What makes a way of dressing take over as a subculture's uniform? And why on earth did the likes of punk band Proud Scum (and Karen Walker) choose to replicate the the jumpers of Donald Duck canon bank robbers The Beagle Brothers?
What starts as a simple query regarding Pennie's weekend turns into deep cut (sorry) woodchopping info. But why _do_ axemen wear white pants? And are those ...Chucks? (Sorry again.)
Deck the halls with dodgy fashion, it's yr mate Penelope Noir. Pennie's here to trace the history of the Christmas sweater, though things do get a little derailed by etymology. Sweater _is_ a gross word, isn't it.
Once labelled the 'King of Cling', Azzedine Alaïa made his name covering, but certainly not hiding, the female form. Immortalised in popular film by Cher Horowitz as "like, a totally important designer", Pennie pays tribute to the man who adorned the body of every nineties 'somebody' from Stephanie Seymour to Grace Jones.
The second installment of Penelope's look at the vanity and value of hair dye. What is the subtle but ever-so-seeming-important difference between being platinum blonde and going grey?
Part one of a two part series, Penelope's delving into the follicular follies of hair dye. The earliest examples date much farther back than your memories of Sun-Indo, and have some pretty crunchy cultural associations to boot.
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