ozoneocean wrote:I hate that you're only supposed to wear certain colours at certain times of the year - and there's an extra layer of that when you're a girl, because the same applies to makeup. My favourite colours are deep reds, navy blue, dark green, that kind of thing, which apparently I am supposed to wear exclusively in the fall. So generally I try to do all my clothes shopping in autumn. I demand the right to dress vaguely like a stylized old-timey army general all year round, darn it!
One thing I really dislike is “fashion”.
I like clothes, I like style, I like things that flatter a figure.
“Fashion” is a little different though. It's about disposable styles that are created and marketed to sell a new season's crop of designs, in order to maintain a yearly turnover and encourage people to keep buying.
“Fashion” rarely equals “style”. More often people are peer preasured into wearing ridiculous, ugly, unflattering garments simply to remain current.
Always the most stylish people are at complete variance with current fashion. They make their own style from theings that flatter them or that they love so much they make it look good and it becomes part of their character.
I'm also trying to find a teal dress for my sister's wedding (she's doing a mismatched bridesmaid dress thing) and it looks like I'll have to wait until super close to the event, because teal is not a winter colour. -_-