This is my own Social Science Experiment on going braless & not it isn’t titillating (yeah, see what I did there?). Anyway. Lot of things to unpack & for an experiment that didn’t go well, it ended up surprisingly alright.
No, I’m not in love with… well I’m not sure if this is Jon Hamm or his character of Don Draper from Mad Men, but regardless I don’t dig this guy (not like this), but when I saw this picture the other day it made me LAUGH! It still makes me laugh & found it appropriate for this post. Perhaps read this post as him, does it make it more entertaining? I certainly think so.
Basically I just talk about the omission of The Universe giving me the Girl Guid to Life & how I’m stumblin’ through & apparently breaking all the rules.
I stumbled across this image a few days ago. This image brought up a lot of things in me. For one, I’m not big on negativity, so just because one side does it, doesn’t mean the other side should. So the “Feast on the corpses” part is a bit much for me. Besides the whole line is a bit biased.
I will agree that Western Civilization has pretty much always been a man’s world. It has been men who have always dictated how they wanted their women to act; how to dress, who to be, etc. And that’s always been the problem. Their women, like they own all of woman kind. No one really owns anything but themselves. But, try telling that to history… or the present day for that matter.
So, I’ll agree that it is men who are running the show; creating advertisements on the “perfect” and ideal woman. They’ve always told masses of women that they are less than and not good enough. Historical fashion is a huge area; fashions were created for women, by men, to accentuate what they found sexually appealing at the time.
So, recently I opted in to receive free year subscriptions to a few magazines. I’ve done this before and received a year of Latina, Popular Science, and some outdoorsy one for my dad. This time there’s a different outdoorsy one for dad, Readers Digest, Ebony, and Elle.
Extra cover
Elle is the first one of mine to show up. The April issue that’s super huge, which I suppose because of all the spring fashion going on. Kerry Washington’s on the cover, although TRESemmé did a huge thing for them, so they have an extra cover over Washington for this issue.
I’ve had fashion magazines before. I’d either purchase a single copy at the store or at one time I dabbled in subscriptions to Seventeen and Vanity Fair. There was also that Vogue’s Fashion Night Out event I attended, in which I received the huge autumn super deluxe issue of Vogue simply for being there.
However, I’d never really paid all that much attention to high fashion ads in the past. With this issue though, there were a few things that made me make faces and then I remembered that fashion ads have been this way, at least since the early – mid nineties.
In my last two posts I shared dream outfits and rooms that I created through Polyvore. This last post I’m going to show all of the reality creations; the rooms and outfits, as close as I could get them, to what’s actually in my house and what I actually wear.
Occassionaly I like to play around on the site Polyvore. I like to create rooms that I would live in or outfits that I would love to wear. Sometimes I create reality as well, but I’ll save those, along with the rooms, for following posts.
So, outfits I would totally wear, that’s what this post contains. The Sister finds most of the outfits to be rather tacky and questionable, but I love them. Some are straight-forward outfits like 50’s Sweet-Chic and A Bright Sunny Day.
Others are me putting together all sorts of things to create one outfit like Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, Untitled #2, and The 20’s Wedding. It’s not so much about simple layering as it is creating one dress or one shirt, etc. For Pee-Wee’s Playhouse the second outfit from the left is, of course, two separate shirts, but I’m intending it to be one. The 20’s Wedding, I used multiple items to create the perfect dress that I wanted, as well as the bridesmaid dress.
The rest are layering, as in this is a pair of shorts (or a skirt) that I would be wearing over tights or leggings. Anyways, let’s get to it.
Oh, the 90’s. It was a decade where I played around with fashion, yet had no earthly idea what I was doing. I’d wear little girls fascinator hats from the 50s & would coif my hair into Germanesque Heidi braided up-do’s. I’d wear eyeliner in 60s cat slants or Ancient Egyptian flair with bright eyeshadow in shades of green, orange or purple. I’d simply re-apply the next day, never bothering to wash off the make-up, or fix it until a few days had passed. I resembled a rather messy MiMi from The Drew Carey Show.
Alien Tea Shoppe 