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Himanshu kept seeing paisley everywhere: from his home temple to his couch cushions to his mom’s pants. Some of these products were Indian but a lot weren’t. How did this pattern get embraced by the world?
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The tricky thing about fashion is that, in order to preserve its history, you need to preserve physical garments. And, alas, closet space is finite, cloth gets sun-bleached and eaten by moths, and Americans notoriously do not care about their fashion heritage. So this is why one woman decided to put a call out across the country and make a scrappy archive all by herself.
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Prison uniforms are not, in fact, uniform. There are so many types of clothes that are worn across different facilities… including … some prisons that don’t have uniforms at all.
This episode is a special collaboration between Articles Of Interest and Ear Hustle, dropping on both of our feeds. For images of the Broad Arrow, and to see a prison without uniforms, go to articlesofinterest.substack.com
On the ten year anniversary of a horrible manufacturing disaster- a look at what has changed, what hasn’t, and the massive secret industry behind it all.
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The pointe shoe is a design that balances at the very tip of both tradition and innovation. What can make it change?
Ralph Lauren ascends. And so does a slender little joke book that no one expected to be a colossal, massive bestseller. Just in time for the secret fashion revolution of the 1980s that no one ever talks about.
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Articles of Interest is made by Avery Trufelman
Edited by Kelly Prime
Mixed and Mastered by Ian Coss
Album art by Helen Shewolfe Tseng and photography by Matty Lynn Barnes
Theme songs are by Sasami, with additional music from Rhae Royal
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Ivy starts to go out of style, thanks to the counterculture (with a lot of help from corporate America). But Ivy finds an unlikely savior in a Jewish college dropout from the Bronx.
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Articles of Interest is made by Avery Trufelman
Edited by Kelly Prime
Mixed and Mastered by Ian Coss
Album art by Helen Shewolfe Tseng and photography by Matty Lynn Barnes
Theme songs are by Sasami, with additional music from Rhae Royal
Proud member of Radiotopia!
The look of the elite somehow becomes the look for everyone. And as more and more people are taking on Ivy, it only becomes cooler and cooler. Which goes against everything I thought I knew about trends.
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Articles of Interest is made by Avery Trufelman
Edited by Kelly Prime
Mixed and Mastered by Ian Coss
Album art by Helen Shewolfe Tseng and photography by Matty Lynn Barnes
Theme songs are by Sasami, with additional music from Rhae Royal
Proud member of Radiotopia!
A trend forecaster follows up on a trend report from 2016. A prominent fashion buyer tells me his trends for fall 2022. And Avery wonders why one particular trend, against all odds, seems to come back over and over again
To see the jeans of the future, along with more images, notes and transcripts, go to articlesofinterest.substack.com
Articles of Interest is made by Avery Trufelman
Edited by Kelly Prime
Mixed and Mastered by Ian Coss
With album art by Helen Shewolf Tseng and photography by Matty Lynn Barnes
Theme songs are by Sasami, with additional music from Rhae Royal
Proud member of Radiotopia!
Hello Undiscovered fans! We're here to tell you about a new show we've been working on at Science Friday. Science Diction is a podcast about words—and the science stories behind them.
Hosted by SciFri producer and self-proclaimed word nerd Johanna Mayer, each episode of Science Diction digs into the origin of a single word or phrase, and, with the help of historians, authors, etymologists, and scientists, reveals a surprising science connection. Here's a sneak peek!