One brown dress, everyday, for a year:

[mellowdrama]

http://www.littlebrowndress.com/

Picked this up on Metafilter. Talk about pushing the limits of fashion!

[Hanne]

I hope it easy to wash and dries fast..

edit: Just read her statement .. I guess it does..

[gius]

hilarious! good luck to the lady
She'll definitely be learning something about layering! And perfect it maybe

[PrettyBlueEyes]

Good luck to her, thank god I don't have to do it

[Lauren-W]

Interesting....I personally couldn't do it. The same dress for a year eek. Good luck to her!

[*Eylul*]

Hmm as i get bored so easily...it would be a nightmare for me!
Congrats to her

[Lilliana]

from her homepage:

Is this a feminist thing? Probably. Also an art thing. Also a let's stop wasting time and money thing. But on a feminist note, let's stop agreeing that the best way for women (in particular) to "express themselves" is by purchasing new wardrobe items and putting together daily outfits.

what a great project! As much as I love fashion, I have often wondered how much it is a trap set out by economy making us buy so many new items and give old ones which are still perfectly useable away. On the feminist note, well, that it's overwhelmingly seen as women's interest speaks for it self.
I find it rather hard to defend fashion on a theoretical level, personally I just see it as one of my vices in which I indulge...

[shadow]

La vie est trop courte pour s'habiller triste! (catchphrase from the french make NEWMAN years ago)

[softgrey]

spoilsport...

some of us actually ENJOY fashion and are ALSO pro women's rights...
they are not mutually exclusive..
sounds like she needs to open her mind a bit really...

[brian]

she should've picked a nicer dress. a whole year in a little brown alaia sounds good...

[sea of stitches]

^haha, yes!!! even though i know that defeats the purpose.

i actually read about this via the blog a dress a day. there was some heated debate on there...i have not read it all yet, but some of you might find it interesting? you can find the post here.

[snowqueen]

you know what entered my head was .. how can this dress be practical for all ocasions i mean weddings ?? formals ?? cocktail parties ?? etc.
how anoud would you be if she showed up to your wedding and was in the photos in that dress. surely there are times when she must feel underdressed .. and if she doesnt then she must be truely unique.

I guess shes stressed her point but she seems a bit nieve as doesnt she realise men like fashion as well so this isnt a stand to feminism or whatever.

ok i sound so shallow in this post but ... oh well lol.

In a way i wish that i was that confident in my self that i could wear one horrid old brown dress and nothing else for a year. i admire her for having confidense in fact i guess im slightly jeleous but other then that nothing else.

[Plastic'sWife]

Awesome. I love it when people stand up for something.

[sea of stitches]

okay i actually read all the comments on a dress a day...no debate really...most people agree with the author of the blog. softie sums it up...and i agree.

[mellowdrama]

I just found it entertaining. It's good that people make "statements" like this. One doesn't have to agree with them--else we're all in our little Mao suits--but the high cost and fickleness of fashion will produce reactions such as this. I really love fashion--on other people!--but I'm aware it's just a wrapper. Rather than approaching it as yet-another tired "feminist" issue, perhaps this particular fashion statement could be framed as a question of identity as just a human being, rather than a female being.

Speaking of Alaia, doesn't the designer himself live in black Chinese silk pyjamas?