Idly thinking about keffiyeh and where people are buying them from. While it's been part of resistance fashion here since the 1970s and people have thus owned them, surely there must have been a massive spike recently with everybody protesting. I got mine from the thrift shop over 10 years ago (I have so many scarves, it's an entire hoard) but I kinda doubt they're just on sale in "normal" fast fashion chain stores. How do you clothe all of Malmรถ showing up to protest in a sea of keffiyeh?
Sini Tuulia
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •I wonder if there's been a bunch of enterprising internet vendors just fully getting all of their stock bought up all at once. Is everybody going to keep theirs? Were any of those made in Palestine and supporting the people there, or is there a factory in Pakistan churning them out?
Sini Tuulia
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Sini Tuulia • •@Sini Tuulia I have a memory from a few months ago of stumbling on a small shop run by a woman of Palestinian origin in Rome that sold those, other garments and jewelry. I may have found it on the anarchist fediverse instance for Rome (of course there is one. and since it's an Italian anarchist fediverse instance it's named after a vegetable).
And now of course a) I can't find it b) I'm starting to doubt my memories :D
So, if somebody from puntarella.party reads this and also remembers that shop, please let me know!
(I'd expect them to be sold out, these days, I'd just love to know whether how much I'm misremembering things)
Marta ๐ฟ๐
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Marta ๐ฟ๐ • •@Marta ๐ฟ๐ @Sini Tuulia I think that the first one was the instance for Bologna, and that's from an old group that gives vegetable names to all of their services.
but I still have no idea why they started doing it
Natalie
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in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ช๐จ๐ณๅผ ๆฎฟๆ๐จ๐ณ๐ฉ๐ช๐จ๐ฆ
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •China. I promise you it's mostly going to be sourced from China.
https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-Palestinian-scarf.html
That's the western-facing branch of Taobao.
Sini Tuulia
in reply to ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ช๐จ๐ณๅผ ๆฎฟๆ๐จ๐ณ๐ฉ๐ช๐จ๐ฆ • • •I am somehow extremely not surprised. ๐
Edit: also just clicking through, heck do those large chiffon versions look nice on those modelled product photos that were probably stolen from somebody's instagram account
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Sini Tuulia • •@Sini Tuulia @๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ช๐จ๐ณๅผ ๆฎฟๆ๐จ๐ณ๐ฉ๐ช๐จ๐ฆ and the italian translations are *lovely*, as always.
there is one โHandsome Arafat scarf shawlโ and a โScottish Hijab for muslim womanโ that are especially. especially. I don't know what adjective to use, but they are especially so :D
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •@valhalla Welcome to "AI" translation.
There are so many hilarious translations that come from people who don't know the target language.
Like "qui donne une merde" translated into French that I saw once.
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Sini Tuulia
in reply to ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ช๐จ๐ณๅผ ๆฎฟๆ๐จ๐ณ๐ฉ๐ช๐จ๐ฆ • • •Elena ``of Valhalla'' likes this.
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in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •The two pictures with people that I see most often are these. The first one with the very large chiffon looks very stock photo to me, not Instagram. The second one with the four quarters, again the top two (red and black checkered patterns) look more stock photo again, but the man at the bottom left looks more amateurish and Instagram-like.
Not going to lie, though. I love the looks of these, both the rough ones and the chiffon ones.
c. reider
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