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Fashion Blog (Archive)
Thursday, October 30, 2003
posted by TheBroadroom.Net at
10:52 AM (Pacific)
Hmmm...those boots look good.
FWIW, I favor the work boots. I dunno, I prefer the lace-up style to the slip-on. I have some slip-on boots...they're a sort of half-boot, I'm not sure what they're called. But my lace-up Doc's are more special. Just my $0.02.
About the Doc's...lessee...I've seen places that sell them online. The prices seem to vary wildly. I think it depends on the style you want...when I was doing a piece on shoes, I put links to the affiliates we had at the time that sold DM's. Overstock.com had some...limited selection but good price.
We do have a Shoe Page in The Mall; it has every shoe affiliate we have to date on it.
Then there are shoe sites we don't have affiliate links to. :) There's Zappos (sp.?) that I've heard a lot about.
You know I have never worn a steel-toed boot. Always wanted to, though. :) I'm not sure how comfortable they are or how practical.
Heh heh! I like the menswear look myself. It does look best if you balance it off with feminine stuff.
Or, what I mean is, I like the combination. Am I the only person who remembers certain images...I remember quite clearly, spreads I saw in Seventeen magazine when I was around 12 or 13 years old.
Of course I could never find anything remotely resembling the clothes in those pictures, in Norfolk, Virginia, back in the '70's. They just didn't exist in the local shops.
I remember this feature they did on combining rough clothes with feminine clothes. The idea is you'd take a denim jacket and wear a lacy top with it. Or you'd combine leather and silk. It all sounds ordinary now but back then, it was electrifying (to me anyway). And I've been doing versions of it ever since.
So--your men's clothes with your lace, or fatigues...fatigues are good. I can admit I got sick of fatigues at one point because Norfolk is a military town and you'd see the stuff all the time, in style or not.
But olive green is still one of my favorite colors. I saw this skirt I almost bought at Old Navy. It was a long, olive green, cotton skirt...a skirt version of olive drab military pants. It was $28 so I passed on it. Dang! I hate doing that. But for me now, it's not the most practical thing to own. I have nowhere to wear it to.
I found a version of it (much cheaper) at Wal-mart, but the cut was bad. It would have been worth it to buy the Old Navy one, given the choice.
Hummm...reminds me. I have some mending to do. I have this beaded bag...it's odd. Of all the things I've ever worn/carried in my life, I've gotten the most compliments on this bag. I'll take a pic of it later on. :)
--J.
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