{"id":281,"date":"2010-11-19T22:25:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T03:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=281"},"modified":"2010-11-19T22:25:42","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T03:25:42","slug":"anne-stevenson-fashion-is-about-eventually-being-naked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/281\/poems\/anne-stevenson-fashion-is-about-eventually-being-naked\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Stevenson : &#8220;Fashion is about eventually being naked&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Fashion is about eventually being naked&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n\u2013 Vivienne Westwood<\/p>\n<p>What a strange animal that has to get dressed<br \/>\nevery morning!<br \/>\nBorn with the free gift of a skin.<br \/>\nusing it mainly to lie down in;<br \/>\nto bathe, to bask in the sun, to beget<br \/>\nin a snug. pungent. soft-sided creaturely outfit.<br \/>\nlove in it, sleep in it, die in it,<\/p>\n<p>but until then<br \/>\nobsessively live with it<br \/>\nunder that pesky Damoclesian ur-question,<br \/>\nWhat on earth shall I <em>wear<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Just there commenced the <em>pas de deux<\/em> that<br \/>\npartnered me<br \/>\nwith <em>What I really am<\/em>, despite the battering<br \/>\nI daily took from <em>Please approve of me<\/em>.<br \/>\nAnd whether love depended on<br \/>\nplot or scenery.<\/p>\n<p>gender, nation, colour, class, society,<br \/>\nor simply chattering,<br \/>\none of me dressed to pacify the audience,<br \/>\nwhile the other, under my skin,<br \/>\nkept faith within.<\/p>\n<p>\u2019Till fashion whispered, &#8220;All you need, dear,<br \/>\nis one naked self.<br \/>\nStress-free, perfect for summer or winter wear,<br \/>\nstretchable outside and in,<br \/>\ncheap, chic, dependable, off the shelf&#8221;.<br \/>\nSo out I went and bought the latest thing in skin,<br \/>\nsexy as sin.<\/p>\n<p>Since when (shocking the panicky crowd<br \/>\nthat can\u2019t tell them apart),<br \/>\nskin wearing skin has been allowed<br \/>\noutside of Art.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Fashion is about eventually being naked&#8221; \u2013 Vivienne Westwood What a strange animal that has to get dressed every morning! Born with the free gift of a skin. using it mainly to lie down in; to bathe, to bask in the sun, to beget in a snug. pungent. soft-sided creaturely outfit. love in it, sleep <a href='https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/281\/poems\/anne-stevenson-fashion-is-about-eventually-being-naked\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}