Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
If you use popular Korean sheet masks, there’s a fair chance that the sheet itself was folded by a human, not a machine. Photos and a video show workers folding masks at home on household furniture such as a coffee table with their bare hands. One set of photos from June 8th of this year appears…
Aug. 5, 2016 9:12 a.m. ET I apologize to the world for igniting the Cargo Shorts Wars of 2016. I pitched the story to explore a debate I was having with friends and colleagues. I had no idea tensions over cargo shorts were simmering beneath the surface across this nation. Since the story published on…
Miss Teen USA Karlie Hay Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images When Miss Teen USA tweeted out its top-five contestants, the competition’s lack of diversity was so stark it almost appeared to be a parody. These are your TOP 5 #MissTeenUSA contestants! pic.twitter.com/qi3KJT6COb — Karlie Hay (@MissTeenUSA) July 31, 2016 Even…
Aug. 1, 2016 4:20 p.m. ET Dane Hansen, who operates a small steel business in Pleasant Grove, Utah, says that throughout his 11-year marriage, 15 pairs of cargo shorts have slowly disappeared from his closet. On the occasions when he has confronted his wife about the missing shorts, she will either admit to throwing them…
I just want to say—I see you Otto Beatty, Jr. and I salute you. The Beattys are over here like “Oh, you want to just borrow parts of the First Lady’s speech? That’s cool. I drink your milkshake. I drink it right up!” Getty Saul Loeb Rep. Joyce Beatty of Ohio, you’re an American…
The award-winning Rory Duffy says Americans, long accustomed to lower-priced made-to-measure menswear, are blind to the beauties of bespoke clothing. If all was as it should be in the world, Rory Duffy, 33, a lanky fifth generation master tailor from County Monaghan, Ireland, would be celebrated as the finest tailor in New York City, draping…
In “The Wearing and Shedding of Enchanted Shoes,” Isabel Cardigos, Director of the Research Centre at the Centro de Estudos Ataíde Oliveira in Portugal, wrote, “Shoes are paradoxical objects in that they constrict feet and yet free them to cover greater distances in space.” Indeed, fictional shoes enable “positive” transformation in women’s lives, but the…
A new investigative piece by British tabloid The Sun reveals that the workers manufacturing Beyonce’s new athletic line Ivy Park work up to 60 hours a week and earn $6.17 per day. The Sun—which is currently releasing a series of articles about British fashion mogul Sir Philip Green (who previously owned British Home Stores and…
Marie Duplessis, French courtesan and Parisian celebrity, was a striking Victorian beauty. In her best-known portrait, by Édouard Viénot, her glossy black hair frames a beautiful, oval face with sparkling eyes and ivory skin. But Duplessis’ fame was short-lived. Like Violetta, the protagonist in Giuseppe Verdi’s opera La Traviata whose tale Duplessis inspired, Duplessis was…
Far off in a hidden part of Reddit, a conversation about lipstick is about to turn ugly. The commenters have noticeably girly names, like “PrincessBatman,” “BaroquePrincess,” “KittenBeauty” and (ahem) “MindVagina.” Above them is a banner decorated with a mildly deranged collage, like something a teenage goth would blu-tack inside her school locker. It features…