Hmmm...
Posted by
Colleen Shirazi,
Tuesday, August 02, 2005
9:36 PM (Eastern)
Weeeellll...ya left out a couple of factors in what makes style. One is--utility. Perhaps not a direct function, as in wearing, say, a rubber thimble on your finger, or steel-toed boots. lol What can I say? Style to me has never been a product of leisure; it has always had an underlying purpose. If you remove the purpose, the construction has no meaning.
That could be partly because I am an engineer. To me, function is decorative. And partly because I am an American. We have a class system, but we do not have a caste system. It's quite different; we've never had royalty.
Where did jeans...the very symbol of success, or so it would seem...come from? Why did the world fall in love with the jean? Who else could have invented the jean. It is the sheer utility...thick denim, rivets, tough cotton thread that nails the seams...that is the beauty.
That's not even going into the denim jacket, the tee shirt, the tan, for that matter....
Another factor is age. The longer you own something...either you love it more or you love it less. You seldom see it exactly the same way you did ten, twenty, thirty years ago.
So...to me, something acquires more value the older it gets, assuming you didn't give it away or toss it out. I suppose there are fake-aged products around, but they never look the same as genuinely aged products.
Another factor is wearing something that was made by hand. Something imperfect, or so individual that it's just as good as imperfect. These products contain a fragment of the spirit of the person who made them. They are different from anything mass-produced.
This may all be working class natterings, but I don't think so. These are the very factors that are copied whenever they can be, but like any other copies, they are...well, just that.
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