…Which is only marginally less terrifying than an army draft.
So. Here’s the thing.
We have yet to hear back from Kelly Brown, the person who runs the archives at USAO; and we’ve said we don’t want to interview anyone before we have things to show them that we actually intend to use. So, pending a reply, we’re at a standstill.
But.
Never fear, we’re not just piddling around with bags on our heads; the research we’ve been conducting has been online, finding links (and vetting their reliability) on Pinterest, using resources like Google’s We Wear Culture.
So, we haven’t looked at the website. Which means we don’t have any pressing problems with it yet.
But, just speculating, something we’ll have to decide is how we’re going to integrate our interviews with our images and text-posts; most likely, we’ll insert the audio at the top as a thing unto itself and transcript the interview below before we start in on latent commentary; alternatively, we can take the interview and make a slideshow/video/animatic out of it, because visuals make everything more engaging.
We’ll separate it out into a series of pages: the general progression of sexism and the way it’s reflected in crazy Space-Age fashion; Space-Age fashion, and what that actually means; a general overview of how our perception of fashion has changed recently; and more detailed posts analyzing specific images and examples from different decades.
And generally try not to explode.
March 14, 2018 at 7:22 pm
Glad to hear you are getting closer to populating your website, Kyra. Your ideas sound doable. Suggestion: if you can’t get hold of Kelly try Nicole. Dr. Brown
March 16, 2018 at 6:13 pm
Hi!
I enjoy your sense of humor! However I hope you can get a hold of people soon! In this world of seventeen different ways to contact someone at any given time one would think reaching people would be easier than it is. I am interested to see your analysis of sexism in the 60’s and space age fashion. Sexism is prevalent in so many things (especially fashion) but sometime it flies under the radar unless someone points it out. Well I am looking forward to your projects and I should leave before I start an angry feminist rant.
Adios!