September 15, 2005
those must be some NICE capri pants
This morning, before my first cup of coffee, I came across this article about Fashion Week in the New York Times. You all DID know that it was fashion week, yes? You ARE keeping up with the new collections, aren’t you? Yeah, me neither.
So why am I writing about this article? Because of this sentence, which has stuck in my head all day: “Sometimes the day dresses look like nightgowns and the evening wear looks like school uniforms and the flapper dresses in the front row provoke visual arguments with the cashmere sweater sets and the $10,000 couture versions of something one would expect to see on a soccer mom.”
Ten grand for soccer mom wear? Really?
I found myself doing the math on my outfit du jour: jean jacket, black v-neck tee, chinos in ‘pool green’, black beaded flip-flops. Except for the shoes, which I stole from my mother, everything else is prete-a-porter from Old Navy (which, I believe, is French for ‘from the clearance rack’). I think the whole outfit would have cost less than $50.00, had I paid full price for any of it, which I didn’t, of course. Because I have two children and no job and I have tuition to pay and college funds to fund and organic milk to buy and . . . and because if I’m going to spend TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS on an outfit, I certainly hope not to look like–well, like the Mommy.
But since then I’ve been thinking–how DO you spend ten grand on ’something one would expect to see on a soccer mom’? And what is it that the NY Times fashion critic thinks ’soccer moms’ are wearing these days? And aren’t the fashionistas offended by the term ’soccer mom’ (seeing as so many moms are)? And flapper dresses are back? As daywear? Really?
Tomorrow I will have my coffee before I read the Times.
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September 16th, 2005 at 6:49 am, Misfit Hausfrau Says:
That article encompasses everything I love about the Times and despise about the Times.
September 16th, 2005 at 9:29 am, Mary P. Says:
Ah, fashion. My sweetie likes to watch Fashion TV because it’s so sexy. After the show, he remembers nothing. That’s about as far into the fashion world as this home ventures.
But flapper dresses. I wore one once, a real, true, (borrowed) vintage flapper dress - black, drop-waisted, with a fringe and jet beads - to a Christmas party. I danced, I flirted, I felt gorgeous and sexy and funky and hip. No one could believe I had two children! Now that’s worth a chunk of money.
September 16th, 2005 at 2:37 pm, Candace Says:
I got two paragraphs in and my head started hurting, what with the slamming of the models’ legs (as IF they were “stumps…they want stumps, I got stumps) and all the ridiculously chi-chi talk.
We joke that Sophie is a supermodel in training (she’s totally got the body, she barely eats and she poses ON COMMAND), but sohelpmegod if she becomes a model I might just die.
September 16th, 2005 at 3:25 pm, MIM Says:
I was in the fashion industry for about two minutes. I worked as a design assisant. I realized that it wasn’t for me. Why? Because people in the industry talk like nuckleheads!
“It’s opaque, yet transluscent.” Which is it???
September 16th, 2005 at 4:51 pm, Heather Says:
This reminds me somewhat of Zoolander and the evil designer Mugatu creating the Derelicte line…you know street people fashions for the rich?
I happened to be a soccer mom, and never realized I was making a fashion statement. I hope the outfit comes with a folding lawn chair!
September 17th, 2005 at 10:05 am, lauritajuanitasanchez Says:
Sheesh…if it’s not from Walmart, I don’t wear it. Is this by choice? Kinda. Since half of my income goes to day care, I’m a little limited as to where I can shop. If someone in NY wants to give me 10 grand so I can get a sweater set, I’ll take it…then I’ll go to Walmart and pick up a sweater set and pocket the $9,985.00. Yeah for soccer moms.