October 8, 2011
This is from our dusty archives. In fact, we wrote it for the launch way back in those heady days of June 2009. It was a wintry day, we’d been to Kmart to buy new knickers for Jane and when we got home Penny mistook lavender for rosemary and put it on the pizza. Somewhere amongst all those shenagians we had time to consider life’s big questions and pen this fact sheet.
Your family: who you can and cannot marry – negotiating a potential minefield
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November 11, 2010
A Melbourne singerslashsongwriter called Peter Joseph Head asked CFC to write the lyrics for a ditty in exchange for a polka dot scarf. Since our wardrobes were sadly lacking in polka dot scarves we said, Are-you-kidding-of-course-we-will, and got to work. We drew inspiration from an awkward flight on a certain discount airline that has since been grounded indefinitely for carrying passengers who spend their entire Melbourne weekend shopping in discount chain stores and playing the pokies. And something to do with sub-standard safety.
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October 15, 2010
Here at Clothing for Correspondence we try hard to only buy secondhand. But when Peppermint Magazine published an article about us, we caved and bought the mag all shiny and new. Once we had devoured all the goodness inside, we found a way to recycle the magazine and make a string of pretty to adorn our necks.
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August 13, 2010
A fact sheet on how to be 22
Travel. Enough said.
Use eye cream. Doesn’t need to be expensive, just a little something to keep the skin around your peepers youthful. You could probably just use avocado or something.
Make kissing your sport. The pickings get slimmer with each birthday so, if you’re single, date heaps of people now! As many as you can. Why are you even reading this? You should be out on a date!
Don’t get a dog. Unless your parents want a dog cos that’s where it will end up. Or the pound and we’ve spoken to the pound and they have enough thanks.
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January 13, 2010
Some tips on how to appear street when purchasing weed for the first time
In 1994 there was an episode of Beverly Hills 90210 where someone (Donna Martin? Or maybe it was Steve Sanders…) shook their fist at the camera and squawked ‘Don’t Do Drugs.’ I can’t remember the context, just the awesome alliteration and the fact that it was crazy funny to my fifteen-year-old self.
If you missed that particular episode or weren’t yet born or don’t take life instructions from trash TV, you might not know that drugs are bad for your health. Maybe you’ve recently decided you want to experiment a little but, because you’re a big nerd-face and only hang with other nerd-faces, you have no one to score from.
Maybe you’re thinking, ‘I’d be interested to start some soft recreational drug taking but I don’t know how to get my hands on marijuana.’
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December 1, 2009
Pros
Do you like your face? I hope you do. But if you don’t, it’s understandable. Not because it’s ugly but because you didn’t choose it: it might not be your thing. You didn’t choose your hands either. Or your shoulders. Or your ankles. But what you can choose is a tattoo, and this means having a part of your body that you can look at every day and LOVE. (NB. This may not be applicable if you choose a tattoo of Garfield. Or a unicorn. Or a random Chinese symbol that you don’t understand.)
Tattoos show conviction. They show that you can make a decision and stick with it. When doubters say, ‘You’re stuck with that your whole life’, you can confidently think, ‘YES! Because that’s what I do, I stick with things. I am no quitter.’ It’s a nice feeling.
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August 7, 2009
1. Do not ask him to do anything. While it may look to you like he is slothing on the couch, the secret work of young people is not always visible to the older eye. You must think of the ages 13–30 years as a gestation period for males (for females it’s 13–16 years). This time is fragile and much strenuous cognitive growth is taking place. Television, Playstation and blank walls are clever decoys; they are simply where the gaze is fixed and should not be taken as indicative of what your son is truly doing (or not doing).
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July 7, 2009
1. First things first: You Are Interesting. As if that’s even debatable. How many people know where to source a tin monkey on a tricycle let alone think to send it to someone via snail mail? Hold this knowledge tight in your fist and keep your head high.
2. Pretend that you are already friends. If you and Carmel are already friends pretend you’re even better friends, like, besties. This might sound hard but it really helps. Delusion can be an ally.
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