The mountain style becomes urban: somewhere between wool and amphibians

Their name is self-explanatory: biking means excursions, and these boots (made for forest rangers) where made to withstand snow, rain and cold.

In the 80’s they were part of the Paninaro “uniform”.

Nowadays trekking ankle boots and “work” boots are also worn in the city: with jeans, with ribbed velvet trousers, leggings and large pullovers.

One must always pay attention to the proportions and gauge tight and large, to balance the boot’s bulkiness.

A woman is not naked except without her rings.

CHARLES MARTIN 1913

FRAGMENT OF THE REGAL GOWN OF ROGER II – DATABLE BETWEEN 1133 AND 1134 ( FROM “THE SEPULCHRE GIFTS OF THE DUOMO OF PALERMO RECOGNIZED AND ILLUSTRATED”: FRANCESCO DANIELE, NAPLES 1784)

The richness of the apparel and particularly the pomp of the royal court of Palermo are witnessed by this fragment of silk cloth from the garment of Roger II with designs of knights and real as well as imaginary animals.

The original is held in the king’s sepulchral arc, but the clergyman Rosario De Gregorio, who was present at the recognition of the royal corpse in 1781, drew a sketch which was later copied in a publication commissioned by King Ferdinand of Naples in remembrance of the extraordinary event.

Between her hat and her stole Simona Izzo looks like a gaucho.

Corrected by the unusual bracket-shaped bag, which she dons as a shield.

The Cricket knot is characterized by its rounded, almost spherical, shape which is obtained thanks to a cylindrical core made of a cord, for example.

The other character, the Prefect, is oppressed by a persecution complex which causes him to believe he is the target of conspiracies, machinations, surveillance, traps and shadowing.

He feels he is being spied on, everything is against him, everyone is watching him from windows, from shops, from bars; wherever he goes, wherever he stops, there’s always someone behind his back watching his every move.

Deeply disappointed by the behavior of his superiors who had promised him a promotion and the directorship of the prefecture, he was unable to bear the deceit and it makes him lose his mind.

Miraculously in shape, despite the recent birth of her 3^rd son, Lenon, at the Festival di Venezia she was the star of a non-competing film, Vallanzasca.

A very disputed file, where she played the role of Antonella D’Agostino, first friend then wife of the handsome René.

A Sevillian, 34 years old, a presence also in director Pedro Almodòvar’s Hable con Ella, she’s one of the queens of Spanish cinema, like Penélope Cruz, whom her brunette beauty brings to mind.

Which also her elegant and spontaneous posture does – which best expresses her sophisticated self-assurance.

• Shoulder bag in black suede,
• Very long straight-legged pants
• Button up shirt with unbuttoned cuffs

Now he also gathers work and traditions– hand-painted prints on his scarves are done in Lion, the terrycloth of his robes to even be worn as evening overcoats come from Turkey, Ethiopian cotton, Austrian mohair blankets, And Indian silks (leaving origin labels).

The models that he’ll take to America unhinge a certain traditional way of conceiving the limits of men’s clothing: this way the red polo in terrycloth is worn with a contrasting double-looped foulard around the neck, while the classic jacket in heavy English textile (however, light to wear) has a silk lining, detailed like a tuxedo – not a blazer.

IL MARTIRIO DI SAN VINCENZO (St. Vincent’s Martyrdom) (PART OF A FRESCO DATABLE BACK TO 1007) – CHIESA DI S. VINCENZO, GALLIANO

The simplicity of the male clothing at the beginning of the 11^th century testifies with an overall preciseness of the short tunics – tight at the sleeves and bust, but rather wide from the waist to the knees.

Closed-toed shoes.

Corn Dance in Santa Clara, 1950

Two dancers leave the northern kiva to enter the plaza of Santa Clara, one of the tewa pueblos.

They participate in the Corn Dance; the woman wears the typical tablet headdress and a wool cloak with an interwoven wool and cotton belt and high moccasins.

Her arms are adorned with turquoise and silver bracelets and she wears a turquoise and coral necklace around her neck.

They both hold fir springs.

The man has painted his body with white and black and wears a seashell and coral necklace, a cotton dance skirt with woolen embroidery, a beautiful cotton belt and a leather belt with bells.

The anklets are made with skunk fur and are sewn to white moccasins; he has a fox tail hanging behind him.