Fashion Inspiration: I Miss The 90's

Back when I was a little kid and didn't have to worry about things like bills, money, and my future, I was happy and having fun and stress free. Back in the 90's when the sun shined all the time and I still stayed inside to play video games.

Songs

• So Much For The Afterglow by Everclear
• Volcano Girl by Veruca Salt
• Saying Goodbye by The Greenhornes
• Here Comes The Hotstepper by Ini Kamoze
• Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle by Nirvana
• some songs by the spice girls that I can't remember and don't feel like researching.

Notte: I didn't include pics of "clueless" because although we owned the VHS, I didn't actually watch it until 2004, and when I saw it, I was just like.."wow :S"

 

 

Favorite Movies: Marie Antoinette.

First of all, I'd just like to tell everyone to shut up. 

Second of all, I'd just like to say that Sofia Coppola is my new best friend.

Because this is a BAMF hoodie

And this is a BAMF movie.

This film is unique because it is visually appealing. Most historical pieces try so hard to be accurate with the time and the lifestyle of the people restricted to that period that they make it so hard, so boring. The film Marie Antoinette is meant to represent the ill-fated queen herself, by giving people a glimpse of who she was and how she lived her life; she was just a teenage girl in the beginning, and she was trying to please everyone. However, because it was not exactly her choice to live said life, it made her feel out-of-place and unhappy, and so she had to please herself as well.

The Queen.

Kirsten Dunst plays Marie Antoinette in the film. 

It's interesting to hear Coppola's reasoning behind why she chose her, mainly because she thought she would represent her well. Honestly, it's kind of random in my opinion; while she isn't really the first thing that comes to mind when I think Versailles, she also isn't the typical princess-faced either, so Sofia really stepped out of the box with this casting, but hey, Kirsten pulls it off in the best way.

Everything is Beautiful

Like I said before, this movie is visually appealing. When I first saw this movie, I was going through a grunge phase and I didn't have the urge to dress, act, or even feel like a girl anymore. One thing I can say about this movie is that there is so much PINK. Pink dresses, pink furniture, pink food....Love. This movie is what sparked my pink phase.

  

Just A Girl

For the people who didn't know the story of Marie Antoinette, the first reaction to this movie would be "oooh that's a nice lifestyle you got there!".  To make a long story short, she spent a lot, the court spent a lot, taxes were raised on the people so much that poverty rose like hell and everyone got mad (read A Tale of Two Cities). The movie casually takes you along a path of glitz and glam and then shows the aftermath, kind of like a party and then the aftermath of that party.

Here's the thing: Imagine if you were a teenage girl and you woke up one morning and were told you were gonna marry a boy who you didn't know. Everything changes, you never see your family and your home again. You are changed into the most uncomfortable clothing and you meet your new husband who has little interest in you. You don't know anyone and you feel lonely. Suddenly, you start to warm up and do things YOUR way, and just when people are telling you that you shouldn't be doing them, you find a group of friends who help you this journey. You go shopping, partying, clubbing, and have loads of fun, but in the meantime you forget that you have responsibilities, and not just any responsibilities, responsibilities unusual for a teenager.

And that's kind of what happened, she felt isolated, so she did what she could do to please herself. Even though that's not the BASIS of what happened, it is kind of what happened: she, (in the words of the great Wu-Tang clan) "got with a sick-ass clique and went ALL OUT"

New Romantics

 

This movie has a really great soundtrack. In fact, this movie is what sparked my interest in post-punk, shoegaze, and new wave music. Sofia said that she was inspired by the look of the "New Romantics", who took the 18th century look and ran with it. 

 

Yeah.......need I say more?

My Style Evolution.

I think it's weird how my style had evolved because of a certain events throughout my life, like moving, getting older, etc. I think it would only be appropriate to share them on this bliary (blog/diary, get it? haha) and that way whenever I organize my closet I can finally answer the questions "what the smurf was I thinking when I bought THAT?"

Unfortunately, I do not have any pics of myself showing these styles anymore. Why? because during a temper tantrum (will explain later) a few years ago, I had deleted my myspace page, which contained most of these photos. It was around the time myspace was dying off, anyway. So I'll just use pics from elsewhere.

In the beginning, there was frumpy. 2004-mid 2006

When I had entered middle school, around 2003/04, I had just started picking out my own clothes and my mom stopped buying clothes for me. Back then everyone at school was doing that whole preppy southern thing. I had just moved to a small town and my school had a specific dress code: collared shirts, tucked in with a belt. The only store to shop at for these shirts were rave, aeropostale, abercrombie, American eagle..

My look consisted of a polo shirt, flared jeans, and birkenstocks a.k.a "potato shoes" which I still own today.

  This is the only pic I could find that does the look justice.

Hip-hop. Mid 2006-Early 2007

When I had entered high school, I had decided that I wanted to not fit in anymore, and dress like everyone else, but not just like everyone else, I wanted to be stereotypically black. Back then hip hop fashion was a little different than it is today..

The whole cropped hoodie, fitted hat and air forces was the thing for southern, black, teenage females back then.

Ghetto Fabulous: Mid 2007- January 2008

Around this time, I was still engrossed in the hip-hop look, but not only did I want to be hip hop, I wanted to appear attractive LOL. I was obsessed with name brand clothing I had no money for. I also got my first haircut around this time.

80's glam: January 2008 - May 2008

I had moved back to my hometown and this is how everyone was dressing, so by law of the teenager I had to do it too, but I had to one up everyone.

I was gonna wear this to the "Glow in the dark tour"

Electro/Nu Raver: May 2008 -  July 2008

This one is pretty interesting because it's the first style that comes from prolonged isolation. School had just ended and I had no one to spend the summer with and nothing to do, so all I could do was find new music on myspace (Jeffery Starr, Millionaires., Ultraviolet Sound) and at this point I had taken my Japanese obsession to a new high. I had also dyed my hair cherry red.

Yes, I DID attempt to dress like this.

 80's hip hop: July 2008 - November 2008

When it was time to start Junior year at high school, I had gotten my hair cut again and I had a fresh new wardrobe. I had also taken an interest in old school hip hop and hipster rap (see: The Cool Kids, Kidz N The Hall)

EMO: November 2008 - March 2009

Why yes I did.

It had occured to me that I was angry. Yes, I was very disappointed in my teenage life. At the time, I had friends, but my love life was nonexistant. This was around the time of my first heartbreak. So I turned weird, and emo. I had already had traces of Emo in me, after being fond of black and white, and I had bought my first pair of chucks earlier that year.

I had also gone through this weird cybergoth phase as well.

 

Boy I was really angsty, wasn't I?! (Sarcasm)

Now, I had really done a complete flip with this one. I had deleted most of the hip hop songs off of my ipod and replaced them with either indie rock or house and techno. I haven't had a playlist full of hip hop since.

 This was also the first time that I stopped caring about what other people thought I should look like, and what I wanted to look like, I started shopping at the store formerly known as Hot Topic, and I started watching videos on Tamara Menocidekunt 's channel.

Grunge: March 2009 - Early May 2009

I had gotten more angsty by this point. Why? It was spring break and I realized that I had no one to spend it with. So one night I was just listening to songs of Nirvana and became an instant fan.

 But then a thought made it worse: the 90's were super cool, I was a kid with no worries. I became extremely nostalgic and went overboard with the grunge look, my only imitation of the grunge look being wake up - brush teeth - change pants. Done.

Skater: Mid May 2009 - whenever

I had realize that the same stores that were selling my grunge look were selling skater clothing. I had started listening to rock earlier in the year, but then I realized I kinda missed hip hop, so I made the transition a little easier by listening to Kid Cudi, N.E.R.D, etc.

Im gonna go ahead and stop here. Why? because afterwards my style had become a hybrid of everything that I had found that I was into at the time. I really did go through phases when I was younger, and it was strange, but some of these phases last to this very day. I don't have just ONE style anymore, I have lots of styles, and most of them depend on the type of mood that I'm in; when I'm happy, I dress bright, when I'm upset, I dress slightly darker.

I thought it was kind of interesting to look back on how I used to dress. Needless to say, I looked fucking stupid: I walked around really thinking I was Emo or Grunge and hardcore when really I was just a kid trying something new - trying to stand out. So everyone, clean out your closets, re-visit your old Myspace and Xanga accounts, stare closely at your old self, because it will make you like your new self a WHOLE lot better.

Fashion Inspiration: Material Girl

This one is something that I find myself slowly coming into, and it's sort of an 80's revival. The reason why I am doing this one is because it is the cheapest out of all the clothes that I have in my closet, if I want to achieve this look, it would be very helpful on my pocket.

Now for a little off-topic rant: I remember when people were trying to do the 80's back in 2008, and I was one of them. I remember EVERYONE was trying to do it, rap was trying to do it, R&B was trying to do it, POP was trying to do it, it was cool then, but it got really ghetto because people threw on a bunch of bright clothes, did some poses and called it an '80's photo shoot'.



 

 Not 80's: New Rave

Not 80's: The left image is more like "HAYYYYYY" and the one on the right is "where's my stylist?

Not 80's: looks like an updated look of the munchkins from The Wiz

It was interesting when I was trying to find the pictures for this collage because a lot of pics were of people imitating 80's hiphop and that's mos def what I'm trying not to do, see MY style is a lot different; my 80's style only incorporates elements that people aren't willing to bring back, let alone acknowledge the fact that it is, in fact, a trend from the 80's. Since most people (meaning most my age) were born in the 90's and arent aware of 80's wear, what I wear appears stylish and different, which is what I aim for. Alas, here I post my collage of MY 80's style.

Songs

• The songs that I use for this style are the same ones I posted during new wave week, which inspired me to make this collage, also a few extra ones:
  
  
  • Must Be The Feeling by Nero
  • I Know I'll See You by A Place To Bury Strangers
  • Make Up by Vanity 6

Fashion Inspiration: Retroville

Since the premiere of the show "Magic City" on showtime, I seem to be obsessed with the glamorous fashion of the 50's. It was just so classy and sexy without coming off as trashy. Before,I saw the 50's as boring 'squaresville' where everyone lived in their perfect picket fence houses and the housewives makes the husbands dinner and everyone said "gee whiz"..but it was really badass!

Songs

• Video Games by Lana Del Rey

• Born To Die by Lana Del Rey

• Black/White by The Raveonettes

• Boyfriend by Best Coast

• Unchain My Heart by Ray Charles

Urban Outfitters WIN

I ordered this from urban outfitters last thursday:

 

It arrived on monday. Not to mention I think I got the last one because now they're sold out. 19.99 for a sweater that was once 70 bucks. WIN