I'm so out of the fashion loop, yet still susceptible to trends... I just wanna be comfortable and look relatively put together. Have loved thrift+ vintage (as a necessity primarily, but I was pulling together fantastic 60's and 70's getups together amidst my hippie grunge shaved head oversized tweed jacket and clodhopper days of the 90's 🤣) and still do.
I'm about to turn 47 and still rockin' vintage dresses and skinny jeans along with channeling my inner 7 year old with striped shirts and overalls... Pieces that I have owned and rotated through for 15+ years (sadly many of the skinny jeans no longer fit and have been replaced by durable high waist compression leggings that function in a similar layering mode...)
seems almost everyone is feeling the same, that they're susceptible to the trends but don't really feel any genuine love for them. I think personal style is a dying art form because of this but it's great yours is never going out of style!!! the better we take care of our clothes and make them last the better we're all off I think <3
Loved this Nisha ! I was literally ranting to my friend about the Glastonbury boots thingggg. i remember watching that tik Tok & being like wtf have we come to!! Ever since I read that Alexandra Hildreth quote about being able to tell someone’s screen time from their outfit i feel like I’ve been altered on how I see personal style. I feel like I began using depop as an alterative to online shopping this year but ultimately have realised that it’s still feeding that consumerist part of my brain. Although I love it , I feel like Pinterest has been almost worse at feeding that feeling than instagram , with every second picture being an ad slid inconspicuously between real pins. I feel like I’ve sat out of micro trends for a bit , frontal lobe developing and all haha, but it’s bizarre the fomo you can get from detangling yourself from it all.
no cause tell me why i was so intent on getting a white tiered skirt but now i don’t even wear it that much. it really is just buying for the sake of the trend and not the usage. also yes pinterest is such a huge ad fest now i hate it so much!!!! it used to be so fun but seeing an ad every 2 pins it killing my love for it. i think i read the same piece you’re talking about where they can tell the screen time from the person’s outfit!! the one about the author at a cafe and seeing the same outfit repeated in every other person walking by i think it was?? either way it was great and seriously got me thinking so much.
You are such a talented writer. You encapsulated this topic beautifully
thank you so much, that’s means a lot to me 🫶
I'm so out of the fashion loop, yet still susceptible to trends... I just wanna be comfortable and look relatively put together. Have loved thrift+ vintage (as a necessity primarily, but I was pulling together fantastic 60's and 70's getups together amidst my hippie grunge shaved head oversized tweed jacket and clodhopper days of the 90's 🤣) and still do.
I'm about to turn 47 and still rockin' vintage dresses and skinny jeans along with channeling my inner 7 year old with striped shirts and overalls... Pieces that I have owned and rotated through for 15+ years (sadly many of the skinny jeans no longer fit and have been replaced by durable high waist compression leggings that function in a similar layering mode...)
Anyway, yup. Make it work 😂
seems almost everyone is feeling the same, that they're susceptible to the trends but don't really feel any genuine love for them. I think personal style is a dying art form because of this but it's great yours is never going out of style!!! the better we take care of our clothes and make them last the better we're all off I think <3
Such good writing, such a good call to wake up!
Nisha, identity, of any kind is a way of associating with a “lesser self”…
In the world caught up only in objective reality, the craze to “objectify” oneself- mindlessly- will be a disease, an ever growing epidemic !
There is a need to caution humanity and your post is one good note of caution Nisha!
Keep it up 🙌🏻♥️
yess objectifying yourself is such a good way to put it!!! thank you so much for reading btw!!
Loved this Nisha ! I was literally ranting to my friend about the Glastonbury boots thingggg. i remember watching that tik Tok & being like wtf have we come to!! Ever since I read that Alexandra Hildreth quote about being able to tell someone’s screen time from their outfit i feel like I’ve been altered on how I see personal style. I feel like I began using depop as an alterative to online shopping this year but ultimately have realised that it’s still feeding that consumerist part of my brain. Although I love it , I feel like Pinterest has been almost worse at feeding that feeling than instagram , with every second picture being an ad slid inconspicuously between real pins. I feel like I’ve sat out of micro trends for a bit , frontal lobe developing and all haha, but it’s bizarre the fomo you can get from detangling yourself from it all.
no cause tell me why i was so intent on getting a white tiered skirt but now i don’t even wear it that much. it really is just buying for the sake of the trend and not the usage. also yes pinterest is such a huge ad fest now i hate it so much!!!! it used to be so fun but seeing an ad every 2 pins it killing my love for it. i think i read the same piece you’re talking about where they can tell the screen time from the person’s outfit!! the one about the author at a cafe and seeing the same outfit repeated in every other person walking by i think it was?? either way it was great and seriously got me thinking so much.