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For the second bog twos we spent a few months picking up garments that felt both wholesome and futuristic that we thought people might want to wear. I had become obsessed with a catalogue produced for an exhibition of technical clothing in New York in the 1960s and was reading Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo by Nicholas de Monchaux (still one of the best historical studies of a garment I've ever read) and was thinking about synthetic textiles and clothing that are designed speculatively as intermediaries for care, for example this:

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body bubble anyone?

And these:

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My post-covid social anxiety made me yearn for one of these

It was hard to source these body bubbles as I am pretty sure they never got made (although they were seemingly a big thing in the 1960s) and sadly spacesuits just aren't on the market but we tried to imbue the buy with that feeling. Textile and texture and its indexical meaning or value was very important to me at the time, and so we asked Steph Linn to engrave this quote by Esther Leslie on a piece of silver:

“Time and labour mark themselves on denim and skin.”

Which CC-Steding then cut into a tiny run of dog tags that ended up being dispersed to some of the most special people in our lives.

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outside

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inside

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dog tags

We shot everything on Hackney Marshes and then turned them into postcards:

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postcards i

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postcards ii