Why do people always assume that fashionable means it MUST include designer labels and therefore it must be expensive? You don't not have to spend tonnes of cash on clothing for it to be on trend. After all, ALL those clothes that you get in the cheaper high street clothing stores are inspired by the designer labels anyways. Fashion is also not just walking into a shop and buying what everyone else is wearing. You need to have the ability to change it up, accessorise or adjust depending on what you feel good wearing and what suits your body. If you feel good and confident in what you are wearing and it actually suits you, it comes across in your personality. Fashion is totally subjective!
For me, I seldom ever buy something purely because it is comfortable, especially if it looks like a sack of **** when I put it on. Things like onesies for instance, for me, are purely for lounging around at home in the evening as pyjamas. I find basic sweatpants really comfortable but I don't like wearing them in public and the only time I do is when it is practical to do so... the gym. For the most part I am buying clothes that I will been seen wearing in public and so I make sure that I do not feel like a complete prat/total mess wearing them. However, I know a few lads that actually totally rock the sweatpants and tshirt look.
I think what Alex means when he says that it is fashionable he means, on that particular person. I don't think I have ever seen Alex looking anything short of fabulous in whatever he wears. Why? Because he ensures that everything he buys suits him, not just in a physical size and shape way, but also in a mental, matching of his personality way. That, in my eyes, makes him incredibly fashionable. Whether everyone else is wearing similar outfits is totally beyond the point and so is where he got them from. I doubt very much that he can always afford designer labels (as much as he may want to
) but the clothes might as well be because the little bitch always looks good! (Sorry, I had to get one snipe in, I realised I was being far too complimentary!).
Another example, this time the ladies... Wearing leggings is very 'fashionable' right now. Does that mean every woman in the UK should go and buy them? Does it heck! I don't care how fashionable you might think you are, certain size people should not wear leggings like they are trousers. It does nothing for you besides show off everything that you actually complain about having (such as cellulite). You may feel confident but you look a mess. The same goes for designer labels. Just because it has the name it does not mean it will instantly suit you!
I love certain designers simply because they make incredibly good quality garments in the style I like that make me feel good when I am wearing them and they actually compliment my bodyframe. Hugo Boss being one of them. NOT because they are the most 'fashionable' at any given time or because they are expensive, but because the way in which they design and manufacture their clothes seems to work for me.
To quote the wonderful Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada...
"'This... stuff'? Oh. Okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select... I don't know... that lumpy blue sweater, for instance because you're trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back. But what you don't know is that that sweater is not just blue, it's not turquoise. It's not lapis. It's actually cerulean. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves Saint Laurent... wasn't it who showed cerulean military jackets? I think we need a jacket here. And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of eight different designers. And then it, uh, filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic Casual Corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs and it's sort of comical how you think that you've made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you're wearing the sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room from a pile of stuff."
Just some food for thought to those that mock and scoff at the notion that they are influenced by 'fashion'... I know a huge number of people on here who buy theme park hoodies. Hoodies with theme park logos on them only became popular when hoodies became popular in the mainstream. When I was a kid I only really remember seeing a tshirt or shirt available. In essence, hoodies were a massively 'fashionable' item at one point (not quite as much now) and yet, here we are, with countless comments from people, saying they don't do fashion, yet have a hoodie in their closet and I can guarantee that some of you look awesome in a hoodie and others, do not!
