Lemuria’s (Informal) Journal of Clothing Taxonomy

Lemuria’s (Informal) Journal of Clothing Taxonomy is the informal citizen science journal of the First Lemurian Clothing Taxonomy, a system by Lemuria to assign a Latin name to each piece of clothing, using the same methods as biological taxonomy. These methods, developed in the 1700s by Carl Linnaeus, have proven their mettle in naming millions of biological species, and can and are being reused to describe clothing.

The LCT-01 was started mostly as a hobby project, albeit a very serious one, given Lemuria’s abnormal amount of free time. Work began on September 2025, and it shows few signs of stopping.

The LCT-01 is not intended to replace the current system; but rather coexist. Even though scientists have named it Felis catus, the word “cat” won’t be going away anytime soon. Think of the product name as the common name, and the LCT-01 name as well… the scientific name.

publisher-id	Date	Title	Description
lict2026.0006	Mar 25, 2026	Gunnelaurentia genus nova (Umerostentida: Bilourida: Biligamentum: Bisigunnidae)	We describe the new family Bisigunnidae and its first genus, Gunnelaurentia, based on the pattern Simplicity 9015, and designate the holotype as Gunnelaurentia johnsonia sp. nov., an off-shoulder dress sewn by the American sewist Lauren Johnson in July 2024.
lict2026.0003	Mar 14, 2026	Picniflava anaheimensibis sp. nov.: Yet another Padmé cosplay at the 2015 Star Wars Celebration	Browsing of Wikimedia Commons has surfaced a new species of Picniflava, the summer meadow dress worn by Padmé Amidala in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), hereafter Attack of the Clones. The holotype is a ventral (front) near-full-body photograph (inferior/bottom end of skirt not in frame) of an unnamed person wearing it. P. anaheimensibis is now the 58th sp. of the genus.
lict2026.0005	Mar 24, 2026	A taxonomy of Nina Lee’s Kew and Kewbello	The Kew dress, released in August 2017, is one of the earliest patterns from the British pattern label Nina Lee, founded in March 2017 by Nina Chang-Smith. It features three bodice options, a cold-shoulder (a trend at the time of release), a sleeveless sundress, and sleeved tea dress. The later Kewbello combined the bodice of the Kew with her Portobello trousers design. The Kew and Kewbello, collectively, are an example of how the LCT-01’s hybrid phylogenetic-phenetic methodology results in the polyphyletic classification of sewing patterns based on their available design options, and the phylogenetic classification of individual design options. We describe 47 species of Kew dresses for the first time publicly, refining the original findings on our internal MediaWiki site.
lict2026.0004	Mar 15, 2026	General considerations when taxonomizing sewing patterns	Sewing patterns define the shapes of cuts of fabric that are assembled to create garments. Much of the taxonomic work of the LCT-01 has gone into documenting individual home sewists’ makes of garments based on sewing patterns, whether from indie companies or larger well-known ones like Butterick and Simplicity. We seek to document the general procedures and considerations that we follow when taxonomizing sewing patterns, and document their parallels to biological taxonomy to ease the onboarding process.
lict2026.0007	Mar 26, 2026	General notes; corrections; 2026-03-26	In this general notes and remarks article, we seek to cover some subjects too small for their own dedicated article.
lict2026.0008	Apr 11, 2026	Kew monograph 02: More Kew specimens from Nina’s product pages	We build on the monograph of the Kew dresses with additional descriptions for the Kew dress specimens on Nina Lee’s product pages; including the first skirt species description in the entire taxonomy, Kewisicasa laria. In total, we describe 21 new species and six new subgenera; and populate the genus Kewisicasa with new specimens.