Hello hello. I’ve just lit my periodical room candle and am ready for the day! Want to start with a quick happy belated b-day to both my mom Myla and my aunt Ivy. Double whammy yesterday. We celebrated by torturing ourselves through Maestro. Tonight is a fancy dinner, don’t worry.
Otherwise it’s been a week! Editing on editing on editing. It seems to never stop. Trying to finish out projects as the year comes to a close. It’s going to be right up to the last minute! Oh well!
2/ Thought this was a fabulous thread on fashion and how fabrics have changed over time making it so people don’t look as nice. Specifically with mens suits.
Fabrics come in a variety of weights. In Europe, this is measured in grams per square meter (GSM). In the US, it's measured in ounces per square yard. At a traditional tailor's workshop, midweight fabrics are 14oz. Lightweight is 12oz and below; heavy is 16oz and above.
When you look at photos of men in the past, they are typically wearing at least 14oz for their suits and sport coats, and 24oz for overcoats. It was not uncommon for winter suits to be made from fabrics as heavy as 18oz and overcoats to be 32oz Melton wool.
As the 20th century marched forward, two things happened. First, the growing availability of central heating meant that offices were warmer. Second, for men who could afford it, luxury tailoring became obsessed with finer, lighter, and silkier materials.
Depending on our own anxieties as artists, we might believe that we’re never at the right age—younger artists can be more fearless and dedicate more time to their practice, older artists have experience and the support of the establishment. But each era has strengths inherent to it psychologically and socially-speaking. Here, writer Amelia Abraham charts the decades of an artist’s life and how age changes creativity.
A nice read to remember, we can make art at any age.
“dreaming is easy, it costs you nothing: except 13 seconds staring out of the window, but most of the work is the millions of small tasks that you have to do to help you get to that dream.” - Bafic
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