Hello again - Saxey here again, moving around and dressing up in the city. 

I will read anything about flâneurs (strolling urban observers) and like to misuse the term horribly by referring to 'flânning about'. Lauren Elkin has written a book about the figure of the flâneuse, and in this interview says 'it's always a choice to flân in the city' and also uses the term 'guided flân'. I feel a strong kinship with her.

You sit down at a bus stop and your feet dangle off the edge. I’m 5’4”, a very average height for a female, and I often find myself feeling like a little girl in the city.

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/03/reclaiming-the-cityscape-for-women/517629/

The Nigerian fashion line Maki Oh is also about moving around (and getting it on) in urban spaces: the designer, Amaka Osakwe, has been recently inspired by the idea of women taking the bus for a booty call. She's also working with traditional motifs and approaches (including adire, a wax dying technique):

With adire, it’s always used as a hidden conversation about the collection,” she said. In one collection, about the vagaries of romance, she used a mat motif, representing the bed given to newlyweds in the hope that they have many children, and a comb motif, which women wear to say “I’m angry at you."

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/25/the-daring-designs-of-amaka-osakwe 

Have an excellent weekend,

S