No need to get gussied up when you’re afraid to leave your apartment. And sure, some of that may be true, but I’m looking for something a bit deeper. I want to talk about what killed the essence of fashion — the very soul of creativity and expression once shared by both designer and customer.
https://www.revolver.news/2022/10/how-fashion-as-a-lethal-weapon-successfully-destroyed-america/
Fashion, since its inception, has always been a method for dividing the "haves" from the "have-nots."
Agreed. And I’d consider myself a gal who does really like fashion. I can appreciate the craftsmanship and design of a luxury hand bag. But I don’t own one. Never have. I can’t justify dropping thousands of dollars on one purse knowing we need to pay off our car or buy a new dishwasher. My own situation aside, it’s a shame that people can’t simply appreciate fashion and see it through a lens of artistic expression rather than vanity and an “I’m better than you” perspective.
...valid observation...
https://youtu.be/Hi8vXOUi-eI?t=96
This always stuck with me. David Bowie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-z6u5hFgPk
...the Thin White Duke could string some words together....
All art and creativity is dead in the totalitarian state. Art requires free expression. Can't have that.
...ugly and sterile rules the day....
Not in my world. I'm about to go full on eccentric in a small town on the coast of Maine. I've been here since 2017, it's time to let my guard down. Just be you.
And to add to it. Fashion has never even really been a choice. You don’t design your own clothes. You (probably) don’t sew your own sweaters. Other people have always decided what everyone wears. Since the beginning of “fashion”. It’s another illusion of choice. The clothes in your closet… would it really have been what you want to wear? Or was it simply your favorite option of the select clothes to buy in the stores around you? What would your style really have been if the styles you see today didn’t matter or weren’t created?
Hmm. He oversimplified some things, I think. Hepburn's tough approach probably kept her from being preyed upon by Weinstein types, because she and Spencer Tracy certainly got along. Women and men did dress up more to go out, in their special going out clothes, but the housewives I remember from the fifties definitely didn't have the Mrs. Cleaver look around the house, and ditching the tie was the first thing after work. When synthetics came along and clothes were mass produced, they got simpler and simpler and it was fine because people could afford more daily wear. They didn't care about the relatively poor quality because it was cheap and since not enough cared the trend accelerated. Then the victim crowd came along with the fat is healthy stuff--that is a SJW problem more than a fashion trend.
...valid observations....
Very good article, very insightful. I would have said the decline started in the 60s with the hippie movement, but the author accurately carried it all the way back to the 1930s.
...dungarees destroyed the Empire...
I have a whole book about Marlene Dietrich. She was an icon.
..."leaving something to the imagination" has gone out of style....
Isn’t it funny how the “minimalist look” has become so popular amongst gen z and millennials?
...truth....
Pull yer darn pants up!
...the jailhouse sissy look...