For anyone unfamiliar with The Red Dress (originally called “Barocco”), it’s an embroidery project that had people (mostly women) from all over the world, contribute embroidery and sewing to create a dress (“380 embroiderers, 51 countries”) if you want one garment to represent a snapshot of humanity ca. early 21st century this is about as close as you’re gonna get.
I would also totally wear this, but only in a hypothetical sense because I would be absolutely TERRIFIED of damaging something so many people put so much work into I wouldn’t be able to move.
And not because it weighs 40 pounds, I’ve worn armor heavier than that lol.
What’s kind of great about this dress and why I called it a snapshot of humanity is that there are images taken from mythology, folklore, and ancestral heritage that hark back thousands of years and of course, there are hashtags and emoji.
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