#cel.rambles

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also while i’m on a tangent here i want to talk about how we lost fun and whimsy in clothing. FUCK clean girl aesthetic FUCK scandinavian girl aesthetic

i remember my mom’s clothes being so creative. silk blouses with colorful flowers on it, gowns that flowed through her body as if she was a marble statue and someone carved the dress onto her, leather jackets that were actually lather and lasted for years, handbags that looked like someone poured their heart onto it even though it was mass produced, shoes that had so many details on them that you’d assume they were medieval paintings. the shit you saw on tiktok’s “pick an outfit for this and this extremely specific situation” posts were random finds in mango in mid 2000s. i hate how boring we have become in the fashion world. even with designer brands you see minimalism take over like the plague.

chanel has always been boring, but dior? seeing their 90s-00s shows vs today feels dystopian. versace is one of the last high designer brands that bring something to the table and even they’re also laying a thin thread. gucci, who was supposed to be the most extravagant and chaotic of them has been diluted into shit brown coats and massive logo tshirts. and don’t get me started on how shitty their fabrics look.

what happened to expressing yourself through fashion? when did everyone become so “mass produced” and when and WHY did brands start to cater to this? i blame hailey bieber for this HARD. she put her hair in a bun ONCE and started wearing tinted lip balms and she’s suddenly a fashion icon. look at bella hadid. she’s a true ICON. she makes people question her with some of her fits. she also wears a slick back bun on top of her gorgeous, chaotic fits. she’s wearing your work clothes after she’s out from pilates. you look at hear beauty in awe but never take the shot to be brave with your style like she is, and rather idolize boring, vanilla celebrities like hailey and kendall.

and i know these people are also bored because no one would be so gagged over leopard prints like we did last season. come on man. your mom, aunt, even grandma wore leopard prints more creatively. and you think it’s fashionable to wear an elastic leopard crop top from h&m on top of your straight legged zara jeans. and the colors don’t even match. and bitch… don’t even get me started on those “fashion influencers” who think they’re so revolutionary because they advised their audience to wear a blazer over their jeans and wear gold jewelry that hailey bieber wore once. remember bestdressed? how everyone was obsessed with her brave fashion choices? she BUILT the current “over the top” fashion trends years ago on her own because she allowed her creativity to take control over her fashion choices. she remains one of the best influencers in my opinion, even though she hasn’t been active in ages. she was wearing baggy jeans and bloomers, she was layering her clothes in 2017!!

we are so used to mediocrity now that having dark red lips was sensational (cherry cola. come on. cherry cola? stop fucking labeling everything). tomato girl, clean girl, blueberry milk nails, rockstar gf, old money. can yall not figure something new without having it be labelled something? “what’s this aesthetic called?” i don’t know someone wore something nice. “it’s a mixture of grunge and rockstar gf” and it’s bootcut jeans with green long sleeves taken with a pale filter on. be so fucking for real once. “can we start wearing this again?” just fucking wear it? do you need a this-core to wear it? do you need to be a this-girl to feel comfortable within yourself? you’re wear this-item’s mass produced version from bershka, which will probably give you rashes if you wear it for longer than 5 hours, and will probably annihilate itself after 3 washes, and let it collect dust in your closet because the trend lasted for two seconds. but no worries, now that-core is popular and everyone’s trying to be that-girl. and bershka will produce some shitty that-core item because they know you’ll create a line to buy it. like you did with stanley cups. fucking reusable cups man. stanley is an incredible thermos brand. it lasts years. my DAD used to chase sales to get one. but now it’s pink and has a straw so it’s so cute core and you can even buy pouches or special ice cubes for it so you can feel like you did something valuable for yourself for once. and you’ll fucking use it to drink water. a stanley thermos for drinking water in your home. water that you emptied from a plastic bottle. at least pour some gin in it to make it count for something.

i am so angry at this topic specifically because i have experienced the change. i have had a different fashion sense but was scared to stand out even as a kid. i did dress like a basic bitch at times, don’r think i was (and still am) a fashion connoisseur. i wore leggings and sweatshirts like everyone else. did my makeup like everyone else at times. and it made me feel AWFUL. i felt like a background character. so this year i promised myself that i wouldn’t dress down for anything. i started wearing weird combinations that i liked, started doing my makeup extra dark the way i always wished it to be. even during my exams, i dressed up. because it took no more extra energy, and i felt comfortable! i wore heavy makeup while spending the night at the library. wore platform heels to the exams. i felt GOOD. i knew people would find some of my choices odd, as they did years ago when i tried to dress differently. but i realized, i would rather be ugly than be boring.

there is a girl in my faculty who is a micro influencer. she dresses “weirdly” and posts her outfits. even her comments are filled with mean comments. and i keep hearing gossip about her from people who have no business with her (a freshman, we’re fucking SENIORS), and make fun of her.

bitch, she’s wearing statement pieces from her mom’s closet and you’re wearing a 50$ polyester sweater with “future milf” on it. you have no business talking shit about a young girl experimenting with her identity through her fashion choices. and you know what? yeah she does wear some questionable stuff every now and then, but overall she dresses nice! she looks confident and despite being bullied she keeps posting herself. she wears like someone you’d drool over if you saw it on pinterest. i respect her. we all should wear more “ugly” stuff.

the regression era (2010s) left an unfixable damage in fashion and music in my opinion. fun is dead. take full offense in my post. stop looking mass produced. start thinking what YOU will like to wear, not how others will want you to wear.

and fuck minimalism. fuck fast fashion.

seeing fast fashion brands try to create y2k clothing is hilarious because the real y2k clothes are sold on second hand apps from retired baddies cleaning out their closets (including their kids’ clothes) for so cheap that you think someone must have died while wearing it