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Posted by Colleen Shirazi, Saturday, February 25, 2006 9:13 PM (Eastern)
Okay, so now you've sat down and pondered, and have come up with a list of the most obvious fashion influences you have...the stuff that influenced you before you were sixteen years old.
For me...I've been attracted the most to function, utility, something that does something, something that wears next to forever, something that never really goes out of style. Something basic.
I dislike very expensive clothes. I suppose that might have something to do with being broke all the time rotfl...but even if I had money to burn, still I would not be attracted to say, that $10,000 dress. I'm not dissing it. I'm just saying, spending for the sake of spending does not interest me, so that's out.
As I type, I am wearing a golden-yellow Gap cotton sweater. I've had this for some years now. It's pretty boss, I wore it to work recently. (I still try to dress up for work...it's not that I have to. I just want to show the people I work for that I respect them.)
I'm also wearing those much-maligned (by me) Levi's 515 jeans. sigh They're at the point now where I want to replace them. It's extremely annoying. To me they should have lasted years longer than this.
So I will have to spend the money. Again--I'm not gravitating toward those fantastically expensive jeans. Remember? I don't like that kind of thing.
But, I can't spend less than what I already spent on the Levi's because all the jeans that I've read good reviews for (good reviews meaning the things LAST LONG and wear well), cost more. Possibly in the $50 range.
So that's my starting point. I want to find a pair of jeans that costs between $30 and $50 and makes it possible for me to NOT GO JEANS SHOPPING for as long as possible, preferably at least five years.
How many pairs of jeans to buy? Aside from my work stuff, I live in jeans. I have two young kids, need I say more?
I've been living with the two pairs of 515's and a lone pair of black Guess? jeans for a couple years now. Three pairs is about right. (Infuriatingly enough, the Guess? jeans are in better shape than the Levi's, and they're much older.)
So, for my $50 jeans spree, I will probably buy two pairs and ditch the Levi's. The Guess? jeans are still okay--keep 'em.
Do I need to buy shoes? No. I've been lazily wearing my slip-on Doc Martens Air Wear shoes, but I have a perfectly good pair of DM boots at the ready.
Do I need to buy shirts? I probably do. I'm currently milking the last drops of wear from some of my shirts. grumbles Again I will be stuck buying more expensive shirts. It's less of a fashion thing and more of a "I can't afford to buy cheap clothes" thing...but I'm thinking...of just a few shirts. I'm putting it off frankly.
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