The looming threat of Islamo-Fashion

7 Comments

1. Small Blue Thing says:

   February 14, 2008 at 7:51 am

   WTF(ire)…???
   You must be joking!!!

   This ‘neocon for dummies’ lesson is simply annoying….

   OMG! I’m becoming the bearded woman!!! I bought a scottish kilt jacket last summer and… OMG! Now I am scottofascist!!!

   Oh plz gurus of fashion, tell me what to do!
2. Mobius says:

   February 14, 2008 at 8:04 am

   it’s satire dearest. the video was made by palestinian americans.
3. Sarah says:

   February 14, 2008 at 11:47 am

   A kilt jacket? Sure it’s Scottish?
4. Small Blue Thing says:

   February 15, 2008 at 5:25 am

   Ufff… sorry, I got lost in hilaritranslation. I’ll watch it again.

   Sarah, yeah, kilts are ways of fabric wool linen, you can find blankets and recycled jackets and so, from old shepperd kilts. They’re gorgeous and warm
5. Sarah says:

   February 15, 2008 at 9:51 am

   Small Blue Thing, I know kilts. ‘Kilt’ is actually the name of the men’s skirt only, the cloth and its pattern are called ‘tartan’. Each clan’s got a different tartan (there are more than 600 different tartans if I’m not mistaken) just as the different keffiyeh patterns and colours denote different “affiliations”. Caledonian wool has always had a great reputation. The use of tartan elements in punk fashion likely has to do with the oppresion of Celtic minorities in the UK. (Just imagine that till 1987, kids in Wales were not allowed to learn Welsh.)
6. Ray says:

   February 15, 2008 at 1:55 pm

   The irish ones are solid colors, and not the plaid, so they look less like catholic schoolgirls, ditto for the greeks, though theirs is more of a military thing if i’m not mistaken. At least that is what they wear outside of the tomb of the unknown soldier.
7. Sarah says:

   February 15, 2008 at 5:10 pm

   Traditionally, everybody but Germanics wore skirts, kaftans or tunics, so you find lots of pleated skirts among folklore clothing in Europe. The Roman historian Tacitus noted in his report Germania on the odd habits of the Germanics of wearing leg-clothes like hoses on each leg, held together by a string around the stomach.