Monday, April 6, 2009

Types of Styles- bohemian

Ok so we as I said before your style depends on a certain amount of factors. Location Body size, Weather You're status in life: Mom, business woman, teenager, child, Poor Rich etc. No matter what you're income if your willing to sew you can over ride all the income requirements. There's also sub groups of style such as your group of friends music and I don't think any of that really matters I love to mess with peoples minds those who think some one in a suit thinks or acts in a certain way or wearing a bohemian dress etc. it's also the sort of thing that can help you get the respect you deserve or the job you want.

If your in a small town going for the latest fashion is highly misunderstood doing your own thing can scare people and lose you friends. I lived in Denver for sometime and found that styles just don't change very often there. I understand staying warm and keeping simple but it seemed as though every woman there just wore jeans and t-shirts constantly, if they wanted to go out and dress up the the shirt and pants just got tighter???? I was in style hell.. Vintage isn't even a word although I personally can usually get away with anything cause I'm an artist, as soon as I tell people I'm an artist they're first consept is that I'm crazy to being with a free thinker hippy and weird etc. I don't really mind be thought of in that way at all, when sitting around with a bunch of suburban moms in sweat pants my extremely bright bold prints would other wise get me the reputation of being a crack head in the midst of the suburban landscape I didn't really jell very well with many of the other mothers but no one thought I was on drugs so that's a small success, although I thought they should have been on drugs when they started going crazy over those overpriced rubber clogs called crocks, trends are not always good especially when the masses don't know how tacky they look. I like tacky very loud obnoxious tack, but it's just no fun when people don't recognize it as tacky that's the beauty of vintage. Vintage like a bold paisley dress has been on the market long enough that everyone knows the style for a time it became outdated and then suddenly it's back in the lime light it spot lights a lost era, and some one just gets the guts one day to show it all off again that's a thing of beauty to pave your own way, choose what you want to wear, and often people follow in the dozens.Often Vintage is considered bohemian fashions now a days, but there are a number of other fashions that also fall into this section the new skater styles, the crafter hippy hand made stuff eco-friendly stuff etc. I'm gonna talk about the hand made stuff like it looks hand made like it looks like a child made it seems show buttons and tacky flower are sewn on to a lace under garment, this was so cool about 3 years ago, unfortunately the lace chemise showing as an outer garment is just too out outlandish for anyone to ware, it shows too much and not everyone wants to show off all the goods. Personally I started sewing when I was 16 and when I took my hand made hats to stores and they looked hand made the shop owners said they liked the styles but if I didn't finish off all the seams either with a lining or a locking stitch they wouldn't buy it. So I had to learn quality making the finished edges finished durable factory quality which dare I say is considerable better made then many of these new crafters can turn out. Would you buy a shirt that wouldn't last one wash or 3 months rather than one that lasts over 5years, due the math. I don't think this current trend of wearing things that are "hand made in America" such as the work on etsy is really going to last for long. And no I'm not sore my stuff didn't sell on etsy, well maybe a little, but then I know that I don't appeal to that style right now.

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