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The discomfort of the necktie, or the girdle, as a form of attire, is its very significance. As with snaffle bits and hackamores, light but continuous pressure is applied to a region of the body — a constant reminder of your place in the social hierarchy. Are not such functionless clothing items really just tired symbols that are better undone? The cravat when your luck is good: the slipknot when luck runs out. Perhaps we can hope that the hospital ban on the necktie might be extended to other areas, like the increasing restrictions on smoking. We have had great success undermining the noisome reign of tobacco; and gone are the awful stays, bustles and petticoats once imposed on women. Will the cravat's mystique finally be unravelled? Now there's something to take aim at.
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. "Being well dressed adds to an aura of professionalism and has been correlated with higher patient confidence. Senior physicians and hospital administrators often encourage staff to wear neckties in order to help promote this valuable relationship; but in so doing, they may also be facilitating the spread of infectious organisms." Nurkin added: "While there is no direct evidence to implicate neckties in the transmission of infection to patients, the link between contaminated neckties and the potential for transmission must be considered."
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Common items like lanyards, mobile phones and handhelds that medical staff wear or carry with them can spread germs.
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Madhouse, a nationwide chain of discount men’s clothing stores, was branded “shameful” and “outrageous” by hundreds of Twitter users yesterday, because of the label’s washing instructions to ‘Give it to your woman’.
The beige pair of chinos in question were purchased in London at Madhouse’s flagship Oxford Street store last month.
The incident shows the power of Twitter to embarrass companies which make such gaffes. Last year, Topman was forced to apologise and remove a range of t-shirts from shelves after Twitter users said they were sexist.
One t-shirt said: “Nice new girlfriend – what breed is she?”
Vanessa Truskey, a publicity executive, commenting on the Madhouse trouser label, tweeted: “Lately I can't tell which decade I'm living in. What brand are those trousers?! I can only assume that's a joke.”
Under suspicion for potentially airbrushing a photo of teen model Karlie Kloss, which was later taken down from its site, the magazine has let slip a behind-the-scenes video which may clear them of any wrongdoing
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Though the magazine has yet to offer an explanation as to why it pulled the picture, which saw the 19-year-old Kloss popping an awkwardly contorted and muscular hip, many have speculated that the decision was sparked by rumors that the image was Photoshopped to depict an unhealthily thin body.
But as the video of the Steven Meisel shoot shows, Kloss may actually just be that flexible and lean (the latter of which may not appease those who complained that the spread glamorized an unrealistic body type).
The bodies of most of the models H&M features on its website are computer-generated and "completely virtual," the company has admitted. H&M designs a body that can better display clothes made for humans than humans can, then "dresses" it by drawing on its clothes, and digitally pastes on the heads of real women in post-production.
Women got most of the scarlet and yellow, the capes, the trims, the pizazz, as I could see by following the shows online. The general visual impression I took away from the men’s shows was of gray, beige and brown, a lot of that brown being tanned skin. Even when a designer tried to jazz things up — Tommy Hilfiger went sort of nuts with nautical stripes at his show, held at the High Line on the first Friday of Fashion Week — the men still looked dressed-down-drab.
Pejic, who sometimes models women’s fashion, sometimes men’s (though guess which gets more attention), is the chap memorably described by US FHM in a widely-reported hissy fit as a ‘thing’ that prompts them to ‘pass the sick bucket’ — despite his popularity with their own readers. And more recently as a ‘creature’ and ‘a fake’ and symbol of ‘abject misogyny’ by outraged female columnists citing him as the ‘final proof’ that they were right all along, that high fashion is run by an evil gay paedo conspiracy against women that wants to do away with ladies altogether and replace them with ‘young boys’.
Though perhaps the outraged feminists of both left and right should welcome Pejic with garlands since he means that women can finally opt out of the fatal gay embrace of high fashion altogether and leave the gays and their Ganymedes to it….
Whatever Pejic does or doesn’t symbolise about the world of high fashion it seems to me that he and the scandale surrounding him definitely, dramatically personifies something that is going on in the wider culture that feminists, along with everyone else, are often far less keen to notice
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t in the last couple of decades the male body has become ‘objectified’ in mainstream media as much as the female variety. The way that ‘beauty’ and ‘prettiness’ is no longer the sole preserve of women. The way that glossy magazines with men’s airbrushed tits on the cover have become the most popular kind — with men. (Which lends a special irony to the banning of a mag that featured a topless Pejic on the cover by Barnes & Noble — they knew Pejic is male, and don’t ban topless males, only females, but were worried the image ‘might confuse their customers’.)
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the way that colours, clothes, accessories, products, practises and desires previously thought ‘feminine’ have been greedily taken up by men – and often relabelled ‘manly’ in a way that only succeeds in unwittingly satirising the very concept of ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’, ‘man’ and ‘woman’.
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If more men wear skirts, public understanding will grow, and more people will realize it is foolish to make value judgments about the fashion styles of others,"
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"Men wear a skirt just because they think they look cool," Yamamoto said. "Fashion-conscious males have tried on everything they can in men's style and the skirt is appealing as something new."
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Prejudice against long-haired men and those with pierced ears disappeared after more men adopted those styles and people became used to them, he added.
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The secret of Zara’s success is its speed—four weeks for a new fashion idea to hit the shops—and the feedback that store managers send to head office, to help it fine-tune its ideas. There is also firm control from Spain, the sole logistics hub. Although 34% of Inditex’s manufacturing is outsourced to Asia, and 14% to parts of Europe including Turkey, those tend to be the more basic items. The high-fashion stuff, 49% of what it sells, is cut and finished in Spain though some sewing is done elsewhere.
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When Jessie Dress of Austin, Texas started the project Fa(t)shion February for Femmes and Friends, she was responding to what she perceived as a gap in the online community celebrating “fatshion,” or fashion for fat-identified people. She explains, “I don’t feel like the fatshion blogs I see really represent the kind of radical queer fashion that I’m into and that feels like my community.” Jessie committed to posting “outfits of the day” (OOTD) every day in February. Her intention was to celebrate and draw attention to three kinds of politicized fashion projects – first, fatshion; second, the fashion of femme-identified queers; and finally, the fashion of allies of both fat and femme-identified people.
Why the fashion industry can't seem to design for women with breasts
Actually, there is an upside to its indifference to the female body
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Why are so many fashion trends impossible to wear if you have breasts larger than a B-cup size?
Meredith, London
Ah, Meredith, you have cannily stumbled on that interesting split-screen effect of the fashion world, the dichotomy between misogyny and empowerment. Is fashion a cruel anti-female industry whose sole goal is to make women feel bad about themselves and force them to wear crippling, uncomfortable apparel? Or is it empowering, allowing women to wear clothes that appeal primarily to themselves as opposed to men?
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Breasts and fashion go together like snow and train schedules: the latter just doesn't take the existence of the former into account, despite the high likelihood that it will encounter it at some point. Fashion haters will say that designers' disinterest-verging-on-distaste for breasts proves that they are misogynistic pigs, interested only in designing for anorexic 19-year-olds.
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