· Blog Home
· Profile
Older Articles
· Building a basic wardrobe
· Convicted Clothing
· Odd thoughts about stockings and a review
· Woollies
· What to pack for a trip to Jamaica, part 2
· Packing for a holiday in Jamaica
· Great lower-end brand of shoes...
· Beading blog up!
· New blog in the works
· Jewelry making #20
Comments
Archives
TheBroadroom.Net's Fashion Blog (archive)
· April 2005
· May 2005
· June 2005
· July 2005
· August 2005
· September 2005
· October 2005
· November 2005
· December 2005
· January 2006
· February 2006
· March 2006
· April 2006
· May 2006
· June 2006
· July 2006
· August 2006
· September 2006
· October 2006
· November 2006
· December 2006
· January 2007
· February 2007
· March 2007
· April 2007
· May 2007
· June 2007
Posted by Colleen Shirazi, Monday, February 20, 2006 8:04 PM (Eastern)
Okay...so I think the first step is to sit down and remember your earliest fashion influences, whomever or whatever they happen to be. Because clothing for humans functions as protection, camouflage, mating gear...everything that fur, feathers or hide does for the rest of the animal kingdom. In short you have to feel at the end of the day, that your clothing is an outer skin. You have to feel comfortable and natural in it.
So my short list would be as follows:
- Cheap Chic, the book
- Annie Hall
- Flashdance
- Brooke Shields
- The Clash
- Madonna
- Seventeen magazine in the 70's
I was attracted to all of these, I think, because all meant style over...substance? Style over money. Even when I was a kid, I disliked the notion of buying something conspicuously expensive, unless it was a fabulous item that just happened to be expensive.
I used to go to these parties. The cool people in Norfolk would be hanging out there, wearing their Marilyn Monroe buttons and other cool items. There were tons of cheap vintage items...$3 pumps, $5 dresses. Stuff from the 20's and 30's. I suppose it's all gone now or else it's actually called "vintage" or "antique" and priced accordingly.
So. For me now, I need to get my money's worth buying clothes, that was always important to me, whether it is a $3 shoe you wear when you're fifteen, or a $100 pair of shoes you need to buy later on.
Which brings us to...shoes.I like Dr. Martens. It's my favorite brand. Granted, it's not an office type of shoe. But they're great shoes. It's the only brand I wear outside of office-type situations.
Cole Haan is a nice office shoe brand. I have an old pair of these...sighs I always get compliments on them. They're getting old now but that would be the first brand I'd look at for a replacement.
Good shoes are worth the money. It is not imo worth it to buy cheap shoes (unless as I say, you can still find those $3 vintage pumps). Cheap shoes wear out after a year, the heels wear down, you have to replace them...good shoes don't wear out. I have three pairs of Doc Martens that have yet to show a single sign of wear.
So--find your brands of shoes and figure out where you want to buy them. (I've heard people Ebay Doc Martens.)
Image courtesy media.venda.com
Recent blog posts:
Post a comment (NO SPAM)