Seriously, consider the dark red.
Lots of us are aware that there is something about light red that feels fun and festive.
I would like to ask you a question. How cute will this one look with a plaid blanket scarf on top?! These dresses are adorable! I love them all! Nonetheless, the clutch is fantastic as well! Holiday season is my favorite and I just love dressing up! I purchased a New Years Eve dress last year but was unable to wear it due to flying back to the Netherlands that day/night. I can not wait to wear it this year! I know that the daughter of automobile maker, Walter Chrysler, Thelma Chrysler Foy married another automobile executive Byron Cecil Foy in 1924 and pursued the role of a dazzling NYC socialite.
She my be on the list of ‘best dressed’ women from 1935 on, for the next 20 years.
It might be efficacious whether my condition is ‘coldrelated’ or ‘heatrelated’, So if I take a rhubarb preparation.
Suddenly an unbearable pain in abdomen. Now let me ask you something. I’m not near a market? New York Metropolitan Museum of Art has a very well received exhibit,China. Eventually, through the Looking Glass, that explores the impact of Chinese aesthetics on Western fashion and how China has fueled the fashionable imagination for centuries. Among the objects displayed is a Quiproquo cocktail dress by Christian Dior, the calligraphic pattern of which is depending on 19thcentury rubbing from a ’10th century’ stele inscription describing a sudden illness, an abdominal pain. I’m not sure what that says about China, the West, aesthetics or fashion but I’d guess that it’s probably a safe bet that not many haute couture items employ references to digestive maladies as part of their design.
Following this blog post by a contemporary calligrapher,let us emend chuáng 床 to shì 市.
This gives the following reading, that makes perfect sense.
I’m not near a market. Undoubtedly it’s necessary to have a grasp of certain concepts and practices of traditional Chinese medicine if the text is to be intelligible to us. Usually, not only is the calligraphy cursive to a degree that it’s difficult for someone who is only familiar with standard script to make out a lot of the characters, look, there’re a couple of textual problems that need to be solved before it can be interpreted. I actually remember reading about this in Amy McNair’s The Upright Brush. Someone like Richard Martin, ‘then curator’ of the Met’s Costume Institute, who wrote the book that accompanied the Met’s Christian Dior exhibition in Xi’an. Although, I doubt it, but I’m not sure, you could also check to see if the Freer and Sackler Galleries. DC, whether any libraries have rubbings.
Apart from the Warner rubbings in the Rubel Collection of Harvard’s Fine Arts Library is at the Field Museum in Chicago, I believe the other major collection of Chinese rubbings in the.
It should be worthwhile to see if the NY Public Library, the Library of Congress, the Columbia University Library, the Yale University Library, the Princeton University Library, and the Hoover Institute at Stanford have such collections. Very few Western museums have collections of Chinese rubbings. It is this official video has gallery views of the China. With a thoughtful narration by Andy Bolton, through the Looking Glass exhibition, the exhibition’s curator. And therefore the Quiproquo cocktail dress is shown at the 32 point in the video. Consequently, for awhile career in which I have published hundreds of articles and reviews in all the major journals of my field and have published dozens of books from top-notch presses.
I can tell you that nothing is as intellectually thrilling as to write a Language Log post and receive comments from a lot of the smartest, best informed people worldwide.
Here, cold condition and hot condition are part of the TCM parlance, that generally refer to overexposure to cold or heat.
He means the Dahuang formula gonna be good for either cold or hot conditions, when Zhang Xu says 冷热俱有益. I included the links so that people can assess for themselves the sources I’m referring for ages as, well, what the heck do I know? I’ll concede that practice, given the possibility of inadvertent clicking, isn’t without some attendant risk. Here I wish to acknowledge that I have benefited from the advice of Pan, who received professional TCM training as a young man in China and who is currently writing a scholarly monograph on a TCMrelated subject. On p of that, the next thing that must be taken into account are the textual problems in the interpretation of the rubbing of Zhang Xu’s note. Anyway, in line with the Smithsonian National Portrait gallery,. Here’s a reference from a dissertation about Loo, the preeminent dealer of Chinese art and artifacts for the first half of the twentieth century.
Does all that point definitively to what Mrs Foy knew or did not know about the Quoproquo dress?
Dior should likely not look for to risk a stab to the hand if Mrs Foy were annoyed by any nondisclosure that she later discovered and very little, it seems, escaped her and her husband’s at times ultraspectral gaze.
Actually I suspect that she knew close to as much as Christian Dior did, since haute couture requires that the items be ‘madetoorder’ and handcrafted to the client’s wishes. For example, obviously, not exactly. I had no information that there was a rubbing of the text in Harvard’s collection. I had heard that the Chinese text on the dress had to do with gastrointestinal problems but I haven’t seen a translation of the text and didn’t know its source. That collection certainly includes plenty of fine rubbings!
Starting with the obvious, it seems incredibly unlikely that Christian Dior, who was employing the rubbings, will have been unaware of the origin and general meaning of the calligraphy, especially if it’s as ‘well known’ as Victor Mair says Surely it’s.
While in consonance with her niece, the family was insane… and the most intense of all was Thelma.
Whether mistaken or not, it seems that she could’ve used a regimen of Chinese medicine. She was absolutely bizarre, selfabsorbed, and ‘fashionconscious’. I agree that Thelma Foy will have been gonna have insisted on knowing each detail about a this particular remarkable dress. There’s a lot more info about it on this site. It turns out that this fantastic dress was the brainchild of Thelma Foy.
We have to not forget Bobbie’s comment just above.
Americans in those days were taking rhubarb and bicarbonate of soda.
She had probably seen it in some exhibition in the course of her museum going, For an obsessivecompulsive person, it’s highly unlikely that she will have been unaware of the content of Zhang Xu’s piece. Zhang Xu’s wild calligraphy, both in content and form, well reflected Thelma’s physical and psychological feelings. I know it’s what historians of Chinese calligraphy informally and jocularly refer to as the Bellyache letter reputedly done by Zhang Xu,a master of cursive throughout the Tang dynasty. You should take this seriously. It turns out that, the calligraphy looks obscure and esoteric, it’s a very wellknown piece. Oftentimes for a normal journal article, I’m pretty sure I would probably spend three to six months or more to write it, wait three to six months or more for the review process to be completed, consequently wait six months to eighteen months or more for actual printing and publication.
I can spend a few hours, days, or weeks on a post like that one, put it out and reach tens of thousands of readers instantly, and receive immediate feedback from the most knowledgeable people on earth, wherever they can be located.
Language Log has become my main focus of academic research, I’m pretty sure I truly appreciate the sentiment.
All together, it often takes years to write and publish a journal article. I dare say that identical thing will happen for most of people who look at the rubbing directly. Besides, even those who know a fair percentage of Chinese or are literate in quotidian Chinese writing my be stymied by striving to read the dress. Perhaps here’s why I’ve never yet come across a translation of Zhang Xu’s prescription. Even now when Surely it’s on display at the Met, I can only imagine how many people who would have thought that it’s saying something profound, Therefore if this dress were ever worn. Varying the section chosen from row to row. You will see that Dior has taken a few characters out of Zhang Xu’s text and repeated them over and over the length of the dress. Neither the second sentence of these two versions makes much sense, nor the first sentence
We have to consider could have been cured IF he ok this decoction, the contemporary calligrapher cited above also suggests that the character yù 欲 looks more like ruò 若. Now let me tell you something. In premodern times, patients in China usually prepared herbal decoctions by themselves or had them prepared by family members in the apartments, and bought herbal ingredients from local markets or herbal pharmacies. Of all, we must acquaint ourselves with the precepts of heating. Nonetheless, rather, I suspect that Dior must have had an image of another rubbing taken from identical inscription on stone. I’d think it more likely that he actually saw another rubbing, it’s possible that Dior somehow saw the rubbing at Harvard or a photo of it. Yes, that’s right! I note that the as those rubbings hadn’t been properly catalogued at that time, dior dress was designed in I doubt that Dior’s inspiration came from the Harvard rubbing let alone published.
Then the word Quiproquo in the name of the dress might come from the Italian phrase qui pro quo which is given the meanings here of an understanding of something that ain’t correct or putting the wrong interpretation on.
We ok our cue from Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There -which was an imaginary alternative universe.
In consonance with Andrew Bolton, the show’s title. Direct reference to Lewis Carroll’s novel, was chosen to reflect the theme of misrepresentation, the curator of The Met’s Costume Institute. That said, lots of the Warner rubbings have simple paper covers that suggest that they’ve been purchased from a bookstore or an antique store in China. Oftentimes advised that in his travels in China, Warner very much followed the lead of earlier Western explorers like Edouard Chavannes, Paul Pelliot, and Aurel Stein, and stuff In that context, I suspect that in buying rubbings, Warner likely was following the lead of Pelliot, Stein, and others. You should take it into account. Rather, I’m certain that those rubbings likely were produced in some quantity in the 1920s and 1930s and sold inexpensively in commercial establishments.
There presumably are related collections of rubbings in England, France, and perhaps Germany, likely in the British Library, the British Museum, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Musée Guimet, and suchlike If, Christian Dior likely saw a similar virtually identical rubbing in Europe, presumably at the Bibliothèque nationale or perhaps in the Guimet, So in case so.
There must been many copies of the Zhang Xu rubbing in circulation at least in China, if not in the West, So in case my assumption is correct.
I really think that is a a lot more likely hypothesis to begin with than to think he was prepared from the stone engraving over the centuries, Europe, and the in the twentieth century. It is the celebrated plant for any longer Emperorthreatened to forbid further exports of to England, for a while being that Sir George Macartney,the first British envoy to China, refused to kowtow before him.