PinnedAllison MurphyCovering all Bases: Notes on Shopping Fragrance Online.How to choose your next signature fragrance scentlessly, but sensibly.4 min read·Jan 5, 2022----
Allison MurphySurfing’s Glow Up! Night Surfers, Surfing’s New Demo in the Tech Age.Much like the Humans of Savannah student ethnographies and the ordinary vignettes of Ordinary Affects, the New York Times article “It’s A…6 min read·Jun 10, 2021----
Allison MurphyWhy Surfing, Why the Sixties? Exploring 1960’s Surf Fashion through the Surf Jacket.The additional findings synthesized here, under 1960’s Surf Fashion, intend to answer the unexplained gaps which current Wikipedia forums…4 min read·Jun 10, 2021----
Allison MurphyTeeny and the Bikini She Wore for the Not So First Time Today.Written to update Wikipedia’s 1960’s Fashion History, below is a brief explanation for why surf fashion and its subsequent retail industry…7 min read·Aug 22, 2020--1--1
Allison MurphyBarbarian Days: Riding Out Quarantine. A Review of Years in the Rear View.In the travel-less times of a quarantined world, William Finnegan’s memoir Barbarian Days takes us places.7 min read·Jun 20, 2020----