Name for girlfriend's sociology of fashion blog?

January 14, 2011 7:37 PM

Name for girlfriend's sociology of fashion blog?

My girlfriend wants to start a blog on the sociology of fashion where she examines various theoretical texts and develops her own ideas. Its going to mostly academic in tone and used to help her develop her writing while she figures out the next step in her education. She has a pretty good ideas about regular features and topics but has no idea what to call it. Her only decent idea right now is The Conspicuous, Critical Notes on Apparel and Aesthetics but she's very open to suggestions. So, any ideas?

posted by Loto to computers & internet (24 answers total)

Critical Looks
posted by kch at 7:41 PM on January 14, 2011 [2 favorites]

Style Matters
posted by Gilbert at 7:44 PM on January 14, 2011

Unhemmed.
posted by patronuscharms at 7:50 PM on January 14, 2011 [6 favorites]

Fashionological something, like Fashionological Theory, or just Fashionological? (Fashionology is pretty widely used by a number of other people, but there are almost no Google results for +fashionological out there.)
posted by Gator at 8:02 PM on January 14, 2011

Maketh.
posted by doublehappy at 8:03 PM on January 14, 2011 [1 favorite]

Although I quite like The Conspicuous.
posted by doublehappy at 8:05 PM on January 14, 2011 [3 favorites]

Girl, you need more Gay Friends!!
posted by pearlybob at 8:08 PM on January 14, 2011

Critical Apparel
posted by griphus at 8:18 PM on January 14, 2011 [1 favorite]

Sartorial Sociometries

Sartor Resartus
posted by trip and a half at 10:13 PM on January 14, 2011

She could name it after Barthes's The Fashion System.
posted by nasreddin at 1:13 AM on January 15, 2011

Unraveling.us
posted by matholio at 2:57 AM on January 15, 2011 [1 favorite]

Fashionable Ideas
posted by tomcooke at 3:57 AM on January 15, 2011

The Mind of Fashion
posted by dougrayrankin at 4:21 AM on January 15, 2011

Haute Culture
posted by SparkDino at 4:50 AM on January 15, 2011 [2 favorites]

Fashion Capital
Fasionologial Imagination
Stratified by Garment
Framing Fashion
posted by Pineapplicious at 4:52 AM on January 15, 2011

Fashionological Imagination
posted by Pineapplicious at 4:54 AM on January 15, 2011

Occam's Needle
posted by tenzingy at 5:40 AM on January 15, 2011 [1 favorite]

It would help to know who she's leaning toward in her academic opinions, and what sorts of fashion she's interested in discussing.

Without that, the best I can offer (from the top of my head) is a little on the anthropological side:

Material Culture

If you can update with more info, I'll be happy to brainstorm a bit more.
posted by bilabial at 7:51 AM on January 15, 2011

Fashion Before Function
posted by 8dot3 at 8:23 AM on January 15, 2011

Theoretically Fashionable.
posted by Kololo at 8:55 AM on January 15, 2011

Haute Culture is a great idea, SparkDino. It combines the two ideas, fashion and sociology, in a really clever way.
posted by shesaysgo at 9:24 AM on January 15, 2011

(P.S., even if she doesn't pick one of our suggestions, you should totally come back here and tell us what she did choose.)
posted by griphus at 4:05 PM on January 15, 2011

Hey, thanks everyone for your suggestions! She's thinking it over now and I'll definitely let everyone know what she ends up going with.
posted by Loto at 6:19 AM on January 17, 2011

If she doesn't pick Haute Culture, I call dibs! I'm thinking if starting a tumblr on historical cosmetics & fashion.
posted by lychee at 10:09 PM on January 20, 2011