Fashion Doesn't Matter (like it used to)

[@NicoleRudolph]

I want to add that this video was scripted and filmed in October. I do feel like the end discussions about signaling safety to your chosen group still stands as a topic that needs to be pondered, even more so than before. The future of the next few years at least may provide us with a much clearer dichotomy as various groups attempt to find each other through shifting, and subtle, visual cues. But acknowledging that what signals one thing for a small community may not work outside of that range. "Safety" or "compliance" is not universal and we shouldn't expect clothing to make it so. It can certainly be included, but not relied upon solely.

[@Hanaconda_Aquaponics]

A number of my American friends have said that they'll be wearing more blue and rainbows from now on. I think it's interesting that it's colour not style that is considered something you can use to signal your beliefs at work without getting in trouble. Regarding the "signalling conformity with fashion part: my friend who works at a college has observed that nearly all of the students conform to such a strict dress code that it's practically a self-regulated uniform. My partner's kid is that age and is massively adverse to wearing anything colourful or detailed that would make her stick out despite what her personal preferences are. As a Millennial I feel like I can wear whatever I want and fashion doesn't matter, but this doesn't seem to be the case for younger generations. If "everyone is wearing t-shirts and jeans" then that is fashion even if some groups (e.g. geographical, cultural, economic, political) follow different trends, like they always have throughout history.

[@technopoptart]

you know what else signals safety and community? wearing a mask in public to reduce the communicable illnesses you are passing on to people who are more susceptible to becoming sick and/or dying from these illnesses. :/

[@jenniferroney6593]

​@Hanaconda_Aquaponics when an individual is trans and is at risk of harm when they wear what they're comfortable is terrible

[@Rowan.Evander]

​@@technopoptart This one! I don't have an immune system and even just someone seeing my mask on and stopping to put on theirs in my presence helps makes me feel safer.

[@rugbybeef]

I really like you close bob haircut as you modeled your coat and smiled at the camera speaking about your upcoming trip east. Not sure that it is new as sometimes I fear your hair gets a but lost in the dark background, but thought I would call it out as it looks very 1920s and fresh and super stylish. Also, if you need a recommendation and are in the Philly area feel free to reach out

[@bookmouse2719]

My Grandfather was from Russia, and (a long time ago) he designed women's coats, had a small factory in San Francisco. He used to go for walks in the evening, look at the stores window and draw, copy ideas, go back to work the next day for new ideas. This was in the early 1905- 1930s.

[@PiskeyFaeri]

I love this so much, and I'd love a discussion on what "timeless" fashion actually is. I keep seeing it *everywhere*. "Don't buy this, buy that timeless piece, it'll fit into fashion for years to come!" or "Ten timeless dresses for every need", and I just don't understand what timeless actually means. What's "timeless" in 1970 or 1980 isn't "timeless" in 2020. I haven't seen that discussed anywhere, so I'm here pretty much begging you to explain it to me.

[@outdoor_kat]

@piskeyfaeri Great question. My first thoughts are, timeless fashion does not have a lot of "novelty" features that can go out of style. Nothing over exaggerated in shape or colour, and no excessive features like ruffles, bows, busy patterns, weird necklines or collars, etc. Well made and in natural materials, (wool, cotton, linen, silk.) Staples like blazers, blouses, and hand made leather shoes.

[@lenabreijer1311]

As above, something that is not fad, that looks a lot like simple previous decades. Especially what the very wealthy were wearing in previous decades. This is especially important if you want to give off upper management vibes. I used to look (in the 70s, 80s and 90s) what the junior clerical staff was wearing and avoid that. Another point is that if it looks like a rug, a table cloth or boudoir outfit then it is not it.

[@unrightist]

@@PiskeyFaeri generally a simple construction without strong statement elements or embellishments is going to be more durable (in terms of trends) than a highly specific style that has a lot of trendy embellishments.

[@because78...9]

As someone who loves costuming yes yes yes, we live in a time where a style of an item of clothing can say volumes about a person!!! This was a wonderfully informative video ❤

[@stiofanmacamhalghaidhau765]

'fashion is dead' reminds me of 'the end of history' so it is not impossible that the purposes of fashion outlined here may just come charging back very quickly... as noted in the pinned comment

[@williamsstephens]

THE COAT! Love your green one. I have one, a camel I bought in the 90s. Or rather, my youngest daughter now has that coat; she acquired it from my closet several years ago. They never go out of style.

[@somewherenicefarmstay6146]

I had a lavender one I made in the early 90's. Loved that coat. Don't know what happened to it. I think I gave it to someone.

[@unrightist]

I think hyper cheap fashion has made clothing so disposable people don't need to think too much about it. I think as people move away from that model, fashion will inevitably return. Probably in ways we can't imagine today. After learning about Derek Guy and the "fashion as language" model... Well, I think just as language is innate to humanity, so is the language of fashion, it's just in a state of great flux these days.

[@avivat3010]

OOOOOO!!!! I absolutely love the clothing you create! The acid green colour is amazing, especially in that you were able to match the double knit? furry detailing. The buttons are perfect, the top stitching perfect and the swing is so much fun! The coat colour, as you know, suits you so much and looks wonderful on you. I remember my mother wearing this coat in the late 50's and early 60's. Regarding quality, my grandmother taught me to look for a full-length or at least 1/2 length chamois hidden in the back of the coat between the lining and the exterior, for warmth, as an indication of quality. I understood the feel of cloth, impressed upon me, and after reaching menopause, appreciate the breathability of natural fibers so much. I think we are returning to a time when money spent on good quality fabrics, if you can even find them, let alone identify them, and making a small set of clothes for oneself will be coming back just due to loss of ability to purchase. For now, there are still quality items to be found second hand, but in time, we'll have to find other sources. We won't have a mom at home to make garments for us; it definitely is a time investment! Ability to purchase will always affect our choices. Thank you so much for another very informative post. I can't wait to see your travel wardrobe!

[@skirtedgalleons]

I love the coat, love the hand sewing shots. As I am now starting to make my own wardrobe (mostly so that my clothes fit me properly and I can make historicalish fashions), I regret the decades spent shopping trying and failing to figure out what I could buy to fit me, of seeing fashion trends come and go--most of which were not to my taste and/or not something I could wear and look good. Turns out I had the power to fix the issue by sewing. Vintage style not vintage values has changed my entire outlook on fashion.

[@pansepot1490]

Same.

[@sharonkatope9885]

Nicole, great video. I remember my mother giving me a swing jacket and swing coat in the late 70's / early 80's and feeling terribly chic when wearing them. The style is timeless and versatile. My coat had the wrap around side pockets like the one you showed today and had a floofy fur collar. Good luck moving forward with your plans and your East Coast visit! I know you will do well.

[@nightfall3605]

I adore your lectures. Not a single ummm or I forgot to mention. So clearly researched with analysis, examples, and further reading. And making the thing you are discussing as proof of your thesis is 🍒! 🧑‍🍳 💋

[@multicolorconverse]

I loved seeing you use weights !! My great grandma used to use butterknives to hold down her patterns

[@daxxydog5777]

That’s actually brilliant. I’m stealing grandma’s idea! Great for straight seams, especially 😊

[@stefaniasmanio5857]

Dear madam I cannot decide what I love more: wether your soothing voice,or the super interesting concepts you explain so well, or you ability at tailoring these wonderful clothes. Thank you so much and enjoy your next trip! ❤❤❤❤

[@Jasmine-in-my-mind]

I second that recommendation for Fashion is Spinach by Elizabeth Hawes. She was a fascinating individual herself! Really enriched my understanding of fashion.

[@fikanera838]

I bought a short, pale pink, swing coat from Max Mara Weekend a few years ago, & it gives me so much joy to wear, even though I can't keep it looking as pristine as previous generations of my family would have! I wear it with everything I own in spring & autumn, & feel it elevates my otherwise brightly coloured, inexpensive, second hand, or homemade, wardrobe.

[@somethingclever8916]

I remember watching Feud: Capote v Swans. And the Swans going to the department store looking for hats and gloves and sales team saying they no longer carrying them. And realizing their era has become bygone.

[@DoomWaffle]

That's a gorgeous coat! And, Fashion Is Spinach is such a 1940's name for a book!

[@louisedykes4794]

People are dressing down so you don’t stand out. No flash no cut nothing that displays quality. It marks you to thieves. Not even bags or purses. I personally love cut fit and quality but keep it now for home.

[@twestgard2]

The 48 Laws of Power book talks about that. Dressing down is the new way to virtue signal. The basic idea hasn’t gone away, it just has a new way for display.

[@louisedykes4794]

@ oh sure I was followed in a mall fortunately I have an eye for movement and caught 3 tag teaming my movements. I asked for an escort to my car and never shopped there again. How I dress now is survival not a new Way to display. I find that virtue signal abhorrent and demeaning insulting.

[@mheinzle]

Oh my god. I love that coat, especially that colour! Beautiful !!

[@christinefreeman2295]

Thank you ❤ thoroughly enjoyed...even as late as the 1970s I remember that many women particularly married didn't have access to their own money. Mums accessed or made many of there clothes and altered those in their wardrobes for changing styles, all the kids had some homemade clothes. I would pour over my mum's pattern books but hated standing still to get fitted.😅..

[@sandyruffin4520]

That coat is STUNNING!

[@LynnHermione]

My mom tells me ready made clothes weren't a thing until the 1970s. She was still getting her clothes by picking from a catalogue and waiting until they were made at department stores in the 50s and 60s, the first item of ready made clothes she bought was a pair of jeans in the 70s and they were EXPENSIVE. And they werent "very wealthy", they were working class. My grandpa was a carpenter. Ready made clothes were what the very wealthy were buying.

[@l.5832]

Well, I was born in the 1950s and post war, ready made was the thing. When your Mom ordered from a catalogue, the department store didn't make the garment. They shipped her the ready made garment. Department stores DID do alterations in those days so if she specified an inseam length, the department store would have a seamstress alter accordingly. But they did not sew from scratch. I worked in a department store. When I was in school in the 1960s we actually looked down on 'home made' clothing because those people were considered too poor to buy in a store. So it was rare to see home made.

[@NicoleRudolph]

Ready made actually started being a thing in the mid-19th century because of the Civil War and other economic issues! It just took a while to have everything be available that way. Sears catalog started selling ready made in the 1890s, and so many others picked up in the next few decades. Having a store nearby that sells it is a whole different matter, however! My family in rural Indiana took the trolley an hour or two away to do their ready-made clothing shopping as of the 1920s. They had been buying work clothes already made in town, but "fashion" and suits were custom, catalog, or they made things themselves when they had time.

[@kb-ny3ln]

There is a picture in my mind of my grandparents in the 40s - 50s, with my grandmother in a coat of this style, and I just had to go look! I think she is! Its the A-line shape, with wide cuffs, what looks like a peter pan collar, and a short line of buttons. She looks very stylish! . Thank you for another video

[@wangofree]

I just found Fashion Is Spinach in a vintage bookstore, and you're right, it's fascinating!

[@ThistleandInkwell]

I loved this one Nicole 🎉 The narrative of the evolution of fashion and the making of the chartreuse coat as it was made was so satisfying. Welcome back to the East Coast 🧳

[@kate_m.]

1:26 AH! One of my favorite Star Wars memes! (What are the kids wearing? I guess “girls these days”* dress like Han Solo?) *”these days” were the early 2010s, and girls did indeed dress like Han Solo.

[@Eloraurora]

@@kate_m. I still love a silly little vest.

[@carenfeldman8854]

As you have presented here, if it's not the materials it's the quantity that people have used to signal their status through their clothing. Today given that anyone can fake anything by tapping into decent-looking mass produced stuff or trolling the 2nd hand markets, I think public displays of "making it" nowadays are through the "toys" one can afford. I have a few acquaintances who present like your ordinary Joe in their dress but make up for it by hopping into their Porsches or high-end Teslas when it's time to drive home.

[@NicoleRudolph]

Yes! I've always argued that technology is just as much "fashion" as clothing now a days. That's the way the past treated it, too. Fashion stores like Milliners sold tea, games, books, tobacco, even cheese!

[@KittyS-gg5gd]

Modern fashion designer do NOT design to keep - they want you to throw everything out and buy it all new every year. Environmentaly unfriendly waste of money.

[@Yotam1703]

Huh. For once, I don’t think I agree with your take! Maybe it’s because I work with teenagers a lot, and that’s a class of people that buy into ideals of conformity quite often, but there is *absolutely* a middle class uniform (namely, a white t-shirt, the current en-vogue cut of jeans, white sneakers + hair and makeup that update every 5 or so years). Teens dress this way to show that they “play the game” (because “taking part in society” isn’t really a thing - with that I agree); and those of a lower social standing often wear clothes that stray away from this “uniform”. What gives!

[@LinaSegnon]

Yeah but if people wear jeans and t-shirt they don't wear it as a flex Also a thing that many Gen Z wear grunge or alternative clothes to the point of being the dominant fashion style

[@JJW77]

Nicole, I love your well researched fashion videos!

[@twestgard2]

I see lots of people in the queer community showing their identity through clothing, and this offers a different kind of safety for a different segment of the people they come in contact with during the day. Another community is the “Gray Man” people, who are signaling another set of ideas and a different kind of safety to a (mostly separate) group of people. There’s also a subset of people in the construction trades who put careful thought into their clothing as a way to make customers feel comfortable and confident about the work they will do. In summary, I really enjoyed this video because it gave me a framework to think about people’s fashion choices. I recognize the value of your assessment that it’s not the same as it was in those other eras, but I do see the equivalent of it in smaller scales as in the three examples above. Also, I now reeeeally want to combine two of these groups and figure out what a genderqueer gray man wears. “But what if your mission involved being hidden in a gay bar, what would you wear?” I think that would result in some hilarious squirming. 😂

[@daxxydog5777]

I see women around my area who clearly have money, and I’m sure they look down on me with what I wear, but I feel good in my clothes and I’m comfortable, while I think a woman in her 60s dressing like a 20 year old is silly. As I always say, just because they make something in your size does not necessarily mean you should wear it. I remember my mom wearing such beautiful suits and heels, and she’d never have been caught dead in the grocery store in hair rollers and a housecoat. I remember my father being horrified when that started in the 60s, lol.

[@kristenhurst683]

I'm from a small town. We have the pajama and slipper crowd, the farm crowd, the overly badly tattooed crowd (clothing challenged), the yoga pants crowd, the metal band t-shirt crowd, and the hunting/fishing wear crowd. I know and love them all. I also sew clothes. Finding fabric that isn't fleece or quilting cotton is difficult. Thankfully, the internet fills that void. We may not be fashionable by big city standards, but we're never dull.

[@elaur73]

Thank you so much fort this video! I love all your videos, but this one not only was posted on my birthday, it also inspired me in the making of a coat I have been planning for a while now.

[@katrussell6819]

Clothing quality is so very low these days. Mostly polyester junk. So sad. I prefer to shop at thrift shops to seek out natural fabrics.

[@cherylrosbak4092]

That wide collar looks fabulous on you! Did I see the CN Tower in there? Another trip to the Bata Museum? I went into one of their stores in Prague a few weeks ago, just for the nostalgia.

[@somethingclever8916]

Balenagia is selling plain black cotton tshirts between $750-2000

[@april_swingler]

I love your swing coat! One of my favorite pieces of clothing I ever owned was a green swing coat that I wore in the 90's. I still have it but the shoulder pads are far too large for it to ever be wearable again even though it might be voluminous enough to still to accommodate my much larger and older body shape. Mine was a kind of terrible shade somewhere between olive and acid green but it made such a fantastic wardrobe piece that I bought it anyway and never regretted it.

[@stephengreen-dowden9068]

Hi Nicole, great video. I'm a big hate lover. I had to buy a new hat last weekend. Most people don't wear hats anymore. I love a good fedora or bowler. It's all about personal style. I like wider leg trousers. I have long legs and I injured my left leg, my calve is twice the size as it is use to be. So, I have adapted. The hell with what is in, I go with what works for me. Love your work.❤❤❤❤

[@Rhaifha]

Well, this confirms that the vintage green wool swing coat I bought most likely really is original 50s. It's lovely and I wish I had more occasions to wear it. ❤

[@Luischocolatier]

18:57 🎵 IS THE WAY THAT YOU'RE MAKING ME FEEL TONIIIIIGHT, IT'S HAAAARD TO LET IT GO 🎶

[@dagnolia6004]

i had to watch this TWICE, so enjoyable. once to listen~ once to watch the LOVELY video. enjoy your travels!

[@arianacole499]

I love how you spoke about fashion indicating participation in certain societal groups as well as safety. As a queer woman I am in a unique situation where my style is extremely eclectic and very feminine which provides me with a certain safety. My quirky high femme look makes me stand out and signal to other fashion conscious and queer individuals that I am part of the community but also maintain an aesthetic that conforms to traditional femininity in hopes of being non threatening to the homophobic public.

[@LinaSegnon]

How are people homophobic in 2024 in the west

[@lynn858]

How DOES it still exist? It shouldn't. It doesn't make sense on an individual level. Scapegoating, and the status quo. People who have power and financial privilege don't like to lose it. Getting power and privilege requires having power and privilege, so the status quo is quite slow to change. As the masses start to challenge the policies set by those in power, status quo is maintained by scapegoating, and fear mongering about demographics that lack power and wealth. This allows decision makers and the ultra wealthy to continue to exploit others, by having diverted attention from the harms they are failing to address, or are outright causing. Which also plays into pinkwashing. Using messages of respect, and uplift for queer people to seem "progressive" and "kind" while obscuring the harm a group or company is committing against the environment or another group of people. Distract. Blame others. Uphold the status quo. Stay ultra wealthy. Stay in power. Doesn't matter who you harm. That's what we're up against. None of us are free until we are all free.

[@kieraoona]

I'm looking forward to seeing more of what you experienced in Toronto, and hope you had a good time here! (am from Toronto)

[@debbralehrman5957]

Thanks Nicole I always enjoy the information you share.👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 🍂🍁🍂

[@raeperonneau4941]

The coat is perfect!

[@samtyers8236]

Years ago, when I was a child, my father was a tailor at Burberry . He had a big pair of fabric shears, which I was banned from touching

[@kindalegendary-mh4wk]

lol i love the dramatic collar that you made

[@penihavir1777]

Thanks, and love your coat too!

[@edwardbynum1018]

Hi, I don't know if or where you're at in your trip through the east coast, or if everything is planned yet, but the Ava Gardner museum near Raleigh, North Carolina is worth stopping to see! They have I think around a dozen or so of her outfits, and it's not an especially large museum, but definitely an interesting look into Hollywood culture of that time, it's perspective on historical clothing, and on making do with wardrobe choices from the studio. There are a couple of her personal fashion items, which I think she used in her later movies, and maybe 10 or so dresses from earlier films. Also, there are also a collection of 19th century quilts and needlework in Old Salem, Winston-Salem, NC with the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, and there's a really beautiful standout called the Pinecone Quilt, also 19th century at the museum for the indigenous Lumbee people at UNC Pembroke. Can't wait to see what's to come with your east coast trip!

[@user-yc4fz7vv6u]

I love the buttons you used on your coat.

[@NicoleRudolph]

They were in my vintage stash from my grandmother! I think they were 1980s, but they actually are meant to be little mushrooms!

[@kirstenpaff8946]

I would add that the sources and speed of trends has dramatically shifted. You can now have a look that goes absolutely viral on one social media platform for two weeks, but that you will never see in real life, because people only wear the outfit for the social media photoshoot, but rarely in their daily lives. I think performative fashion (i.e. showing off your wealth or adherence to a community) does exist, but it has mostly shifted to social media. When not on camera, most influencers, no matter how curated their image, will probably just wear regular non-descript clothes. So many of our social interactions have shifted online that we put more time into curating our online persona than our lives in the real world. I wonder if the rise of AI will do even more to destroy the fashion industry. If we can generate any outfit we want with a few words in a prompt box, and most people consume fashion through digital imagery, why bother putting any effort into actually sewing clothing?

[@newyorknewyork196]

I love your fabric scissors where do you get them?

[@spiralpython1989]

11:00 reminds me of the delightful movie, “Mrs Harris Goes To Paris”.

[@poetmaggie1]

I happen to like the coat style your making.

[@hollyerin897]

0:01 eyebrows! Obsessed w this shape on you

[@kajsa6358]

Love the coat and the video ❤

[@moxielouise]

Good episode Nicole

[@murrvvmurr]

6:17 what is this game? looks super fun and requiring some level of drinking ! I want to be a bowling pin lady!!!!

[@janetfoltz9090]

Love the coat!

[@Familylawgroup]

As you were discussing how American women would see European dresses in fashion magazines and would look for something of similar design in their small shopping options or they would buy fabric to try to recreate a desired fashion look. This led me to wonder about the history of intellectusl property protections relating to clothing and when various countries began protecting clothing designs and patterns. along the same query, I am also curious about the application of different IP protections for foreign fashion houses. For example, if France had the first IP protection on their dress patterns, it would be obvious that would protect the company from copycat within France. However, that protection may be meaningless in a country such as Guatemala if Guatemala didn't have an IP treaty or lacked IP protections as to clothes. While I am an attorney, I know very little about patent law. In America, patent lawyers are required to have an additional level of education and licensure to practice patent law. I believe as basic US patent lasts for 20 years but I don’t know if that is the duration for clothing patterns nor do I know how long IP protection s last in the fashion powerhouse countries. Further, how do these protections change if clothing is designed as part of a theater or film production that is also covered with IP protections such as copyrights? I wanted to suggest this topic as a potential future episode in your channel since I believe these topics are right inside your wheelhouse. Thank you for continuing creation of amazing, well researched and well-scripted historical content within the fashion realm.

[@NicoleRudolph]

It's pretty much impossible to do IP for clothing, even today. Specific fabric prints can be done, but the styles are so much copying over and over that there's just no way. The patterns themselves can be considered property, but are generally protected by employee contracts. So I could make and sell a pattern based on a famous garment and at most would just word the "style" carefully (basically can't say a movie name or company name).

[@Familylawgroup]

@ I didn’t even consider the employee angle of my questions. I was envisioning a scenario where a woman in the US could see a fashion magazine, similar to Vogue nowadays, from a coutier house suc as Burberry, and then recreate the design for herself. If she is successful in copying such a dress she could have neigh or's asking for their own "fake" Burberry dresses from said woman. Nowadays, there are large units of the US government dedicated to investigating and prosecutingm, both in civil and criminal courts, the theft of IP from the pattern side as well as selling designer knock offs. It is a crime to create an IP protected item and it is a separate crime to sell it, either as your own design or as a fraudulent item representing itself as the original. These protections were virtually non-existent, in the US at least, in the 19th century, and earlier. However, I suspect said protections for novel clothing designs would first appear in countries with a fashion industry in earlier centuries..I.e. France. I might be wrong about haute couture clothing and IP protection since, I susoectm, before "ready to wear" clothing appeared everything would be made to measure by the customer or local dress maker. I also recall another video (which may have been one of yours or @sewsrine) commenting that prairie dresses were often created with adaptable hooks or fasteners to accommodate changing weight or pregnancies, thus extending the useful life of each garment.

[@Familylawgroup]

What percentage of Victorian population bought fabric from their local stores versus spinning their own cotton and wool? Was the percentage of creating your own fabric the same in Europe, Asia, US and/or Canada? I would make an educated guess that people in Europe and Asia were more inclined to buy fabric since it did not need to be imported from as far away whereas the US and North Americans would be charged a much higher base price due to the costs of importing fabric raw materials not to mention costs of transporting North American created fabrics would also cost more due to the vast size of North America. I also recall reading, years ago, the Central American Mayans created their own unique indigenous fabrics still associated with their Mayan culture.

[@NicoleRudolph]

The vast majority of fabric in Europe or in North America was made in a few massive textile cities and imported. Even when it was colonies, there was less duty/import restrictions and taxes. We could import India made printed cotton, while the UK could not. The US in particular produced a lot of raw goods that were shipped away to be processed and returned. Numbers of "homespun" makers were very small because it takes so much time, knowledge, and equipment. Most in the US was made on plantations FOR plantations. Even George Washington had trouble sourcing US made fabric for his inauguration suit. Importing has always been cheaper, excepting a short bit in the 19th c for VERY specific types of fabric.

[@Familylawgroup]

@@NicoleRudolphFascinatin, as always. I love the nuggets about Washington. Thanks for educating me further tonight.

[@patriciadean1649]

Beautiful ❤

[@graycloud057]

You are so pretty❣️

[@antikathy]

Those are some hella pockets.

[@NicoleRudolph]

I fit a pair of shoes in one the other night and still had easy room.

[@antikathy]

@NicoleRudolph That's awesome 💜

[@brokkoli1615]

[@nurmihusa7780]

Jeans and a tee shirt: your non-conformist UNIFORM. Everyone dressing the Same to show that they are Different. Plus ça change.

[@Yvonne.49]

Give me clothes made in America!! That's why what is called fashion...isn't! The regular person can't afford it. Give me thrift stores!!!

[@Eloraurora]

I mean, if we could bring back US clothing manufacture in the ILGWU style, instead of the American Apparel 'still a sweatshop, but in CA this time!' style.

[@twestgard2]

So much this! Let’s have manufacturing jobs in the USA again. NAFTA killed them off and we haven’t rebuilt them.

[@glittergoblin]

Ironically, Trump agrees. We’ll see what his flat tariff proposal means for NAFTA and TPP agreements

[@willowtree7326]

😂 😂die. 😂 ❤🎉🎉🎉🎉😂🎉🎉😊❤

[@chrstphr12]

That Coat is glorious! I'm a man and I'd kill to have one.