DAY TEN: WALKING A LOBSTER

[DECADENCE IS...]

hothouse flowers natural silk suit dyed hair sex with your spouse or lover painted lips streetlights walking a lobster a beautiful sunset an ornate china teapot wild flowers
velvet suit naturally red hair sex with a prostitute rosy lips moonlight walking a dog an opium absinthe hallucination an ornate china teapot that doesn't work

NEVER WALKED A LOBSTER BEFORE? THEY ARE QUITE AGREEABLE CREATURES TO WALK

DAY NINE: LOVED TO DEATH

These delightfully-creepy little things speak the ultimate dialogue between fashion and death. Who can resist the allure of taxidermy?
Not I!

Tiny little feet hold on to keyholes, wish bones, acorns.
Loved to death? Or love death? Fashion becomes death. Wear death as fashion.
They are so bizarre I almost want one, but the politics behind taxidermy, wearing fur, etc. - the animal conservation aficionados
out there will have my head! (Though the idea of that somehow ironic to the very nature of this post...)

These bizarre jewelery creations by Loved To Death are made using the preserved body parts of dead animals. According to the creator, all animal parts used to create these pieces have been professionally preserved and come from recycled sources. No animals are killed specifically to make this jewelery.

FOLLOW FASHION TO FIND DEATH

DAY EIGHT: MON ONCLE

The "awful contortion of the face produced by the constant use of an eye-glass." or monocle. Usually worn by slightly older gentlemen around the age that uncles ought to be. My uncle (Mon Oncle) wearing a monocle.


From: Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. IV (Dec, 1851 - May, 1852) New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers. Pg 860.

DAY SEVEN: WHEN THE POLICE OUGHT TO INTERFERE

Engravings 1, 2 and 3 of The Round Hat read as follows:
1. When it is all very well.
2. When it is objectional.
3. When the police ought to interfere.

Cartoon from Punch, 22 September 1855.

Note:
From the mid-1850s the hat reappeared to challenge the supremacy of the bonnet. Punch cartoons poked fun at these wide-brimmed hats which proliferated like mushrooms in the English countryside and on beaches. By 1857 the style became modified into a smaller version with the dipped front brim and leather plume, worn for riding and walking. The streamers which floated behind these hats were called 'follow-me-lads'.


SOURCE: CUMMING, V. (2006). THE VISUAL HISTORY OF COSTUME ACCESSORIES. FROM HATS TO SHOES: 400 YEARS OF COSTUME ACCESSORIES. NEW YORK: QUITE SPECIFIC MEDIA GROUP. P. 101.

DAY SIX: THE EXTREMES OF FASHION

Such Things Are, engraving 1787.

Note:
Throughout the eighteenth century and beyond, the absurdities of fashion provided ample subject matter for caricatures. Young men were a favourite target and this example dissects the details of the extreme fashion.


SOURCE: CUMMING, V. (2006). THE VISUAL HISTORY OF COSTUME ACCESSORIES. FROM HATS TO SHOES: 400 YEARS OF COSTUME ACCESSORIES. NEW YORK: QUITE SPECIFIC MEDIA GROUP. P. 70.

DAY FIVE: ALPHABET SOUP

This is certainly the most morbid alphabet I have come across. Although not typically related to fashion, it is related to literature. For words are made from letters of the alphabet, are they not? Key letters re-arranged, repeated and contorted. You can see the metamorphosis.

G is for... GASHLYCRUMB TINIES

DAY FOUR: THE DANDY

Its witty.
Its Funny.
Its coy.
A play on words: true to the essence of the dandy.
Would Oscar Wilde approve? most probably.
Good enough for me.

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