Start with
the weather.
Taiwanese clothing makes immediate sense once you know what it was cut for. These pieces go through the weather, the materials and the shops, one at a time, with nothing to buy at the end of them.
誌 — an introduction, not a sales letter
Every piece 5 entries
001 — 005
Taipei A short walk in Zhongshan for anyone who might one day go shopping in Taipei.
Read on → styling Humid and warm is not the same problem as wet and cold. What that means for what to buy.
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construction The parts of a jacket that decide whether it is any good, and how to spot them on a screen.
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materials What Seawool actually is, how it behaves on the body, and why an island that eats a lot of oyster invented it.
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Taiwan Five labels worth knowing, and a way of looking at them that saves a lot of guessing.
Read on →What this is for這裡寫什麼
Most shop journals exist to move you towards a button. This one exists to make the clothes legible: what the fabric does, why a seam is taped, which street the shop is on. If you end up buying nothing and simply knowing more, that is a fine outcome.
The 繁中 side runs its own pieces for a reader who already knows this clothing well. They are not translations of these.
繁中 door · /journal — its own pieces, not translationsWhat is on the shelf From reading to looking
If you would rather see objects now, this is the door.