The biggest clichés about fashion and style.

The biggest clichés about fashion and style

It would seem that fashion isn’t a sphere of life where is all about a talk. And maybe it's good - because the ratio of the number of wise statements on this subject to the overflow of clichés is shocking. Serious press (I emphasize: serious) avoids the repetition of delightful crap, but all you need to do is to follow discussion forums or blogs about fashion, to notice that somewhat threadbare clichés are still being recited like mantras by a crowd of home-like fashionistas. Yes, yes - we all have it on our conscience.

“Less means more"

It might seem - noble minimalism. The slogan appearing on every second fashion blog, which doesn’t, prevent the fashion bloggers from choosing their leopard boots to a leather jacket with studs and wrapping up a multitude of chains. But it sounds nice - and this is probably the most important, in the end there is nothing like to rely on a dead icon, which - what to know - in its time wasn’t a model company lady, but rather a revolutionary (allegedly smoked about 50 cigarettes a day, she also wore pants and mens sports). In this approach to Coco. And you can be sure, that if Coco were alive today, she probably wouldn’t dress in H & M in chiffon asymmetrical skirts and mint tubes. Who is the contemporary Coco Chanel? Maybe Iris Apfel, Anna Dello Russo, the late Anna Piaggi? Lady Gaga? Daphne Guiness? Coco would say that fashion, in which it is impossible to go out into the street - isn’t a fashion. But as you can see, these ladies walk quite freely on the streets and don’t feel self-conscious. And the fact that not everyone is able to imitate them ... well, 100 years ago not every woman would decide to put on pants.

“Fashion passes, style remains"

You can read it on hundreds of blogs that the authors trash in queues during the sale in Zara. Fashion doesn’t count, but the most fashionable neon dresses and tops are worth having.
Look at Kate Moss - she dresses just the same way since ever, no matter if the designers promote pink furs, transparent pastel dresses or lace shorts.

Have you watched "The Devil Wears Prada"? Despite all the artistic misery of this film (which cannot be saved even by the brilliant Meryl Streep), it is worth remembering the conversation over "identical-but-quite-different" stripes: if you think that we are free from trends - you are wrong. Buying "just blue" sweater on sales, we are just another link in the food chain - unaware of the fact that the presence of a sweater in the store in this shade is the indirect result of someone's artistic vision that appeared on the catwalk. Fashion is passing away - that's a fact. But in order to have a style that remains, you must first have a style that isn’t stripped of alive from the net-shaped manikin. Of course, there are a few fashion icon that successfully implement this principle. But it is worth to mention that they don’t tattoo that mantra on the ass or put it in the headline of the blog.

“It is a timeless”

I dare you. Show me one, the only thing that is timelessly considered to be pretty, elegant and in good taste. It doesn’t have to be fashion. It can be art, music, literature. Show me this and I will find a historical period and an influential group of people who criticises it. By saying "timeless", fashionistas usually mean the last 50, maximum 100 years - it's hard to say whether it's because of the popular understanding of the concept of time or just not being aware that before Coco Chanel people were dressed and subject to trends. "Elegance" and "femininity" are also funny words - in the Middle Ages, the excessively high forehead and skeletal figure was considered to be feminine, and in history we can also distinguish the period when ostentatiously on the top of women's busts spilling out of deep necklines were considered the peak of good taste elegance and feminine beauty.

The fact that more than one fashion blogger thinks that she could boldly walk in the streets of Coco Chanel or Marlene Dietrich clothes today doesn’t change anything - both ladies were considered scandalous in some circles and far ahead of their era. It's like saying that romantic poetry is still valid, because Norwid is great reading today. If you want to check the alleged timelessness in practice, jump onto the street dressed as Anna Karenina or having a mini skirt in the rear suggested by Mary Quant. Just don’t be surprised when gentlemen with white straitjacket in hands accost you or you will be asked "how much per hour?". Of course, don’t worry about it. But don’t count on the fact that your "timeless" creations will wear 200 years of your great-great granddaughters.

Timelessness in the common sense can be understood as "fashionable for several generations" or simply "looking good regardless of changing trends". But notice that although fashion has now come back to leggings, popular BlackMilk models have little to do with those that shone on Jane Fonda's butt on famous aerobic recordings. Spandex shoes also come back to grace, but by digging my mother's wardrobe, I can’t imagine that I could put on today the same pointed models from the 90s, which were the triumphs of the streets at the time. Even the seemingly "ever-on-time" iconic objects of desire of every fashionista are subject to minor or major modifications - heel height, color, skirt length, leg width, fabric. The same, but completely different. Is not it?

“Every woman should have in a wardrobe ... "

In my opinion, every woman should have clothes in the closet. Because if you put them on nearby furniture, it will be crumpled. It should also have some sort of order, because if you have crap, it's hard to find anything. And this is where the list of duties ends. All kinds of stylists of God's grace, enumerating what a real woman should have in the closet - thank you already. I can’t remember ever being in a situation where I would like to wear a small black.I had it one one time and I don’t mention it exaggeratedly warm. I have one "penguin" in the wardrobe (read elegant suit) and even the fact that it is really unusual didn’t save him from oblivion - I wore it during the first session of college, and later realised that for my lecturers really don’t make a difference if I come dressed up like orca or in tracksuit.

“Shoes must match the handbag / shoes must not be the same color as the handbag. "

My grandma always said that the shoes and handbag should be in one color. No matter what color it is, if it is black. My mother prefers shoes and a purse, which refer to each other, for example, a stripe in a certain color, a bow motif or a texture of a flat material. And I say - I don’t care. I like? It's match. If not after goodness, then after anger.

Don’t be confined. Don’t listen to stylists. If Picasso listened to those who criticized him, perhaps he would shut up and write poems. If Coco Chanel would suggest what falls out and what doesn’t- you would still ride your bike in ankle dress today.

“You shouldn’t show several times in the same creation "

This mainly applies to weddings. Indeed, I say to you - the only people who notice that you are for the fifth time in the same dress at the party are old aunts who still have nothing to live with and nasty cousins of the bride with whom no one dances. However, the "same dress" can catch the husband, impressing him with his resourcefulness, economy and suggesting that since we have been in the same dress for 5 years, we will look good in the next 10. With money saved on the dress you can buy yourself - at current prices - a plane ticket to any European city and, for example, drink a glass of wine in Paris. Lost money? And a one-time petticoat is a good investment?

“Black slims, white thickens "

Dear woman - it isn’t clothing that thickens you, only fat (this is a quote, but I don’t remember whom ).And I write this as someone who is not really filigree. But I'm not fooling myself that "I have a big ass in these trousers", only I say the same without "in those trousers". If, when measuring clothing, you look in the mirror and you see that you are too much, there are only two options - you either have paranoia or you are actually too much. Therefore, it is worth taking a brutally honest friend with you. If you find out that nothing troubles you, but there is too much here, you have two options: to lose weight or to accept it. Unless you want to spend a life masking - ineffectively - black.

Black makes you slimmer, that's a fact. For example, when the lights go off and you can’t see, you're certainly slimmer. Black may subtract you a few centimeters visually, but it will not make you 36 when you wear size 48. Just NO. And in general, wear whatever you want. If you are 50 years old and quite overweight, and at the same time you dream about a red dress, THEN BUY, choosing a cut that will make you feel beautiful and sexy.

“There is no debate about tastes”

Many people have problems with distinguishing their personal "I like / don’t like it" from the objective value of the work. Not everyone has to love Mozart, but before someone says he was impassive, he should have really good arguments based on the technical analysis of his works. It's the same with fashion - not everything has to be liked. But if you don’t know something, it is better to stop expressing your preferences, not speeding up with proving that the objective truth is being preached. Second - "to discuss" isn’t exactly the same as "talk". By definition, the discussion assumes confronting two different points of view, while you can talk about nothing. If we say that tastes should not be discussed, we don’t mean that this is a taboo subject, but that it is tactless to persuade someone to their liking or to prove to him that his taste, to put it mildly. However, you can talk about your taste and you need to - presenting your view isn’t bad thing.