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Nov. 27th, 2006 08:21 amAnd my cat!
( Vendela and Mysko )
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Nov. 27th, 2006
Fashion - the mirror of history
Nov. 27th, 2006 10:05 amI've started on a pile of books I thought I'd check up before writing an application for research funds. I started by trying to find most of the books in the literature list of the excellent book Sexing La Mode, by Jennifer M Jones.
One of the books listed was Fashion - the mirror of history by Michael and Ariane Batterberry and I tell you, it really sucks. The text is totally un-scholarly and filled with the usual anecdotes and myths about both history and costume. There are also some rather amusing/irritating obvious errors. I know it's from 1977, but there was lots of good research in those days too, so there is no real excuse:
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The stupidity of people never ceases to amaze me. These are just the examples that jumped at me when I glanced through the book, the text is probably full of them.
One of the books listed was Fashion - the mirror of history by Michael and Ariane Batterberry and I tell you, it really sucks. The text is totally un-scholarly and filled with the usual anecdotes and myths about both history and costume. There are also some rather amusing/irritating obvious errors. I know it's from 1977, but there was lots of good research in those days too, so there is no real excuse:
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The stupidity of people never ceases to amaze me. These are just the examples that jumped at me when I glanced through the book, the text is probably full of them.
Me in song titles
Nov. 27th, 2006 12:14 pmI got tagged by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mirazandar. I hope she only wanted me to do the version with titles from all kinds of bands, and not the version with songs by Mimikry, since I've never heard them ;)
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mirazandar. I hope she only wanted me to do the version with titles from all kinds of bands, and not the version with songs by Mimikry, since I've never heard them ;)( Read more... )