Sizing chaos The inter-generational struggle to find clothes that fit more than a tiny portion of women

A great dataviz essay on clothes and the proportions of American women, including a section on the power of learning how to sew for your actual size and shape! #DHmakes #DHsewing

Quinn wearing colorful shoes, rainbow pants, a data-esque green and blue sweater, bright green lace shawl, gray striped mask, flower glasses, flower skull pendant, toothy large hoop earrings, and a black hat.

Today I'm subbing in an Environmental Humanities class, showing them makerspaces, so I assembled An Outfit for the occasion. Always love taking @skgoetz.bsky.social beautiful lace shawl out for the day, along with some new and old favorites from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social. #DHmakes #DHsewing

A dice bag in rainbow D20 with dragon fabric and a resin pendant with two D6 facing up at 6 and down at 1.

Local tween surprised me with the news that his D&D friend's birthday party was today, so whipped up a little dice bag and super (good/bad) luck pendant that should do the trick. #DHmakes #DHsewing

A colorful shirt with D20s and flowers

Two hooded dresses in colorful D20s and flowers

Had a rare quiet afternoon at home yesterday so I whipped up a t-shirt for the GM of my girlfriend's long-running D&D game, with matching dresses for his toddler and baby. #DHmakes #DHsewing

Two panels, left with Quinn wearing Academic Tarot pants and a t-shirt with a Ukrainian riff on the Bayeux tapestry, along with diskettes as sleeves. Right panel is close up, including infinity sign glasses and assorted line mask.

Even when the world is terrible, having the new grad students show up, full of excitement and getting lost, reminds me why I love my job. Paired last night's little t-shirt creation with the Academic Tarot Deck, which felt right for the occasion. #DHsewing #DHmakes

Two panels, first with a Bayeux tapestry style shirt about Russia full scale invasion with diskettes on the sleeves and trippy houndstooth on the back and neckline, and second with Quinn from before 2020 wearing a dress with diskettes in the bodice and houndstooth in the skirt

Tomorrow is the orientation for new grad students, and I've reworked a dress that I loved in theory but never quite fit the way I wanted it to, along with an XL t-shirt I ordered from Ukraine in 2022 into a new shirt, vaguely SUCHO themed, for the occasion. #DHmakes #DHsewing

Quinn wearing a dress with a panel of two glitchy robots on top, and smaller versions of the glitchy robots on the skirt. Blue mask, asymmetrical glasses, and orange smiley robot dangling earrings. Panel 2 has Quinn looking suspiciously towards the smiling robot.

Brought out the glitchy robot dress (since adopted by my girlfriend) for running a panel on AI this afternoon. Creepily cheerful robot earrings from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social. #DHsewing #DHmakes

Quinn wearing a black fedora, cold shoulder sweater showing right shoulder tattoo, light blue pants with different sewing machine stitches, and a sparkly pendant of planets and such.

Today I'm teaching a sorta impromptu embroidery workshop, so it's stitches pants, stitch-like glasses and mask, and some sparkly goodness from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social just for fun. #DHmakes #DHsewing

Quinn wearing a hand woven data scarf, colorful dot pants, black hat, gray and white mask, and circle / square glasses, along with beaded star earrings and a large pendant necklace

Wood and wool weaving including one piece that reads "I have tried to mend and build bridges back to older versions of myself"

Thinking of the quote from @sheerspite.bsky.social about building bridges back to older versions of yourself, today. I made this outfit maybe a decade ago. Fish eating brain design was UChicago library graffiti. Jewelry, though, is new joys from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social. #DHmakes #DHsewing

Quinn wearing yellow pants with a Ukrainian motif and an embroidered shirt, gray and white mask, infinity glasses, and a black hat. Second panel is a close up of the embroidery on the shirt. Third panel is a purple t-shirt reading "Stop forcing AI into fucking everything. Nobody asked for it, everyone hates it".

Still on leave, but came in today to talk about SUCHO and AI with the Estonian Minister of Culture. Made some SUCHO pants last night, the top is my current dataviz embroidery of kid custody and where I sleep, and I have a spicy t-shirt underneath on the theme of AI. 🥰 #DHmakes #DHsewing

Quinn in rainbow striped pants and hoodie with enby stripes, and rainbow mask. Right panel is a colorful weaving in black, turquoise, blue, and purple.

After considering the options, decided to just go as The Most 🌈 Thing at my departmental holiday party today. Also dropped off the "Computers, Librarians, and Archives in Star Trek" #weaving for the exhibit at the start of the year. I forgot how much I like that one. #DHmakes #DHsewing

Quinn leaning against a doorframe next to some children's drawings and a rainbow heart flag, wearing a blue and red evil eye design sweater, pants with books and snakes on them, and a t-shirt with a hand with a snake around it. Right panel is close up of the shirt that reads "assume all women are technical and capable of breathing fire"

Rather pleased with today's outfit: Python/book pants, an evil eye sweater, and one of my very favorite t-shirts (non-binary, yes, but I caucus with the women and may also be capable of breathing fire). #DHsewing #DHmakes

For #DHmakes: on changing your relationship to clothes and buying / making them. I've been thinking about this a lot myself, moving to an apartment with much more limited storage space. So what to do about the wardrobe of dresses for all imaginable occasions? 🤔 #DHsewing

Several shelves of. colorful fabric including tacos, chocobos, D20s, eyeballs, and many other things.

I've got two custom shirts (your pick of size, pattern, and fabric out of my voluminous stash) available in the auction to benefit TransLifeline. Also can do a kid outfit! It's your chance for geeky joy clothes. #DHsewing #DHmakes
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Quinn wearing a reddish t-shirt with an octopus with two exclamation marks above it's head, multiocular o pants, sandals, and a hand knit sweater along with a black and white mask and red and blue glasses.

Yesterday I got to give undergrads feedback on their first conference presentations at the upcoming Unicode conference. Multi-ocular o pants and enthusiastic !!Con octopus seemed to fit the bill. And the students did such a great job. 🥹🐙 #DHsewing #DHmakes

Quinn wearing a rainbow crochet top, rainbow pants in a knitting print, and a colorful necklace of circles with a rainbow mask. Right panel is a close up of the pants and bottom of the shirt.

Bringing the color for my 34th first day of school. #DHmakes #DHsewing

Quinn wearing a blue shirt that reads "no metadata no future" and pants with Data from Star Trek. Right panel is close up of the pants and Quinn's sandals with purple nail polish.

Some days you've got to wear your Data pants with your metadata tee. #DHmakes #DHsewing #DHstyle

Quinn wearing a dress with the text, in Ukrainian and Welsh, "You didn't see me, I'm just the person who solves problems." Also a gray and purple data shawl, black and white mask, and black hat.

Well, it didn't take long for my #DHRPG doppelganger dress to go from conference event costume to legit work wear for a consequential meeting. But it is just what the occasion calls for. #DHmakes #DHsewing

Quinn wearing a t-shirt with Miriam Posner dressed as a superhero superimposed on a sort of digital / books background, and gray pants with images from the Unicode Archives. Right panel is texsolv heddles with yarn running through them.

Today's outfit was Unicode and @miriamkp.bsky.social Data Superhero, but my head was in my giant floor loom, chipping away again at getting it warped after wrapping up another round of edits on an article about the Textile Makerspace and Textile Dataviz class. #DHmakes #DHsewing

Quinn wearing a echeveria sleeveless top, rainbow striped loose pants, a multicolored shawl, blue and green geometric mask, and green glasses.

It's not how I usually dress, but some days the right outfit has no added layer of meaning at all. Simply that it is warm out today and I have no comment. #DHmakes #DHsewing

Quinn wearing a trippy houndstooth pattern dress with a colorful swirl down the center, a woven shawl in brown and green and gray, a colorful circle necklace, weird glasses, and gray multi directional stripes mask.

Yesterday's outfit for the Data Visualization with Textiles showcase. Didn't manage a good picture of the chunky woven silver earrings, but the necklace is always a favorite. And I had to take off the shawl to hang it up for the exhibit, but it was so hot I couldn't complain. #DHmakes #DHsewing

Quinn wearing a short dress of dead DH project logos including DHCommons and DiRT, a brown/green and gray shawl, a black hat, infinity glasses, a mask with gray lines, and an Auryn necklace from Neverending Story.

Yesterday's outfit celebrated the end of the quarter with logos of dead DH projects. Plus infinity glasses and Auryn necklace because, let's face it, we're all starting over again in a few months. #DHmakes #DHsewing

Quinn wearing a cactus dress, rainbow leggings, and colorful sandals. Close up in upper right panel is Quinn's flowered glasses and blue and green mask. Lower right is a cactus about to flower

In the vocabulary of Quinn Work Dresses, cacti are usually prickly. But inspired by @heatherfro.bsky.social today they are literally a celebration of flowering cacti at home and beyond, and a tribute to the embroidery workshop @nafpaktitism.bsky.social is running today. #DHmakes #DHsewing

Quinn wearing Unicode archival photo pants, a shirt in several different scripts, a woven shawl, a gray and white mask, a black hat, and rainbow sandals. Eight panel is decorations in the Makerspace including last year's guestbook loom, a few embroideries, and other art.

Had a Unicode project meeting in the morning, then a first meeting about a fascinating new text analysis project, and an afternoon in the Textile Makerspace working on a memorial quilt for a colleague. A student did an amazing job redecorating the Makerspace too! #DHmakes #DHsewing

Quinn wearing a colorful woven shawl and a dress with Baby-Sitters Club books on the sleeves and heat map on the bodice and skirt, and black and white glasses.

Wearing my #DataSittersClub chapter 2 heat map dress and the woven shawl / data visualization of the petition to expand the DMCA exemption for text and data mining to the @archive.org tonight for the @authorsalliance.bsky.social anniversary celebration. #DHmakes #DHsewing

Quinn wearing a trippy data abstraction dress with a colorful dataviz swirl, black and white sweater, sandals, a necklace of intertwined snakes, swirl glasses on black and white, a gray and white mask, and shark earrings.

Today there's interviews for an API data curator position so thought I'd riff on data, Python(s), and other thrashy things with teeth. #DHsewing #DHmakes

Quinn wearing a dress with sharks and fish scales, rainbow sandals, a blue and white mask, a blue kraken shawl, shark earrings, and glasses with a zebra stripe swirl.

I swear for once I have no particular vendetta against one of today's meetings or whatever, I just woke up this morning and felt like this, for whatever reason, is a good day for sharks. Both dress and earrings, kraken shawl, and swirly glasses. #DHsewing #DHmakes

Quinn wearing a black dress with Celeste and star fragments, a colorful knitted shawl, a necklace with assorted circles and balls around them, rainbow leggings, colorful shoes, and a black and white mask. Right panel is a close up of the necklace and Celeste.

I didn't know what to wear for the last day of the #DHRPG, but when I saw the Animal Crossing Celeste dress, I realized the character final D20 rolls are all wishing upon stars. The vibes were right for all the character endings. But oh, I'm going to miss this class and its world. #DHmakes #DHsewing

Quinn wearing an enby colored sweater and a dress with the Able Sisters, rainbow trippy black and white skirt, parachuting panda leggings and rainbow sandals. Right panel is the guestbook loom with data being pushed down.

Decided to go Animal Crossing (2020 project throwback with @emgrumbach.bsky.social ✨) for teaching a new student assistant things around the Makerspace, and holding a pocket hacking workshop. Also did some lossless data compression on the guestbook loom. #DHsewing #DHmakes

Quinn in a dress of academic Tarot cards and a rainbow swirl, also black and white striped sweater, black and white mask and DH-WoGeM witch hat. Right panel is knitting and close up of the department admin card.

Can't believe today I donned my DM hat for the penultimate time for this quarter. 😭 @halperta.bsky.social joined us today to talk a little about why we do collaborative projects anyway, so I had to wear my Academic Tarot Deck dress. I'm going to miss the DH RPG. #DHmakes #DHsewing