Look at the fabric of the dress. The top was maybe the thai-silk type,nice deep-gold and black. But look at the ruffles of the dress!It was of flashy gold color!! and i think (this is from what i see, mind u i'm not an expert in fabric at all) it's the cheap synthetic crumpled alluminium-y type of fabric.
Anyway, doesn't matter what i think the material of the fabric was. Point is, usually i would've skip that kinda fabric, would just dismiss the fabric as effing tacky. Heck, i wouldnt even have given it a second thought let alone bother to think of a way to make a dress out of it.
But look at this dress now. It has a nice vintage-fun kinda quality about it no? And the gold ruffles was made from a fabric i would usually pass off as cheap, and it was actually the thing that makes the whole outfit edgy. Imagine if the ruffles were replaced with some gold fabric of a more muted golden color (which is usually deemed less tacky). Oh i'm sure the outfit would still be nice to look at, but then it wouldn't be as edgy in fact it will be just like any other nice dress and i'd forgotten about it the next day, is what i think.
Anyway, doesn't matter what i think the material of the fabric was. Point is, usually i would've skip that kinda fabric, would just dismiss the fabric as effing tacky. Heck, i wouldnt even have given it a second thought let alone bother to think of a way to make a dress out of it.
But look at this dress now. It has a nice vintage-fun kinda quality about it no? And the gold ruffles was made from a fabric i would usually pass off as cheap, and it was actually the thing that makes the whole outfit edgy. Imagine if the ruffles were replaced with some gold fabric of a more muted golden color (which is usually deemed less tacky). Oh i'm sure the outfit would still be nice to look at, but then it wouldn't be as edgy in fact it will be just like any other nice dress and i'd forgotten about it the next day, is what i think.
The intention of the post was actually to share how i felt about the dress and that's all. sort of the I like it, so i post it on the blog thing. But what i've typed has got me thinking that i've caught myself being guilty of inflexible thinking on outfit related issues on a couple of occasion.
The aforementioned gold dress and its (non) tacky choice of fabric is a good example. See, i've set in my mind that the type of fabric comes off as cheap and tacky. So i steer clear of it, put it in my mental list of untouchable stuff and made a pledge to never have anything to do with it.ever.That way, i never consider it ever again.
The truth is yes, in most cases the fabric would come off as cheap and tacky and appalling even. But if something isn't right for one thing, it doesn't mean that it is not right for another and that gold dress just proves the point. Same thing goes with a lot of stuff deemed passe or last season. Maybe they are passe but hey, no need to write them off completely. Afterall, everything is for something, right? Try wearing them differently, mix and match, a little alteration here and there and who knows i might have a winner in hand? The trick is to be more flexible.
Alas, that's what i have to keep reminding myself.Over and over and over.
The truth is yes, in most cases the fabric would come off as cheap and tacky and appalling even. But if something isn't right for one thing, it doesn't mean that it is not right for another and that gold dress just proves the point. Same thing goes with a lot of stuff deemed passe or last season. Maybe they are passe but hey, no need to write them off completely. Afterall, everything is for something, right? Try wearing them differently, mix and match, a little alteration here and there and who knows i might have a winner in hand? The trick is to be more flexible.
Alas, that's what i have to keep reminding myself.Over and over and over.
1 comment:
i think u keep on repeating
"fabric would come off as cheap and tacky " or sumthing like that over and over again in the post, that makes it lengthy.
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