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Let's have a fashion advice thread.
Ladybug:
I definitely agree with what's said before me. Number 1 is amazing, and I also really like #3, but I'm a skeptic about #2.
redglasscurls:
I like the first and third the best too, though the third really really needs accessories to make it interesting. I think the length of the second cuts off your legs at a strange point, and the sleeves would be cuter with just a flat strap instead of the little mini sleeve
Lines:
Thanks guys! And yeah, now that I think about it, #2 does have a lot of ruffles. I'm going back Monday to buy some, so I think I'll go with the first one and one of the ones I didn't take a picture of. (I grabbed the wrong size and was too lazy to go back and hunt for the right size, as I was just checking stuff out.)
Krina:
I think #1 looks gerat on you, Linds! Did you just want to buy a nice dress (I looove summer dresses!), or were you buying something for a special occasion?
So I have been wondering a bit about fashion lately... When did it happen that certain labels of clothing are always connotated with a certain peer group and that when you buy and wear certain clothes, you automatically make a statement about what social sphere you are from or pretend to be from, about your income and whatever social group you see yourself in? I asked my Mum, she is in her late fifties, and she told me that when she was my age (i.e. in her early twenties), there was already the same thing going on. There were "cool" labels and "uncool" ones. can any of the older and wiser forumites enlighten me on this? Was there ever a time when a shirt was just a shirt, no matter who made it?
Also, how do you people play the fashion game? I don't like it when there are really big and ostentatious labels on my clothes, I mean I'm not an advertisement board. Does anyone see what would be fun about that? I just spend a day shopping in an affluent North Italian city, and I picked items because I liked how they looked on me, but I really have now idea at all what sort of statement I'm making with them. I usually am really lazy about fashion - I buy things that I like and that I find stylish and that I expect to have a long lifespan every once in a while and then wear them pretty much every day, except for when I wash them. I always wished I could go to school in a country where they had school uniforms. So, question: Are uniforms really, I don't know, "anonymous"? Is a white shirt just a white shirt in a school uniform or does it matter again, in the social hierarchy and the "cool game" that a lot of people play, what label you are wearing? And how do you integrate labels into your personal style?
I am also wondering about the prices of things. I don't think that 500 Pounds for a handbag by say, Prada, is a realistic price judged on what the company spends on the costs of production and material. You obviously pay for buying an item with a certain name on it. Where I go to Uni (in the UK), all the students go shopping at Primark all the time. You can buy a complete outfit for 5 Pounds or less there. That obviously isn't a realistic price either. I don't think that if a T-Shirt costs 1 Pound or less the people at the bottom of the chain who do the sewing etc. can be paid a fair wage. If people are nice enough to sew clothes for me, I want them to be paid decently! (I also don't buy things in that sort of shop because I saw a TV documentary about how people who work in these places get really ill from all the chemicals in the clothes.) So what option does that leave me with, other than making all my clothes myself? Where can you even shop anymore these days and not feel terribly guilty about the working conditions? All the places I know that sell clothes which are produced ecologically and politically correct are reallyreally expensive and/or the clothes look like sacks.
I'm really interested in what people have to say on that. Sorry for the essay, I'll stop procrastinating now and get things done!
Lines:
I'm buying some just because I like summer dresses.
I don't really get the brand name thing other than when it comes to brands I've been happy with and are generally reliable. (This almost always only replies to pants and shoes.) But I do have a "D&G" purse, which I bought because 1. I needed a purse and 2. it's aqua and kind of cute. People ask all the time if it's real, to which I say, "Hell no!" and then get asked why I got it. "Because I needed a purse?" I mean, it's a bag that holds things. Also useful for keeping rocks in. I mean, it's a bag, who cares.
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