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Posted On: March 22nd 2026, 10:31 am
Hope you all are having a great start of this new cycle and Spring in the Northern hemisphere! 🙏🌺
Never got to share this one from 3 Springs ago. How it all re-started. The first piece that was embroidered when re-opening amoelbarroco after a decade of pause.
Transformed a wide brim witchy hat into a kind of “incroyable/merveilleuse” post-French revolution bicorne. Also, embroidered over it this scarlet letter in an esoteric framing.
What led a lot of us into subcultures in the last decades of the XXth century, was owning a feeling of not belonging.
Not belonging to our schools, the dominating religion, our families, the society we grew up in…not fitting the expectations over us. Being marked with a sign of non conformity. And that is political, even if a lot of us weren’t aware of it when we when younger.
Even if it felt superficial, it wasn’t. It should have always been a gesture of not agreeing with what it’s stablished.
Maybe putting distance between those spaces and us took more or less time, but I hope a lot of us who didn’t belong, ended up doing it and finding our communities.
We aren’t perfect, but every step we take not to repeat what harmed us is powerful.
Being/looking “alt”, as they call it nowadays, should represent specific politics, those who align with the less favoured in this world opposing the powerful and rich who abuse whoever they want, basically.
Yeh, everyone is free to dress as they want, but if you think being conservative and subcultural makes any sense you’re living in a costume with no party to go to.
Note: it’s quite hard to embroider metallic thread into hard felt.
#embroidery #subculture #rant
Never got to share this one from 3 Springs ago. How it all re-started. The first piece that was embroidered when re-opening amoelbarroco after a decade of pause.
Transformed a wide brim witchy hat into a kind of “incroyable/merveilleuse” post-French revolution bicorne. Also, embroidered over it this scarlet letter in an esoteric framing.
What led a lot of us into subcultures in the last decades of the XXth century, was owning a feeling of not belonging.
Not belonging to our schools, the dominating religion, our families, the society we grew up in…not fitting the expectations over us. Being marked with a sign of non conformity. And that is political, even if a lot of us weren’t aware of it when we when younger.
Even if it felt superficial, it wasn’t. It should have always been a gesture of not agreeing with what it’s stablished.
Maybe putting distance between those spaces and us took more or less time, but I hope a lot of us who didn’t belong, ended up doing it and finding our communities.
We aren’t perfect, but every step we take not to repeat what harmed us is powerful.
Being/looking “alt”, as they call it nowadays, should represent specific politics, those who align with the less favoured in this world opposing the powerful and rich who abuse whoever they want, basically.
Yeh, everyone is free to dress as they want, but if you think being conservative and subcultural makes any sense you’re living in a costume with no party to go to.
Note: it’s quite hard to embroider metallic thread into hard felt.
#embroidery #subculture #rant
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7 months agofancy_biscuit_selection
I've seen it said on here that conservative views are widespread amongst admirers of vintage clothing. I haven't found any evidence of that myself, but if it's true then perhaps it is to be found within those who dress entirely within a specific period of time. That's a guess. Whether someone incorporates vintage pieces into their dress or sticks purely to (for example) the 1920s, it still strikes me as really odd for right wing views to be found there because either way of dressing would be regarded as freakish round where I live, and I don't see that as compatible with conservative politics.
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