tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4552095805016075110.post673091163606362456..comments2023-08-29T06:21:59.623-04:00Comments on Century Fille: The Fashion TightropeYiQi C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01218685843773251449noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4552095805016075110.post-74694597320992283232007-07-03T03:16:00.000-04:002007-07-03T03:16:00.000-04:00Emulating classic Hollywood actresses and the mod ...Emulating classic Hollywood actresses and the mod look are good--when none of the department stores and chain retail shops are shoving the look down ya throat. <BR/><BR/>I've found shopping for clothes in the the last three years to be very tedious. Most of the patterns turn me off and the fabrics even more so. My default stores are uninspired or can't quite convince me to invest. But i have purchased a few pairs of pants & many tops in the last three years--all by chance and serve practical purposes. <BR/><BR/>Eg. chinos.YiQi C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01218685843773251449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4552095805016075110.post-11854037810128071022007-07-02T21:39:00.000-04:002007-07-02T21:39:00.000-04:00I love how you ended the post. I agree completely,...I love how you ended the post. I agree completely, of course : )<BR/><BR/>Sometimes, the tension is good-- b/c it prevents me from wearing such atrocities as the synthetic kimono dress.<BR/><BR/>Ensembling is also important. A dress or pair of pants that may look iffy on their own look good when paired with the right blouses & accessories.<BR/><BR/>From my experience, adapting trends established and well respected-- emulating Audrey Hepburn, Katherine Hepburn, the mod era-- are a good place to start.Ishtarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10548751349956988548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4552095805016075110.post-84709005512096275512007-07-02T01:37:00.000-04:002007-07-02T01:37:00.000-04:00Tension of Fashion. It’s the strain between what w...<B>Tension of Fashion. It’s the strain between what we should wear in any given situation and what we really want to wear as individuals.</B><BR/><BR/><B>than why is it that following fashion continues to be considered a frivolous interest, though it plays such an enormous role in our day-to-day lives?</B><BR/><BR/>Fashion as something other than "clothes," that which human beings of certain cultures must wear in order to abide by social norms, is all about money. Beyond the issue of what is appropriate for a situation (wedding, funeral, high school, fancy restaurant, a bowling alley), some individuals find themselves dependent upon the publishing and film industry to tell them what they should wear to look cool. <BR/><BR/>For other folks, clothes is an means of self-expression. A person's self-presentation consists primarily of clothes. Though it's better not to assume the person under the clothes subscribes to the beliefs and "lifestyle" associated with what they've got on, it frequently can't be helped. Hence, the rapist that will blame the victim for dressing like a whore or too provocatively. <BR/><BR/>On a somewhat related note, I think I've got an explanation for why men can re-shape their bodies so quickly, in other words, why they lose weight more easily than women. If it's the male of the species in the animal kingdom that has the bright colors for feathers or scales and the big manes, it's because they have to attract the females (based on looks and perhaps nest-building abilities). Thus, human males would naturally be the ones to have the physiological advantage of re-designing their bodies in order to be more desirable. What complicates it, though, is that different people like different kinds of body shapes and sizes. <BR/><BR/>Of course (heterosexual) women (and perhaps homosexual men) probably spend more money on keeping up appearances than heterosexual men, but within the last thirty years, men have slowly but surely become conscious of their looks to the point of buying creams and virtually developing anorexia athletica.YiQi C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01218685843773251449noreply@blogger.com