#the bbl or bangs posts are funny

[aflawedfashion]

I need to mute Kate Middleton from the entirety of the internet. The conspiracy theorizing is out of control and I don't want to see it anymore

[kaleidoscopicvariegated-blog]

ON FASHION.

ON MY OWN FASHION.

There’s a saying that I come across often which says fashion is just drag. Or something along those lines.

Anyway, I went to the fashion accounts series at Museum Africa and it’s a fashion museum documenting South African fashion through the years pre/post-colonialism and it’s so funny, I wouldn’t consider myself the most fashionably expressive person. Yes I’m stylish, my clothes look good, the fits are always giving but it’s nothing avant garde or camp. I’ve learnt how to sew but I’m doing nothing with that skill atm BUT I consume so much about fashion and fashion history.

Something that stood out to me at the museum was the question beauty or trauma. And I think beauty is trauma. If we think of thinness and how western society has imposed that as the standard and what the rise of ozempix has caused then BEAUTY IS TRAUMA. If we think beauty treatments and the price to undergo them, botched BBLs and other beauty enhancements. AGAIN BEAUTY IS TRAUMA. I enjoyed the museum so much, we asked questions, we pondered, we admired.

My fave thing about being a student of life is that there’s never enough information or knowledge. There’s always something to learn. This museum was a reminder that our stories and culture and the most interesting and intricate parts of who we are was stripped by colonialists and is now again being admired by the same people. Not the same but you get the message.

There’s a tweet I saw earlier that said the world would be so boring without all the different cultures. Which brings me to something we were conversing about which is, where does our history of clothing originate from? Because some of the images we see are almost always from the Nguni lens. And when they are from the Nguni lens, where are the images and adaptations of the bangs people and the Sotho tswana pedi people?? But also, does this not mean that we are one people? Who are also different?? Again two things can be true at the same time. We can be the same but different, take human beings for example.

I love fashion. I love experimenting with it, I love learning about it I love seeing it. I think in my past life I was highly involved with fashion in one way or another.

The museum date reminded me so much of the clothes kinder podcast by Khensani. As well as my very many interest.

Good night