You are still away on your class trip. Therefore, I am sad because I don't get to to talk to you. To occupy my time, I have taken upon myself a quest with the epic adventure and thrilling terror of Harry Potter. Haley, at this moment I am picturing you sitting in a desk chair rolling your eyes at my theatrics(cause they were o'so clever.) I have traveled far on my quest for the perfect gypsy skirt. (I'll settle for a hippie one too, I'm not picky.) Okay, it was to our suburb's local mall but it ruins the story if I say that. I had a heck of a time finding anything that fit, and everthing that did was far to short, had holes in places they should not have been, or had thread coming loose. I need a apropriate long skirt for my class trip to Israel, but I'm worried about not being able to find one. My mom suggested I sew one myself, and I may have too. What happened to our malls?
Gosh, I don't know if this is just my city, but what happened to quality sewing? As a seamstress,it's offending that some of the clothing put on the racks has fraying thread, holes, and is poorly made to the point that seams don't match up. Back in the day when everything was old school(Ergo AWESOME) no one and I MEAN NO ONE would dare display clothing with shoddy workmanship or inapropriately high hem lines. It's shocking to me that people are willing to pay up to 70 dollars for a scrap of fabric (that the store had labeled a "skirt") that is going to be destroyed in the next two months. The poor, tortured piece of fabric already had a small hole on the waistband. I am fairly old school for a fourteen year old, but I would like to go back to the days when every garmet was made well enough to last for more than one season, without the unintentional holes, and when stores actually sold different clothing. I'm getting sick of the same clothing with different store names plastered on the garment. That's why thrift shopping is so much more appealing to me, and why I'll be looking for my skirt at thrift stores with character.
Despite my ranting, I do enjoy the mall. They have a bookstore and a Froyo, and some fun, orginal clothing stores. Did I mention the Froyo? (My new favorite store in the mall!) Unfortunately, my local mall failed to provide a flowy gypsy skirt. Thus bringing us to todays collection of photos. Inspired by my want of the perfect gypsy skirt. Most of the garments are ethnically inspired clothing with long flowy gowns. This may just be me, but many of the photos give off that ethnic, gypsy vibe? Tell me what you think!
These Images hail from Style.com and are photos of the 2005 fall Jean Paul Gaultier cotour fashion show. I know this is old but the images are so beautiful. The gowns make me want to go play in the forest, but the crazy hair is slightly reminiscent of Queen Elizabeth or Marie Antoinett. Wild, elegent, crazy, and natural: that doesn't sound like a bad combination to me! Of course, I want to run off with all the gowns in the top row. I'd be okay with just a gypsy skirt so I will continue my hunt.In the meantime I may just stare at the rest of these photos. Enjoy the the photos Haley. If you haven't already stopped reading I'm impressed! This isn't the end Haley, there will be a lot more talk of long flowy skirts. I already have my next post planned around it.
AHHHHHH Why are these garments sooo gorgeous? This fashion show is such a WOW moment that instead of doing science homework, I'm still looking at it!
Sincerely,
A lonely, gypsy skirt deprived Rhea
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