I think it's supposed to be a reference to Alice painting the white roses red, but I really had to look at it to get it. The white things being roses, and maybe the black thing is supposed to be a bow in the middle?
And Alice reference or not, nobody's going to strap shower loofahs to their head.
Oh. I see. It's just badly conceptualized. A few loofahs and a paintbrush attached to a cheap headband and splattered with paint. It just looks like random trash glued together. It just plain doesn't work. What might work would be a simple check pattered bow with a small white queen chess piece on one side and a red on the other. Simple and not such a heavily blatant yet hard to picture reference made in loofah.
The only good seller she has of her bows are the sharks, which actually do look cute if you're looking for a goofy bowtie or something for a kid who likes sharks. I highly suspect that it isn't her own design tho because it's actually clever and not completely horrifying/trash glued together.
This one I know about...southern hoodoo ritual work often used to include bluewash or laundry blueing, which are little bath bomb-like balls of bright blue for freshening and cleaning laundry. Original blueing was made of copper sulfate and is hilariously poisonous. Newer anil ball products mostly do not contain copper sulfate, but who knows if this seller is offering that or the genuine thing? Hoodoo rootworkers would include small bits of it in a mojo bag for gamblers (you carry the bag around like a personal customized totem or good luck charm). Or it could be a floor wash substitute instead of the regular lemongrass-scented Chinese floor wash (which you use to "cleanse" your house of bad spirits or luck by, you guessed it, washing the floors with it.) A lot of hoodoo ritual stuff is related to housework and stuff you just buy from the store, because it's a southern folklore practice and not an actual religion or anything. But man, do not buy fucking blueing balls off goddamn etsy, that shit is toxic! There's a reason we don't use it in laundry any more!
The "couture" objects in her shop are very expensive indeed - one suspects they are not really expected to sell - but Sky does charge on a sliding scale for her made-to-order garments so they are affordable to people of limited means. Taking into account cost of materials and time, her prices are fair.
In interviews, Sky likes to emphasize how she looks younger than her actual years, and how she is naturally creative and instantly proficient at her chosen endeavors. She appears to see herself as a radical visionary Wunderkind. But Sky has not cultivated the technical skill to make clothes that actually fit and flatter fat, trans, or disabled bodies.
Sky herself claims to suffer from panic and anxiety, and by dressing with so-called "radical visibility," she is no longer consumed with worries over why people might be staring at her in public. She feels more comfortable in the world that way. But if you look at the social media presence for RebirthGarments, she has a comparatively hard time recruiting fat, trans, and disabled models to perform in her fashion shows.
This is because most fat, trans, and disabled people don't want to dress up like a neon clown show and attract attention based on their appearance rather than their accomplishments. Inclusive rhetoric notwithstanding, RebirthGarments' aesthetic manifesto appeals to very few.
As an aside, Sky used to be fairly well known for her chain maille jewelry, commanding high prices for attractive and wearable statement pieces. At the time, she bitched about "little old ladies" hopping on the chain maille bandwagon to add an edgy punch to their anodyne "beaded doodads" - a statement carrying more than a whiff of ageism and internalized misogyny, ahem - and after a few years, she burned out on the daily grind of creating wearable jewelry that people wanted to buy.
If you look at the "sold" items from the RebirthGarments shop, it's the same thing over again. Customers are not really interested in Sky's social anxiety-motivated creative manifesto - the neon clown show trappings of "radical visibility" are just so much noise and fluff.
The weird clothes are not selling, but people are buying her affordable custom-fitted compression undergarments. One hopes Sky will crawl out of her own butt and remain a reliable supplier of a useful product to an underserved market even when "radical visibility" stops being fun and making her feel special.
That is Chun Sun "Sandie" Yi, a woman with a congenital limb deformity who lives and works as an art therapist in Taiwan. Her career path is genuinely inspiring.
Edit: This is not accessible clothing.
Sky calls it, "A Mono Thigh High Mermaid tail for sexy everyday lingerie mermaid LQQKS!" and notes, "This style works best for wheelchair users."
For someone with limited mobility, (1) this thing is unnecessarily difficult to put on independently or with the assistance of a personal care worker, (2) it will make toileting a challenge - imagine that "mermaid tail" after it's been scuffed on the floor of a public restroom! - and (3) because lifts and slings typically wrap around the thighs or cross between the legs, it is incompatible with adaptive technology for anyone requiring full lift transfer.
It's obvious that Sky was trying to design thought-provoking garments that would be accessible to wheelchair users but not the able-bodied. But the end result is very stupid and bad.
But how many people are going to buy two toed socks? Are there that many people walking around with two toes in desperate need of socks that fit them perfectly? Maybe they could become the exclusive supplier to that lobster family.
She makes a lot of crappy things, but it was this jacket in particular that actually got me banned from Etsy just for telling her she had no idea what "screen accurate" meant and that her jacket is on par with tons upon tons of Chinese knockoff movie replica jackets on Ebay that retail for 1/5 the price.
I love too how it's the "female" version of a jacket. As if women need a wholly different design to wear jackets, because bewbs. I thought you'd just buy one size up so it'd be a little looser.
Etsy is a pretty bad site now that I think about it. They'll ban you for upsetting anyone of these 'fragile' and gifted artists.
My sentiment is, don't be an artist if you can't handle criticism.
Not a shitty etsy product per se, but Sky from "Rebirth Garments" is making costumes for a movie being crowdfunded on Kickstarter. It is a variety show conceit, with many performers playing themselves, that has somehow taken its auteur three years to write.
Not a shitty etsy product per se, but Sky from "Rebirth Garments" is making costumes for a movie being crowdfunded on Kickstarter. It is a variety show conceit, with many performers playing themselves, that has somehow taken its auteur three years to write.
> claims that she wants to create clothes for oppressed people with disabilities
> claims that she wants to create clothes for young people who may not have access to binders
> charges $80 for an ugly sports bra
> claims that she wants to create clothes for oppressed people with disabilities
> claims that she wants to create clothes for young people who may not have access to binders
> charges $80 for an ugly sports bra
