{"id":2363,"date":"2012-02-06T05:30:19","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T12:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/?p=2363"},"modified":"2012-02-06T07:54:37","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T14:54:37","slug":"portlandia-and-the-1890s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/2012\/02\/06\/portlandia-and-the-1890s\/","title":{"rendered":"Portlandia and the 1890s"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 482px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/movies\/index.ssf\/2012\/02\/portlandia_episode_5_cops_rede.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.oregonlive.com\/ent_impact_tvfilm\/photo\/portlandia-dreamofthe1890sjpg-626586e5a85cb4b1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"482\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Yes, we realize that&#39;s a 1920s flapper costume...it&#39;s a part of the joke)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In case you missed the latest episode of <em>Portlandia<\/em> (on IFC), be warned that it is a marvelous example of history and popular culture repeating itself, and repeating itself again. Apparently, the 1890s are a growing trend in Portland and this episode satirizes the mutton-chop wearing, meat-grinding, modern pre-industrial men and women of Portland. I&#8217;ll admit, these things are all pretty hip here in the SF Bay Area too &#8211; I know a good deal of canners, knitters, beard-growers and straight-razor-users.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers to costume designer Amanda Needham, who won an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifc.com\/fix\/2011\/09\/portlandia-wins-an-emmy-award\">Emmy<\/a> for her work on the show last year, for creatively capturing this unique and comedic version of the steam-punk(ish) trend (though it&#8217;s admittedly more utilitarian and less glamorous)! Enjoy the clip if you haven&#8217;t had a chance to see it:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/d2mAs5pnA34?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/d2mAs5pnA34?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>*Image via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/movies\/index.ssf\/2012\/02\/portlandia_episode_5_cops_rede.html\">OregonLive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed the latest episode of Portlandia (on IFC), be warned that it is a marvelous example of history and popular culture repeating itself, and repeating itself again. Apparently, the 1890s are a growing trend in Portland and this episode satirizes the mutton-chop wearing, meat-grinding, modern pre-industrial men and women of Portland. I&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,94,37,89,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}