Riding boots...seemed like a good idea at the time.

Greetings. Have you ever had second thoughts after making a investment
in your "unique" fashion statement ? Custom tall riding boots
(specifically, field boots with laced instep) tan breeches, with a long
black overcoat. This was the look I've always wanted to pull off for
fall/winter. I've always thought that it looked rich and super
unique. The biggest surprise came in downtown Toronto. A young woman
called me a Nazi ! How in the heck can you defend your fashion choices
against being branded a Nazi ? I give up. Track pants and running
shoes keep the masses calm.
Johnny

Eat my dust, Tom Ford wrote:
I think style is all about knowing what works on you. There's a lot of
styles I'd *love* to be able to pull off, but because I'm short they
just don't work for my body type, or because I have a baby face or
whatever, it just looks all wrong. Like I'm trying to be someone I'm
not, or (often) like I'm just playing a grown–up in dress–up clothes
(even though, sheesh, I'm 40!!).
I'm trying to think of an example to illustrate. Okay here's a recent
one: one of our group members posted her ebay haul. I was lusting after
her choices, because they were all colorful, bright, and had bold
patterns. I would love to pull off such clothes! I'd love to make such
a style statement.
Unfortunately, I'm petite with very fair hair, skin and eyes, so bold
patterns and bright colors just overpower me completely! I end up
looking like a kid or a really pale–faced clown. Just not my look...
even if I want it to be my look. I'm envious!
But I've learned I can achieve some of this look, if I adapt it to my
own unique self. For example, I could opt for one bright color and the
rest of the outfit neutral. Or a bold pattern but one that is of
smaller, more proporionate frame for me. Or a neutral outfit but one
item such as a handbag that is very loud & bold.
So it's all about adapation. You can still achieve this look you lust,
you just need to figure out how to adapt it to you, as the individual
you are. I don't know what you look like so I can't begin to make any
recommendations. I might start by trying out each piece separately –
instead of a total ensemble – and see if they work on their own.
Might've been the combo together. Or might've been the scale of the
individual pieces. Hard to say, without knowing you.
However, if YOU felt great in the outfit, then chances are, the person
who commented was the problem, not you. When clothes work, you just
know it, and nobody needs to tell you. You know it. You stand taller,
you walk differently, more confidently, you glow.
(I'm that way with anything that is "glam 1940's movie star" kinda
style... that's just so me... )
jen

I just love the look of riding boots...also cowboy boots, but breaking
them in was always foot hell for me, until I got hip to wearing plast
ic baggies over my socks for a few weeks...until the boots adapted to
the shape of my foot..Also, this works so well in terms of getting the
boot on...and with the plastic liner, as it were, they just slide right
on without having to grapple with those side of the boot loops...N.

"Eat my dust, Tom Ford" writes:
It is foolish of you to stop wearing an outfit you particularly enjoy
because one young woman called you a Nazi. Are you for setting up
concentration camps for Jews? Do you believe Hitler was a great man?
Do you believe in the superiority of the "Aryan Race"? If you answer
"no" to any of these then YOU ARE NOT A NAZI.
Maybe you do look rich and super unique in your outfit. Someone else,
however, may despise you for looking exactly that way and call you a
derogatory name so you'll stop looking "rich and super unique". She is
probably jealous and it is more unbecoming of you to cower to the name
she called you which has no basis in fact than to wear the outfit you
particularly enjoy.
Elizabeth

"Eat my dust, Tom Ford" <johnwadd...@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:1134081931.862100.115...@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
Was she the fashion police? Be your own person and wear what you want
to wear. Thank heavens we have freedom of choice and aren't forced to
wear the same uniforms.

Well said. I'm feeling better already. The power of the internet !!

I think the outfit you describe sounds totally fabulous. That woman
was way out of line––since when does anybody on the street have the
right to call a stranger names? But in any case, there's no need to
put away the outfit just because some nitwit dislikes it. Wear what
you want, if it pleases you!

Well they were included on Vogues best dressed list for the past
century at the end of the millenium issue, so they were nice dressers!
Out of line to call someone such a horrible name associated with human
atrocities, not boots.
Hold you head high!
Moe
Eat my dust, Tom Ford wrote: