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Posted by Raphaelle, Friday, August 19, 2005 7:51 AM (Eastern)
The title is reminiscent of some children's toys but mostly, it's about how this blog makes me feel. I read all your posts and I'm intimidated a bit. All of you analyze fashion and style in a way I can't. I don't feel competent to participate in these discussions/dissertations. My mind just doesn't work that way. It's much like analyzing paintings, sculptures, writing. I've never been good at that and I've always known it. I don't mind. I've just always been more like the artist than the critic. I read a book and the best I can do is analyze what I liked and didn't like. I can't draw parallels between the book and the writer's life, I can't see anything particular in the choice of words. I'll can't pick out trends from fashion shows or define what style is. The same goes for all forms of art.
I'll have a vision of what I want and I'll try to reproduce it. It's the way I function when I write, paint, draw, dance, put on makeup, dress, cook... When it comes to fashion, function comes into play but still, I know exactly what I want an outfit to look like and I can spend years looking for the perfect item for a specific outfit. I'm usually told I'm well dressed and have style but, much like the artist, I'm never quite content. There's always a detail that doesn't quite work like I want it to. And if I ever reach perfection in an outfit, it doesn't take long for me to tire of it or for one of the items to die.
This rather artistic perspective on the world is what makes me hesitant to criticize or praise anything. Almost every person I see, no matter how awful I think their appearance, has something interesting. Some detail that I can appreciate, sometimes even incorporate into my own "work". I don't believe in rules, or rather absolute truths. I can't. They stifle creativity. Temporary rules will stimulate it by creating obstacles to overcome but absolute truths? Those rules like "Never wear this with that, ever"? I say to hell with them. They don't allow me to be me. Unless of course, the rule is "Wear a warm coat, hat, and mittens when it's -40 out"...
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5:32 PM,
Welcome to the LP blogs!
Yeahhhhh...I'm not artistic, at all. I don't think that way. So you will be useful around here. :)
I always think in terms of function, on some level or another. If I buy something, I'm already thinking about next year, or the next few years, or the next ten years, depending on what I'm buying.
Mmmmm...say I bought my daughter a blouse. I remember that this brand of clothes wears well. She still has two blouses from this brand from last school year that show no sign of wear. That says a lot because kids' clothes have to be washed constantly.
The next brand has prettier clothes but wears slightly less well. So...let's get some things from this brand but not a whole lot.
My daughter dresses far better than I do. shrugs That is why I don't buy clothes for myself that often. I have to be far more creative with my own clothes. I won't spend the money.
For her, she is so young. She has to start thinking of herself as a pretty girl, an attractive girl...because if she doesn't now, it will take her years and years to start thinking that way.
1:24 AM,
test...sorry, the server was dorking up today.
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