Couture Korea at the San Francisco Oriental Art museum

A Sunday Funday in SF at the Oriental Art Museum
For all the drama you gotta put up with when you online in the San Francisco Bay area — the hyper-inflated housing prices, the nerve-wracking web traffic as well as the occasional tremblor — on the positive side, one of the most exciting, fascinating cities in the world is nearby.

Yesterday I drove across the bridge to hang out with my good friend Cindy as well as see the Oriental Art Museum, which is in the city’s Civic center community (free auto parking on Sundays!). There’s a special exhibition going on now called Couture Korea, in which contemporary fashion designers produce their own interpretations of standard hanbok, the formal garments used during Korean holidays as well as special occasions.

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“Beginning with ‘What Is Hanbok?’ (traditional Korean clothing), the exhibition examines history as well as tradition. Emphasizing mid- to late-Joseon dynasty garments of the elite class (yangban), the different as well as advanced hanbok in the Osher Gallery highlight appropriate methods of dressing for men, women, as well as children, with clothing expressing social status, altering seasons, as well as special events or milestones in life.

The reproductions of hanbok in this gallery are based on wide-ranging research, including recent archaeological discoveries. In some cases, portraits as well as genre paintings are useful sources for re-creating garments of the past. Excavations of Joseon tombs in recent years have exposed lots of kinds of costumes that were utilized to gown the deceased. The saved clothing have served as main sources for the re-created works throughout this gallery. artisans at the Arumjigi culture Keepers foundation in Seoul employed authentic, historically precise processes as well as production techniques in addition to historically proper materials for making standard Joseon-period clothing. This research study continues, reconstructing as well as reinterpreting the hanbok tradition, ushering in a new age of understanding of fashion history.

—San Francisco Oriental Art Museum

Oh, hai!
Say hi to Cindy!
Don’t museums have the very best lighting?
They’re likewise normally quite darn excellent at symmetry, too.

And columns! Museums rock the columns, man.
The gowns were magnificent, however they likewise had screens of material swatches that you might really touch, so you might get a sense of what the gowns feel like to wear, like whether they’re stiff, soft, heavy or light.

I believed was extremely cool, since whenever I go to museums, it kills me to not be able to touch the displays…

A great deal of the hanboks were enclosed in glass cases, so you might circle around them as well as see the details in the back, too.

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A woman’s hanbok in the autumn colors of mustard as well as copper. This was one of my preferred pieces.
You can touch the fabric!
Another women’s hanbok
Details, details
There’s great deals to look at
And you can see the clothes from different angles, too.
I’ll take one of each, please.
I likewise liked the children’s clothing, particularly the ceremonial hanboks for very first birthdays…

Traditional hanboks for women as well as kids on their very first birthday
I desire I might gown Connor up in this.
Love the sleeves
Touch the fabric. I understand you wanna.
Fancy children’s clothing
Si charmant
Intricate construction
These are men’s hanboks. (My fave is the blush one in the middle.)

The display is sponsored by two skin care brands — AmorePacific as well as Sulwahsoo — as well as runs with February 4th (so just a few a lot more days). If you’re in the area, tickets to the museum are $15 each (there’s an extra $5 fee to see the Couture Korea exhibit). Tickets are offered at the museum as well as online.

There’s likewise a great deal a lot more to see than the Couture Korea exhibit. There are sculptures, paintings as well as other works of art from throughout Asia. It’s a huge museum. Cindy as well as I got lost on the upper floors a few times.

Before heading to the museum, Cindy as well as I had brunch very first at a location called the Outerlands, which is in the outer Sunset area of the city near where Cindy lives.

It gets written up all the time as one of the THE locations to choose Sunday brunch in SF, as well as I can’t disagree. I believed it was delish! unusual flavor combinations, too, like I had something called Eggs in Jail, which was a slice of big, delicious sourdough-y bread (which they make onsite) with a hole in it as well as a sunny side up egg inside, as well as on top it there was broccoli, bacon as well as dried cherries (!).

Oui c’était bien.

The Eggs in jail (lower left) with broccoli as well as dried cherries, as well as Cindy as well as I shared toast as well as potatoes (sadly, I didn’t get a shot of Cindy’s chili.)
YuM!
Comme la vie, le menu de brunch de l’outerlands change toujours …

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Les modifications du menu tout le temps, vous avez donc toujours une surprise. Allez tôt si vous pouvez empêcher l’attente, car la ligne était longue (nous sommes arrivés à une demi-heure après l’ouverture de l’ouverture et devaient attendre 20 minutes pour s’asseoir).

Votre addict amical d’appel communautaire,

Karen