this trend of buying a landscape painting from a thrift store which was probably going to end up in a garbage dump and painting a sheet ghost on it to make it art millennials would like. But now you can go to Michael's or Home Goods or wherever and just buy a landscape painting with a sheet ghost on it, mass-manufactured by a corporation. The counter-culture once again being monetized and absorbed by the culture. It's the jeans problem again.

charnel-grounds

Saprophial, “Fugit inreparabile tempus”

pen & ink on paper, 2021

herpsandbirds

Pig Frogs (Lithobates grylio), family Ranidae, found in the SE United States

Listen to the pig like call.

photographs by Ryan McGreevy & Jeffrey Gammon

#what a handsome boy

slimetony

Just tried to play an ancient flute and it started filling the room with this awful miasma that wont go away

slimetony

Why does staff still allow people funnier than you to leave tags on your posts. They should have fixed that by now

romanceyourdemons

rip to the guy who posted his very expensive yixing teapot to r/tea, only for the comments to be not compliments on his taste as he expected, but instead GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY and I SHOULD CALL HER. he then crossposted it to r/gongfutea, which is ordinarily more dignified and self-serious, but was it? was it?? of course not, because this is reddit, and this was the teapot

okiya

Zuiki Matsuri 2013 - Maiko Katsune, Maiko Satohana, Geiko Naokazu, Kamishichiken (by Tamayura)

evviejo

STAR TREK - S2E3 The Changeling

tanuki-kimono

“Jûgoya” outfit worn by @usako_kimono, featuring an autumn plants kimono (with clovers and pinks) paired with a beautiful embroidered white rabbit obi and obidome.

Jûgoya is the moon of the 15th day of the 8th lunar month, also known as the harvest moon. White rabbits are sometimes also called moon rabbits, and linked to autumnal moon viewings across Western Asia.