The Future is Trashion

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/12/20/fashion/20Ragpicker-jacket/merlin_164102892_3a12cd58-7774-4287-9912-c9ea462b51f6-superJumbo.jpg

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/style/zero-waste-daniel-trashion.html

"The ragpicker of Brooklyn, whose name is Daniel Silverstein and whose nom de style is Zero Waste Daniel, looks like a fashion kid, which he is (or was). He is 30 and tends to dress all in black, with a black knit cap on his head, and went to the Fashion Institute of Technology and interned at Carolina Herrera and even was on a fashion reality TV show.

And the ragpicker of Brooklyn would rather not be called that at all.

“I prefer to think of it as Rumpelstiltskin, spinning straw into gold,” Mr. Silverstein said"

Go read the article. Swell photos, too.

Shoddy Goods And Joseph Beuys

What does shoddy mean?
poorly made? fabric made from the shreds of other fabrics?

All of the above and then some?

https://fabscrap.org/

had an insta post about selling it

Well, they will be in the new year. 

In the meantime, let's put up some links and get some learning in.

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/shoddy.html

Yes, it's named after the company

You may be more familiar with it in moving blankets. Or it's foam friend, carpet underlayment

https://www.homedepot.com/p/QuietWalk-100-sq-ft-3-ft-x-33-ft-x-1-8-in-Felt-Fiber-Underlayment-with-Attached-Vapor-Barrier-for-Laminate-and-Floating-Floor-QW100B1LT/304702498

Which I could make into a suit (well, not the underlayment)

Then I could play dressed to match with Joseph Beuys

http://dressedtomatch.com/

FELT SUIT: THE FABRIC OF JOSEPH BEUYS’S LIFE

http://samblog.seattleartmuseum.org/2016/12/felt-suit-joseph-beuys/

I had planned on waiting to post this when I got the suit made, but I started writing this in 2016, and that suit is still not made.

But I do have the blanket for it.

Sooooo pretty!

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http://norfolk.ma.us/boards-committees/historical-commission/mills-village-histories.htm

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo24045083.html

Hanna Rose Shell, on a zoom conference presenting her book, May 13, 2021

https://issues.tatter.org/articles/issue-2/alchemy-of-rags/