Illegal Wear: Arrested for Wearing...

Ever-enduring:  The hippy style developed during the turbulence of
the 1960s has reinvented itself over and over for the last 50 years.
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Rebellion makes for great fashion!  The latest is of two women arrested in France for wearing veils which covered their faces. The French seem to be contradicting themselves by simultaneously passing laws against public discrimination at around the the same time they passed this law:  It is illegal to wear facial clothing in public.  Laws against certain forms of dress are not new. When "the establishment" dictates there will always be those who rebel and spark off a new trend.  Especially when it comes to fashion.  Peruse the following news reports of past clothing bans.  Then tell us your opinion.

• Arrests made in France as French veil ban takes effect (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42528909/ns/world_news-europe/)
• Mullets Banned in Iran (http://insidethemiddleeast.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07/08/iran-promotes-islamic-haircuts/)
• Italian Seaside town planning miniskirt ban (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11617091)
• In Delhi - Low rise jeans Banned in colleges (http://www.fulldhamaal.com/current-affairs/in-delhi-low-rise-jeans-banned-in-colleges-15338.htm)
• Cities crack down on sagging pants (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20817735/ns/us_news-weird_news/)

What is Barack Obama's opinion on the saggy, baggy look? (in an MTV interview prior to his election):

"Here is my attitude: I think people passing a law against people wearing sagging pants is a waste of time. We should be focused on creating jobs, improving our schools, health care, dealing with the war in Iraq, and anybody, any public official, that is worrying about sagging pants probably needs to spend some time focusing on real problems out there. Having said that, brothers should pull up their pants. You are walking by your mother, your grandmother, your underwear is showing. What's wrong with that? Come on."

(http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1598409/barack-obama-answers-your-questions.jhtml)

How to Draft a Basic Pant

Thank you for your patience.  I have finally uploaded the written tutorial How to Draft a Basic Pant Pattern.  Stay tuned for the video tutorials on basic pant drafting and transformations into shorts, cigarette pants, bellbottoms, capris and any other imaginable form a pant can take!
(If the above link does not work copy and paste this URL:  http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-draft-basic-pant-pattern-0126850/
More:
Take Your Measurements
Draft a Bodice
Draft a Skirt

Knitting into Silence

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Knitting into Silence 
Lace Knitting Class
Saturday, April 23, 1-4 pm

Treetop Zen Center  
293 Country Club Road,
Oakland, Maine U.S.A.

Alpaca Wool into Yarn

A little more "Raw Clothing Design" .  See the process on the Good Karma Farm  in Belfast, Maine where alpacas are raised and you can see their wool processed into yarn all in one video.  Get a glimpse of Julie, from the Scenic Turnout blog at the end where she is demonstrating how to spin on a hand spindle. If you live in the area perhaps you will be interested in taking a class from Julie.  Her next class, Knitting into Silence a lace knitting workshop will be offered Saturday, April 23 · 1:00pm - 4:00pm at the Tree Top Zen Center in Oakland, Maine.

Good Karma Farm from Belfast Community on Vimeo.

What do nudists wear on casual Fridays?

 of course!

Here is a page of quotations about fashion and clothing. Some are funny, all make sense and if you stop to think for a moment or two about some of them you will get a bit of insight into the many twists and turns fashion and clothing take. Why do people dress? From a sociological and anthropological viewpoint, the responses are endless.

http://www.quotegarden.com/clothing.html