So, you’ve taken the lengthy questionnaire in my book (I hope!) and you finally have a clearer sense of your unique personal style. Now - how do you transform your wardrobe to more perfectly reflect who you are? Well, there are many wonderful stylists out there who can help you. But if you don’t have a fashion maven locally and you're one of those who can’t stand public dressing rooms or are just sick of going to the mall, you're not alone...and you're in luck. [...]
Back in the early 1970s I lived in a group house in Berkeley with two roommates and one married couple. The wife in the couple, Donna, was an aspiring designer. But the pieces she created were the polar opposite of the tie-dye and bohemian hippie garb of the era. Her dresses - and they were mostly dresses and tunic-like tops - were simply draped pieces of fabric in neutral colors that skimmed the body. Her husband commented that she was way ahead of her time and that women wouldn’t embrace this look until sometime in the future.
Well!
I asked you all to write in about your biggest fashion frustration...and got quite an earful. It appears that a lot of you share the same concerns, obstacles, and challenges with the whole process of shopping. Thank you one and all for taking the time to write. Here's a summary that pretty much covers all your rants. Do these resonate?
For Spring 2016 designers are all about going big – big color, big stripes, big patterns. And one of the cheeriest of pattern trends is floral.[...]
Many years ago, as a young dance student at UCLA, one of my instructors demonstrated a movement performed by one of the notable postmodern dancer/choreographers. (I don’t remember who the dancer was but I’m guessing it was the incomparable Pina Bausch.)
She began the movement with her back toward the audience, and then very slowly and deliberately turned to face them full on, at which point she threw her arms outward and lifted her face toward the sky as if to say, “Here I am world!” And then she turned around, reversing the movement until her back was to the audience. And then she repeated the sequence again. And again. And again. And again… [...]