Comments on: Your Personal Fashion Police http://happymortal.com/2010/01/your-personal-fashion-police/ This life, well-lived. Thu, 27 May 2010 00:04:07 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: willwindow http://happymortal.com/2010/01/your-personal-fashion-police/comment-page-1/#comment-761 willwindow Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:11:58 +0000 http://happymortal.com/?p=941#comment-761 Inspiration over mimicry. Love it. To me this connects to your point about positive and negative voices in fashion. We can't help but be influenced by current trends, and those things to which we have access (e.g. Australian fashion magazines). But mimicry implies a posture of fear and unawareness to me, while inspiration implies a posture of affirmation and increasing awareness of our influences. Inspiration over mimicry. Love it. To me this connects to your point about positive and negative voices in fashion. We can’t help but be influenced by current trends, and those things to which we have access (e.g. Australian fashion magazines). But mimicry implies a posture of fear and unawareness to me, while inspiration implies a posture of affirmation and increasing awareness of our influences.

]]> By: willwindow http://happymortal.com/2010/01/your-personal-fashion-police/comment-page-1/#comment-760 willwindow Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:07:26 +0000 http://happymortal.com/?p=941#comment-760 Ha! Great comments. Love the point about Buffalo being a second hand store. Also really resonate with "playing dress up" and the point that fashion speaks. Ha! Great comments. Love the point about Buffalo being a second hand store. Also really resonate with “playing dress up” and the point that fashion speaks.

]]> By: pebble http://happymortal.com/2010/01/your-personal-fashion-police/comment-page-1/#comment-759 pebble Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:34:06 +0000 http://happymortal.com/?p=941#comment-759 Most of the voices about fashion in my head and life are negative ones. (Good girls don't wear those things, you look like a slut, you look unattractive, you're too fat for that, you need to dress to show off your figure, you're prettier than you dress). Unfortunately I think girls and women are more likely to hear these voices from childhood up through adulthood. Either from real people, or the media. So for me, enjoying fashion and becoming the person that I want to look like means ignoring every voice I ever literally heard through my life and listening to my own. I really love fashion magazines, but more for inspiration than for mimicry. Especially british and australian ones. I love mens fashion magazines too. I adore the look of slight androgyny. And <a href="http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">The Sartorialist</a> is a must have. I love that it portrays people with so many different senses of what fashion is. I also love to listen to my own inner interpretation of the zeitgeist. ("What? The 1940's should be in right now? Ok.") And for the record, I'm trying to be a positive voice in the overall stream of negative ones toward women. (And I'm lucky to have a husband that does the same.) :) Most of the voices about fashion in my head and life are negative ones. (Good girls don’t wear those things, you look like a slut, you look unattractive, you’re too fat for that, you need to dress to show off your figure, you’re prettier than you dress). Unfortunately I think girls and women are more likely to hear these voices from childhood up through adulthood. Either from real people, or the media. So for me, enjoying fashion and becoming the person that I want to look like means ignoring every voice I ever literally heard through my life and listening to my own.

I really love fashion magazines, but more for inspiration than for mimicry. Especially british and australian ones. I love mens fashion magazines too. I adore the look of slight androgyny. And The Sartorialist is a must have. I love that it portrays people with so many different senses of what fashion is.

I also love to listen to my own inner interpretation of the zeitgeist. (”What? The 1940’s should be in right now? Ok.”)

And for the record, I’m trying to be a positive voice in the overall stream of negative ones toward women. (And I’m lucky to have a husband that does the same.) :)

]]> By: fellowdreamer http://happymortal.com/2010/01/your-personal-fashion-police/comment-page-1/#comment-757 fellowdreamer Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:00:11 +0000 http://happymortal.com/?p=941#comment-757 Great questions. For me, the great irony is that Buffalo Exchange doesn't actually deal in "the most current styles" because they are a second hand shop. They actually depend on some sort of timing differential between styles, or they depend on different folks enjoying different things at different times. Which, leads me to my next "point": the idea that there is one set of "current styles" has to go. Now more than ever we should realize the power of playing dress-up. You catch a vision or want to say something and you dress it. Most of the voices in my head that talk to me about fashion come from other types of art. Photography is a big one, whether fashion blogs and photos or period pieces, certain colors, composition, lines and the overall <em>feel</em> can inspire me. Great questions. For me, the great irony is that Buffalo Exchange doesn’t actually deal in “the most current styles” because they are a second hand shop. They actually depend on some sort of timing differential between styles, or they depend on different folks enjoying different things at different times.

Which, leads me to my next “point”: the idea that there is one set of “current styles” has to go. Now more than ever we should realize the power of playing dress-up. You catch a vision or want to say something and you dress it.

Most of the voices in my head that talk to me about fashion come from other types of art. Photography is a big one, whether fashion blogs and photos or period pieces, certain colors, composition, lines and the overall feel can inspire me.

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