Yes, after months spent indoors hugging my laptop, (and 4od for relief), I can happily announce/scream/express-through-interpretive-dance-should-you-like?, that the end of dissertation is nigh. Even better, I shall be reaping the rewards of my 'interesting journey'(Thanks, Hamid!), at the 3rd year Design Q&A session about dissys on Wednesday along with three other students! Apologies in advance to all third years who must partake and be privy to my incoherent ramblings about shoes and femininity and feminism and fashion and Freud (royal div).
Do ignore the current of negativity running through this post for I am actually semi-proud of what I have done - a fair bit of tweaking to be done before hand-in but otherwise it's looking fine. And as for my topic ('The high heel: a tool in shaping Modern Femininity?') I couldn't personally, have picked a more interesting area of research given my own ridiculous consumption of beautiful shoes. Rather apt was it that my reward for hitting the 7000 word mark came in the form of Office's latest red suede lovelies - Late Night Platforms: 4cm platform and 13.5cm heel...Check them out. Delicious. Seriously. Willing the posties to all be pals again and deliver them to me super fast! But I digress... The essay is basically an exploration of femininity as it sits alongside the current 'Feminine Ideal' to attone how the modern laydee might exact her ideals through fashion and more specifically, high heels. Research threw up some really interesting ideas in terms of grounding the term femininity,( Hello, Mr Freud...Everyone should consider the Oedipus Complex and check out the Hysteria investigations...provocative reading. Not in a sexy way. Though Freud was all about the sex...), and fashion theory is underrated. We all define ourselves through our choices in clothing. I challenge anyone to argue that clothing and textiles cannot speak.
Dun, dun, dun...
That's right; a cliff-hanger.
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