We’ve been on a kind of “Art Journey” for the past several posts – a long continuous train of thought, comprised of individual images and commentaries that sum together to make larger levels of meaning in context.
We’ve been in a kind of “style and fashion” phase in recent entries, and will continue the phase in this post, followed by a section which combines a little “fashion show” with a kind of “sociological analysis”:
Star Bird With Flower
Pretty pretty birdie sitting pretty pretty
and the stars do twinkle gaily all around her-
the air is warmly scented
with a feeling of romance
Is there a chance
that love will bloom tonight?
Magic Curtain With Butterfly
And so romance weaves its magic spell
to transport our souls on gossamer wings
to better places and moods of the heart…
Magic Curtain With Striped Bird
…Warmly encompassing the stage of heart and mind
with its rosy and passionate glow.
Butterfly and Star Over Flower
And so the heart takes flight
on a sweetly scented starlit night
riding on the wings of love.
Stylish Twist 2
A Stylish Twist, Continued
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“FASHION SHOW WITH SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS”:
OK, now let’s put this series of images into a “T-shirt parade”:
Starbird with Flower
Magic Curtain Butterfly
Magic Curtain Bird
Butterfly and Star with Flower
Stylish Twist 2
Notice that the models in the “T-shirt parade” were all women, as it seems (IMHO) that the designs in this segment are more appropriate to be worn by women when they are put into the context of clothing.
What kind of impression would you get if you saw a man wearing these kinds of designs? Let’s see…
Starbird with Flower on male model
What do you think? Does this kind of design “match” the wearer? Or do you perhaps feel a kind of “Cognitive Dissonance”, like it might not be appropriate? Now, these kinds of judgments may vary from society to society, depending on the social norms of those societies. In American society, women often wear men’s T-shirts with little objection, but men do not usually wear women’s T-shirts. For that matter, women often wear pants, but men almost never wear dresses or skirts. (However, there are societies in which men can wear Kilts ; and one of my characters even wears a kilt-like outfit …)
Another concern that arises when putting designs into a clothing context is the anatomy of the wearer. For example, let’s take a couple of the designs in this current series and combine them in context, and put them on a women’s T-shirt:
Magic Curtain (Magic Curtain with Butterfly + Magic Curtain with Striped Bird)
How about it? Do you like the design in this context, or does it perhaps “draw too much attention to the anatomy of the wearer”?
But then again, there may be those who may appreciate what might possibly be seen as a slightly “risque” element to the design in this context…
Now let’s see this design in the context of a fashion accessory:
This time, there is no concern for what attention the design might draw to the anatomy of the person carrying it…
Does the age of the person wearing the design influence the impression that is made by the design? Let’s see:
Butterfly and Star with Flower on a very young child
I am inclined to believe that the design is appropriate for a child; but instead of bringing attention to the “chic” kind of element that it was designed to project when worn by an adult woman, the attention in this context goes to the element of “cuteness” in the design.
Now let’s see how the following design looks on a young girl:
Stylish Twist 2
Does seeing the design being worn by a young girl give you a different impression than from seeing it on an adult woman? (You can scroll upwards to compare, if you want to.)
And so note how there are many different parameters present in a design or work of art, and these have an influence on the kinds of contexts that the designs are placed into. There are ultimately many social and psychological considerations to be made in deciding these things…
(BTW – In case you were wondering, Starry Seas is the name of one of the design shops that I run – Click Here to visit .)
And now let’s fit this latest series of images into the train of thought that we’ve been on for the past several posts…
Stylish Twists
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