Shallow fashion rant
May. 7th, 2004 03:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
1. As stated before, spring is the WORST time for me to get new clothes. Nothing is slinky or structured or just clean-cut or red or black. It's all ruffly and pink and green. Hrmph.
2. I am very VERY tired of the current skirt lengths. Tell me who, precisely, does the mid-calf length flatter? No woman I know looks better in a mid-calf than an at-the-knee length. It's all about lines and proportions, and most of us have legs that look like we use them. Also, when the mid-calf is combined with the high-waisted, I look like the dowdiest dowd this side of Dowdonia. It ain't good. I've taken to shopping in the Petites section, because at least I know the waist will hit at the right spot. Sheesh.
3. I am having to shop for new clothes at this, the worst time for it, because all of my old clothes are starting to look worn, and the worn that can't be repaired or redyed. Bother.
4. Men? If you are going to dye your hair (which I am all for, believing as I do that hair is a fashion accessory), pleasepleaseplease spend the extra $5 or so and plonk down for Feria or Herbal Essences, because the Just For Men colors Do Not Cut It. They look flat and fake-R. It's not good. Believe me. Either that, or go to Aveda. They know what to do.
5. What happened to the tall, sexy, yet still sensible-making wide or flared heels? Why is everything all about the stiletto heels now? I'm not liking it. It feels like the fashion designers are trying to make us all helpless and girly and unable to walk for more than a block. And the wedges aren't much better.
6. For the love of all that's holy, do NOT let spandex bike shorts come back into fashion acceptance. Please, let us just bury that horrific time and move on. Please.
Okay. That's it, for now.
2. I am very VERY tired of the current skirt lengths. Tell me who, precisely, does the mid-calf length flatter? No woman I know looks better in a mid-calf than an at-the-knee length. It's all about lines and proportions, and most of us have legs that look like we use them. Also, when the mid-calf is combined with the high-waisted, I look like the dowdiest dowd this side of Dowdonia. It ain't good. I've taken to shopping in the Petites section, because at least I know the waist will hit at the right spot. Sheesh.
3. I am having to shop for new clothes at this, the worst time for it, because all of my old clothes are starting to look worn, and the worn that can't be repaired or redyed. Bother.
4. Men? If you are going to dye your hair (which I am all for, believing as I do that hair is a fashion accessory), pleasepleaseplease spend the extra $5 or so and plonk down for Feria or Herbal Essences, because the Just For Men colors Do Not Cut It. They look flat and fake-R. It's not good. Believe me. Either that, or go to Aveda. They know what to do.
5. What happened to the tall, sexy, yet still sensible-making wide or flared heels? Why is everything all about the stiletto heels now? I'm not liking it. It feels like the fashion designers are trying to make us all helpless and girly and unable to walk for more than a block. And the wedges aren't much better.
6. For the love of all that's holy, do NOT let spandex bike shorts come back into fashion acceptance. Please, let us just bury that horrific time and move on. Please.
Okay. That's it, for now.
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Date: 2004-05-07 01:20 pm (UTC)I don't think there's a length of skirt I don't like, though, from edge of ass to skimming the ground. Mid calf makes me feel retro or faux-frumpy, and I like it with mary janes, either conventional or high-heeled.
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Date: 2004-05-07 01:23 pm (UTC)I dunno. I want minis back, dammit!
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Date: 2004-05-07 01:30 pm (UTC)I keep seeing cute knee-length ruffly black skirts with pink ribbons, and wishing that that they were *ankle* length. But I'm crazy and I know it.
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Date: 2004-05-07 01:44 pm (UTC)I just bought a brilliant red outfit in slinky knit yesterday at Chino's. Half-off because it's a winter color.
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Date: 2004-05-07 02:07 pm (UTC)Oh, bother. You know what I mean, though. Right?
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Date: 2004-05-07 02:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-07 02:24 pm (UTC)Love.
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Date: 2004-05-07 02:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-07 02:03 pm (UTC)For the heels, I'd suggest Nine West. Their "career" shoes have flared or eliptical shaped heels and are decently priced.
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Date: 2004-05-07 06:32 pm (UTC)Shoes? Well, I hate flared heels. Sorry. I spent ten years without seeing a single pair of heels I liked; they all seemed to be those graceless clunky chunky faux-Victorian "please, sir, can I have some more?" workhouse heels that fucking Manolo Blahnik made popular. I like my heels, but I have no trouble walking in them, so I'm kind of a freak. I'd be perfectly happy with a sleek, not-high wedge, or flats, but I just hate chunky clunky boy-shoes. On this, there is no budging me; they make me tooth-grindy and leave me wanting to beat the designer over the head with them.
Of course, I may be the only one out there that thinks kitten heels are dopey-looking, so I am clearly not a trustworthy fashion barometer.
But I'm with you 100% on spring colours. When your best colours are deep primaries - emerald, copper, sapphire - spring is the Season of Perpetual Dreck.
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Date: 2004-05-07 08:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-07 08:59 pm (UTC)Sorry JFM, I have brown and auburn hair, and I'm greying at the temples. I *don't* want to use your brown, and I * don't* want to use your auburn, if it indeed exists it looks like dark barn paint.
I had better color integration hair with spray hair paint in theater.
I have a box of Feria deep auburn that I'm debating for my first real dye application.
Mr. procrastination, really. I've had the box two years. heh.
Ummm...
Date: 2004-05-07 10:56 pm (UTC)Re: Ummm...
Date: 2004-05-08 08:32 am (UTC)