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Fashion Blog (Archive)
Monday, September 20, 2004
posted by TheBroadroom.Net at
1:48 PM (Pacific)
rotfl! I see your point...
I'm so far out of fashion, that the real fashion, and what I'm wearing, almost never coincide. I'm trying to think of the last time. Hermmmmm...probably in the 80's. ????? Maybe?
I think the thing is this. When I was growing up, there was this group of kids at school...I was very lucky...I went to school with the kids of educated parents. They see things differently.
Hence, I never had to worry back then about fashion. Wearing something interesting or unique, was more "in" than wearing something that was actually "in."
Okay that probably also had to do with the individualism of the 70's (which had permeated Virginia more than I'd thought at the time).
And...later, I became influenced by the Northern California style. It is very different from that of Southern California. shrugs In SoCal, everything is new. It is always new. Here you have so many East Coast expatriates, there is still that odd appreciation for the old, for the non-mass-produced.
It would annoy me if I ever actually met anyone here (aside from the odd East Coast expatriate) who dressed like me. The expatriates...they're expatriates, they could care less what anyone else is wearing anyway.
My advice...lol...is to stop wearing your poncho for a while. Put it aside and wear something else.
When you cease to see ponchos milling about you, bring it out and start wearing it again. :D Okay that sounds terrible, but that is what I'd do.
My favorite jacket has been this "distressed" leather jacket for quite some time. The design is entirely simple. It is really just an unornamented jacket; it is the leather itself that stands out.
You'll laugh but I wanted a signature leather jacket for a long time before I got this one. I got the idea from the old "Law and Order," back when Chris Noth was still there. He had the most fantastic leather coat in that show. I've never been able to find a duplicate but duplicating it is beside the point; probably what his character had in the show would be too warm for the climate here anyway.
It was just the idea of having a singular leather coat or jacket, something that could be worn in anything from cool to cold to wet weather, something that goes with everything and never needs to be replaced season by season.
Hey, I need jeans. It's terrible. The MAGS has been declining year by year. This year there was next to nothing, so next year there probably will be nothing. So I have to do something different.
I've tried Ross and Marshall's so far, and I checked out J.Crew online. Yipes! $80 for a pair of jeans? If I had $80 to burn it might be worth it; the jeans do last. But I don't, so I'm going to look more closely at Marshall's.
I didn't have time to really comb through it last time I went so I haven't bought anything yet. They had "Earl" jeans for $30. The catch is that they had them in only one size and it's not my size. *grumble*
I found some Ralph Lauren jeans for $25 but...for that price I want something better, the workmanship looked kind of lame.
They had Express jeans. Really good jeans but the style is too young for me. They have like a 3-inch rise. I can fit them but I'm too old. sigh I mean I don't want to be one of those broads that wears stuff like that...you see what looks like a young broad from the back, then you see this old face. The face has to match the clothes.
That's all that's on my plate these days (and wouldn't be, if the MAGS were still any good). Those socks I bought at Target are still going strong. I doubt they'll last as long as, say, Gap socks would, but I don't care. I can stretch them out with the Costco socks I still have--they're plain white, black, or grey socks--I wear boots in the winter so it hardly matters if my socks are boring. :D
Hmmm...I'm going to redesign some of our Cafepress items. I'd like a hoodie but I want the design to be more similar to the front page of the site. i.e. I'm going to literally lift the design off the front page and make it into the design for the hoodie.
--C.
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