Saturday, 1 March 2014

3rd fabric piece: slogan underwear

My third piece of fabric work is influenced by the feminist artists/textile artists I have researched so far. The set of 3 pairs of women's underwear is a comment on existing mass-produced, mass-marketed clothing, and the message it gives out to not only the women and girls who buy it, but any man who sees it.

Initially I sampled different colours and texts:




I decided to make the text more "stereotypically feminine" rather than using "masculine" block letters:






In contrast to the mass-produced underwear seen in shops, these are handwritten messages on ordinary, plain garments, reflecting the need to "de-sexualise" such clothing, make it less provocative, less mass-marketed, and less available to impressionable young people.

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