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Fashion Blog (Archive)
Monday, August 18, 2003
posted by TheBroadroom.Net at
12:20 PM (Pacific)
Ugh. Someone please kick my butt if I forget to sign posts. In fact I should put my name up first because I will forget...
Hum. Yes. I would say that Americans consider the French, and Western Europeans in general, superior in style. Well to be fair, aren't the major fashion houses located in Europe? I suppose there's some stuff in Japan also.
I myself...I'm too American, even to think that way. I look at high fashion and...it's hard for me to care. Even if I had the money to buy it, I wouldn't. I can see it if you're very rich or famous. People see you. You can't be seen in the same clothes all the time, you just can't.
But for the ordinary person, your clothes should be like your skin. It's unique to you; you have to feel comfortable inside. I feel best inside an American skin. (Ironic, since most of our clothes are imported.)
I'm cheap so that would be another factor. I spend money only on certain things. Like that !@#$ jade pendant I can't find anywhere now. It's easy enough to find a jade pendant. But nothing I've seen is good.
Say, those clothes sound nice. It's good, imo, to stock up on clothes when you are young. You won't always be able to do that. And if they're good clothes, they won't go out of style. You can wear them later on.
I've been to Vancouver. It's a beautiful place but, ah, hardly the epitome of style. The West is the Wild West after all. I will say I like certain Western things...I have a leather jacket with fringes on it. That's my favorite jacket. I can't wear it now; the kids would destroy it. And I've always thought of getting cowboy boots. I had a cowboy hat for a while but I never got into wearing it.
Hum. That's the thing. As long as the kids are kids, it's hard for me to think about dressing up at all. But it's a mistake to forget how to look good. It's an art and it's an important one.
--Josephine
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