26 - Friday, July 19, 1991 - North Shore News

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Clothing as art

HAVE YOU looked at your walls recently? If they’re
looking barren — or boring — the answer to brightening

them up may be in your closet.

Clothing as art: Its unique, ex-
citing and fun. tt can even serve
as an ongoing reminder of good
times past.

For example, through a display
of hats, Sana Sears remembers her
family’s travels, as well as her
children’s younger years. In the
entry foyer of her home is an im-
pressive Italian brass and marble
rack holding about 20 hats.

“This (the hat rack) evokes so
many wonderful) memories for
me,’" says Sears, as she points to
a Tibetan silk hat, an Irish cap, a
beribboned English boater that
dates from the time the family
went to the Henley regatta in
England.

Then, reaching for a spring
bonnet on the rack, she says,
“When I look at this hat, [ can
see my daughter's face when she
was four years old right under it!
No one coun look through a fam-
ily photo album as many times a
day as | w :Ik by this hat rack!"*

And whenever seven-year-old
Emily Gaddy walks into her

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By Dale Koppel

Contributing Writer

reminded of
places like Disneyworld, Cape
Cod or Jamaica. Her mother
hangs the T-shirts that the Gaddys
bring home from their vacations,
usually after Emily has outgrown
them.

Beyond the tourist variety, the
popularity of ‘*message’’ T-shirts
is on the rise, especially as gift
items. So, what do you do if you
feel uncomfortable wearing them,
but think the message is ‘tyou?”’
Hang them on the wall, of course.

This could make it possible for
some people to take down their
Richard Nixon ‘‘would you buy a
used car from this man?** posters
and replace them with some of the
more timely concerns in T-shirt
form.

“For almost every birthday,”
says 35-year-old Ellen Bloom, “‘I
get at least one T-shirt with a

bedroom, she is

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‘pithy’ sentiment — something
that f wouldn't parade around in.
But i could certainly relate to.”
And when she realized that
there were at least four of them
taking up much-needed drawer
space, she decided to buy simple
plexiglass box frames that could
accommodate the buik of the ma-
terial.
She hung the frames in her
study, ‘ta room,’* says Bloom,
“where | seem to be under the
most stress, paying bills, figuring
out my income tax returns, and
(where J) could benefit from the
messages on the shirts. I also
found that they add Jots of bright
colors to my stark white walls.’’
Another item that often makes
it from the closet to the wall is a
Japanese kimono. When Debra
Rawson travelled to the Orient,
she bought a nine-foot wedding
kimono that is now hanging on a
wall on a closet pole two inches in
diameter. A 10-foat pole costs
about $4 and can be purchased in
most hardware stores.
The rod cannot be seen and the
arms of the kimono are arranged

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