“singularity in dress is ridiculous: in fact, it is generally looked upon as proof that the mind is somewhat deranged.”
saint john baptist de la salle.
But this isn't a fashion blog really, it's a sociological look at clothes, a way of opening up a conversation about fashion as a microcosm for culture and society that otherwise goes untold on the brb g2g shorthand language of the internet. There's certainly no lack of fashion on the internet, the fashion blog has become a phenomenon of the internet age, but most of the times they don't really say much, and there is much to say about fashion, decoration, self branding, cultural identity, clothes, post-modernity, lifestyle and pecuniary culture, what better way to start that conversation than to use the standard form of fashion narcissism- the fashion blog.
back to that quote. singularity in dress is a ridiculous fallacy. All those girls posting pictures of their carefully curated ensembles everyday, professing their personal style, well it's all ridiculous. Maybe not, I believe in personal style, and I believe it's important, but I don't believe that any of it is singular and I surely think that if you dress yourself to look truly singular- you probably will look deranged.
Even the most stylish of individuals are not creating singular images, they are reproducing other images that appeal to their personal taste. Some people have better personal taste than others, they pick up on a more cohesive set of images and better reproduce them in their own way. Anyone who doesn't follow a set of preexisting images is probably insane. All we, stylish people (lol I'll flatter myself), are trying to do is look cohesive, establish a "look" for lack of a better term, that makes sense and representations of our inner selves. A truly off-the-rails personal style, I mean bat-shit-crazy, well, that's proof that you're deranged.