Okay ladies, I am going to be brutal. There are some things that should not be put in the back of the closet or in that storage trunk. There are some things that should be sent to the great clothes bin in the sky. One of them I actually saw on a woman the other day.
It has been very warm in the Bay Area this month so people have gone nuts with clothing. I have seen some pretty amazingly awful looks. Some of them even border on hootchy. If the person behind you on the escalator has to turn their head because your skirt is so short you butt cheeks are hanging out from your thong and they can see them by simply looking straight ahead, that is hootchy. But this skirt is just wrong on too many levels to even salvage.
Enter 1979 and the height of the 'Prairie Skirt". Yes you heard me the prairie skirt. The ones with the multiple layers of ruffles. Well in Golden Gate Park there was a woman in one with a hot pink, yellow, blue and chartreuse paisley print for the outer layer; a lime green second layer and the final layer was turquoise. It looked as if a gum ball machine had thrown up and it landed on her.To make it even worse she had on flip-flops with toe socks and teal colored tee shirt (I guess she was picking up the various shades of blue and trying to tie them together).
Well Ms. Mitchell said it best; 'everything comes and goes marked by lovers and styles of clothes...". This style is long gone. Retire it to the great used clothing closet in the sky. I realize that there was the bohemian gypsy style of 2004-2006, but even it has rested. It is tamer than what this woman was wearing. Maybe she was a flower child. Maybe she was making a fashion statement. Let's be honest. Some fashion statements are, and should be, NEVER WEAR THIS AGAIN!! If I had a citation book I would have cited her for a fashion felony.
If you want to recycle clothing I am all for that. If the fabric is still in great shape, deconstruct the garment and make something else from it. I would have taken the outer layer of fabric and made a couple of throw pillows to go on a couch or chair. I would have cut the other layers into strips, finished the edges, made a basket-weave pattern and appliqued them on a contrasting background, added some other texture to make a great wall hanging. I'm not saying waste good fabric. I am saying don't wear a ridiculously dated skirt that makes you look crazy.
So remember the is a difference between retro, vintage and simply passe.
a la prochaine
Debra
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