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Fashion Victims

Okay, indulge me on this one post. After spending weeks upon weeks looking at photographs of the quake of '06, I found these on the UC Berkeley Bancroft Library's excellent online archive . Will someone please tell me: WHY ARE ALL THESE WOMEN FASHIONABLY DRESSED?!?

fashionable women amongst earthquake rubble

I mean, I have a hard enough time figuring out what to wear every waking, non-earthquake-filled day of my life, and these ladies look like they're shilling schmattes for Vivienne Westwood

in the midst of a catastrophe? I thought water was a problem

. I thought electric power lines were broken

. Those clothes are IMMACULATE! Oh, well, maybe this poor woman had to do it for them.

Posted by Jane Po on May 12, 2006 03:17 PM | Permalink
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Comments

Maybe they saved their best clothes from the earthquake/fire by wearing them.

Posted by: Brian G | May 12, 2006 05:04 PM

Fantastic pictures. Good work for pointing this out. They do look like old Vivienne Westwoods (as your enlightening link shows). I guess just because the city's dying doesn't mean you shouldn't be dressed to kill.

Posted by: mesyeux | May 16, 2006 12:27 PM

Thanks for all your comments. Come to think of it, the
washerwoman's outfit is very Martin Margiela, too.

Posted by: Jane Po | May 17, 2006 11:22 AM

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