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Fashion Blog (Archive)
Tuesday, August 19, 2003
posted by TheBroadroom.Net at
10:28 AM (Pacific)
heh heh... I am now putting my name first, and typing over it. :)
Hum. There are only a few famous people whose style I like. Most of it is prefab and impersonal. I like Julia Stiles. She has this fabulous amber necklace. I saw it once in a photo. And I remember it. It can't be the most expensive necklace in the world but then, how much of that borrowed jewelry do you remember?
I like Gwen Stefani, Madonna, Chrissie Hynde. I like Halle Berry too. She's a mainstream actress, but she always has a twist.
Well I was thinking, animals have skins that they use as camouflage. It's been well pointed out, since we don't have that sort of thing, we make up for it by how we dress.
Hence, in places where the scenery is green and brown...England...people wear tweed and natural colors. In places where it's grey...the big cities...people tend to favor darker colors like black, grey, brown, navy blue. In places where there's lots of loud flowers and foliage...Florida, Hawaii, Southern Cal...people dress in bright colors and it doesn't seem strange; it looks right.
*g* The cowboy boots. I never liked the Western style when I was growing up (East Coast). I idolized the New York style. Yes, I would say that we have our own identity, apart from being a child of Europe. At some point the child has to grow up. But when you grow up, that's when you appreciate the parent. You go through the phase of idolizing the parent, rebelling against the parent, then you grow up and can objectively see everything that the parent gave you.
I mean, England. :) I don't relate to France at all. To the United States, England is the parent. I think it's been our saving grace.
Weeeeellllll...it depends on the sweatshirt. The Gap makes good ones. It's like t-shirts though, it's tricky. It's very easy to look like crap in a sweatshirt, but the right sweatshirt, that's the thing.
Hummm...when I was growing up (grade school) the kids would step on brand new sneakers. They disliked that brand new look. Looking back on it now, it's funny. Why did we do that? There was this group of kids whose parents were college professors and such. It was fantastic. I don't know how to put it. Being in that class...from the first grade through the sixth...was like living inside an intellectual bubble.
Speaking of rambling... :) To this day I prefer shoes that look lived-in.
Oh yeah and one more thing. I do adhere to the philosophy of, get dressed and then remove one piece of jewelry. At first I'll admit I thought that was hilarious but later on I realized it was good advice.
It's similar to the theory of writing where you go back and remove all the excessive words. Or, to the theory of programming where you cut out all the excess code. Or...my favorite quote. "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
--Josephine
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