yo im really happy for you and imma let you finish but

i am still not in the mood to wear much black. hopefully youll see me wearing this sheepskin vest over my collarless beige trench with neon yellow boots this fall. light neutrals with neon is always fun right?




i saw l'annulaire (the ring finger) yesterday. it's a french film based on a short story by the japanese writer akiko ogawa. i thought it was beautiful. the story had no big plot or anything but the mood and the music and especially the costumes were really great. fitted knit cardigans and soft knee length skirts paired with suede sneakers...and great color combinations.im very interested in the costume designer Pascaline Chavanne now.






when i bought a pair of pointy heeled trekking boots to wear with my trench, i realized that i was subconciously referring to this photo (from 2003, bravo chloe)...so weird how images can reappear in your head years after you see them

i guess what i like is the neutrality of this look. i love my streetwear designers and all, but i think im really going to start to make the effort to mix them up with more anonymous/thrift/vintage stuff.

im in a really experimental mood with my clothes right now... one thing that i havent tried much yet is classic/romantic european style so i got this philip treacy hat the other day. i think treacy makes headpieces for mcqueen? im not too familiar with hats but i think i like it. im gonna wear it with something like a long coat and vintage tee to tone it down though


and like i said i have this urge to wear lots of cream/beige/white/nudes with a splash of bright color somewhere. lime green is such a nice color. and it's about fucking time i got a pair of tabis ! !!


this outfit has also been on my mind again lately. i think he is a well known hair&make up artist but i cant remember his name


the reason this post is ssoo incoherent is i had a ton of draft posts saved (still have a lot left) so randomly put a bunch together. gonna go watch sukiyaki western django now. im excited ive been dying to see it forever! michiko kitamura's costumes should be incredible as always

more thoughts on dressing

i've been spending some time away from the internet and going to used bookstores instead, picking up old magazines and paperbacks, weird manuals and stuff

one of my favorite finds was this book called koromo seikatsu (living with clothes) by akiko ando.





after getting married, ando moved to a traditional japanese home in the countryside where she realized that 洋服 (youfuku, the word we commonly use for clothing--one of the kanji used to write it means "western") was just that: clothing made to suit the western way of life. She found that regular clothes were difficult to work in, in a traditional Japanese house that requires a lot of bending down, squatting, sitting on floors etc. so she started making her own clothing, long sarongs and soft loose tops...all clothes whose shape the wearer determined and not the other way around






















lots of sarongs. so beautiful right?

I like this aesthetic and I find it really really intriguing when a person is able to achieve total satisfaction in a restricted lifestyle, wearing only a certain type of clothing.
Sometimes I think it might be nice if I could do that too, when im much older, but thinking about it like that makes the whole thing very meaningless, doesnt it? You have to take time learning with your body what works for you... and even when you know, the transition into a restricted wardrobe has to be gradual. you cant jump right into something like that just because it sounds kinda cool and expect it to last.
There are some fashion bloggers who enjoy a certain style and focus on just that style, collecting what they consider to be "classic", "timeless" pieces as though they'll be wearing them for the rest of their lives. I really respect that. But for a lot of these same bloggers, their clothes strike me as being very trendy sometimes, and I have to wonder how long it'll be before they sell it all and start rebuilding a new "timeless" wardrobe. I dunno, they just don't seem as sincere about it as akiko ando, for example. probably because if I'm not mistaken, these blogger's styles are not so much the result of a conviction as they are simply the result of them identifying with some labels and disliking others, or trying to realize a pre-conceived notion of "timeless"ness. And if I were to try to restrict myself now, I think the same thing would happen. The clothes might be a little different, but it would be shallow and pointless.
At the moment, I don't see my wardrobe or my clothes as a permanent thing. if anything I see them as assets although i do love wearing them. and I guess it's ok to wear what you want while u can... but I hope that eventually I'll grow out of what I'm doing now and develop a trademark style.. a method of dressing maybe, it's sort of vague. But it has to have meaning and go beyond silly rules like "always buy neutrals". Even if it doesn’t last long, I think experimenting with one idea would be a good start. These things should take a long time to figure out.

hey daddy-o

i probably just need to stop being such a square


anyway, the point of this post: i just spent about 2 hours reading through this discussion. you should go have a look! it was funny and fascinating and it made me think about fashion blogging in relation to what i wrote in that last post.