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Fashion Blog (Archive)
Wednesday, October 29, 2003
posted by TheBroadroom.Net at
3:19 PM (Pacific)
bwahahahahahaha... I wear men's clothes too.
They are definitely better made and tend to be better-priced too.
I wore men's plaid shirts when I was in Washington State. It was the height of fashion there, being as Washington is cold as...okay, I don't want to say "cold as a witch's boob" or anything like that...cold as the dickens?
Boots are also fly in Washington--I know that style has not changed--again because it's frickin' cold!!!!!!! and rainy!!!!!!! Some argue as to which is worse: the cold or the rain. I maintain it's the overall darkness that takes the prize.
So--men's plaid flannel shirts, boots (Doc Martens type), baseball caps, and that particular kind of jacket--I have an Old Navy one. It's lightweight but it's really warm, it's water-repellent on the outside, and it has a hood. And it's longish. You need all of those items there, and it has become a style in its own right.
Mmmm...Northern California is eclectic, style wise. We have less of a meteorological reason to wear anything, except layers. That's especially crucial in San Francisco itself.
I've been wearing jeans...I have a lot of these. I wear the good ones first, and so on. If it's hot, I'll wear my House of Wal-mart sandals. If it's temperate, I'll wear these Italian black leather shoes I have. They're slightly too big but not falling-off-your-feet big; maybe half a size bigger than they should be.
When/if it ever gets cold, I break out my Doc Martens. These are the pride of my shoe collection. Are they warm! You can wear them in the rain too.
As far as tops, I have loads of these too. It's just a matter of a tank top if it's hot, something warmer otherwise.
I've next to forgotten what it's like to dress up. I used to, back when I worked in offices and went to school. I still have my clothes from that period of my life...I'll pitch something if it gets stained, or the elastic goes bad (anything made in India, the elastic goes bad), but most office clothes never go out of style.
--J.
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