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RE: #needleworkmonday | The Curated Wardrobe
I'm a poster whatever1 for "sustainable fashion": I hate buying new things ;) I literally wear things till I have to toss them.
1 What is the female version of a "poster boy"? "poster girl" - not a word I'd use talking about myself. Is there a gender neutral word? This is one of the areas where I have problems as a non-native speaker. I still find it strange seeing "woman doctor" etc. - woman as an adjective? Why not "female"? sighs Languages - I love them, but they are so illogical...
Why not just "doctor"? :)
Poster human? person? love bunny? ;)~
@muscara and @shanibeer I am exactly the other way round. I looooove to buy fashion. This is the only reason why I knit, sew or crochet. I love the finished products and I am not always able to buy things I want to wear because of a limited size range. I feel a tiny bit ashamed to admit this. And by no way is my style minimal. I always admire this on others, but I love to wear my clothes like a costume (and very often I am not daring enough for my own taste... entangled in thoughts about appropriate clothes for my size and age... but when in a happy mindset I am able to discard all this rules and I this is when I feel best)
I am not very tidy in my thoughts about fashion and sustainability is a huge thing which speaks absolutely against fast fashion (which I love) arghhhhhhh. I try to reuse clothes, to repair and to alter... but but but You see I am rambling. Just for you to laugh, on Valentine’s Day (which was pure chance) I wore a very pink outfit. All my friends told me they hate (honestly) the cardigan, but I love it. I found it in a shop and it seams very completely ripped... I think I wrote about the repairing last year.
I love the outfit because its in parts handmade, rescued and lucky buys.
I have this strange facial expression, because I simulate the bug on the table is biting me :-DDD
So, this was an incoherent plea for a daring and funny curation of outfits, kind of.
That looks like a perfectly curated outfit to me :)
I think it is all about your personal style and how you feel comfortable: I like your idea about garments as a palette and you are the canvas. I would like to be more like this.
Do you remember me writing about seeing some garments in a charity shop and wanting to re-purpose them into a single new garment? These are the four that were sitting next to each other and called me from acros the shop. The yellow is a t-shirt, the one on the right was a shiny textured fabric. For some reason I didn't buy them, but I am impressed at how prescient I was at catching the colours that would be Autumn 2020 hehe :) x
Ok... my example was to nice... :-DDD But still, my goal is to be more daring and to have more fun with clothes without censoring myself beforehand.
And yes, I remember and I so understand you as the warm golden and red hues are amazing. They harmonise perfectly (in my view) and I could imagine a sweatshirt made out of blocks of these fabrics... sadly my sewing skills are not good enough to asses if this is doable (because of the different structures of the fabrics).
I thought of something like the sweaters Rosie Martins is wearing/sewing, perhaps less oversized.
http://diy-couture.blogspot.com/2017/11/three-shades-of-kabuki.html
Or
https://threadcult.com/2016/08/29/41-geometric-patterns-with-rosie-martin-of-diycouture/
Are the garments still for sale? Are you pondering to try them out?
And naturally I watched the videos you recommended and I find Audrey very likeable and plausible, my only ‚but‘ is again my own fight with beauty standards (and don‘t get me wrong... I know that I have thin privilege as I can buy straight sizes). I imagine it very tough to find examples of clothes/styles which you can use for oneself if one is perhaps not slim or young or able bodied. I would love to see more diversity, but this is not her fault (as it is not her topic) but mine...
And again I am writing unstructured things 😱😱😱
Perhaps I should first sort my thoughts and than write. 😂🤪
The garments will have gone by now - when I am ready, I will buy some.
Audrey's style is very particular to her, I am not recommending it as "everyone should look like this". It is more that she is on a journey about herself and has good ideas that can be adapted along the way. I would like to see her in more vibrant colours - but that's my style!
I would go for love bunny... perhaps not surprising :-D