You won't catch me wearing brown. Tan, and other brown offshoots yes. But I prefer my dirty colours nearer the green end of the spectrum.
― Pete, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Emma, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mark C, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― pathetic sheep, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
It's just occurred to me that I'll be wearing whatever's clean at Vicky's house, as I forgot to bring partying togs with me. Bet I end up wearing all black.
― chris, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Omar, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I will fite Mark C for his attack on Fashion at some future point.
― gareth, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
(I am flattered that my opinion is being sought on sartorial matters given most of the time people laff at my clothes. They do not understand.)
― Sarah, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Foh Pah, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Will, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ellie, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
when you mix all your primary colours. or like the mass of used and re-used plasticine in primary school. although. those are ugly browns. well. the second for sure.
I like brown. as a colour.
and there's nothing wrong with wearing brown with brown or wearing brown with black. actually. there's nothing wrong with me wearing brown with brown or wearing brown with black. I don't know about anyone else.
― richard john gillanders, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Honda, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tom, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Ellie chocolate limes are wuvly and you can still buy them. Dressing as one is probably going too far I'd agree.
(though it's funny how Emma always looks fine and I always look shit)
Yo, fashion police have arrived. Nothing to see here, folks, nothing to see here. Could you please move along and spit in the eyes of the Arcadia top brass on your way by, thankyewwwww.
As I believe Frank Zappa once said, BROWN SHOES DON'T MAKE IT. The exception to this rule is my Issey Miyake slingback trainers in brown, red, grey and black. In these shoes it is possible to wear combinations of these colours and white and beige. With very dark jeans.
A range of browns and beiges together is, if you're an oldster, very Jil Sander. If you are not it's a look Miu Miu have been working for the past two years. Japanese designers did burlappy-coloured browns combined with black in the mid-80s and if the last Issey Miyake sale is anything to go by he's doing it again soon. Also see suede buckle-up Vivienne Westwood boots worn with black rollneck by Ms K Moss and copied by all Primrose Hill fashion victims within 10 days. It's basically a restyling of the Johnny Marr rollneck/Clarks boots look, for girls. In plebland, colours in ther Burberry palette are worn together to match one's Burb key ring. In Muswell Hill, that should read 'handbag.'
Mandee, get a range of browns. Wear the darkest as trousers or skirt and pretty much anything goes on top. Browns with a dash of red is also very good.
Dressed all in black can work without being gothy. The cheat's in the makeup but that's best left for some other day.
― suzy, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― alix, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Menelaus Darcy, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
If you buy something because you genuinely like it AND it turns out to be fashionable, then you're lucky, because people who follow fashion will think you're cool (if you think that matters). What I resent is the fact that most people (me included) have both our common and aesthetic senses skewed by what other people have decreed is cool.
however i am oftern under the impression that any colour goes with any other (eg re + green whcih is favourite, even if epope thing you are some sort of santa elf). except lilac/puce. which goes well with dustbins.
― ambrose, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
(I got sent off at age 11 though so don't listen to me.)
Will, if your suit fell apart you should have taken it back. Suzy, most of the fashion media wuvs Top Shop as do many many mere mortals who have not inherited their grandmother's designer wardrobe. Mark C I never buy that there designer stuff cos I am too poor and I would never (well nearly never) buy something that doesn't suit me just cos it's fashionable. I am sure this has all come up on other threads but the only reason I like fashion is cos I love shopping and clothes and dressing up and fashion means that every couple of months there is more shopping to be done.
SEcond point (I'm pondering naturism now): someone told me on Sunday that there's a public nudist park in Munich called 'The ENglish Gardens'. ANyone know about this, or the history of the name??
― Nude Spock, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Madchen, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― toraneko, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
This is most distressing. I wish fashion would die horribly. I've been dressing the same way for fuX0ring years and then suddenly fashion comes along and starts debating whether I'm cool or not. I don't care, leave me alone. I like brown, I wear little else but brown (hey, that little else happens to be black, you know, sorry if this is some kind of faux pas). I wear a brown tie. Yeah, and now the Guardian has decided that this is Year Of The Tie or some such bollocks. It's like those tossers who wore Topshop Motorhead T- shirts; if I was a fan I wouldn't want to be associated with them, but why should I be forced stop showing my allegiance to a band I love just so people don't think I'm a cunt? I love my tie. I know I'm not the first person to wear one, but at least before these people were choosing that for themselves, rather than being dictated to.
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Anyway, my grandmother's designer wardrobe is the way I prefer to remember my grandmother, back in the days before my stepmother started stuffing Haldol down her throat, so stop sniping, Emma.
Sometimes clothes are about more than what's in the cycle for a three- month period and fashion designers and a vast majority of the writers on fashion and style realise that, even if you don't, and often that's what got them involved in fashion in the first place. Not the 'personalities', not the exact replication of the royal court and courtiers system by people who started out liberal or radical enough to know better, and certainly not because of all those perks you keep reading about. I love fashion because I appreciate (and have) style, and can cross-reference just about any look I see with a piece of art, a photograph or some bit of pop culture. That is FUN. It doesn't constitute the most important part of my life, and I'd never accept an invite to a party thrown by Donatella Versace.
Oh. The slingback trainers are a brown upper with red patent pointy tips and red at the strap and shoe back, grey trim and sole, some black edging. They ROCK.
― suzy, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I don't think I've ever done all brown but it can be done well. When so, it's very 40's, quietly elegant.
― Samantha, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link