Watch Out for The Fashion Police
Casually doing a bit of window shopping more than one years back in one of Italy s oh so fashionable little lane ways, I noticed that pointy toe stiletto s were everywhere. Glancing down at my round toe Mary Jane s I d just bought before leaving Australia, I was feeling both repulsed and anxious. Repulsed because I thought pointy toe stiletto s were ugly, and anxious because I knew it was only an issue of time before I would be forking out the lire to buy them. Two weeks later, I had succumbed. The trend had gotten the better of me, in spite of how silly I looked when the heels got caught in the uneven Italian pavement each time I walked down the street (which was about each three steps).
So what was it that changed my mind? I believe the answer lies in the hands of, well, a handful of persons called Trend Analysts AKA The Fashion Police. Their occupation: To serve and protect the mercantile interests of fashion companies all over the globe. How? By dissecting the public’s psychology of what are going to be the following trend are going to be by way of extensively travel and shopping expeditions (those bastards). These trend analysts then report back to analysis companies, who then go on to consolidate their determinations in industry magazines and internet sites for the use of fashion companies.
I d like to say that fashion companies use analysis companies because they are lazy, but it is certainly not the case. They are just frightened to make a mistake (may you imagine fabricating 1000 pairs of high waisted skinny leg jeans merely to find that everybody was going for low rise bootleg? Ebay auctioning them is NOT a solution here). There are likewise incredible time constraints amidst the seasons. So most designers design their range around what they are fed, and whether or not they are lucky they get to travel around Europe and Japan to buy garments to take inspiration from . They are we get a slight variation of the trend theme each season; all our designers are shopping in the same store in London! They are you want to see something in truth interesting, just detect the women with suitcases in major division stores buying size ten (when They are size 12) at the start of each season. Ask them what they are busy with for a living.
May you see we are at the hands of a conspiracy! ? We need to take activity. I urge you to burn your pleather DKNY handbags! Let s make up our own trends! I myself am going to knit and extended version of the merkin (If you do not acknowledge what one is, I advise you Google it because I m certainly not about to explain). Yep, it is going to be a toasty winter for me rugged up in my black merkin cardigan
Which brings me back to my first thought at the beginning of this piece (merkins likewise have the power to bring persons back to what they were originally thinking). What was it that made me buy those pointy toe high heels I now so dearly cherish? I believe it comes down to one word: Agreement. Agreement by trend analysts, agreement by industry magazines, agreement by designers, agreement in fashion magazines, agreement all-round the stores, and finally, agreement by you. Agreement produces our fashion realness. Not always bad, but within the safety of agreement comes a absence or unavailability of invention. And that s why we need those quirky fashion revolutionaries; so we may steel their ideas, manufacture them times a million, and sell the homogenized version back to you. Back to square one. We again enter into a state of agreement. Weird earth we re living in ain t it? Now where did I put my knitting needles and my merkin wool supply. . ?
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