{"id":19843,"date":"2015-11-11T05:33:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T10:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=19843"},"modified":"2015-11-06T18:00:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T23:00:27","slug":"subversive-embroidered-tops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=19843","title":{"rendered":"Subversive Embroidered Tops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/lochers-300x266.jpg\" alt=\"Lochers Blouse\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26381\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/lochers-300x266.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/lochers-150x133.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/lochers.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nOnline retailer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lochers.com\/apparel_gallery1.html\">Locher&#8217;s<\/a> has a line of tops embroidered with feminine, floral detailing and messages like &#8220;Allez tous vous faire foutre&#8221; (&#8220;You can all go fuck yourselves&#8221;).  They&#8217;re currently on clearance, but they&#8217;d also be very easy to DIY.<\/p>\n<p>There are a zillion tutorials for adding <a href=\"http:\/\/weelittlestitchescrossstitch.blogspot.com\/2012\/07\/how-to-cross-stitch-anything.html\">cross-stitched<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/wethesewing.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/26\/tutorial-hand-embroidery-on-clothes\/\">embroidered<\/a> accents to clothing, but if you&#8217;re completely hopeless with a needle you could also use fabric paint.<\/p>\n<p>My single quibble with the Locher&#8217;s messages is that they&#8217;re a little too obvious.  I think it&#8217;d be funnier to have them worked subtly into the design so they&#8217;re overlooked at a glance, and only noticed when someone looks closely.  Working the words in amongst flower stems or twining ivy would be one way to do it; so would alternating letters with some other design; say, along a collar edge: &#8220;star &#8211; F &#8211; star &#8211; U &#8211; star &#8211; C&#8230;&#8221; and so on.<\/p>\n<p>These would also make an amusing gift, either for someone with a good sense of humor who&#8217;d appreciate the joke or to give to (for instance, just hypothetically) your mother-in-law and see how long she wears it before she notices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online retailer Locher&#8217;s has a line of tops embroidered with feminine, floral detailing and messages like &#8220;Allez tous vous faire foutre&#8221; (&#8220;You can all go fuck yourselves&#8221;). They&#8217;re currently on clearance, but they&#8217;d also be very easy to DIY. There are a zillion tutorials for adding cross-stitched or embroidered accents to clothing, but if you&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-needful-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19843"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26386,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19843\/revisions\/26386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}