Teen styles

Ok so it's obvious I'm so not a teenager I have no desire to act stupid I'm not interested in superficial things and I don't care about popularity much at all. However I have a teenager and I usually keep a keen eye out when I see things popping up on the scene, what starts with the teenagers on the east and west coast usually becomes causal fashion by the end of the year, and spreads to middle America in about 3 to 5 years, lol. Right now there's this great trend going on I just love it it's all about the gathering loose fitting layering free flowing cloth draped over your body. I believe it's a revival of 1920's fashion, it could even be due to our current economic parallels with the 20's. The layering part of this fashion is probally due to the common dress code in schools, lately many intercity schools have switched to uniforms or very strict dress codes, most of these schools have collared shirts sometimes called golf shirts. So what's a teen to do when the sluty styles have all been baned and there's no way of showing your individuality. Well these girls ware the golf shirt extra tight and unbutton it down to show their undershirts, these wife beater undershirts are coming in all sorts of bright patterns now to accommodate the poor deprived teenagers unable to show off. This undershirt trend allows for a lot of play for modern designers, you can make fashions that have very low show off neck lines no backs and your still not showing off everything (the goods). You change up this style for the weather too, say it's cold out the under shirt isn't the most important part of the style the over shirt is what shows so add a long sleeve under. Some other parts of this 1920's thing that make it a must have is the body type it can hide any flaws one might have so a big girl looks just as good in it as a twiggy. I like the 20's embelishments which have yet to catch on that much but you will see a bit of beading around the top of the over shirts or croqueting those little touches make a simple shirt out standing elegant and one of the most feminine fashions in years.
I really hope this trend is here to stay for a while.

Conservative now

Now when it comes to conservative styles smooth lines always do it for me. Sleek smooth tailored I love Vera Wang's bridal fashions for example but her ready to ware leaves me a bit lost, it doesn't look like her style it very well might be nothing but her having sold her name for others to design and sell. Conservative has often implied a full suit jacket pants matching etc., but considering the number of executives I've met with in recent years I don't even see this style happening unless it's in politics, it would seem business causal dress is the new conservative to ware a suit makes to bold a statement, like I'm dressing above you and the CEOs of big companies are saying with their kackies and cardigans I'm too comfortable and too rich to need to impress you, so your just trying to hard by waring a full suit. The silk blouse in a modern style is always a winner for us women, too tight a shirt is too much I find it hard to work with white button down shirts personally, so I usually go for colors, women in the work place can get away with a varity of styles like a corduroy suit jacket. I know I said suits were too much, but for a woman the jacket can be more of a accessory it doesn't have to match in fact to dress down I would suggest it doesn't match perfectly but just accents the outfit and it has that sinch waist thing where it makes you look thiner and can hide any amount of bulge. I find it pretty hard to work in dresses anymore cause I'm always running or bending down but if your one for waring them I like this retro 50's shape that going on right now. It's not your typical 50's patterns but if you check out the Issac Mezirhies fashions last fall that pretty much says it all.

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.

Keeping up with fashions

Last year I featured on you tubes front page, and I immediately fell pray to the dreaded haters. From watching other accounts get barded with nasty messages I had already figured some simple facts out about the main mind set of these people. To begin with we have the children about 75% of the people that have stupid messages are kids, and they are kids that are jealous of any one else getting featured, you also have a large number of people who believe they know everything about style and fashion. No one knows everything about style and fashion trends and vintage period costumes and folk (location)wear, there is simply to many styles out there at any given time. I went 80's with my video that was featured, many of my comments were to the effect that, I was white trash trailer trash stuck in the 80's etc. I'm sorry middle America I had no idea that there were so many of you that live near people who haven't changed their styles since the 80's. Shortly after the video was featured I took a trip down south and everything was normal current styles till I got to Virgina at every restaurant and gas station I saw women with the same hair styles from the 80's too much hair spray curled under or puffed back, I see an occasional mullet from time to time in the east coast cities but this was not a fluke down south. I am not about to stop sporting what I like to ware because there is some other location that can't understand current styles. 1980's is the New Vintage. I just love Vintage styles 80's actually started coming back out of the closet about 2 years ago. I wouldn't go so far as to ware a Mullet or leg warmers there are some forms of tacky that are just too far beyond what I can even stomach. Some things that are majorly in, are big thick belts, cut off thumb gloves, cheerleader skirts (not stripper length) super tacky slits and jean jackets, don't over do it none of those big shoulder pads please.