Unaffiliated

I have been looking for the last four years, at least, for the perfect pair of leggings. Ever since they became popular again. While I like being original, I'm fine with wearing something that's popular. About half the time they don't work at all. The other half is also split into half: either the back looks funny or the front looks funny.

So, I like leggings. And leggings are popular. As I said, and yes this is redundant, I'm okay with them being popular. But at my school they have become popular in a way that it makes me uncomfortable and a little bit antagonistic about. Lots of inner turmoil, leggings have caused me of late.

There are several sororities at my school. I'm not in one but they're pretty popular. Of course, the sororities have their own stereotypes. This one sorority, let's call them the Plastics, I have come to have very strong feelings against. I acknowledge that it's kind of weird that I do because the one Plastic that I actually know, and I know her pretty well, I quite like. I don't really conflate her with her sisters, but I don't really know her sisters. Of course, someone who wouldn't know her might see her just as another hateful Plastic, so I'm also acknowledging that maybe if I got to know some of the other Plastics better I'd like them, too.

They're the "hot" girls. They're the party-harders. They have status just by being Plastics. They have long wavy hair, they're skinny, they smoke cigarettes and they wear leggings. "Leggings and boots is definitely a Plastics look," my biddie Susie Q said the other day.

I feel myself slowly getting sucked into the "dressing for guys" group, instead of the "dressing for girls" group, which is one that I quite like. It's the one that you wear crazy vintage things in. I've had some recent frustrations in relation to the menfolk, and it's fine, but sometimes I just wonder if it'd be easier, for several reasons, to just dress in a nice pair of jeans or leggings and a nice shirt. And boys would like it.

I don't want to resent the Plastics. And I don't want to buy leggings just because they do and the boys see this aura of sex over them.

Writing in a dark room

Granny fashion

Sonia Rykiel pre-fall 10

The Mean Reds

"The Essence of Red" Liu Wen by Kai Z Feng, styled by Jamie Surman for Vogue China October 2009.

Armani Woman

This is the most beautiful Giorgio Armani ad I have ever seen

Kristen McMenamy shot by Peter Lindbergh, fall 97

Giorgio Armani ads are usually just glamorous and shiny, with very little personality. With this ad, it feels a little sad, Kristen is giving a story to this Armani woman (something to think about: in ads, when is a model playing herself and when is she playing a character?). But she's also staring right at us, there's a real intenseness: some heartbreak but no fear. To match the unsettled quality, the photograph is grainy. I like how her face is lit, bleaching it somewhat, but her body, particularly her arm, has some drastic shading.

Holy Crap Iekeliene Stange has a Facebook

If I just added "Iekeliene Stange" to my interests, would it also be excessive to become a fan of her? (you know, like adding her page or whatever on Fbook)

Relook: Marc by Marc spring10

Beer and Water

Maybe I just couldn't explain why I liked America because I was just following a trend. Well, darn.

that Iris Strubegger is doing well for herself

Sitting in bed, it's raining for the first time since I've been in Baltimore, listening to Beastie Boys and looking at Givenchy Pre-Fall. Bought a floral dress yesterday, at Avenue Antiques, and it might be actually successful as all other floral I end up returning. I also tried on a nude slip at Dreamland. I tried the same piece on freshmen year, so I'm leaving it be for now, as I figure that it'll still be there in a month if it's still been there for two years. Thinking about things; I haven't written creatively in over a month.

two I-name titles in a row. Huh.

Isabella Approved

Giles pre-fall. And it's orange.

The Shape of a Neckline

DVF shirt, Comme des Garcons skirt