Fashion 2008: I’m mad as hell and….
I’m old enough to remember that movie, and perhaps you are not. The phrase describes how I feel right now about retail fashion.
Remember I said that sometimes the search terms used to find me affect what I write about? Well, lately summer style 2008 has headed the list day after day, so I thought, time to post about what there is to wear this year.
I’m looking. And looking. Retail fashion does not care if you look pretty. So far none of the pretty and female (I do not say feminine because it often has overtones I do not intend) clothes that were on the runways has made it to the main street or mall shops. And yet if I look at street fashion sites I see girls and women wearing exactly those things.
The shops are filled with the usual shapeless or badly shaped separates. One famous chain on both sides of the Atlantic looks as if they found a great white sale in the sheet department of Bloomingdales. There is a complement of street hooker once more. There are low slung and too tight pants, adhesive and too short tops sprinkled with copies of 1950s maternity smocks.
I continue to look. I am steaming here. I feel like I want to draw what should be in those shops, tag them with fabric samples and post that. But what good would that do? I can’t make them for you, even if you liked them. On Sunday January 13, 2008, I have not yet found good clothes except those we’ve already seen on the runways of the major world designers. And that makes me mad.
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