Fashion! (Ongoing)

Fashion thread, I regret to report that I cannot pull off a motorcycle jacket.

I admired and was amused by a NASA jacket, with prominent logo, on a young woman: amused inasmuch as I imagined her having no professional connexion to the agency, and wondered what impressions and associations she imagined her wearing it was evoking in people.

One pair of my several Red Wings acquitted themselves surprisingly well all this winter; hardly look the worse for wear, albeit I unfortunately never spend time in the woods, where they mightn’t have. Not as warm as the Sorel Caribous I usually wear, but warm enough and they didn’t admit any water.

It’s fashionable for women to wear hefty parkas and toques and so on, but with either no socks or below-ankle socks in sneakers all winter.  It looks nice—I like ankles—but it’s pretty impractical.

Yay!  I'm so glad they're working out for you!  They are definitely the perfect kind of jeans to accessorize with the ol' onion belt.

I found this rather funny.

www.ft.com/content/2867034e-5566-11e9-a3db-1fe89bedc16e

‘During the years in which she passed as a wealthy German heiress among New York’s elite, Anna Delvey (who is actually Russian and called Anna Sorokin), allegedly defrauded a succession of banks, hoteliers and friends of about $275,000 while wearing a Supreme hoodie, Alexander Wang leggings and sneakers.  Now 28, the woman dubbed the “SoHo grifter” told people she was an art investor from Cologne who was planning to open a members’ club on Park Avenue. To observers, she seemed to live a life of feckless luxury, drifting between lodgings at different hotels and dining at the fashionable Le Coucou. She had a cherubic face and wore black-framed Céline spectacles in a nerdy style popular with art-world types.

[...]

Sorokin’s alleged crimes were fairly crude — forged signatures, false documents, an encircling web of lies. Her genius was in her look of bored insouciance, as worn by the super-rich. Sorokin paid for expensive hair treatments and $400 eyelash extensions, but her wardrobe was cautiously downbeat: “she embodied a lazy sort of luxury”, writes Williams in her account of the Delvey story, in which she describes Sorokin’s lifestyle of “easy materialism”. If prosecutors are right, her disguise was as comfortable as it was cunning. In her subtle uniform, she suckered everyone.

[...]

’It’s a brilliant irony that only now, having been arrested, and before a court to whom she pleads her innocence, has Sorokin assumed a mantle of showy wealth. For her court appearances, catalogued on the Instagram account @annadelveycourtlooks, she has dispensed with her Rikers prison overalls to showcase a designer wardrobe: sheer Saint Laurent blouse, Victoria Beckham trousers, a plunging shift dress by Michael Kors.

So preoccupied with her appearance is Sorokin that she delayed an appearance last week because, according to her lawyer, her clothes “were dirty and not pressed”. She has also employed the services of a stylist, Anastasia Walker, who told US Elle that she advised Sorokin to wear “classic silhouettes and classic pieces” of a “serious” nature that will stand the test of time.’

Lena Dunham seized on the story and is working on a dramatisation, she being the absolutely obvious person to do so.

These are sharp.

Do I even need to say it? Katy Perry is a dingbat. 

I gotta say, determining my Kibbe body type has changed the way I shop.

Chicago's weather today was just bizarre: 64 degrees and sunny at 8am; 50 degrees, rainy, and dismal at 12:30, and then bright and crisp in the afternoon, leveling off around 55 degrees. I dressed for the morning, so by lunch, I found myself scrambling down the pedway to Macy's* desperate for some cover. I didn't want to waste money on something that I'd never wear again, but I didn't have time to really look for something nice either. Most of the options were shapeless anoraks, sporty windbreakers, or boring trench coats that do not compliment my neat-and-petite office look. But once I espied a clear patterned rain slicker from French Connection, it all clicked into place. The classic Mackintosh cut and the check pattern fits my Soft Classic profile, but with the the fun twist of the soft vinyl fabric. I could picture the coat over jeans and a Breton tee (my weekend uniform) or even shorts and boots at Pitchfork.  I also figured that I don't already have such a raincoat and it would provide practical protection from the varied elements I would encounter throughout the day. So it was $80 well-spent. Check me out in the selfie thread. 

Now that I've distilled my work and leisure 'uniforms', I'm going to try to put together seasonal capsule collections to keep the wardrobe circulating and to identify items for decluttering. I may do this with the assistance of an app...

*I've officially boycotted Macy's since their purchase of Marshall Fields (with the exception of Frango mints)

From Orlebar Brown’s new ‘007’ line.  Before being acquired by Chanel, the label’s sales were dramatically augmented when Daniel Craig wore their fitted trouser-like trunks in Skyfall.  Good-looking but a bit juvenile, this piece and line, in being so conspicuously taken from the film(s)?  Or is my sense of fun wanting?  It’s been a while since the film; one wonders why they didn’t introduce it earlier.

Indeed, a "romp-him". I upvoted for the canny referencing, not because I support the (life)style. 

No, on reflection I’m convinced that I’d be terribly content in the ‘towelling all-in-one’, save for the knowledge that it had cost me the equivalent of 345 pounds sterling.

...though they do make more sense for men than women. You know what I'd like to bring back? The 'jumper' style dress. I haven't worn one in 10+ years. I think I bought it from Delias*