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For reasons too complicated to go into, but mostly tied up with my nomadic lifestyle over the past few years and space constraints in a New York apartment too small for a swinging cat, I was only re-united with my stuff -- 59 boxes full of personal effects -- yesterday. The first box I opened was full of clothes from ten years ago, mostly t-shirts. Some of them are still wearable, some aren't, but each has a history and brings back its own memories.I've made a Flickr Slideshow of me modeling this t-shirt time capsule. For captions explaining the history of each shirt and whether I'd still wear it today, click the "i" at the centre of the first photo (you might want to click "slow" too).
The entry headline comes, of course, from Brian Eno's song "King's Lead Hat":
The killer cycles, the kilohertz
The passage of my life is measured out in shirts
And the more semantics there are on the shirt, the more that's true. What could be more rooted in a particular time, place and sensibility than a t-shirt?
When I dug these out and started modeling them for Hisae, I told her that many of them were too retro-70s to be worn now. "But the 70s might come back," she said. What, again?
Lightning doesn't strike twice! The 70s came back in the 90s, so it couldn't possibly come back again now. That fancy vampire is firmly nailed into his coffin. But the 90s themselves, in the form of, say, Shibuya-kei, that could respectably be revived. And, at a pinch -- and only for the real cognoscenti -- it might be possible to revive the-70s-as-they-appeared-in-the-90s, as long as you were able to distinguish that from the 70s themselves.
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Date: 2007-07-09 09:06 pm (UTC)That tshirt with the low neck-line... no so much eccentric as just plain trendy.
The t's I like:
The green tshirt you said was too garish -- it is slightly so. but I'm 23, I reckon I could pull it off... I really like it alot. it'd look especially nice with a red zip-up hoodie.
Yellow thrift find -- really like this one.
The t's I dont like:
kahimi -- anything with pixel-art is lame.
Kriedler -- The trimming is horrible...
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Date: 2007-07-09 09:10 pm (UTC)hmmm, i don't know, i see 60s 'Summer of love' stuff everywhere (say Arte TV) and if I recall the 90s 70s revival was basically preceded by a 60s revival so who knows. Then if there is something to the kassel documenta thesis 'is modernity our antiquity?' then we might be doomed with real 70s revivals for the whole millenium.
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Date: 2007-07-09 09:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-09 09:26 pm (UTC)As someone born in 1979, I was uncertain if it applied to me.
Anyhow, I look forward to reading about the other 58 boxes.
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Date: 2007-07-09 09:51 pm (UTC)Whatever happened to the orange jacket?
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Date: 2007-07-09 10:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-09 10:08 pm (UTC)(Unless it's Steve Reich.)
I thought those Arte 1968 graphics looked awful, totally Austin Powers!
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Date: 2007-07-09 10:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-07-09 10:24 pm (UTC)aquarists unite - we have nothing to lose but our signs
Date: 2007-07-09 10:37 pm (UTC)spooky otto!
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Date: 2007-07-09 10:59 pm (UTC)look im bored ok
Date: 2007-07-09 11:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-09 11:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-09 11:52 pm (UTC)http://www.extremeshaving.com/what.html
Date: 2007-07-09 11:58 pm (UTC)barber going on about the pitching and hitting
this season.
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Date: 2007-07-10 12:00 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-10 12:08 am (UTC)Re: aquarists unite - we have nothing to lose but our signs
Date: 2007-07-10 12:08 am (UTC)Does no one remember the 70's when it was the 50's turn? The 10's-20's were fair game during the 60's-70's, too.
The Victorians were all over the place: Roccoco revivalism, neoclassicism, aesthetic medievalism, etc.
It appears that revivalism has always been with us; when one recalls such times as, say, 1804, they still mention how the era lifted from greco-roman antiquity and ancient egypt--but over time that just becomes part and parcel of that age, too. One can keep digging, and digging, and digging...
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Date: 2007-07-10 12:10 am (UTC)Re: aquarists unite - we have nothing to lose but our signs
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