pdgreaves It's a throwback to a boy who was channeling his creativity by mimicking what he saw in comic books. It'd be a few more years before he swiped old copies of Vogue and GQ, and have a whole other world opened to him. Clothing is a statement all its own. When I understood fabrics better, it gave my work an added depth. Yesterday, I visited Seattle's Museum of Pop Culture for their 'A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes' exhibit. The exhibit houses "the six personality types of a queen — Sage, Enchantress, Explorer, Mother Earth, Heroine, and Thespian." 100s of pieces, photographs, and videos. A personal favorite were the Pam Hoggs' designs that were included. Her work is at the intersection of glam rock and runway fashion, and it reminds me of something a superhero might wear.

I'm never not in awe of what can be said by what one puts on (or takes off). There was more rebellion in one of my sisters wearing all-black at fourteen — it was not the concern of teenage angst that bothered my mother, but the thought that black was a mature/adult color — than my long hair. Personally, I'm a creature of habit, and often opt for a pair of jeans and a t-shirt but I'm a sucker for a good suit.

Even on a vacation, I don't turn it off. Thank you, River.

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