Jubilee

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STITCH issue #04 PREVIEW

"dead leaves -- doe lump," photos by Marcy Capron



"Grey Guardians," photos by Marnie Soman

Issue #04, Winter 2009, goes live January 9 'o9. It's better than ever.

STITCH photographer & photo editor Marcy Capron...

... has a new Etsy store where she is selling her incredible prints. Visit! Buy!!! You won't regret it. She is fast becoming the next big thing in the art world.

- C

A New Kind of Fugly

The trend on campus? Looking fugly. Fashionably ugly, that is.

The best example of this seems to be the growing tendency to wear those grotesque, hideous sweaters that were hand-knit by some slightly off-kilter relative. Granted, wearing these sweaters in jest has always been somewhat popular, but never has it been such a veritable trend. The best are the sweaters with a vomit-inducing melange of colors or the sweaters with large characters on the front.

The only limit to the acceptable ugliness of a sweater is the wearer's ability to pull off the right attitude. As long as one can muster a hipper-than-thou swagger while walking around in a sweater with a giant Minnie Mouse and tassels on it, the look is sheer fugliness. However, the second the ensemble starts to look like that of a kindergartener who picked out his own clothes for the first time after drinking a Mountain Dew, well then that is just plain ugly.

To look fugly, you've got to back it up with a healthy dose of blase and manage to not look crazy. So boys and girls, this year for Christmas ask your grandmother to knit you a sweater instead of buying one from J. Crew for 89.50 or at least pillage the local thrift store for viable fugly options. Either way, it'll give you more cash in your pocket and more swagger in your step.

Music Video of the Week

France Gall - Laisse Tomber les Filles (music & lyrics by Serge Gainsbourg)

Best Etsy Ever?

Oh my lord, seriously. Etsy user Emily Ryan is talented. Amazingly so. The limited pieces she has up now remind me of a kind of mix between Haider Ackermann and Jil Sander. Will we see more of her in the future, perhaps outside of Internet land? I hope so.

- C