Author: devilmaywear
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Slow Shopping
”A customer will buy or use a specific product not just because of what it does, but also because of how it makes him feel.” (Kolko, 2014, p.118) I have never met a person who NEEDS a NEW pair of pants. Sure one might wear out all their pants and necessitate the acquisition of a…
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Repairing the Linen Pants
Over the past few weeks I have been contemplating running an experiment on how long clothing lasts so when my friend called me last week in frustration stating, “I’ve only washed these expensive linen pants five times and they are completely shredded!! I don’t know what to do, I bought three pairs” I thought, “bingo!”…
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The Practice of Teaching
I am very grateful that I have chosen a thesis topic that I live and breathe every day. I think about what is appropriate, who I want to be received as, how comfortable I want to be every morning when I get up and get ready to leave the house. I go into the bathroom…
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The Texture of Attachment – What is My Thesis Exactly?
As one of the most impactful industries on our environment, textiles and the fashion industry dominate climate conversation but are still often overlooked as a serious field of study outside of an environmental response. We have been attempting to create a more sustainable textile industry by designing more efficient production, more environmental materials and campaigns…
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Wild Rice – My Blackberry Basket – Expressing Emotion Through Weaving
Over the past 12 months I have been exploring feelings through textiles. This includes not only the feelings we have towards our textiles but the feelings we express through textiles. I have done a few projects that encapsulate different emotional states but they have largely been general emotional states I am feeling at the time…
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How Our Clothing Grows Us
I am lying in our cozy king sized bed healing. Knitting with my ball of Merlin’s hair, wearing my little yellow sweater, sitting on the orange sleeping bag I just fixed, leaning against the pillow with the forest pattern on it which has become my favorite pillow although it was the cheapest pillow I have…
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Studio II – Prompt … I’ve lost count
Taking what I learned from the last two prompts (Designing the Dress and Aimlessness) I was intending to put them together to explore more intention with feeling, During one of our in person sessions Sahil said something that really touched me, ”The more you know how to feel the more you can make others feel”…
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Studio II – Prompt IV – To Be Aimless
The Aimless Journey For this studio prompt I put a pause on working on my eco-printed dress in favour of experiencing creativity without the goal of being productive. In conversations in class I was encouraged by the group that this was the way to go at this time. Louise, my instructor suggested I try to…
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Experiencing My Masters Through Knitting (ongoing)
I am going to attempt to keep a log of all the items I knit during my Masters program. I am not sure where this will go but I can feel it is relevant to my thesis on slow fashion and sustainability. Solonge Sweater, Color Blocked Yellow/Grey, 50% Cashmere, 50% Wool – This sweater was…
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Studio II – Prompt III – Designing the Dress
As I worked through prompt II – Dying the Fabric I had plenty of time to sink into my feelings about this project and ask questions like what are my motivations? Why is this important to me? What am I trying to discover? Themes that kept popping up were femininity, softness, nature, using what we…
Stephanie Ostler 