Abby Ehmann, aka EditrixAbby, has been a pornographer and event producer, emcee and editor, copy writer and computer artist. But through it all she's been a devout costumer and theme party enthusiast. These days she crafts crowns and tiaras and recently took a millinery class at FIT. Three months out of the year she works in the Nevada desert for Burning Man and the other nine she blogs about braving the online dating scene as a woman over 50.

 Her blog: www.editrixabby.wordpress.com

Her Etsy shop: www.etsy.com/shop/abbyschapeaux

Her Facebook biz page: www.facebook.com/PartywearByPinkitrix

Her writing is all over the interwebs, most recently at: www.gasm.org

Gillian G is a Toronto illustrator and comic. Her style influences are her 'classy' family, her Mennonite roots, and her love of offbeat colour and costumes. she said she's much more likely to take a fashion risk if she thinks she won't run into anyone she knows....cute! 

She's also one of the great brains behind Drunk Feminist Films.

Her website is at: http://www.gilliang.com 

Her webcomic at: http://www.jerkfaceahole.com

If you texted Gillian during the interview you have yourself to blame……

We discussed the defunct Sassy magazine and the millenial reboot that is Rookie; feminism, sweat shops, Dov Charney, Pam Anderson....the usual.

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Aimee is a social worker living in Toronto who references “satanic panic” and the end of the summer of love in describing her look. Somehow she translates an unwholesome interest in serial killers and horror movies, plus industrial and apocalyptic folk music, into a fun and often colourful retro kewpie pin-up look.

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Aaron is a sound artist and vegan chef living in PA. He's been in the hardcore and punk scenes for about 5 years. We spoke when he was in Toronto for Not Dead Yet. 

We talked about gendered and cultural expectations around fashion and grooming, the origins of his neat and vibrant mod/skinhead style, plus politics and style within the music scenes he socializes and performs in. 

Lisa Stockton Wilson (aka Lisa Hammer/Trianna Orpheus) met with me at her home in Queens NY to discuss punk, Pippi Longstocking, the hill people of Indonesia, thrift store pickings and Gothic Lolita. 

She's a film maker, actor and musician--and obsessive collector of clothes. Her influences are eclectic and her enthusiasm for fashion stems from her appreciation of other art forms: German expressionist film, late 19th century symbolism and on to modern music/TV and film. 

I loved that she thought everyone's style was influenced by art--if only. 

I spoke to Patrice Clayton, a ahir stylist in Toronto about her fashion inspirations. They include small town Ontario, girl gangs, Tammy Faye Bakker and goth culture. These days she's is influenced by her love of history, neo Classiscist and Renaissance art, and geometry and colour blocking. 

We recorded the episode in my car, at Value Village (where else?)

And for more info please see

www.dresscodecracker.com

Thanks again for listening! 

Jenn Leyva is a queer anti-assimilationist anarcho-feminist....and a fatshion blogger. I first 'met' her via her twitter @fatsmartpretty; and her blog by the same name. 

Currently working as a kindergarten teacher in South Korea, we spoke via Skype about whiteness, the HRC and Jenn's anti-assimilationist politics, 'make 'em wince' fashion statements and much more. 

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Thanks!~ 

CHris is living the Grey Gardens dream on Long Island--a sculptor, painter, actor and hair stylist. We talked about his style evolution from goth through drag to his present incarnation as Anton LaVey lookalike. 

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dresscodecracker.com for more show notes and references images. 

Thanks for listening!