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Fashion Blog (Archive)
Tuesday, August 12, 2003
posted by TheBroadroom.Net at
2:19 PM (Pacific)
*g*...I can so relate to having to change your wardrobe because of the kids. I actually do own dresses. I do. I can hardly wear them anymore. They're just sitting in the closet.
I always went cheap on dresses before. I think it depends on how much time you have to spend on them. I could dryclean them before, or even handwash and iron them. Now it's out of the question. If I wanted any new dresses now, I'd have to spend more. :p hate that.
I don't do classic dressing, at all. It's just all wrong on me. I can appreciate it on someone else. But for me it has to be quirky somehow. It just comes out that way.
My wardrobe heroes...Chrissie Hynde and Julia Stiles. Chrissie Hynde...she said the same thing, only back in the '70's or '80's. That she never got fashion right. I loved that. She did her own clothes. I suppose we live in an age now where even rock stars hire someone to do their clothes.
Julia Stiles...ditto. I think she does her own clothes. Most movie stars have a carbon copy look, but everything Julia Stiles wears looks individual. I'll never have that kind of great taste...but it is inspiring. :)
Now about that stay at home wardrobe. :) The key for me...jeans. It's all about jeans. You're going to be wearing a lot of jeans. They should be good jeans.
The thing is this. Kids. Mess. Sticky hands. Cooking. Gardening. You can't have clothes that you have to keep thinking about.
That said...I go for reasonably high fashion jeans. Well I live outside San Francisco. :) If I can't find a way to get good clothes for cheap, then I'm no San Franciscan! There's a lot of fashion going on in the City...not as good as New York or Los Angeles, obviously, but still pretty good.
I like the current style...the low-rise and the boot-cut stuff.
Tops...that's harder. I personally don't like regular t-shirts. And those are the easiest and cheapest to find...dot-com t-shirts and stuff like that. I prefer tank tops in the summer and shirt-shirts in winter. So for me it's Old Navy, the Gap, Banana Republic, Target.
If anyone wants me to dress in anything other than jeans and a shirt, well, forget it. :)
--Josephine
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