Strategies for seeing and stylefrom @outfitarchivist

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You don't have money, beauty, or status to buy you access to style, you invent your own currency. Let's talk about strategies for seeing. One of the strategies for having really great style is to learn to see things well. What do I mean by this? This is a book called Visual Intelligence by Amy E. Herman. I recommended it on my sub stack today, and it's all about how sharpen your perception. Amy uses her art history degree to teach the FBI how to sharpen their perception. Isn't that fun? Amy says, if you can talk about what's happening in a work of art, you can talk about scenes of everyday life. You can talk about boardrooms and classrooms, crime scenes, and factory floors. Describing what you see in a painting of a woman wearing a foot long, four layered, starched collar uses the same skill set as describing what you see in a foreign market or an international airport. Ironically, it is often the most simple, the everyday, the familiar that we have trouble describing because we have ceased to notice what makes them interesting. I very much recommend this book if you're interested in learning more about fashion, not because she ever talks about fashion in the book, but because I really think you need to sharpen your perception in order to see things from context to context. GateKeb's essay for this week was called Too Much and Not Enough, Strategies for Seeing, and I really highly recommend you run over there and read all of those musings. And if you want an even deeper dive, check out the syllabus that goes along with that essay. I included, like, 20 leagues or something like that. Worse super hard on gatekept. I really hope you consider subscribing. It's my favorite thing ever. I write it every week. Alright. Love you. Bye.