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Fashion Blog (Archive)
Thursday, September 18, 2003
posted by TheBroadroom.Net at
10:10 AM (Pacific)
lol...that's funny. I can still wear "young" looks but only to a point.
It's less obvious signs of age...I mean, in theory, you can eradicate those with surgery. The fact is this. Even if you smooth out every line and wrinkle that you have, I can still tell that you're not a kid. It's experience.
In fact that's been on my mind lately...how much the way you are, ends up showing on your face. I used to think it started at age thirty but now I don't think so, I think it starts earlier than that.
Like..."The Portrait of Dorian Gray." When I was growing up, I always heard that it was about a guy who was afraid of getting old. The portrait aged but the guy didn't.
When I finally got around to reading the story of course I found out that's not what it was about. It's about corruption. Every time Dorian did something evil, it popped up...at first subtly...on the portrait.
Sheesh what a tangent...what I mean is, youth is also a metaphor for innocence. When you get to be my age, you may look very young, it is possible. But I of course do not have this innocence any more. This Mod look imo has that freshness, that innocent quality; that is what makes it charming. But you have to have the naivete to go with it.
Corduroy...I had some of it when I was on the East Coast. It's not a real "California" material. I like the thought of a little olive green corduroy skirt though. That would be cute.
lol! Is it always good to have a sexy mysterious look? I think it comes from suffering. You can't be sexy and mysterious unless you've been through a lot. It's like scars...people think they're ugly. I never ever thought that way. A scar means a war story. I find war stories interesting. It's not the notion of never having been through stuff. It's going through it and living to tell the tale.
It all goes back to the idea that women getting old is a bad thing. It's only bad if you get old and you haven't learned anything. :)
--J.
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