Fashion Lady Crap

Archive for March, 2010

Girls and teens want to look sharp and fashion forward. Fashion trends change every season, but there are certain basic items of girls clothes that everyone wants in their wardrobe. Key pieces can be combined to create many different looks. While denim jeans are a staple in most wardrobes, the style of jeans changes regularly. While low rise jeans with straight legs may have been popular in 2005, within a year or so a high waisted jean with wide legs may be the fashion. While each teen may choose her own style and not care about what is popular, the current trendy styles are what will be found in the stores. To know what is in fashion, either start shopping at your favorite local mall or read fashion magazines.

Jeans are a great basic because they can be worn so many ways. For casual wear, add a t-shirt, sweater or plain shirt with sneakers or flat shoes. The same jeans can also be dressed up nicely with a fancy blouse or a camisole with a jacket and heels.

Other key wardrobe pieces are tank tops, turtlenecks, khakis, shorts, slacks,  skirts, sundresses and blazers. The styles and colors of these items will also change from season to season. Skirt lengths go up and down, with both a short skirt and a longer style usually in fashion at the same time.

The quality of girls clothes makes less difference because styles change so quickly. Girls will tire of their clothes long before they wear out, so pick what you like that fits your budget and don’t worry about durability. Even so, check the label for laundry instructions. Washable clothes are easier and cheaper to maintain than dry clean only.

Experiment to find your own style

One of the nicest things about teen apparel (and of being a teenager in general) is the freedom to experiment. Even the simplest outfit of jeans and a t-shirt can be an expression of the wearer’s personality. Jeans now come in an array of colors. Some have decorative rivets, while others display fancy embroidered designs. Even the way the pockets are arranged can be a decorative element.

A t-shirt can be a plain solid color with a round neck or a v-neck. It can be striped or patterned. It can display a message, either for or against a cause, showing off its manufacturer or just saying something amusing. Thus the t-shirt can be a fashion statement, a personal statement or a political statement – you choose.

But the biggest part of the teen apparel experiment comes through accessories. These can be found in department stores and clothing shops as well as in specialty stores that carry nothing else. When selecting shoes, fit and comfort may be sacrificed to style. This may not be a good tradeoff depending on what activities you plan to pursue while wearing them. Be sure to try on both shoes as most people have one foot that is slightly larger than the other.

Shoes can be made of leather, imitation leather, cloth and other materials. Leather shoes are usually the most expensive, but they last the longest. Before making a big investment in shoes, think about how long you believe they will suit your taste, style and wardrobe and how long you might want to keep wearing them.

The handbag or purse is another great accessory. Modern style gurus no longer require matching your purse to your shoes, so go wild. Get a giant bag or a mini-backpack for everyday wear so you can carry all of your stuff. Pick a tiny, shiny bag for that night on the town. As long as it’s big enough for your keys, lipstick, money and cellphone, it will work. If you plan an active day, forget the bag and go for a belt pouch. No longer just for athletes, these come in an array of styles and colors like other purses. And when you’re ready to get fancy, remember that you can add jewelry, gloves, hats, scarves and more to personalize your look completely.

The coolest types of online fashion games at the moment involve designing your own fashion eBoutique. Girls love it, because they can play and be creative at the same time. The idea is simple: you visit a website like GirlSense, and create your own eBoutique. You can be creative about everything, and all the elements of the eBoutique can be styled. In fact, once you are finished, it will look like a real fashion store. You know, when you create a fashion brand, you have to think about everything that goes with it. All the elements of your fashion design game should fit in with the vision that you have about your brand.

So if you like playing online fashion games you are going to love setting up your own eBoutique. But what is your eBoutique going to look like? Smart players of online fashion games think about what they are going to sell in their boutique before they begin developing the various elements such as wallpaper and flooring. This is because you want to create an overall theme, and all the elements should match and reflect the clothing style that you are creating. Designing an eBoutique for your fashion design game is like creating an image. You want visitors who come to your eBoutique to immediately get a feel of what image you are tying to project.

Getting started, the first thing you are probably going to want to choose for your fashion design game is the wallpaper – that’s like the color of the walls in the eBoutique. You can choose from many types of patters, like a flowery sixties type pattern, a pattern with deer (very cute), and a classic pattern.

Don’t be afraid to really express yourself. Don’t worry too much about what your friends think. Sure, you can get ideas from other online boutiques, like the celebrity boutiques – but try to express your own sense of fashion, design, and style. Remember, fashion designing games are meant to be fun. Online fashion games are also a learning experience. So really go right ahead and experiment. You will soon learn what works and what doesn’t.

You really want the wallpaper to reflect the style of your clothes. Are you focusing on a classic line of clothing for evening wear? Perhaps your line is more suited for hanging out on the beach? Now try and think what type of wallpaper will go better with each of these styles.

As you can see, playing online fashion games is great fun. So have fun, chill out, and don’t forget to be yourself.

Why is it that 60s and 70s costumes have become so common again in our society? Over the past few years the Retro look has become huge. It has, once again, become enormously popular to wear clothes that, not so very long ago, would have caused only laughter. If in the 80s or early 90s you had taken to walking around in a flowery shirt, over sized sunglasses and a pair of flared trousers then you would soon have lost any ‘street cred’ that had previously been yours.

Maybe it was in the later 90s when groups like ‘Pulp’ helped to introduce ‘Geek Chic’ and began to sport such common 70s costumes such as argyle tank tops and duffel coats, that it all kicked off. At that time music was becoming increasingly stagnant. People were tiring of endless anonymous remixes and dance tracks. British music needed identity and energy putting back into it. This made way for the advent of ‘Brit Pop’ with bands such as ‘Oasis’ and ‘Blur’ at the forefront. To put the ‘Britishness’ back into modern music people began to look back to the 60s and 70s which had typified it so well.

From the 90s the Retro scene has carried on strong. We have seen the return of many things that we thought had been forgotten long ago, even with children’s toys and games such as ‘Twister’, ‘Ker-Plunk!’ and the much loved ‘Space Hopper’. In the music scene, many bands have an image built around 70s costumes and a sound that is reminiscent of classic bands of the era such as ‘The Who’ or ‘The Rolling Stones’. We have even had a strong resurgence of Punk bands which was what finally closed the 1970s.

Television and cinema have both been very much influenced by the Retro vibe. We have had seemingly endless reworkings of films and programs from thirty or forty odd years ago. Clothes shops are full of 70s costumes and accessories. Many young people walk around in the latest fashions and remain totally oblivious that their parents, at the same age, were dressed in a virtually identical way. Even things like fancy dress parties have been influenced.

So, is the world of fashion and design running out of ideas? Is it so desperate to come up with something different that it has had to go back in time? Well, to be fair, fashion has always been influenced by the designs of the past to some degree. If you are old enough to actually remember wearing some of the 70s costumes that are so popular again then it can be a little tedious to go through it all again though. The design of clothing can only come up with so many ideas before it gets to a point where it has done just about all there is to do.

When the obsession with 70s costumes, furniture, toys and music will finally burn itself out, is anyone’s guess but the 80s is already starting to become quite a big thing…