Fashion
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Newly opened Edessa School of Fashion in Wisconsin takes on New York Fashion Week
When Lynne Dixon-Speller taught at the University of Delaware, she took a group of 30 young women to New York, where they visited a fashion industry association. She said one of the students asked someone from the group where they got their inspiration. “Literally, these women said, ‘We get in a car, drive to Spanish…
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Chemicals In Clothing Is Common. How Do You Mitigate Reactions?
In May, two Delta Air Lines flight attendants filed a lawsuit against Wisconsin-based clothing company Lands’ End, alleging their uniforms produced by the company cause a host of health problems, including rashes, respiratory issues and low white blood cell counts. A scientific analysis on the clothing hasn’t been done to prove what’s causing the problems,…
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Watching RuPaul’s Drag Race In The Best Way Possible — In A Gay Bar
The streaming age means our shows are watched individually, on our own time. That makes it all the more remarkable that a television show about drag queens can bring people together in person. “RuPaul’s Drag Race” is a reality competition show that mixes the design and fashion elements of shows like “Project Runway” and “America’s…
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From High Fashion To Heather Gray T-Shirts, Choosing Your Style Is A Privilege
Avery Trufelman is the host of “Articles of Interest,” a six-part podcast from “99 Percent Invisible” about the history and meaning of some iconic items of clothing — from blue jeans to Hawaiian shirts to pockets. It’s the kind of podcast that challenges you to think more deeply about why your clothing is the way…
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A Year Of Only Wearing Clothes You Made
Getting clothes has never been easier. You can get any article of clothing you could ever want or need online from your phone or computer, sometimes delivered the same day. But given that ease, it’s less likely than ever that you have a hand in making whatever you’re wearing. Could you trade convenience for a…
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How Blue Became ‘Boy’ And Pink Became ‘Girl’
Jo Paoletti is a writer and historian who explores fashion and gender in her books “Sex and Unisex: Fashion, Feminism and the Sexual Revolution” and “Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from Girls in America.” She is a professor emerita of American studies at the University of Maryland and is now at work on a…
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Remembering ‘The Incomparable Hildegarde,’ Born This Week In 1906
The “Incomparable Hildegarde” was born this week in 1906. The Wisconsin-born singer, pianist and all-around entertainer was so famous in her lifetime that she was known only by one name. Hildegarde Loretta Sell was born in Adell on Feb. 1, 1906, into a musical family. Her father played the drums and violin, and her mother…
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UW Faculty Pair Work To Make Cloth Out Of Solar Cells
Two University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty members — one a textile artist and the other a chemist — have teamed to create fabric solar panels. Marianne Fairbanks creates textile art and has experimented with wearable solar panels for years. She collaboratively created a bag with a solar panel sewn into the flap. And after becoming a…
