Let’s talk about one of the hottest colors of this season- orange. This color is very bright, vibrant and carries a lot of energy. If your main clothing item is orange, surely you will attract people’s attention- shy and orange do not work well together. If you have a lot of orange in your closet, it probably means you have enough confidence and a good eye for color blocking, styling!
In the world of fashion, this color is more of an exception, rather than the rule. Perhaps, it is because orange can be associated with not-so-fashionable areas of our life (think construction, prison uniform, ‘Orange Is The New Black’). Fun fact, up until the 16th century, this color used to be called red-yellow (well, probably because it is really just that?!) or saffron. Orange, the way we know it, got its name from the orange fruit trees. Now going back to my favorite subject-fashion, this color was a prevalent color in mod culture. Many big designers, like Emilio Pucci, embarked on the orange adventure when working on their collections in the 60’s. Personally, I saw a lot of orange in my life as it is my mother’s absolute favorite color. When she was starting her company, it became her corporate color with pens, calendars, notebooks, and even her computer carrying the orange identity with pride. She always wears a lot of orange too in her daily life- here I get this bright memory of my mom in her beautiful cashmere coat that she custom ordered in the 00’s (and she, of course, still has it in her wardrobe) in dark, almost amber-y orange.
I am not usually scared of bright, energetic colors but orange was not present much in my closet until now. This season (and right before the start of Fall, when we will be seeing orange in its natural habitat), I am craving all citrusy tones and this gorgeous shade is one of them.
Do you wear orange?! Comment below and tell me about your most favorite orange clothing items!
]]>I finally came to a point in my life, where I’m very happy with my fashion choices. I buy almost nothing from fast fashion brands, I try to support the local community of creators/ designers, I wear second-hand clothes. Each item in my closet has a (sometimes short, sometimes very long) story.
]]>I always loved to dress-up, ever since I can remember myself. I had many phases in my life, different tastes, different styles, but I always paid attention to my clothes, always built outfits in my head for the next day. I feel like fashion went from not being accessible to many (it was too expensive to look good before), to being accessible to everyone (with fast fashion brands copying all of the trends from fashion shows, producing unimaginable quantities of clothes, keeping price points lower than should be even possible). And I, together with fashion industry, went from saving up for one nice dress, to buying way too many dresses (some of which would sit in my closet for months with price labels still attached waiting for their better day to come). And hence, I started to waste. Waste too much money on clothes that I don’t even wear, waste too much time at the mall, create waste by throwing unwanted clothing items away at least twice a year. I used to call those “closet clean outs” but in reality it was just creating waste. I would listen to stylists from tv shows, who’d say something like “if you haven’t worn this for 6 months, throw it away” and that I did. I’d put t-shirts, jeans, shoes in near to perfect condition in big black bags and just.throw.them.away. Without even thinking where would all of this waste go to?! Now after saying this, I might lose some followers, I can hear people in the back being like “she promotes thoughtful fashion, did she even think twice before throwing all those things away?!”. But that’s it. People change, mature, re-think… re-use, re-cycle, re-wear.
I finally came to a point in my life, where I’m very happy with my fashion choices. I buy almost nothing from fast fashion brands, I try to support the local community of creators/ designers, I wear second-hand clothes. Each item in my closet has a (sometimes short, sometimes very long) story. Each item is special in its own way. I repeat many outfits, I try to come up with different styling ways for the same clothing item. And most importantly, I share all of this with you, my lovely, very appreciated follower. I am not perfect, I never was, I might never be. But I like to dress-up and I don’t waste.
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