― Madchen, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Emma, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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― Omar, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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― 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