I think I'll keep the animal prints to handbags only.
According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, Saturday, May 19, “Just One Color” is the look of the moment—monochromatic. Basically, according to this article, all the big designers have just discovered this—yet I have known it since I was about 20 years old. Wearing all one color makes me look taller and probably slimmer. Nothing that cuts you in half at the middle has the same effect, and I’ve never been a proponent of wild or bold animal prints. The Today Show recently had a woman hyping animal prints shirts with python backgrounds as the latest female fashion. Come on, women are smarter than that. When is the last time you saw a man in a cheetah print shirt? No one would take him seriously.
But back to just one color and the article in the Journal. A couple of famous designers, Proenza Schouler, claimed to recently have had a vision: “We were looking at Everest covered in snow. It was so pristine and majestic.” This apparently kicked of their fall 2012 runway show of simple, clean lines—no texture or crazy prints. They’re going for the monochromatic look in muted tones. Hasn’t Calvin Klein been doing this for years? Well, never mind, I certainly have. I’ll do anything to look taller and slimmer.
I’m generally in a fashion crisis and never have anything to wear despite a packed closet that it is difficult to even enter. Half of the stuff no longer fits, the other half is out of style for the moment, and the rest I can’t wear because it’s been too hot in Florida this year. But when I choose slacks and a matching shirt of grey, beige, or black, I go for it. I usually fall back on this after trying on at least 14 pair of slacks. I have reached the age of wanting to enter a room quietly. Anything outrageously fashionable and “in” is sure to be “out” very soon, so I prefer to stick to simple and classic—monochromatic. I’m always fighting to stay visible—but I sure don’t want to look like a python.
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