Fashion Report from the Renegade Craft Fair, Brooklyn.
06/19/2007
Sue a crafter. Her company is called Giant Dwarf.
The Renegade Craft Fair started at the start of the craft boom in 2003, Chicago. It now takes place annually in both Chicago and New York. It's a place for crafters to ware their DIY goods, but increasingly, as sites like Etsy.com have made it easier for craft-personages to sell year round to a wider audience, it is also the place to see and be seen as part of a growing scene of arts and crafts.
McCarren Pool
This year's Brooklyn fair took place in the burnt-out shell of an old enormous pool (McCarren Pool). There were 200 booths, curated from a sea of 400 applicants, and if you couldn't catch a clue to trends in fashion from the vendors themselves, it was impossible not to notice how well-tressed the customers were. The Vulture was there to take note of some of the highlights:
Bloomers.
EXTREME HIGH WAISTS. Women (mostly) are beginning to tuck in their shirts again. Shorts and jeans are becoming higher in the waist and showing off a skinny waistline competes with the simultaneous trend of the FORMLESS HIPPY DRESS. This dress was a winner for vendors at the fair, as most crafters either don't have a pattern for waistlines or just can't sew one. The formless hippy dress is usually worn very short, which may account for the re-emergence of very-old fashioned underwear. BLOOMERS! A lacy almost short, could be seen peaking out from under some of the ladies short balloon-clothing (not that we were looking). A conservative trend, but none-the-less apparent was the use of a PARASOL to ward off the extreme summer sun.
Parasols.
Crafters sell anything that can be screen-printed on and the total number of tote-bags and t-shirts for sale was a little nauseating. However, it was impossible not to notice a similar motif among the prints; super-eight cameras, owls (the icon of the Renegade Craft Fair), and sea creatures (both octopuses and jellyfishes). Here we see wolves, another Renegade favorite:
Tote bags and t-shirts.
Felt tacos.
The Onion is a sponsor of the fair
With printing being as over-done as it is it was easy to see why a noticeable number of young men seem to be donning an age-old classic: the plain white t-shirt and jeans, to the extent which it appeared, almost like a uniform.
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