This morning while doing my cleaning I was listening to Woman's Hour on the radio and they were discussing this season's fashion. We are all supposed to be wearing things like aviator jackets and camel coats. Team these with flat brogue shoes that have pointed toes and animal prints, while trousers will be longer (to the waist and the floor) with wider legs. Suits and dresses will have a more tailored look with cinched in waists with lots of floral and swirly prints! We are supposed to be moving away from 'the eternal teenager' look with the skinny, low rise jeans and high stilletos.
Oh yeah! Just who are they kidding? Ladies such as myself who have clocked up a few years, had children and have little disposable income for clothing will not be wearing the latest fashions....or will I?
My winter coat is black and will be for many years to come (unless it gets attacked by moths) because I rarely wear it unless I'm going somewhere special on a very cold day so I re-cycle it every year. Besides, I don't like aviator jackets and I would love to have a really nice camel coat but they are far too expensive. As for the pointed toed, flat brogues just forget them. I don't like my feet squeezed into pointy toes and it hurts my back to walk in flat shoes. Give me a pair of clumpy lace-ups with soles like tractor tyres any day!
As for the trousers, I never did do the skinny jeans, I feel far more comfortable with something that comes up to the waist and has sufficient 'ease' in the legs for me to stand, sit or kneel without cutting off the circulation. Cinched in waists? They've got to be kidding! That's something I have never had, a waist that is. I have always been straight up and down and at the moment I still look the same from the front and back, it's just the sideways view that I have a problem with because there are too many lumps sticking out in front that really shouldn't be there (must go back on a diet!).
As for floral and swirly prints, I would love to wear them but sadly I stick to plain colours because I rarely find anything else that I like.
But wait a minute! I do have something fashionable in the wardrobe, an animal print chiffon scarf! The only problem is, I haven't got anything that goes with it!
Yeah right.....I'll still be doing my sheep in low rise skinny jeans and stilettos no matter what the fashionista say!! :D
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