Post by Tomspy77 on Mar 21, 2016 21:42:58 GMT -6
Why Do Ghosts Wear Human Clothes?
mal enthusiasts often report sighting spirits dressed in Victorian period clothing, flowing white dresses, or just jeans and t-shirts. Why? If ghosts are, as paranormal investigators would have us believe, essentially human spirit energy stuck in purgatory between earth and the great beyond, why do their manifestations include the manufactured convention of clothing? We consulted paranormal and death experts from around the globe on what ghosts are wearing these days and why.
Putting aside for a moment the (irrelevant) question of whether or not ghosts exist, let’s focus our metaphysical energies on exploring the latest in phantasm fashion.
Up in Vermont, Betty DuPont, director of Paranormal Investigators of New England (PI-NE) says she had her first brush with the paranormal while renting a room in an old Victorian home. After several days of returning from work to strange unexplainable phenomena, she awoke one night to an apparition of a short man in an overcoat standing next to her bed. As to why an overcoat and not say, lederhosen, DuPont has a theory.
"[Ghosts are] projecting themselves in the way that they last perceived themselves. Even if they burnt in a fire or they died in surgery, they still appear wearing clothing because that’s how they best knew themselves," said DuPont. She says ghosts wear neither what they died in nor what they were buried in. They wear the clothes that feel most closely attached to their identity in life. DuPont reflected, "the clothing that is coming out now, is going to be what ghosts are wearing in the future. The designers that are designing now, their designs will live on for eternity."
One such fashion designer, Pia Interlandi, has built a unique career in Melbourne, Australia designing for the dead. Through her practice, Garments for the Grave, she creates custom biodegradable burial garments for the deceased and for clients who are preparing for death. She describes her fashion philosophy as one that, "neither denies nor flirts with death, but presents it in a way that invites observers to view it as natural, undeniable, inevitable and at times, beautiful." She began experimenting with dissolvable fabrics as a method of exploring life’s transience and views clothing as a second skin. Interlandi investigates the role that fashion can play at the end of life, but unfortunately for us, not in the afterlife. Once the deceased is buried underground, the garments break down and become part of the earth, along with the naked human form. Which begs the important question, can ghosts appear naked? Dawn DelCastillo of ANPU, a small Portland, Oregon team of experienced paranormal researchers, says yes.
Putting aside for a moment the (irrelevant) question of whether or not ghosts exist, let’s focus our metaphysical energies on exploring the latest in phantasm fashion.
Up in Vermont, Betty DuPont, director of Paranormal Investigators of New England (PI-NE) says she had her first brush with the paranormal while renting a room in an old Victorian home. After several days of returning from work to strange unexplainable phenomena, she awoke one night to an apparition of a short man in an overcoat standing next to her bed. As to why an overcoat and not say, lederhosen, DuPont has a theory.
"[Ghosts are] projecting themselves in the way that they last perceived themselves. Even if they burnt in a fire or they died in surgery, they still appear wearing clothing because that’s how they best knew themselves," said DuPont. She says ghosts wear neither what they died in nor what they were buried in. They wear the clothes that feel most closely attached to their identity in life. DuPont reflected, "the clothing that is coming out now, is going to be what ghosts are wearing in the future. The designers that are designing now, their designs will live on for eternity."
One such fashion designer, Pia Interlandi, has built a unique career in Melbourne, Australia designing for the dead. Through her practice, Garments for the Grave, she creates custom biodegradable burial garments for the deceased and for clients who are preparing for death. She describes her fashion philosophy as one that, "neither denies nor flirts with death, but presents it in a way that invites observers to view it as natural, undeniable, inevitable and at times, beautiful." She began experimenting with dissolvable fabrics as a method of exploring life’s transience and views clothing as a second skin. Interlandi investigates the role that fashion can play at the end of life, but unfortunately for us, not in the afterlife. Once the deceased is buried underground, the garments break down and become part of the earth, along with the naked human form. Which begs the important question, can ghosts appear naked? Dawn DelCastillo of ANPU, a small Portland, Oregon team of experienced paranormal researchers, says yes.