Writes Simbarashe Cha, in "Clothes With Stories to Tell/See all the outfits from around the world that were featured this year in our Look of the Week column" (NYT)(and I'd like to make that a gift link so you could see all the many photographs, but I've used up all my gift links for the year)(ADDED: gift link).
Can I derive a few hints on how to dress yourself? Yes: 1. If you think you are dressed, think again and add 2 more things, 2. Big pants, clunky shoes, 3. A hat and a hood, 4. We're not doing quiet rich, we're doing loud working class, replete with ludicrously capacious bag, 5. Leopard prints.
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If you think you are dressed, think again and add 2 more things.
This includes up to 37 additional pieces of flair.
Good looking women are good looking, and that's pretty much true no matter what they do. Some exceptions for facial piercings and tats, but good looks trump style and fashion. I guess some flair accessories can serve as cautionary or welcoming signs for different demos, but good looking women get hit on by everybody no matter how they dress.
OTOH Coco Chanel famously advised, "Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory,"
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The fashion class and elitist empathy with the expanded.
A suggested article at the NYT link --
"She Tried to Kill a President. He Loved Her Anyway."
"A retired widower married Sara Jane Moore, who shot at President Ford in 1975. It tore his family apart."
https://archive.ph/Im24y
Naughty (Would-be Assassin) Girls (Need Love Too)
"Some of the looks impressed me from afar, drawing my gaze with big coats..."
Clothes With Stories to Tell/See all the outfits from around the world that were featured this year in our Look of the Week column" (NYT).
Speaking about "stories to tell... from around the world," ever look and wonder why it is that subsaharan peoples would choose to locate in cold northern states that require "big coats" to stay warm?
I guess now we know.
Thanks, Mary Beth! Those were definitely some interesting looks, although most don't reflect my personal style choices. The one guy with the white '70s-style shirt that would have been worn with a leisure suit made me pray that the '70s styles were not coming back. We had some damn ugly clothes in the '70s!
I thought that the strangest-looking one was the guy in the red turtleneck and long brown coat, with the dark trousers just visible from the calf down. It made him look like he had little bitty legs.
The New York Times seems to have a lot of pointless crap to talk about today.
Things must be going well for the country if that is the case.
"...We had some damn ugly clothes in the '70s! ..."
I can't ever think about the 70s without seeing the Sears catalog and their ridiculous models in weird poses wearing those fashions, a hand casually in a pocket of some polyester monstrosity with flares and wide lapels, and so on.
details like coins in the straps of loafers
So the fashion writer for the NYT has discovered penny loafers?
“If you think you are dressed, think again and add 2 more things”
Warning: infinite loop alert.
Thanks Mary Beth for the link. I’ll say I liked most of the Asian looks, but I would not wear them, not being Asian, and yes I dug the black seventies looks, with a similar proviso.
I just attended a wedding where the best man wore that look, almost a “in the sixties, this look might get you assassinated for being such a well dressed black man” look, and he looked great.
I find this even more attractive than Bridget Bardot, and it's nothing to do with fashion or tits:
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/2005035840934723894?s=20
Parachute pants. Hammer time.
These looks remind me of the Dorcus Menswear catalog which James Lileks has curated at his site.
Dorcus Menswear for the Seventies Guy
Meloni is attractive and accomplished. You've come a long way, baby.
Meloni is the consummate modern woman: strong, inspiring and a born leader, yet feminine, human, and approachable. I feel like she could lead international negotiations, spank our enemies, and then come home and be an fun, sexy, ingenue, and go back the next day and do it again.
While I join with the civilized world in encouraging people to put more thought into their dress, only a few of those people are properly stylish. Most are quite schlubby.
details like coins in the straps of loafers
I wonder if she knows that is a vintage look—they’re called penny loafers and were very common half a century ago.
It looks like most of them just put on whatever, without any care for how they looked. Is that the fashion today?
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