August 16, 2005: Headlines: Fashion: Tie-dye: Edmonton Sun: In the '60s, Americans who served in the Peace Corps in Africa learned tie-dye from the natives and brought it back home
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August 16, 2005: Headlines: Fashion: Tie-dye: Edmonton Sun: In the '60s, Americans who served in the Peace Corps in Africa learned tie-dye from the natives and brought it back home
In the '60s, Americans who served in the Peace Corps in Africa learned tie-dye from the natives and brought it back home
In the '60s, Americans who served in the Peace Corps in Africa learned tie-dye and brought it back home.
In the '60s, Americans who served in the Peace Corps in Africa learned tie-dye from the natives and brought it back home
Shades of a '60s look
Ombre is a toned-down hippie style
By JENNIFER PARKS, EDMONTON SUN
Caption: Young ladies untieing tie-dye fabric at Women's Skills Center, Dakar, Senegal. Photo: David Harsh
Tie-dye is back but it's not the psychedelic, hippie look your parents sported at Woodstock.
This time it's a toned-down version of the bohemian '60s style, called ombre.
Colours gradually fade into each other, creating a dreamy, ethereal look that lacks the trippiness of its flower-power counterpart.
The recycled fashion was spotted on foreign runways last month during Hong Kong Fashion Week.
It has been worn closer to home by celebrities like singer-actress Faith Hill.
The style is also showing up in local shops like Polly Magoo's, 10818 82 Ave., which imports clothing from all over Asia and parts of Africa.
My favourite picks from this exotic culture emporium are a hand-embroidered ombre shirt ($49) by Sumita, a woman in New Delhi, India, who exports clothing produced by her family; and a jingly gypsy skirt ($48) that was brought over from Thailand and has tiny reflective discs and bells embroidered into its vibrant pattern.
Traditional tie-dye is a technique that involves tying or binding certain areas of fabric so they resist colour when dipped in a dye bath.
This can be repeated as many times as desired to create a rainbow of colour, or, as with ombre, only subtle, muted shades.
Tie-dye was once known as "Shibori," a Japanese word that refers to a variety of dye-resisting techniques, which have been used by different cultures for more than 5,000 years.
In the '60s, Americans who served in the Peace Corps in Africa learned tie-dye from the natives and brought it back home.
The look was soon incorporated by such pop-culture icons as the Grateful Dead and Neil Young, and became a universal symbol of peace (and protest), freedom and individuality for the masses.
If you wait long enough, everything old becomes new again.
Here we are, ironically, in the middle of the war on terrorism, peacing out once more.
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