ARTICLES OF INTERESTHOSTED BYAVERY TRUFELMAN
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Nudity
Wed Mar 20 2024
Hey. It's Avery. So the the someone reached out to me and they were like, I'm so sorry. The show is over. The show is not over. I just okay. I was trying to be coy about it, but I'm on book leave. I'm writing a book. So I'm not gonna make a lot of episodes this year. These things take for ever to make, but I am gonna make 3 this year. The first one is happening now. So This is a little triptych. Enjoy. So do you live Well Well, to go. Oh my god. That was that was the most uncomfortable experience I've ever had. I've never been so excited to put my clothes back on. This is a story about nudity. Okay. Wait. Wait. So what did we just do? What just happened? Just to to to recap. Because I went to a naked car, and you tricked me into getting naked with not trick you. Cannot. I maintained that I did not trick producer Will Coley into getting naked at this clothing optional comedy show, but I definitely bullied him. This is the new section? Yes. I thought this was optional. But it means we're doing it. Know that this was gonna happen when I pitched this idea to you. Will had pitched me the story about why we wear clothes at all, so I was like, oh, let's go method. Let's see what it's like to do a fairly normal thing just without clothes on. And at this naked comedy event, all the comedians are naked. Nightmare. And all the audience members sitting in the first two rows have the option to be naked. Why do naked comedy? We tried doing it, clothes, and charging less, and y'all didn't show up. That was the organizer, Billy. We charged more and took our clothes off, and we have 2 sold out shows tonight. It's a expensive ticket. It's true. People were lining up around the block to pay $45 to go to this thing. Okay. There we go. And even though I talked a big game to Will, when was actually time to take off my underwear in this crowded, most slee clothed room, I kept chickening out. Okay. Okay. Okay. So scared. It's, like, so scary. I'm, like,
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Chromophobia
Wed Nov 08 2023
This dye house can move super quickly. Not just lace can turn around a dye job within 1 week, and then there's no need to wait for shipping. A lot of people send Ubers, and we went out and drop it off, and they pick it up. Yeah. The small warehouse is piled high with plastic bags, and it looks like a bunch of clothing donations or yard sale fodder, but it is so not. Like, there's a clear plastic bag full of, like, green sweaters. It looks it looks like a pile of crap. But, like That's gotta be worth, like, $2,000 or something, I would imagine, if she's selling those for probably, like, 200 and something dollars per jumpsuit. And this is the funny part to me. Some of those clothes piled up in those plastic bags are actually being sent back to the dye house a second time. Designers will send back garments that didn't sell to get them redyed. They sent it back here. I guess they haven't sold it to the store that well. Does that happen often where they're like, this color didn't work, try again? Oh, yeah. Constantly. Just last week, Chris dyed a garment 4 different colors. 3 of them sold. 1 did not. And so the ones that did not, which were light blue, were sent back to the dye house. We ended up dyeing half of them to a faded black and some of them to a darker navy that I guess people would maybe sell a little better. Maybe subconsciously I could have guessed this, but it's wild to hear in stark business terms that the color of clothing very directly impacts what we buy. So I was looking for a jacket. Right? And I saw this blue micro puff down jacket. Nice lines. Looked really great. Tried it on. I looked at the price tag. I'm like, oh, well, maybe not today. Put it away. I'm like, what's over on this sale rack? I found the exact same jacket, same line, same season, same everything. But it was yellow. It was 75% off.
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A Few Shoes [LIVE]
Wed Oct 25 2023
I'm gonna do that. Wild. But of course, it wasn't so wild. Aurora would go on to become a designer, but not on the traditional path. How a search for family roots led to a shoe company after the break. I'm excited to tell you that one of our favorite Radiotopia siblings, Ear Hustle, is back with a new season. Ear Hustle is a show about life inside prison, but it's not your typical prison podcast. Cohosts Nigel Poor and Erlawn Woods have recently been spending time at 4 California prisons and have a season's worth of funny, surprising, and unforgettable stories to share. In a recent episode, they were able to visit a groundbreaking prison hospice where they spoke to men who are grappling with the reality of dying inside prison. Also coming up this season are stories about the objects people keep inside their prison cells, complicated mom daughter relationships in prison, and incarcerated people who wonder whether they've become too comfortable behind bars. Stories about life on the inside told by those who live it. Find Ear Hustle wherever you get your podcasts. Okay. Well, as you write in your book, it was kind of a fascinating, winding, global path that brought you to the place where you started designing shoes. And it seems like one of your early inspirations was this one. Elizabeth, can I ask you to do the thing when you describe what these shoes are to our radio audience? Sure. These are Moroccan Babouche, babouche, and you'll notice that they're a brilliant yellow color. They look like a a mule. But what makes a babouche different from just a slipper or a mule is that the back quarters are pushed down as though you have stepped on the back. They look like slides. They're yeah. Yeah. They look like slides and
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Wearing Hair
Wed Oct 11 2023
Material loop. Sofia Koehler founded this company. They are a Dutch company. They, yes, are making an earnest business out of creating textiles of human hair. It's so logical that we could use our own waste. We are humans, the only species that we use an alien material to cover our body. I was really interested in how people react to their products. Then I have a few tricks or ways that I like to introduce to people when I'm wearing human hair. She gets a lot of excitement in life out of going to a party and having people be like, cool sweater. And then once I already feed them the story that there'll be the environmental impact and then they can really see how it looks, There are people like, yeah. Hell yeah. Shave my hair right now. It's all yours. Take it, baby. I'm like, okay. But I do have a scissors with me. So you were serious. Right? Do you wanna see a picture of her wearing one of the prototypes? Yeah. Oh. That's it. So looks well okay. It looks like a it looks like a beautiful sweater. And the other thing, this was a question that I had. It's so obviously blonde. It is dyed to blondes because I didn't like to put some humor here and there since I'm in the Netherlands. I'm not Dutch, but I live here. I'm a Hungarian. She says they can work with any hair color, texture, length, although human material loop didn't want to share understandably their proprietary processing technology. But what I understand is that we shouldn't think of it as individual strands of long hair being woven together. It's like a kind of amalgam having been processed together in some way that ends up getting us to this kind of yarn like texture. And they're actually they're not producing their own garments so much. Their their model is to produce the textile, and then they'll partner with other people who create the designs. And so, yeah, the stage they're at is
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More Pockets
Wed Sep 27 2023
As the pockets are bigger Oh. And they can put things in them. Where the women's are smaller, which I can show you Yes. And they won't fit. That's fascinating. Now you have something to blog about. I'll give you something to blog about. Man's great evolutionary advantage is the creation of tools. The problem is we're not marsupials, we need to carry them somehow. And this idea of who has access to the tools they need, who can walk through the world comfortably and securely. This is what we are talking about when we talk about pockets. Pockets speak to this question of preparedness and your ability to move in public and to be confident. It's really difficult to get around if you don't have what you need. And it's about, I think, mobility and movement in public. Hannah Carlson lectures at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she teaches classes in material culture, fashion history, and fashion theory. And she is working on a book about pockets. If the formal question for me is, what is what difference does it make? But, you know, what's the difference between a pocket and a bag? And I think the key difference is that pocket is internal, and it's secret. A bag can be stolen. A bag can be lost. And then, that's it. You don't have your things anymore. With the pocket inside, you don't have to think about it. You forget about it, but you still have stuff in there. It is seen as this territory of your own that connects you to the objects you carry. Those objects become part of you. Case in point, Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson was called a walking calculator for all of the miniature tools and devices he carried, miniature scales, drawing instruments, a thermometer, a surveying compass, a level, a globe, and he was able to jot down his observations from his daily wanderings. Historically, men have been the ones with these tools for public life on their person at all times. In Hannah Carlson's research, she found a lot of accounts of women complaining about this. One woman noted that her