Comments on: derick melander: second hand (clothing) sculptures http://bitsandbobbins.com/2010/02/04/derick-melander-second-hand-clothing-sculptures/ bits and bobbins Sat, 12 May 2012 07:03:03 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Vintage Politics, Interrupted « threadbared http://bitsandbobbins.com/2010/02/04/derick-melander-second-hand-clothing-sculptures/comment-page-1/#comment-95789 Vintage Politics, Interrupted « threadbared Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:22:06 +0000 http://bitsandbobbins.com/?p=1042#comment-95789 [...] lovely Tricia of Bits and Bobbins brings to our attention Derick Melander’s secondhand-clothing sculptures, and asks us, “i love to ponder where [...] [...] lovely Tricia of Bits and Bobbins brings to our attention Derick Melander’s secondhand-clothing sculptures, and asks us, “i love to ponder where [...]

]]> By: Vintage Politics Interrupted | Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture http://bitsandbobbins.com/2010/02/04/derick-melander-second-hand-clothing-sculptures/comment-page-1/#comment-92991 Vintage Politics Interrupted | Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:01:39 +0000 http://bitsandbobbins.com/?p=1042#comment-92991 [...] lovely Tricia of Bits and Bobbins brings to our attention Derick Melander’s secondhand-clothing sculptures, and asks us, “i love to ponder where [...] [...] lovely Tricia of Bits and Bobbins brings to our attention Derick Melander’s secondhand-clothing sculptures, and asks us, “i love to ponder where [...]

]]> By: Joy-Mari Cloete http://bitsandbobbins.com/2010/02/04/derick-melander-second-hand-clothing-sculptures/comment-page-1/#comment-92699 Joy-Mari Cloete Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:54:39 +0000 http://bitsandbobbins.com/?p=1042#comment-92699 I very rarely think about my second hand clothing's previous owners. I very rarely think about my second hand clothing’s previous owners.

]]> By: meligrosa http://bitsandbobbins.com/2010/02/04/derick-melander-second-hand-clothing-sculptures/comment-page-1/#comment-92216 meligrosa Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:05:28 +0000 http://bitsandbobbins.com/?p=1042#comment-92216 these sculptures are amazing. love the color shift and flow to it. xo.m these sculptures are amazing. love the color shift and flow to it.
xo.m

]]> By: Mimi http://bitsandbobbins.com/2010/02/04/derick-melander-second-hand-clothing-sculptures/comment-page-1/#comment-92062 Mimi Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:49:33 +0000 http://bitsandbobbins.com/?p=1042#comment-92062 Tricia, if you haven't already, you might want to pick up a copy of Fashion Projects #3, which just came out! This issue is on clothes and memory, inspired by a Peter Stallybrass essay on the same. It opens with this lyrical excerpt from the essay: In thinking of clothes as passing fashions, we repeat less than half-truth. Bodies come and go; the clothes which have received those bodies survive. They circulate though secondhand shops, through rummage sales, through the Salvation Army; or they are transmitted from parent to child, from sister to sister, from brother to brother, from sister to brother, from lover to lover, from friend to friend. (Peter Stallybrass, “Worn Worlds: Clothes, Mourning, and the Life of Things” The Yale Review 1993 vol. 81. no. 2, pp. 35-50) Tricia, if you haven’t already, you might want to pick up a copy of Fashion Projects #3, which just came out! This issue is on clothes and memory, inspired by a Peter Stallybrass essay on the same. It opens with this lyrical excerpt from the essay:

In thinking of clothes as passing fashions, we repeat less than half-truth. Bodies come and go; the clothes which have received those bodies survive. They circulate though secondhand shops, through rummage sales, through the Salvation Army; or they are transmitted from parent to child, from sister to sister, from brother to brother, from sister to brother, from lover to lover, from friend to friend.

(Peter Stallybrass, “Worn Worlds: Clothes, Mourning, and the Life of Things” The Yale Review 1993 vol. 81. no. 2, pp. 35-50)

]]> By: Becky http://bitsandbobbins.com/2010/02/04/derick-melander-second-hand-clothing-sculptures/comment-page-1/#comment-92061 Becky Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:39:28 +0000 http://bitsandbobbins.com/?p=1042#comment-92061 Amazing sculptures! I wrote an article on charity shopping on my own blog a while ago musing on a similar question. I really do love the idea of inheriting a fragment of someone else's life, something which is so strong in a person's identity and sticks with them loyally throughout life until the person decides to discard it. Funnily enough, I don't feel the same way about jewellery, as things like necklaces and rings are so personal I'd have to buy them new! Amazing sculptures! I wrote an article on charity shopping on my own blog a while ago musing on a similar question. I really do love the idea of inheriting a fragment of someone else’s life, something which is so strong in a person’s identity and sticks with them loyally throughout life until the person decides to discard it. Funnily enough, I don’t feel the same way about jewellery, as things like necklaces and rings are so personal I’d have to buy them new!

]]> By: madam0wl http://bitsandbobbins.com/2010/02/04/derick-melander-second-hand-clothing-sculptures/comment-page-1/#comment-91962 madam0wl Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:32:00 +0000 http://bitsandbobbins.com/?p=1042#comment-91962 Those sculptures are really cool! I do like the history and imagined personality of secondhand clothes, especially when I know for sure who had it before me, like my grandma's stuff. Those sculptures are really cool! I do like the history and imagined personality of secondhand clothes, especially when I know for sure who had it before me, like my grandma’s stuff.

]]> By: Mimi http://bitsandbobbins.com/2010/02/04/derick-melander-second-hand-clothing-sculptures/comment-page-1/#comment-91955 Mimi Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:02:55 +0000 http://bitsandbobbins.com/?p=1042#comment-91955 I love this! (Have you seen some of my recent posts on questions of vintage? You might like them!) I love this! (Have you seen some of my recent posts on questions of vintage? You might like them!)

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