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Re: Dress decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 28, 2021, 10:58 pm
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On a different note:
HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/us/army-haircut-women-grooming-standard.html
[quote]Capt. Jawana McFadden said that wearing her hair in a bun
pushed her helmet forward over her eyes.
...
The latest update to the Army’s uniform and grooming
regulations, which takes effect on Friday, offers several
revisions that give the 127,000 women serving in the Army and
National Guard a chance to finally let their hair down — at
least a bit.
For the first time, women will be allowed to have buzz
cuts.[/quote]
Before reading this, I naively assumed that female soldiers had
always been allowed to have buzz cuts. If buzz cuts are
considered the most practical hairstyle for male soldiers, why
not for female soldiers also? Yet again it turns out that I am
still underestimating just how obsessed with sexual dimorphism
Western civilization is. Absolutely ridiculous.
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Re: Dress decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 6, 2021, 10:51 pm
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Eurocentrists wasting cloth to promote Eurocentrism:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5x9aAvfVYA
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Re: Dress decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 10, 2021, 1:50 am
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This guy gets it:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVvsPjhAstU
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Re: Media decolonization
By: acc9 Date: April 2, 2021, 2:59 am
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HTML https://kotaku.com/italian-fashion-brand-called-disrespectful-of-japanese-1846580262
HTML https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,pg_1,q_60,w_965/m5fzbz4r42knplxxcnqk.jpg
It seems the white supremacist complex in the western mind is
now spilling over into their art and design. Whether it is
intentional or inadvertent, the trampling of the Japanese kimono
sash (a culture symbol of Japanese traditional attire) can
definitely be interpreted as an insult or more - the message
alluding to Japan's very own 'trashed and trampled' culture in
face of the western one that is arching over it.
In comparison with the infamous Dolce & Gabbana advertisement a
couple of years ago that derided the Chinese stereotype, this
one goes much deeper as it impacts a time-honored tradition that
holds respect and dear in the hearts of the Japanese people,
hence much more offensive.
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Re: Re: Media decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 2, 2021, 6:06 am
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"In comparison with the infamous Dolce & Gabbana advertisement a
couple of years ago that derided the Chinese stereotype, this
one goes much deeper as it impacts a time-honored tradition that
holds respect and dear in the hearts of the Japanese people,
hence much more offensive."
I agree. What is going on in the photoshoot is a microcosm of
colonialism: the colonized are given table scraps in return for
degrading their own non-Western culture while comporting
themselves according to Western standards in order to serve the
colonizer who is the true profiteer.
[quote]Italian brand Valentino[/quote]
BOYCOTT VALENTINO! (And of course continue to boycott Dolce &
Gabbana!)
What makes it even worse is that the model is the daughter of
one of Japan's Counterculture leaders (incoming Aryan phenotype
alert!):
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9H6gmwJ5kU
Also note Kudo's crushing superiority over her daughter when she
was the same age her daughter is now:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBkgnJdXCFo
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Re: Dress decolonization
By: Killthebank Date: April 7, 2021, 9:19 pm
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This isn't about decolonization but it's funny because a certain
group got triggered.
HTML https://www.newsrael.com/post/-MXTjqlultwWM1Znv_mp
Anybody going to wear that shirt while walking around Queens?
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Re: Dress decolonization
By: guest5 Date: April 16, 2021, 1:20 am
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Young people in China want [s]traditional[/s] non-Western Han
clothing back in fashion
[quote]Across China, some young people are switching from jeans
and T-shirts to long dresses, silky robes and black hats.
They’re not cosplayers or period drama actors, but rather
members of a booming movement to turn Hanfu, or ethnic Han
clothing, into everyday wear.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cip9DA1UvHk
[quote]Dave102693
1 year ago
Traditional clothing needs come back to the whole world.
[/quote]
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Re: Dress decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 16, 2021, 3:17 am
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"Young people in China want [s]traditional[/s] non-Western Han
clothing back in fashion"
It seems like they are more anti-Manchurian than anti-Western.
Their main aim seems to be to emphasize that Han people
shouldn't wear Qing clothes, rather than to reject Western
aesthetics.
[quote]Across China, some young people are switching from jeans
and T-shirts to long dresses, silky robes and black
hats.[/quote]
Jeans and T-shirts are Counterculture clothes, not Western
clothes. In particular, the T-shirt being collarless and
cuffless:
HTML https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e6/Ringer_t-shirt.png
is actually closer to Qing style:
HTML https://img9.doubanio.com/view/photo/l/public/p2585786663.webp
than to Western style which is defined by collars and cuffs:
HTML https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1b/07/7e/1b077ea03525b03cc261bced7202278c.jpg
originating from this ****:
HTML https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Anton_van_Dyck_-_The_Cardinal-Infante_Fernando_de_Austria.jpg/592px-Anton_van_Dyck_-_The_Cardinal-Infante_Fernando_de_Austria.jpg
But if these people are actually motivated by dislike for Qing
style, then it is no surprise they would reject T-shirts (which
have similar geometry) also.
So while I would support the movement in principle, in practice
I am not optimistic. Not least because I have already noticed
"New Chinese" Eurocentrist filmmakers trying to sneak in Western
sartorial elements and passing them off as "Han":
[img]
HTML http://i2.sinaimg.cn/ent/v/p/2011-08-13/U5913P28T3D3385860F346DT20110813103542.JPG[/img]
HTML https://pic.rmb.bdstatic.com/af1b7e00e86901c57fd94d8088bfd9af.jpeg
HTML http://photocdn.sohu.com/20110730/Img314975230.jpg
HTML https://ss1.bdstatic.com/70cFuXSh_Q1YnxGkpoWK1HF6hhy/it/u=708224377,4075537136&fm=26&gp=0.jpg
HTML http://i1.sinaimg.cn/ent/v/p/2011-08-13/U5913P28T3D3385855F346DT20110813103518.jpg
Of course lapels are also Western:
HTML https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/PJ-BO110_LAPELS_G_20130502143606.jpg
as are epaulettes:
HTML https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61UEfNfxHDL._AC_SL1000_.jpg
Still think I'm exaggerating about how bad Eurocentrism is?
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Re: Dress decolonization
By: rp Date: April 16, 2021, 10:49 am
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"Jeans and T-shirts are Counterculture clothes, not Western
clothes."
But jeans were invented by the Jew Levi Strauss though.. and you
pointed this out:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/if-western-civilization-does-not-die-soon/msg5549/#msg5549
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Re: Dress decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 16, 2021, 10:16 pm
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Yes, but jeans did not become fashionable until associated with
Counterculture:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeans#20th_century_evolution
[quote]After James Dean popularized them in the movie Rebel
Without a Cause, wearing jeans became a symbol of youth
rebellion during the 1950s.[23][24] During the 1960s the wearing
of jeans became more acceptable, and by the 1970s it had become
general fashion in the United States for casual wear.[25] In
Japan in 1977, a professor of Osaka University Philip Karl Pehda
chastised a female student wearing jeans in the classroom. Then
he was protested by the students, and a controversy arose in the
country.[26][27][/quote]
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dean#Legacy_and_iconic_status
[quote]Numerous commentators have asserted that Dean had a
singular influence on the development of rock and roll music.
According to David R. Shumway, a researcher in American culture
and cultural theory at Carnegie Mellon University, Dean was the
first iconic figure of youthful rebellion and "a harbinger of
youth-identity politics". The persona Dean projected in his
movies, especially Rebel Without a Cause, influenced Elvis
Presley[108] and many other musicians who followed,[109]
including the American rockers Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent.
In their book, Live Fast, Die Young: The Wild Ride of Making
Rebel Without a Cause, Lawrence Frascella and Al Weisel wrote,
"Ironically, though Rebel had no rock music on its soundtrack,
the film's sensibility—and especially the defiant attitude and
effortless cool of James Dean—would have a great impact on rock.
The music media would often see Dean and rock as inextricably
linked [...] The industry trade magazine Music Connection even
went so far as to call Dean 'the first rock star'."[110]
As rock and roll became a revolutionary force that affected the
culture of countries around the world,[111] Dean acquired a
mythic status that cemented his place as a rock and roll
icon.[112][/quote]
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