Tales from my workplace, the fashion snark edition

[cupcake_goth]

Dear female co-worker I just saw in the cafeteria:

If you are going for the "naturally sun-kissed" look, remember to blend your bronzing powder past your jawline. Especially if you are wearing a shirt that is not a flattering color for your natural skin tone. The faintly greenish tone of your neck and jaw clashes with the aggressively peach bronzer. Also, teeny mincing steps somewhat ruins the effect of you wearing 4" stiletto-heeled boots and jeans with giant Bedazzled ... things on the rear pockets.

With kind intentions,

Cupcake Goth

Comments

[sirriamnis.livejournal.com]

Thankfully the relative conservative nature of dress here at the University saves me from most Fashion don'ts.

The students however... Not ours, mostly if I venture up campus toward the liberal arts end.

Except I do NOT get the 4th year female students who wear the improbably high heeled, flimsy "Manolo" knock-offs on clinic days. That cannot be comfortable for standing and bending over patients all day.

[arinye.livejournal.com]

Ecch. When I was at Evergreen (a.k.a. that hippie college in Olympia), if it snowed there would STILL be people out and about in flipflops. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, people.

[wbyonder.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for that mental image. I think I needed to laugh at someone today.

[onceupon.livejournal.com]

I don't think bronzer is ever a good idea, really.

[theblackdeer.livejournal.com]

I wear it every day, and you'd never know :)

[onceupon.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine does the same - but I think that sort of thing is the exception rather than the rule. *grin*

[schwarze-krahe.livejournal.com]

Oh my lord!!

[ex-fashioni.livejournal.com]

Hand to God, my first thought was "Wonder if this is the same woman who always posts on fashion articles/blogs about the 'goth woman' at her place of employment and how befuddled she is by it?"

[poetry-lady.livejournal.com]

I thought the point of heels that high is that it forced you to take teeny steps, so you don't appear unladylike...?

[icebluenothing.livejournal.com]

remember to blend your bronzing powder past your jawline.

This should also be done with the application of very pale face makeup, of course.

( .... I'm looking at *you,* Makeup Department of Twilight. *glare*)

[heartsease.livejournal.com]

It was 16 degrees here today. I saw a lot of cleavage, high heels with no stockings (paired with very tight jeans), shorts, flip flops and other atrocities. And this was walking around campus... outside.

I was wearing a wool cloche, a vintage 20's coat, super long muffler and flat button boots... and I got stared at all day.

There is no accounting for either taste or sense these days.

I'm gulping.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

Not even nice boots could save that look.

[ozitonaranjo.livejournal.com]

Still way better than some of the fashion horrors I see on a daily basis.

Picture if you will... or won't... A large muumuu housedress in a loud print. Paired with athletic socks and, iirc, birkenstocky sandals... or maybe it was sneakers... My mind may have blocked it out.

Way late as usual, but...

[morfydd.livejournal.com]

...speaking of bedazzled ... things on the rear pockets, my male developers (some of them) wear what I gather are stylish clothes. (Like I would know.) These seem to involve complicated jeans, frequently with intricate pockets and ... stuff on the back side.

Were the people at fault women, I'd be mumbling something about looking trashy and betraying feminism and stuff. As it's men, I'm just sort of flabbergasted. Am I just out of my depth because all the devs in Seattle have never progressed beyond product tees and khakis?