Tag Archives: Clothing
Nashville family-owned clothing retailer will shut its doors after 171 years
Levy's Clothier, the oldest family-owned clothing men's clothing store in the country, is closing its doors after 171 years. (Google Earth)
Clothing brand Gant collaborates with Yale University – and it’s perfect for autumn
One of the ultimate purveyors of preppy style, Gant, has just dropped a 42-piece collection in collaboration with Yale University. The company which is now headquartered in Stockholm, was actually founded in New Haven, Connecticut in 1949, a stone’s throw from Yale, and would sell its shirts in the university shop
Taking on ‘alien clothing’. The context and consequences of Tajikistan’s hijab ban — Meduza
Anisa was on her way to visit relatives in the suburbs of Dushanbe when two police officers accosted her over her light-colored hijab, an Islamic headscarf. “They kept asking me why I wear [the hijab] and do I not know that it’s not a Tajik tradition,” said Anisa (who asked not to use her full…
‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?
Designers say that as well as offering a degree of protection from surveillance, their clothes make a powerful fashion statement about the importance of privacy
The modest clothing store loved by Muslim women across the globe
Among the barrage of shisha spots, cafes, packed restaurants and takeaways stands an unassuming boutique clothes store on the corner of Curry Mile. Abayas Boutique on Grandale Street is only tiny, but its reach is massive
Inside the wardrobe: Women’s clothing increasingly policed in Tajikistan
Women prison inmates in Tajikistan. Photo by Steve Evans on Flickr. Copyright free
