DEAR ANONYMOUS
October 10th 2008 01:13
DEAR ANONYMOUS
Dear Anonymous whoever you are ( you recently commented on my Garcia list blogs) I will continue to comment on Fashion and Style in the Fashion category whenever I feel like it?
Why does "Fashion" need critiques!
Because there are too many thoughtless "Fashionistas" who behave like this!
1) Telling me I should try the maternity bras because I have a C cup and not MINUS A and asked why the bras are all underwired pushup or hideous colors?
3) Implying snidely any one over size ... is it called zero or 6 this week is obese?
4) Promoting foot deforming stilettos and other shoes cos they're allegedly cute and sexy!
5) Insisting the opinions of some overpaid NEW YORK based fashion editor apply to Aussies!
6) Thinking "Ugly Betty" is a awful program cos it's a satire!
7) Not complaining when Ugy Betty was bumped out of its slot.
8) Anatgonizing every SF fan who hasnt got a DVD player or cant afford DVD sets or cable or HD plasma TVs by watching those inane "reality programs" and pushing their ratings up and hence bumping programs like Torchwood into kiss if death slots.
I dont care who the next supermodels will be!
9) Not actively designing or promoting the few ready to wear ranges that suit all ages and shapes.
The only reason most of us pay any attention to what's on the catwlalk is so we can try to guess what the ready to wear versions will be like and which "innovations" (most of which are not ) will be wearable by people with more normal body shapes!
10) Acting like fashion is some kind of cult. Anyone outisde the cult who criticizes it is of course evil angry bitter fat unfashionable ignorant etc.
Why does "Fashion" need critiques!
I inivite my readers to add to the list above!
As for Anonymous who may not have checked my other blogs.
I have a Classics M.A. and create images and text in various media.
Possibly I might just have a few valid ideas about style having studied several thousand years of its evolution?
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Comment by katyzzz
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Your list seems very comprehensive to me. I think fashion sets back the liberation of women in this day and age.
Only valued as dress up toys, we females, especially the young and the wealthy, not for the serious minded, although even they fall victim.
It must be the remnants of that reptilian brain, certainly nothing to do with the cerebral cortex.
Comment by Lady Henrietta Muddling
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Because there are too many thoughtless "Fashionistas" who behave like this!
11) Um, because modern fashion, and the young slim model are the direct result of 20th C, homosexual fashion designers in Paris wanting their models to look like young boys. (To quote Jules from Pulp Fiction: "And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.")
12) Paying an obscene amount of money for tattered designer clothes, scraggly unkempt hair, and a face overcaked in makeup can be achieved for nothing by sleeping in your clothes in a pig pen?
13) Most of the material on the posts has already been published elsewhere.
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Comment by Julie Vaux
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I think too many designers are trying to exploit knowingly or not the humans' hard wiring to respond to a neotonous look, that same hard wiring that leads to teenagers confusing cute with sexy.
Trouble is their insistence on an ideal image effects the ready to wear trade making it difficult for the rest of us to find good clothing.
The primary purpose of clothing is protection.
The secondary purpose is adornment.
"Wearable art" another excuse for "fashion" at its worst should be tertiary on this scale but fashion designers think the purospoe fo clothing is wearabel art FIRST.
This is a gross distortion of the Form Follows Function design rule!
The primary function of fashion should be to create beauty but too many fashion designers expect us to support their illusions or should that be delusions of what beauty is ,"the look", which is oh so transient .
There would be a lot less complaints about fashion being out of touch with real female body shapes if the fashion world remembered that yes some garments can be works of art but that the function of that object of art is to enhance its wearer.
My next fashion post will be on one of the classic "fashion" items which Garcia left off her list!
It's an basic item suitable for many body shapes that can be both comfortable or uncomfortable, and something worn by both farmers and models.
No prizes for trying to guess what this classic item is!
Exits laughing evilly!
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