Remember when you were in college and you had a morning class, and you were up all night studying (or more likely partying) and you could barely manage to drag yourself out of bed, let alone get dressed? So you just threw on a sweatshirt and some shoes and went to class in your PJ pants? Well, I never did that, because no matter how little I slept I always valued looking good over sleeping more, but I knew lots of people that did and I used to tease them for it. If you WERE such a person, then you can celebrate. Above to the left is a more ‘grown up’, high end kind of pajama, made just for wearing in public!
The dress to the right in the same fabric is rather lovely however. It reminds me of the 1940’s.
I just wanted to post a notice that I will no longer be slamming any local designers (regardless of where they are from.) I want to support local art and design, and I just feel bad doing it, even if I don’t like the piece at all. However, local stores selling brands and chains are still up for grabs :P Also, I will still be quick to praise anyone that deserves it.
This looks like a school-boy outfit gone wrong!
First of all, those are manpris (man capris), which are the worst thing to hit fashion ever. I can understand mens shorts when it’s maybe hot out, and you’re walking around, but in the name of fashion, NEVER. And the fact that they are slim-cut makes them worse. I have no problem with the blazer and scarf but combined with the rest of the outfit it looks funny. Mostly, I want to talk about the SOCKS. God. Knee high socks with long shorts? I can’t think of anything worse. It looks like something a guy would wear when he’s 9 and goes to catholic school.
I really don’t know what is going on here. Granted, this is not a display from a window, or a regular fashion store. However, it IS confusing. What is on its head? Why does it look so sad and depressed? WHY is it only wearing ONE shoe? When I walked by, I originally thought it was a person sitting on a chair, and then I actually looked and was confronted with this strangeness. Oh My.
I do get the logic here. It’s fun! Look at the balloons, and the bright colours on the leggings. This would be perfectly appropriate if it were, say, Halloween, or Karnival, or perhaps if this were a costume shop. But alas, this is a window for a vintage clothing store, and the whole point of vintage is to take either fun or classic items from the past and incorporate them into your wardrobe, not look like you just awoke from a long sleep after 20 years. I can’t even focus on one item. The leggings say it all. I hate leggings anyway, but crazy, brightly patterned leggings? Ew. They’re worn by themselves too, so on any normal person, helllo camel toe! The belt reminds me of Wonder Woman, and as awesome as she is, I don’t want to look like her walking down the street. The jacket or scarf could look half decent when paired with less jarring clothing, but with this outfit they seem to add to the mess. This window doesn’t tell me that there are ‘cute’ or ‘interesting’ items in this shop that I might want to wear in my daily life. It tells me that this store sells great outfits for 80’s night.
I saw this and thought ‘wow, someone has taken an ugly old bedsheet and made it into a shapless, unflattering dress!’
Wouldn’t this be nice and stylish to wear? Think about it….’crazy cat lady’ could be a great look for you! I mean, don’t knock it until you try it people. Maybe shapless sacks that scream ’shut in’ are your thing!
Excuse my absense for the past week. Things have been hectic over my way, and I’ve been such a blogging slacker. But I come back bearing pretty gifts:
While the clothes in this window are not outstanding on their own, I like it. I love the depth mostly. It’s a tiny shop with the designers own creations, but they’ve managed to fill up the space without looking disorganized and cluttered. I wasn’t even looking for window displays at this point, and it still caught my eye. It’s just a few pieces presented nicely and organized, and I’m a sucker for organization and presentation.
They’re BACK! The pants that inspired the theme of this whole blog. Here they are, in a completely different store, in their full, high-waisted, Urkel-esque glory, only in SILVER! Will the madness ever end?
Look at the jacket beside them. It’s like a chef’s coat mixed with a varsity jacket!
Like the last post, this is not a shop window but in the front of the store in a mall, which to me is as good as a window.
These sweaters were lovingly laid out on a table at the entrance of the store, for everyone to see. As far as I could tell, no one was eying them though. Why might that be? Could it be the fact that it is NOT 1988? I remember wearing appliquéd sweaters in the late 80s. I was 4, and I thought they were great because mom had them too. They went great with my stirrup pants.
BUT it is now 2008….the time for abstract designs appliquéd onto sweaters with metallic threads is long gone. I’ve always seen ‘retro’ as taking something from a different fashion era that can translate into modern times, but this just looks dated. It screams ‘hey! I’ve had this for 20 years, and I’ve never updated my look once!” From what I could tell the shoppers in this particular store liked this sweater about as much as I did. The display was undisturbed in a busy store, and shoppers simply walked past the table. Store buyer beware…there is a difference between retro and dated!
I haven’t been keeping up with things very well lately, so I thought it was time to make fun of something.
This isn’t a shop window, but it was the front display of a store in a mall, so essentially it serves the same purpose as a window. But most of all, it makes me question the taste of whoever put this together. GUM BOOTS????? It’s not the gum boots alone that bother me though. To put this in context, this photo is from Vancouver, BC, where it rains about 9 months of the year. I can understand the appeal of waterproof footwear, even if that somehow turns into the desire to wear something as scary as gum boots. BUT these are so ugly in themselves….they look like the ones your mom got you at K-Mart when you were 5 so you could play in the mud, not something you’d want to wear as an adult out in public, unless you’re trying to tell the world you were just gardening. However, my problem does not end with the boots. Why are these boots paired with an incredibly preppy outfit? It doesn’t make sense! It just adds to the whole ‘5 year old’ look, like your mom dressed you up for school, but let you choose your own footwear, so of course you went for the gum boots! Also, why is the mannequin missing half her leg? It’s creepy.
The mannequin on the left looks like a soccer mom that gave up, but I wont get into that now.
