A funny thing happened to me on the way to the office...
I'm going to admit something up front: I'm not a fashion plate. Never was, never will be, don't even attempt to be. I tend to purchase and wear clothes that help to flatter whatever figure I have and are comfortable. I have no patience for clothes that don't fit right or are just plain annoying to wear. Or, don't last more than a week because it's just a trend that goes out of fashion as quickly as the merchandise flies off the store shelves. More often than not, jeans and a comfy shirt with a fleece or sweatshirt are my clothing of choice during the fall and winter months.
But of course, every season brings an even broader array of fashion dos and don'ts, and in styles and out. Some of them I like. Some of them are actually comfortable and somewhat normal-looking. Those are the ones I buy in an effort to keep my wardrobe from looking like I purchased everything in the 1980s and 1990s.
I have to say though, that this new look that I've been seeing has me struggling not to laugh at the women walking past me. You've probably seen it. It's the newest "woman's wear". The pants to the knee (or just below the knee) with the bottoms that flare out, with a nice tight, heeled leather boot to complete the below-the-waist ensemble. I've seen a variety of shirts that women have worn with it, and I don't have any issues with them. It's the Gaucho pants that have got me giggling.
To me it looks like the costume designer for the original series of Star Trek had a bad day. In my mind I hear Scotty complaining to Captain Kirk that "she canna take much more, Captain!" and Kirk yelling back: "But…the…alien…ship…Scottyyou'vegottogivememorepower!" I have visions of Sulu and Chekov at the main navigation console arguing about "wessels" and fencing match results. I picture Spock standing on the upper level, raising his eyebrow at something Doctor McCoy said that was a little too "human" for the dear Vulcan to handle.
Don't take my word for it. Do a quick google search for "Gaucho pants" and take a look at some of the pictures that you can find on Nordstrom, Urban Outfitters, and Amazon. You might find yourself laughing too.
What is it about fashion that has so many people running for the stores? And how do some styles (such as the aforementioned gaucho pants) become popular when the first thing I think of when I see it is a bad 1960s Star Trek costume? And where exactly does fashion come from? Who decides that weird Star Trek pants are "in" this fall and something else is "out"? Is there an official fashion god who bestows upon the retailers a revelation of fantastic proportions about what their buyers need to purchase in bulk this year because it will just fly off the shelves once the consumers get one glimpse of it?
I get Bazaar magazine (and yes, is it very bizarre), mainly because I had way too many frequent flyer miles and it was free. ::shrug:: Trust me. I know to get a different magazine next time, but who wears the clothes in that magazine? And why would anyone want to? Some of those things are way past Star Trek and are in the outer reaches somewhere. And yet, sooner or later, those odds styles somehow make it to the stores and they are purchased by the fashion-conscious ones who then wear it—causing fits of giggles in offices across America.
Okay. That might be stretching things…but who designs these things? Are they even human?
But, no matter what we all wear it was best summed up by Mr. Spock: "'Fascinating' is a word I use for the unexpected. 'Interesting' shall suffice here."
But of course, every season brings an even broader array of fashion dos and don'ts, and in styles and out. Some of them I like. Some of them are actually comfortable and somewhat normal-looking. Those are the ones I buy in an effort to keep my wardrobe from looking like I purchased everything in the 1980s and 1990s.
I have to say though, that this new look that I've been seeing has me struggling not to laugh at the women walking past me. You've probably seen it. It's the newest "woman's wear". The pants to the knee (or just below the knee) with the bottoms that flare out, with a nice tight, heeled leather boot to complete the below-the-waist ensemble. I've seen a variety of shirts that women have worn with it, and I don't have any issues with them. It's the Gaucho pants that have got me giggling.
To me it looks like the costume designer for the original series of Star Trek had a bad day. In my mind I hear Scotty complaining to Captain Kirk that "she canna take much more, Captain!" and Kirk yelling back: "But…the…alien…ship…Scottyyou'vegottogivememorepower!" I have visions of Sulu and Chekov at the main navigation console arguing about "wessels" and fencing match results. I picture Spock standing on the upper level, raising his eyebrow at something Doctor McCoy said that was a little too "human" for the dear Vulcan to handle.
Don't take my word for it. Do a quick google search for "Gaucho pants" and take a look at some of the pictures that you can find on Nordstrom, Urban Outfitters, and Amazon. You might find yourself laughing too.
What is it about fashion that has so many people running for the stores? And how do some styles (such as the aforementioned gaucho pants) become popular when the first thing I think of when I see it is a bad 1960s Star Trek costume? And where exactly does fashion come from? Who decides that weird Star Trek pants are "in" this fall and something else is "out"? Is there an official fashion god who bestows upon the retailers a revelation of fantastic proportions about what their buyers need to purchase in bulk this year because it will just fly off the shelves once the consumers get one glimpse of it?
I get Bazaar magazine (and yes, is it very bizarre), mainly because I had way too many frequent flyer miles and it was free. ::shrug:: Trust me. I know to get a different magazine next time, but who wears the clothes in that magazine? And why would anyone want to? Some of those things are way past Star Trek and are in the outer reaches somewhere. And yet, sooner or later, those odds styles somehow make it to the stores and they are purchased by the fashion-conscious ones who then wear it—causing fits of giggles in offices across America.
Okay. That might be stretching things…but who designs these things? Are they even human?
But, no matter what we all wear it was best summed up by Mr. Spock: "'Fascinating' is a word I use for the unexpected. 'Interesting' shall suffice here."
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