Musings on Style

So this has been a dichotomy day...  I woke up this morning and stumbled upon this blog post from Advanced Style...

•  Playing Dress Up

I love it!  I feel a certain affinity for these ladies eventhough I don't share their fashion taste.  Great for them.  I wouldn't wear some of it myself, though I am intrigued by the black lace and bead string shirt in the third photo & would be tempted to try the black and grey outfit in the second (it wouldn't work.  I'm kinda abysmal at layering even if I try).  I approach everyday as a dress up session.  This is why I love working somewhere with semi-lax dress code.  That's why I'm a little bummed about working at home - no runway & nobody to discuss choices with (yes, one of my male coworkers would comment on my outfits, give opinions, etc, & no he wasn't gay or metro).  This is also a reason I'm looking forward to getting older.  I figure the older I get, the more comfortable being flamboyant I'll be (already happening as I define my own concept of adulthood...).  I'd even like to go off the deep end sometime when I have brilliant grey hair & run around in full Victorian dress for a week randomly - just to entertain myself & other people.

But then later today I ran across this: 

• Clothing that will make your daughter the most popular girl in school 

And I feel really bad for the girl raised by people who buy into this.  I feel really bad for people propogating this.  Girls who are raised by that *may * break out of that mindset, but more likely, I doubt they will become a Lady of Advanced Style.  : (

Just my 2 cents.


Needless to say, I got inspired by the first, and reacted to the second, and determined to wear flaming red leggings under a black cowl neck tunic sweater with my hair braided & coiffed up, with black & red stone Victorian inspired dangle earrings, with a three strand "pearl" choker - and all that will be paired with a vintage black velvet swing coat and asymmetrical black velvet hat from the early 50s when I venture out today.  : )

Food for thought

This week, I've run across these two articles...

• Food and Drug Reward: Overlapping Circuits in Human Obesity and Addiction 
• The Most Important Thing You Can Do For Your Health (Not What You Think)

  Now, I have to be honest.  I read the last blog post & skimmed the first article.  I need to do further reading into the Rat Park study & read the paper listed in the first one.  On the surface, though, assuming both authors are correct with their summaries...  it's really making me think about the mismatch in nature of humans vs. our constructed environments which we believe to be "ideal".

Just food for thought.