Ethnographic Research in Hoboken & Manhatten
When I was walking to work, I was completed stopped, dead in my tracks, when I saw some silver disco heels. It turns out, a customer going into Anthropologie, i...
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Eco and Stallybrass in Decoding the Meaning of Clothing
Both Umberto Eco and Peter Stallybrass, through different perspectives, capture how clothes go beyond the idea of objects to become symbols of past and present ...
Floral Park- Engagement Project
I decided to observe a local boutique in my suburban town of Floral Park located in Nassau County on Long Island. My neighborhood is predominantly made up of fa...
Engagement Project
Midterm Part 2: Engagement Project Although I grew up in Rockland County, I moved to Kew Garden Hills in Queens for college. I thought a lot about what I wanted...
Peter Stallybrass, “Worn Worlds”
Peter Stallybrass, “Worn Worlds”: Handout 3, Question 3 (Short Essay #1) It was interesting to read both Stallybrass and Eco and how they discuss the effect clo...
The T Shirt
The T shirt industry is a worldwide manufacturing production. As we read in the article “Two for A Penny”, by Pietra Rivoli, there is an entire T sh...
Engagament Project
Context: For my Fashion of Cultures engagement project, I had the privilege of spending a wonderful afternoon at a warehouse in downtown Brooklyn, Sunshine Vend...
Tabii Just: Tabitha St. Bernard Workshop
(Copyright for the first image, as part of Tabitha’s collection is here.) For the CUNY Graduate students, we had the pleasure of meeting Zerowaste womensw...
NY Engagement Project: Bushwick, Brooklyn
I have been living in Bushwick, Brooklyn for about 3 years now. When I first moved here, I was nervous. It was quite a distance from FIT and there wasn’t much g...
