Comments on: Notes on a Fashion Scandal: The Keffiyeh Gets Trendy (Again) http://www.4thercrd.com/kamalarora/20080317_notes-on-a-fashion-scandal-the-keffiyeh-gets-trendy-again/ Hyper-current News, Previews, and Urgent Thought on Vancouver and then, the World Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:31:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: 4TheRcrd Magazine: Culture Shock + Urgent Thought http://www.4thercrd.com/kamalarora/20080317_notes-on-a-fashion-scandal-the-keffiyeh-gets-trendy-again/#comment-894 4TheRcrd Magazine: Culture Shock + Urgent Thought Fri, 23 May 2008 21:29:10 +0000 http://www.4thercrd.com/kamalarora/20080317_notes-on-a-fashion-scandal-the-keffiyeh-gets-trendy-again/#comment-894 [...] was, in my mind, no more than another exploited fashion stamp seen around Vancouver, similar to the Keffiyeh. Having a mild aversion to reading newspapers and a shameful tendency to remain blissfully ignorant [...] […] was, in my mind, no more than another exploited fashion stamp seen around Vancouver, similar to the Keffiyeh. Having a mild aversion to reading newspapers and a shameful tendency to remain blissfully ignorant […]

]]> By: Britt Tuckey http://www.4thercrd.com/kamalarora/20080317_notes-on-a-fashion-scandal-the-keffiyeh-gets-trendy-again/#comment-686 Britt Tuckey Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:50:53 +0000 http://www.4thercrd.com/kamalarora/20080317_notes-on-a-fashion-scandal-the-keffiyeh-gets-trendy-again/#comment-686 I would NOT berate*** as in, I don't think it's the consumer's fault. -and while informing people of the significance of what they're wearing and how they can help the situation that it represents is a very good idea which I fully support, I feel it a bit agressive to insist that they donate. I'd just get turned off if someone said "yeah, so you owe these people for ignorantly wearing a keffiyeh" I would NOT berate*** as in, I don’t think it’s the consumer’s fault.

-and while informing people of the significance of what they’re wearing and how they can help the situation that it represents is a very good idea which I fully support, I feel it a bit agressive to insist that they donate. I’d just get turned off if someone said “yeah, so you owe these people for ignorantly wearing a keffiyeh”

]]> By: Britt Tuckey http://www.4thercrd.com/kamalarora/20080317_notes-on-a-fashion-scandal-the-keffiyeh-gets-trendy-again/#comment-685 Britt Tuckey Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:42:28 +0000 http://www.4thercrd.com/kamalarora/20080317_notes-on-a-fashion-scandal-the-keffiyeh-gets-trendy-again/#comment-685 Wow... I just feel ignorant. But if it's being sold in fashion stores to people unaware of everything going on in the world, I berate the consumer for their ignorance, but the stores for selling them and turning something meaningful into something frivolous. Wow… I just feel ignorant. But if it’s being sold in fashion stores to people unaware of everything going on in the world, I berate the consumer for their ignorance, but the stores for selling them and turning something meaningful into something frivolous.

]]> By: RAF http://www.4thercrd.com/kamalarora/20080317_notes-on-a-fashion-scandal-the-keffiyeh-gets-trendy-again/#comment-665 RAF Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:59:18 +0000 http://www.4thercrd.com/kamalarora/20080317_notes-on-a-fashion-scandal-the-keffiyeh-gets-trendy-again/#comment-665 I dig it Kamal. I admire your guts. RAF I dig it Kamal. I admire your guts.
RAF

]]> By: Kamal Arora http://www.4thercrd.com/kamalarora/20080317_notes-on-a-fashion-scandal-the-keffiyeh-gets-trendy-again/#comment-658 Kamal Arora Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:28:53 +0000 http://www.4thercrd.com/kamalarora/20080317_notes-on-a-fashion-scandal-the-keffiyeh-gets-trendy-again/#comment-658 "Next time I see someone with a keffiyeh, im going to smile and nod at them…" - and tell them about the tax too (with a smile on your face)! :-P “Next time I see someone with a keffiyeh, im going to smile and nod at them…” - and tell them about the tax too (with a smile on your face)! :-P

]]> By: RAF http://www.4thercrd.com/kamalarora/20080317_notes-on-a-fashion-scandal-the-keffiyeh-gets-trendy-again/#comment-657 RAF Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:53:08 +0000 http://www.4thercrd.com/kamalarora/20080317_notes-on-a-fashion-scandal-the-keffiyeh-gets-trendy-again/#comment-657 Hmm... well in summer time I get a really dark tan.. and i have bushy eyebrows and I can grow a beard.... that might strike fear into ignorant white people... im white... but only in winter... (damn skin cancer causing sun) I wish that there was more political messages behind fashion... why can't we wear our beliefs... are we all so desperate to fit in with a non-controversial, corporate conformism... lol spell checker recognized "conformism"......sweet. Next time I see someone with a keffiyeh, im going to smile and nod at them.... thats my way of saying.. hye.. your a human being and i respect you.... in fact.. it doesn't matter what they are wearing... id do it any way... get the point? :) We're all stuck on this brutish planet, why don;t we try and make it a little less lonely and hate filled.. smile and nod at strangers!!!!! Excuse my silliness Kamal :) I love your article! Be proud of who you are... that goes for the rest of you crazy humans out there. RAF Hmm… well in summer time I get a really dark tan.. and i have bushy eyebrows and I can grow a beard…. that might strike fear into ignorant white people… im white… but only in winter… (damn skin cancer causing sun) I wish that there was more political messages behind fashion… why can’t we wear our beliefs… are we all so desperate to fit in with a non-controversial, corporate conformism… lol spell checker recognized “conformism”……sweet. Next time I see someone with a keffiyeh, im going to smile and nod at them…. thats my way of saying.. hye.. your a human being and i respect you…. in fact.. it doesn’t matter what they are wearing… id do it any way… get the point? :)

We’re all stuck on this brutish planet, why don;t we try and make it a little less lonely and hate filled.. smile and nod at strangers!!!!!
Excuse my silliness Kamal :) I love your article! Be proud of who you are… that goes for the rest of you crazy humans out there.

RAF

]]> By: Kamal Arora http://www.4thercrd.com/kamalarora/20080317_notes-on-a-fashion-scandal-the-keffiyeh-gets-trendy-again/#comment-648 Kamal Arora Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:22:49 +0000 http://www.4thercrd.com/kamalarora/20080317_notes-on-a-fashion-scandal-the-keffiyeh-gets-trendy-again/#comment-648 PS: Plaid never goes out of style. PS: Plaid never goes out of style.

]]> By: Kamal Arora http://www.4thercrd.com/kamalarora/20080317_notes-on-a-fashion-scandal-the-keffiyeh-gets-trendy-again/#comment-647 Kamal Arora Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:22:08 +0000 http://www.4thercrd.com/kamalarora/20080317_notes-on-a-fashion-scandal-the-keffiyeh-gets-trendy-again/#comment-647 Hi RAF...nope I don't think you're an asshole if you want a keffiyeh, if you know the politics behind it. It's strange though - the colour politics around the keffiyeh. When my friends and I wear it, being people of colour, we get thought of as a threat. For example, one of my best friends wore it on the bus to have a white man stare at her in horror and fear until he jumped off the bus. This friend recently wrote "that's the thing with these culturally appropriated remixes - it enforces white supremacy and denounces poc agency into streams of terrorism." And I think she's onto something - when a white person wears the keffiyeh, it's fashionable and hip, but when a person of colour does, it causes folks to become uncomfortable. I guess wearing the keffiyeh in the North is a privilege in itself? Hi RAF…nope I don’t think you’re an asshole if you want a keffiyeh, if you know the politics behind it. It’s strange though - the colour politics around the keffiyeh. When my friends and I wear it, being people of colour, we get thought of as a threat. For example, one of my best friends wore it on the bus to have a white man stare at her in horror and fear until he jumped off the bus. This friend recently wrote “that’s the thing with these culturally appropriated remixes - it enforces white supremacy and denounces poc agency into streams of terrorism.” And I think she’s onto something - when a white person wears the keffiyeh, it’s fashionable and hip, but when a person of colour does, it causes folks to become uncomfortable. I guess wearing the keffiyeh in the North is a privilege in itself?

]]> By: RAF http://www.4thercrd.com/kamalarora/20080317_notes-on-a-fashion-scandal-the-keffiyeh-gets-trendy-again/#comment-632 RAF Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:11:29 +0000 http://www.4thercrd.com/kamalarora/20080317_notes-on-a-fashion-scandal-the-keffiyeh-gets-trendy-again/#comment-632 Isn't it amazing how much meaning art has... even art in the form of textile has so much behind it. This coming from one of Canada's slightly fashion impaired people. I wore plaid and ripped jeans far past the grunge era... ah well. RAFi Isn’t it amazing how much meaning art has… even art in the form of textile has so much behind it. This coming from one of Canada’s slightly fashion impaired people.
I wore plaid and ripped jeans far past the grunge era… ah well.

RAFi

]]> By: RAF http://www.4thercrd.com/kamalarora/20080317_notes-on-a-fashion-scandal-the-keffiyeh-gets-trendy-again/#comment-631 RAF Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:09:15 +0000 http://www.4thercrd.com/kamalarora/20080317_notes-on-a-fashion-scandal-the-keffiyeh-gets-trendy-again/#comment-631 Am I a total asshole if I want one??? Now that I know what they represent... I'd still wear it??? I agree to pay the tax and all??? Still an asshole..? but ill pay the tax! Only if you show me how to tie it. With great respect and a lil fun poking (in good spirits) RAF Am I a total asshole if I want one??? Now that I know what they represent… I’d still wear it???
I agree to pay the tax and all???
Still an asshole..? but ill pay the tax! Only if you show me how to tie it.

With great respect and a lil fun poking (in good spirits)
RAF

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