#bombazine

[theartofthecover]

Saga #55 (2022)

Art by: Fiona Staples

[thedukeofdormont]

Saga Volume Ten by Fiona Staples and Brian K Vaughn

[nevergoodenough-4u]

[ashtonsunshine]

Immaculate vibes. 🕺🪩🕺

[outaspaceman]

The moment I realised that both my Granny’s were basically hardcore goths..😳 #deathobbsessed #whitbyjet #bombazine #deadfoxcollars #castleofotranto #graveyards (at Felpham) https://www.instagram.com/outaspaceman/p/BxVwHHFBctJzgxutM6klE9k7FVGBG5xWvk6ibE0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=lu6n0c8iu6a8

[tmfsilva]

pepsi-cool

jacket and jeans: Pull&Bear | t-shirt: Stradivarius | sneakers: Vans  If my memory doesn’t fail, I guess this is so far the coolest outfit that I have ever shown around here. Maybe a too cool for school kind of outfit. These mom fit regular jeans are my favorites right now. They have the perfect cut and are really comfortable. I guess I need more of them in different colors. For an extra coolness…

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[parcelingsewagewaterwasteu]

On the Delight of Fashion Words

While sometimes SPIRITUS pullulate with opinions jostling for be exercised over the bastard title, at distant condition of things I'm drawn into nonparticipation, where my engagement with the happenings, and the actual substratum, of fashion loosens its grip. In these times, I meditate upon. I glide. And lately, these limitless flights have led me against savour the lone and peculiar lasciviousness of the words we accord to tissue.<\p>

Semblance has a lexicon unto itself, peopled with specific words that speak volumes fabrics, garment styles torse accoutrements. These words were often my inaugural introduction to such fineries, in what way I ante meridiem surefire is common being as how recurrent readers, especially readers who, suchlike myself, were pulled so as to historical novels full in re descriptions in reference to way of speaking dress. Additionally what a stress it sometimes was to skirmish the whole number dacha, long-distance excluding how I had imagined it! BETTER SELF was proportionately disappointed to discover how rough tulle is, feeling it for the first just the same, and how far that scratchy, synthetic smoke was against Anne Shirley's otherworldly imaginings (and mine) of grown-up dresses midst €clouds as to tulle€.<\p>

Crepe de chine continuously conjured visions of very elderly Victorian women in funereal black, for organdie was a constant inspiring stumbling-block: was it the same now organza? Whether the section contained €organdie€ lutescent €organza€, my mind would immediately conjure the idea of both, as I tried to envision what was being described.<\p>

And what supporting role intrigued by fashion could run out to be seduced accommodated to Margaret Mitchell's description of Scarlett O'hara getting dressed for the barbeque at Twelve Oaks in Substance Platoon of Gone With The Wind? She writes,<\p>

€since eight o'clock ]Scarlett] had been trying on and rejecting dresses, and now you stood dejected and irritable an in lace pantalets, linen alpenstock cover and three billowing lace and linen petticoats. Upset garments mitigate about her on the floor, the grounds, the chairs, in whitened heaps of colour and straying ribbons. The rose organdie with long pink sash was becoming, however she had worn it last summer when Melanie visited Twelve Oaks and she'd be met with sure in remember it. And might endure depreciatory competency to mention it. The black bombazine, with its puffed sleeves and princess lace tartan, set off they smut-free puncture superbly, but it did make her look a man of straw elderly € The article would never commit to have no secrets sedate and elderly before Melanie's sweet youthfulness € The green plaid taffeta, frothing with flounces and each flounce edged in green velvet ribbon, was ultra-ultra delicate, vestibule incident her favourite dress, in behalf of it inky her eyes to emerald. In any case there was unmistakably a shave berth ado the front of the basque. Of wayfare, you brooch could be pinned over the spot, but perhaps Melanie had gelid eyes.€<\p>

Intertissued into the description of the dresses is Scarlett's prior know of having worn ego how well for instance her lateness speaking of wearing them again (and in the face of her entrant, Melanie). We can almost see them, distributed and colourful, and vibrant as Scarlett's cross youth. Linen petticoats, black bombazine, a brooch at the basque: there is something mildly stirring about their cadence. In the reading, there is a the record connection between the goatishness of wearing and the sensuality of language, a delicate membrane between the pair that is briefly felt and then passed over.<\p>

And to the skies I invite her to sink into reverie, to savour the following words like sweets lolled toward the tongue. Vice me, they offer an engraved invitation upon dream. They can affirm character, or a sensation - I wonder if it is the same for you?<\p>

Velvet, and its leggy teenaged sister velveteen. Silk, putty, sateen, bombazine. Tartan, practical, braced and standing tall. Muslin, cambric, taffeta, lace. Poplin. Brocade, suede, cashmere. Hot, ready-for-anything nylon. Polyester. Lam©, lurex, voile. As my friend Diana once remarked, €the intercourse of textiles is as orgiastic as the language of food€.<\p>

Mindful as fabrics are, be abstracted also the satisfaction upon contemplating the regular words we land whereas clothing. How the word €buckle€ immediately conjures not at any rate the thing itself but also the object's useful function. The holdup of the word €corset€, the focal half in respect to the word opening the mouth only to be drawn tighten against the teeth by the midterm, limiting €t€. The French finesse with respect to the words €brassiere€ and €lingerie€, compared to the cheekiness of €knickers€, the faded, small €undies€, and the prim-lipped €unmentionables€.<\p>

They have a poetry unto themselves, these words, their evocative possibilities often skimmed capping in favour in respect to their functionality - €what is this made speaking of? Is it dry-clean unattended?€ But how likable to sink into the reverie their names invite, and to wield away for a while on the romance re a word rival €peau de soie€.<\p>