I dream of being comfortable in my clothes
I arrived in Port Arnasas with a small wardrobe dominated by orange and teal.
While there, I bought some sandals even though it was November and sandals were not generally available in stores elsewhere. They were available on the island.
I also bought a light-colored yellow T-shirt which had some kind of image on the front. My recollection is that it was embroidered and said something about Port Aransas and probably had beachy imagery of some sort.
I also owned:
I had a pair of light teal pants that were ankle-length and could be rolled up to "peddle pusher" length, an old-fashioned term that I like for being descriptive of not just length but functionality. There was a strap inside the pants leg to button it into place so it wouldn't fall down and get wet again when walking on the beach, so I want to say I got them in Port Aransas but I don't actually remember.
Some of my favorite pieces have been embroidered. In addition to the Port Aransas T-shirt, while in San Diego I briefly owned a sweatshirt with an embroidered outline of the skyline on the front.
I remember the wardrobe I had in Port Aransas very fondly. Everything worked together without being boring. It was well-suited to the beach and local climate. It was artsy without being overtly sexy.
I'm not a huge fan of dressing sexy in public. I like dressing pretty. I like being comfortable in my clothes both physically in terms of fit and accommodating movement and psychologically, which includes socially.
I have long fantasized about starting my own clothing line but I dislike the practice of using live models to sell clothes.
People say "Oh, that supermodel looks wonderful in that outfit! I'm buying it!"
Only they don't know that's what they really think. They think "THAT looks WONDERFUL!" and don't realize they want to look like HER and buying that outfit won't make them look like her.
I object to it also because clothes should be functional first, attractive in addition to functional and our current practices put looks above function.
They put looks above function and then implicitly LIE TO YOU that "YOU can look like THIS if you buy this outfit."
No, you can't.
The model almost certainly doesn't even look like that in real life. The photo was almost certainly edited, sometimes extensively.
I don't know how to start a clothing line. I also don't know how you would sell clothes without live models making people spend money on something subconsciously hoping to look like a model they have no hope of looking like.
So maybetalking writing about it instead of using a lot of images is a reasonable place to start fleshing out that idea.
While there, I bought some sandals even though it was November and sandals were not generally available in stores elsewhere. They were available on the island.
I also bought a light-colored yellow T-shirt which had some kind of image on the front. My recollection is that it was embroidered and said something about Port Aransas and probably had beachy imagery of some sort.
I also owned:
- An orange skirt with some kind of white design.
- A brown cotton-silk blend T-shirt that felt DIVINE.
- An orange mesh sweater through which you could see whatever shirt I was wearing and was just enough of an extra layer for a beach town.
- Orange sandals, teal sandals and two quilted bags in orange (my "luggage").
(The orange mesh shirt in the video for Get This Party Started reminds me of the cotton orange mesh cardigan I had.)
I had a pair of light teal pants that were ankle-length and could be rolled up to "peddle pusher" length, an old-fashioned term that I like for being descriptive of not just length but functionality. There was a strap inside the pants leg to button it into place so it wouldn't fall down and get wet again when walking on the beach, so I want to say I got them in Port Aransas but I don't actually remember.
Some of my favorite pieces have been embroidered. In addition to the Port Aransas T-shirt, while in San Diego I briefly owned a sweatshirt with an embroidered outline of the skyline on the front.
I remember the wardrobe I had in Port Aransas very fondly. Everything worked together without being boring. It was well-suited to the beach and local climate. It was artsy without being overtly sexy.
I'm not a huge fan of dressing sexy in public. I like dressing pretty. I like being comfortable in my clothes both physically in terms of fit and accommodating movement and psychologically, which includes socially.
I have long fantasized about starting my own clothing line but I dislike the practice of using live models to sell clothes.
People say "Oh, that supermodel looks wonderful in that outfit! I'm buying it!"
Only they don't know that's what they really think. They think "THAT looks WONDERFUL!" and don't realize they want to look like HER and buying that outfit won't make them look like her.
I object to it also because clothes should be functional first, attractive in addition to functional and our current practices put looks above function.
They put looks above function and then implicitly LIE TO YOU that "YOU can look like THIS if you buy this outfit."
No, you can't.
The model almost certainly doesn't even look like that in real life. The photo was almost certainly edited, sometimes extensively.
I don't know how to start a clothing line. I also don't know how you would sell clothes without live models making people spend money on something subconsciously hoping to look like a model they have no hope of looking like.
So maybe