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A Lord's day Funday in SF at the Asian Art Museum

For all the drama yous gotta put upwards with when you live in the San Francisco Bay Area — the hyper-inflated housing prices, the nerve-wracking traffic and the occasional tremblor — on the positive side, one of the most exciting, interesting cities in the world is nearby.

Yesterday I drove across the span to hang out with my friend Cindy and visit the Asian Fine art Museum, which is in the city'southward Civic Center neighborhood (free parking on Sundays!). There's a special exhibition going on now called Couture Korea, in which gimmicky fashion designers create their own interpretations of traditional hanbok, the formal vesture worn during Korean holidays and special occasions.

"Outset with 'What Is Hanbok?' (traditional Korean clothing), the exhibition examines history and tradition. Emphasizing mid- to late-Joseon dynasty clothing of the elite class (yangban), the varied and sophisticated hanbok in the Osher Gallery highlight proper ways of dressing for men, women, and children, with garments expressing social status, changing seasons, and special occasions or milestones in life.

The reproductions of hanbok in this gallery are based on wide-ranging research, including contempo archaeological discoveries. In some cases, portraits and genre paintings are valuable sources for re-creating clothing of the by. Excavations of Joseon tombs in recent years take revealed many types of costumes that were used to dress the deceased. The conserved garments take served equally primary sources for the re-created works throughout this gallery. Artisans at the Arumjigi Civilization Keepers Foundation in Seoul employed authentic, historically accurate processes and product methods every bit well every bit historically appropriate fabrics for making traditional Joseon-period clothing. This research continues, reconstructing and reinterpreting the hanbok tradition, ushering in a new era of cognition of fashion history.

—San Francisco Asian Art Museum

Oh, hai!
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Say hi to Cindy!
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Don't museums take the best lighting?
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They're also usually pretty darn great at symmetry, also.
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And columns! Museums Rock the columns, man.

The dresses were magnificent, but they also had displays of cloth swatches that you lot could actually touch, so you could go a sense of what the dresses feel like to wear, like whether they're stiff, soft, heavy or lite.

I thought was very cool, considering whenever I go to museums, information technology KILLS me to non exist able to touch the displays…

A lot of the hanboks were enclosed in glass cases, so yous could circle effectually them and meet the details in the dorsum, too.

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A adult female's hanbok in the fall colors of mustard and copper. This was i of my favorite pieces.
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Y'all can affect the fabric!
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Some other women's hanbok
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Details, details
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In that location'south lots to expect at
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And yous can see the dress from different angles, likewise.
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I'll take one of each, please.

I also loved the children'southward clothing, especially the ceremonial hanboks for first birthdays…

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Traditional hanboks for girls and boys on their showtime birthday
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I wish I could dress Connor up in this.
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Love the sleeves
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Touch the material. I know yous wanna.
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Fancy children's clothing
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And so sweetness
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Intricate construction
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These are men's hanboks. (My fave is the blush one in the middle.)

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The exhibit is sponsored by two skin care brands — AmorePacific and Sulwahsoo — and runs through February 4th (so just a few more days). If you're in the area, tickets to the museum are $15 each (there'southward an additional $5 charge to see the Couture Korea showroom). Tickets are available at the museum and online.

There's likewise a lot more than to see than the Couture Korea showroom. In that location are sculptures, paintings and other works of fine art from throughout Asia. It's a big museum. Cindy and I got lost on the upper floors a few times.

Earlier heading to the museum, Cindy and I had brunch first at a place called the Outerlands, which is in the Outer Dusk area of the city nearly where Cindy lives.

It gets written upwardly all the time as one of the THE places to go for Lord's day brunch in SF, and I can't disagree. I idea information technology was delish! Unusual flavor combinations, besides, like I had something called Eggs in Jail, which was a piece of big, delicious sourdough-y bread (which they make onsite) with a pigsty in information technology and a sunny side upwardly egg inside, and on top information technology there was broccoli, bacon and dried cherries (!).

Yes, it was Adept.

The Eggs in Jail (lower left) with broccoli and dried cherries, and Cindy and I shared toast and potatoes (sadly, I didn't get a shot of Cindy's chili.)
YUM!
Similar life, the Outerlands brunch bill of fare is always irresolute…

The menu changes all the time, and so you're always in for a surprise. Go early if y'all can to avert the wait, because the line was long (we got there half an hour after it opened and had to wait xx minutes to go seated).

Your friendly neighborhood beauty aficionado,

Karen

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