This was something I
knocked up for my Tumblr account recently, but I thought I'd share it
here too, since I've no way of knowing the degree of overlap between
my readership. It came about when I came across a series of pics
based on the same dress but with different apron styles and one
without entirely and was struck by the different interpretation one
could place on the images. So I created and added in a brown leather
riding crop for emphasis - and hey presto!
A blue dress. Just a
blue dress. Looks kind of institutional perhaps? Some kind of
uniform, then? But what does it say, what does it suggest to you? A
different style of apron, and perhaps a hospital nurse. With the
style of apron depicted... Well, what would you say? A waitress, a
maid perhaps or other servant? Take away the apron altogether and it
might even be a simple unsophisticated housewife pressing into
service an old work dress or part of some sort of working uniform
purchased in the local charity or thrift shop as an overall to do her
housework in. Add in the riding crop though and all manner of
scenarios spring to mind... Don't ya think?
It is such alternative
interpretations as these, often carried out in the mind's eye, which
have allowed so many of the ideas which crop (pardon the pun!) up in
the novels I write to have often sprung from perfectly innocent
images in newspapers, magazines or even women's workwear catalogues
(an ex was once involved in the fashion industry and was working on a
history of fashion in the workplace or some such thing).
I'd love to know what
YOU think? Any examples of this sort of ambiguity of roles based on
dress you can think of?
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