#no white after Labor Day

[champagnemoon]

There are certain rules of society you learn from old southern grandmas or gay men born in the 50s and 60s that lend class and elegance everyday life

[kply-industries]

[michaelpaul7]

💯☝️

[oldfarmhouse]

𝖳𝗁𝖾 𝗎𝗇𝗌𝗉𝗈𝗄𝖾𝗇 𝗋𝗎𝗅𝖾, 𝗇𝗈𝗐 𝗏𝖾𝗋𝗒 𝗆𝗎𝖼𝗁 𝗌𝗉𝗈𝗄𝖾𝗇, 𝗐𝖺𝗌 𝖼𝗋𝖾𝖺𝗍𝖾𝖽 𝖻𝗒 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝗈𝗅𝖽 𝗆𝗈𝗇𝖾𝗒 𝖾𝗅𝗂𝗍𝖾, 𝗁𝗈𝗉𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗍𝗈 𝖾𝗅𝖾𝗏𝖺𝗍𝖾 𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗆𝗌𝖾𝗅𝗏𝖾𝗌 𝖺𝖻𝗈𝗏𝖾 This fashion rule can be traced all the way back to the turn of the century, Marie Claire reports. #whiteafterlaborday

[lostvalkyrie]

YOUS GUYS are we still posting our Metalocalypse fanfictions that fly in the face of canon as established by Army of the Doomstar and rejoicing in our AUs, or is it a no go?

[explosiv-glasses]

rexx!!👀👀

[vintageslideshow]

It was after Labor Day, okay?

[volinare]

i called out... like right before my shift too. i am truly a monster. like they're going to have to find someone to cover my trucks. i just can't. like yesterday wasn't even that bad and i've been having fun, i enjoy the job i enjoy working and i just.

[tariah23]

I can’t wait to start estie school wha

[parasprite]

Labor day... I can't wait to wear white tomorrow

[pierswife]

I meant to go to sleep an hour and a half ago, but I started down the researching tropical cyclones, tropical depressions, tropicals storms, hurricanes, and extratropical cyclones rabbit hole again oops--

[firelord-frowny]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ive always thought it's so wiiiiiiiiild that so many of these ~mansions~ that used to be slave plantations are now government-owned and converted into museums instead of being collectively owned by all black americans, liiiiiiiiiiike....

we should fucking own that shit! our ancestors RAN those farms! worked that land! built those mansions! yet somebody other than us is benefiting from it now???

honest to god i wish black folks could all own those properties like a timeshare lmao and we'd all be entitled to spend a few days a year living it up in our luxurious country homes in the deep south. catch me sipping lemonade on my veranda on a hot summer evening while my housekeepers clean up the kitchen after dinner.

[frombehindthepen]

Oh For Goodness Sake, Stop Clutching Your Pearls Just Because I Wear White After Labor Day! 😲

Oh For Goodness Sake, Stop Clutching Your Pearls Just Because I Wear White After Labor Day! 😲 #Fashion #ColorCoordination #SeasonalColors

Image Credit: EmberGlo_Photography So who died and left ‘who’ in charge of making it a law that you should not wear white after Labor Day? Now, I previously worked in various departments of Beauty and Fashion for over four decades. When I asked several sources from buyers to models to fashion magazine writers, why it wasn’t okay to wear white after Labor Day, there was no rule authorizing why…

[katin-biscuit]

Guys I PROMISE I can be normal about violent women. Promise

[hamletthedane]

I was meeting a client at a famous museum’s lounge for lunch (fancy, I know) and had an hour to kill afterwards so I joined the first random docent tour I could find. The woman who took us around was a great-grandmother from the Bronx “back when that was nothing to brag about” and she was doing a talk on alternative mediums within art.

What I thought that meant: telling us about unique sculpture materials and paint mixtures.

What that actually meant: an 84yo woman gingerly holding a beautifully beaded and embroidered dress (apparently from Ukraine and at least 200 years old) and, with tears in her eyes, showing how each individual thread was spun by hand and weaved into place on a cottage floor loom, with bright blue silk embroidery thread and hand-blown beads intricately piercing the work of other labor for days upon days, as the labor of a dozen talented people came together to make something so beautiful for a village girl’s wedding day.

What it also meant: in 1948, a young girl lived in a cramped tenement-like third floor apartment in Manhattan, with a father who had just joined them after not having been allowed to escape through Poland with his pregnant wife nine years earlier. She sits in her father’s lap and watches with wide, quiet eyes as her mother’s deft hands fly across fabric with bright blue silk thread (echoing hands from over a century years earlier). Thread that her mother had salvaged from white embroidery scraps at the tailor’s shop where she worked and spent the last few days carefully dying in the kitchen sink and drying on the roof.

The dress is in the traditional Hungarian fashion and is folded across her mother’s lap: her mother doesn’t had a pattern, but she doesn’t need one to make her daughter’s dress for the fifth grade dance. The dress would end up differing significantly from the pure white, petticoated first communion dresses worn by her daughter’s majority-Catholic classmates, but the young girl would love it all the more for its uniqueness and bright blue thread.

And now, that same young girl (and maybe also the villager from 19th century Ukraine) stands in front of us, trying not to clutch the old fabric too hard as her voice shakes with the emotion of all the love and humanity that is poured into the labor of art. The village girl and the girl in the Bronx were very different people: different centuries, different religions, different ages, and different continents. But the love in the stitches and beads on their dresses was the same. And she tells us that when we look at the labor of art, we don’t just see the work to create that piece - we see the labor of our own creations and the creations of others for us, and the value in something so seemingly frivolous.

But, maybe more importantly, she says that we only admire this piece in a museum because it happened to survive the love of the wearer and those who owned it afterwards, but there have been quite literally billions of small, quiet works of art in billions of small, quiet homes all over the world, for millennia. That your grandmother’s quilt is used as a picnic blanket just as Van Gogh’s works hung in his poor friends’ hallways. That your father’s hand-painted model plane sets are displayed in your parents’ livingroom as Grecian vases are displayed in museums. That your older sister’s engineering drawings in a steady, fine-lined hand are akin to Da Vinci’s scribbles of flying machines.

I don’t think there’s any dramatic conclusions to be drawn from these thoughts - they’ve been echoed by thousands of other people across the centuries. However, if you ever feel bad for spending all of your time sewing, knitting, drawing, building lego sets, or whatever else - especially if you feel like you have to somehow monetize or show off your work online to justify your labor - please know that there’s an 84yo museum docent in the Bronx who would cry simply at the thought of you spending so much effort to quietly create something that’s beautiful to you.

[sadgirlautumn]

What is it with rich people and having all white parties???