In the Closet -
by Cheryl Bruedigam
Many in the fashion industry state that fashion is about moving forward
but every piece in fashion throughout time has brought
us to where we are now and we owe a thanks to all
contributions and designers from yesteryear through
today. One look in our closets is testimony to the
evolution.
Today’s closet is in many
ways an evolution of decades past culminating in a
unique style that would not be you nor what it is today
without the influences and favorites from seasons past.
Knee boots, short skirts and bikinis from the sixties;
jeans and t-shirts from the seventies. Was there
anything influential enough from our eighties wardrobes
to have kept or carried forward, I’m trying to recall;
however, I think I have a mental block on all eighties
fads and fashions. Surely there is something, maybe cuff
boots, I like those (I bought a new pair just last
fall). The eighties was a decade of growing
pains, fashionably speaking, as society tried
desperately to reach toward a future to which we had not
yet arrived, but it was also a time of experimental
freedom in which many designers, musicians and women
broke past the stuffier boundaries of the previous
decades. It may simply be a mental note from the
eighties that hangs in our closet if nothing else.
A note that we can be who we are freely and dress
accordingly.
From the nineties, for me
at least, it was an earthier style, loose flowing long
cotton and linen skirts. And now another fashion decade
has passed, 2000 - 2010, from which my closet now has the likely
permanent addition of Capri's (though it was not their
first appearance, rather they originally came into
fashion as the pedal-pushers our grandmothers wore).
And speaking of, my grandmother always said, "keep your
things, they'll come back in style," and she was right.
We recycle fashion so to speak; ideas, what works,
what's popular. The word fashion comes from what
the "in people" are wearing, the fashionable people.
It rings more accurately that we are in style,
our own style, and that is what is hanging in our
closets; those favorite fashions that left an impression
and became a part of our own style, of who
we are. |
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