So I've been reading a lot since I've been home...mostly Vogue, because my subscription gets sent to my parents' house and I had three issues waiting for my return to California. This, of course, has me thinking a lot more about clothes than I normally would. Trends, silhouettes, colors, eco-friendliness...there's really a lot to it. I don't like most of it. I read Vogue for the journalism, the photography, and the perfume samples. Many of the looks I see are as unattractive as they are impractical--and so expensive! No one should ever need to pay $850 for ugly shoes. I live in jeans and t-shirts during the week and love dressing up for Sunday and other special occasions--I'm always on the lookout for new skirts and dresses. I always want to look nice, but I've never paid more than $45 for a dress...and that was the time I bought fabric for a prom dress my grandma sewed.
No matter what stage of life I'm in or how much money I end up making one day, I probably won't spend much more than that per article of clothing. I've thought a lot lately about the Book of Mormon's description of the proud and wicked. Several times it their "costly apparel" is brought up. The righteous, on the other hand "did not wear costly apparel, yet they were neat and comely." Not fashionable. Not icons. Neat and comely. That's I'd like to be. I don't have to pour money into the pockets of fashion houses (which seem more like abstract artists and less like designers of clothing every day) or overhaul my wardrobe every season to look nice.
But this is still a concept I'm working on...in some of dreams I wear Oscar de la Renta head to toe.
I wish fashion magazines had more reasonably priced clothes as well as those that are actually likely to be worn by "normal" people.
ReplyDeleteI have no intention of spending $1000+ on clothes that only some one who looks anorexic can look good in.