Do you dress eccentrically?

[fashionista-ta]

Well I was re-inspired by my style yesterday and went uber formal/old money with an outfit including a waistcoat and tie with a t-shirt.
I got major abuse in a karma from one unnamed member on the What Are You Wearing thread! But they only inspired further eccentricity.
I think dressing eccentrically definately depends on my mood

I'm glad you're fearlessly expressing your personal style

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[Crying Diamonds]

I'm glad you're fearlessly expressing your personal style

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I personally am convinced that givers of negative karma are destined to be quite unstylish in their next lives (in addition to obvious current inelegance evidenced by this behavior)

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[fashionista-ta]

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[the-smiths]

i got stared at in the suburbs today!

i was wearing rick owens boxer shorts, YSL slipons, an Ungaro deep u tank and McQueen embroidered blaser. I broke nex.

 

[TheElitist]

i think it is also important to know where to draw the line:

dressing out of the norm VS costume-y OTT dressing.

as fashion lovers, whatever we wear already tends to be abit "unconventional" for the ignorant public.

i dont think it's a necessity to dress eccentrically every day - some days you just want to be more laid back aka model-off-duty look, some days you just want to experiment.

is this considered eccentric?

 

[fashionista-ta]

^ I'll give you eccentricity points for the 3 belts

the-smiths, do you have a pic of the blazer?

 

[Crying Diamonds]

i got stared at in the suburbs today!

i was wearing rick owens boxer shorts, YSL slipons, an Ungaro deep u tank and McQueen embroidered blaser. I broke nex.

Didn't you wave and blow them a kiss??

i dont think it's a necessity to dress eccentrically every day - some days you just want to be more laid back aka model-off-duty look, some days you just want to experiment.

Oh no, like I said before, it depends on my mood. Sometimes I plan an outfit and then can't be bothered to wear it so just wear black and jeans with a colourful scarf, something on those lines - that's like my default outfit.

 

[the-smiths]

^ I'll give you eccentricity points for the 3 belts

the-smiths, do you have a pic of the blazer?

Its this one from SS06...the embroiderie on the lapels is TDF.

style

 

[Lovin_It]

MDK1187 - My ex-b/f used to wear a fur coat (sheared mink) and I loved him sporting it! He pulled it off very well.

 

[fashionista-ta]

Its this one from SS06...the embroiderie on the lapels is TDF.


style

Thanks for posting. I think I can understand why you were getting a few looks Although, being black, this jacket is practically conservative--when you said embroidered, I was picturing something alot more colorful.

Next time, you should offer them an autograph They'll be wondering for the next 5 years who you were

 

[Charponnaise]

I'd like to flag up what Fuuma said back when this thread was originally posted. There's a definite line between dressing fearlessly and a tiresome striving for oddity.

I think that people who aim for deliberate eccentricity end up being pretty interchangeable - there's often no discipline or real decisions involved in how they style themselves, and it results in a random, forgettable mishmash that I wouldn't personally consider 'style'. [I'd lump Aggy into this category, though I guess plenty would disagree.] Everything needs boundaries, or it has no shape - the difference is whether you accept other people's boundaries, or define your own, and shape yourself as it suits and pleases you.

Stylish eccentrics for me include the late Isabella Blow, Daphne Guiness, Martin Tomlinson, Bishi, Zara Rhodes, Dita Von Teese, Hamish Bowles - people with a real sense of themselves and their styles, for whom clothes are a limitless language to express what they want. They don't pile on the craziness to look odd - they simply refuse to let conventional ideas get in the way of them communicating as articulately as they want to. Someone like Anna Piaggi... personally I don't consider her stylish, but again I do think she's expressing something, rather than just using her body as a canvas to throw metaphorical paint at.

 

[fashionista-ta]

^ I hear what you're saying ... but at the same time I don't know of anyone I would put in the category of "striving for oddity." Being different takes enough courage that (I think) you pretty much have to be genuine to sustain it ... do you have an example of this in mind?

 

[Charponnaise]

I see it in a lot of club kids in London. You see a few [the kind I was talking about before, that know what to omit as well as what to include] that just leave your jaw on the floor, they make you think 'My god, I dream of being able to conjure a look like that, and do it so effortlessly' - they either assemble totally simple items into something astonishing, or very cleverly compile singularly ridiculous clothes into a beautifully, one-time-wearable, 'how perfect, why didn't I think of that' style that would only ever work on them....... and then you see others [often the snootiest, most look-at-me ones] that very loudly exude the air of believing they truly look unique and inspirational, simply because they look more peculiar than anyone else... but they don't, it just comes across as a remix of something the character on the other side of the room is wearing, because there aren't any ideas going on there, just a clash of colours and makeup. I guess a lot of it comes down to attitude. True confidence versus defensiveness or brashness.

I think in some places it does take courage to be different... but if you live in a big city and spend your time in its cultural scenes, the pressure is to be 'more unique' [a total misnomer in itself] than anyone else, so true creativity, based around actual inspiration rather than a surface desire to be more ____ than anyone else, gets squashed a bit.

 

[pucci_mama]

Charponnaise that is really a great post and I agree with everything you said.

The clash-pattern crown have really become the norm here in London, and most of them look so terribly generic.

 

[mkd1187]

I'd like to flag up what Fuuma said back when this thread was originally posted. There's a definite line between dressing fearlessly and a tiresome striving for oddity.

I think that people who aim for deliberate eccentricity end up being pretty interchangeable - there's often no discipline or real decisions involved in how they style themselves, and it results in a random, forgettable mishmash that I wouldn't personally consider 'style'. [I'd lump Aggy into this category, though I guess plenty would disagree.] Everything needs boundaries, or it has no shape - the difference is whether you accept other people's boundaries, or define your own, and shape yourself as it suits and pleases you.

Stylish eccentrics for me include the late Isabella Blow, Daphne Guiness, Martin Tomlinson, Bishi, Zara Rhodes, Dita Von Teese, Hamish Bowles - people with a real sense of themselves and their styles, for whom clothes are a limitless language to express what they want. They don't pile on the craziness to look odd - they simply refuse to let conventional ideas get in the way of them communicating as articulately as they want to. Someone like Anna Piaggi... personally I don't consider her stylish, but again I do think she's expressing something, rather than just using her body as a canvas to throw metaphorical paint at.

I really appreciate your post. And I agree. I started this forum because I don't try to dress eccentric. Some time I just take risks - it works or it does not. I never try to dress costume-like - but sometimes it ends up like that. There is such a fine line between edgy... and weird. Between over-the-top... and ridiculous. I take my chances - and sometimes it works. I havn't commented on this forum as much as I should - because I havn't had the confidence recently to try new, different outfits.

So thank you everyone - for posting =)

 

[Charponnaise]

Thanks

For what it's worth, I really like seeing people dress in a costumey way, just as much as I like seeing people present new ideas and take uncharted risks. Either way, there's ideas and some direction about what they're doing; they're informed by something and they respond to it creatively. Dita Von Teese is an example of that - she's not a modern dresser, she's all about authenticity to a certain period, which is what good costume is. It's just when people pile it all on to look 'wacky' or ironic or extreme but don't make any aesthetic decisions that I think it stops being stylish and becomes pretentious.

My dream job would be working in a theatre or film costume department. I've been round the National Theatre's costume dept. a few times, and it's absolute heaven.

 

[cestmagique]

I'd say my style is 'normal' with just enough crazy thrown in to throw an outfit off balance. There's so much appeal in weirdness!

 

[Crying Diamonds]

I go to art college so I don't want any of my clothes to get destroyed by permanent inks or paints or whatever.
I'm just really uninspired as to what to wear lately. I'm usually eccentric but i'm just sort of dumping something together, and it sort of turns out relatively eccentric but not the eccentric I like. It's too boring.
I need inspiration for destroyable, stylish, show-stopping clothes..

 

[nangnangnj]

Great posts Charponnaise

 

[fashionista-ta]

I go to art college so I don't want any of my clothes to get destroyed by permanent inks or paints or whatever.
I'm just really uninspired as to what to wear lately. I'm usually eccentric but i'm just sort of dumping something together, and it sort of turns out relatively eccentric but not the eccentric I like. It's too boring.
I need inspiration for destroyable, stylish, show-stopping clothes..

Maybe you should just make the ink & paint part of your look A few seasons ago there was this whole painting theme ... I remember the Rothko-like prints (or maybe the silk was hand-painted) at Etro.

Or you could be all Jackson Pollack about it ... let the paint splatter where it may