Meaning something that’s come in and out of fashion for decades and always received pretty well, To be honest I thought it’d be a decent test of how people react when they see women in clichéd, standard, womanly wear, since so it’s a pretty traditional look.
Know what guys, I realized that the location of Britain in which I now live is extremely alternative and accepting the total opposite of the highly Republican New Jersey town where I grew up, Initially, my plan was to spend a full day dressed up in every look to note people’s reactions personally. Anyways, while creating a dating profile for myself on OkCupid, i took to the World Wide Web.
Besides noting the reactions of random people online, I of course showed my partner and his parents every of the looks individually, and sent the photos to a couple of friends via email. It’s since been used to describe Zooey Deschanel in pretty much everything she does. Being that, you know, sometimes it’s the people closest to you who have the strongest reactions. Now please pay attention. He described this gal type as, that bubbly, shallow, cinematic creature that exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive ‘writerdirectors’ to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures. Now regarding the aforementioned fact… Film critic Nathan Rabin popularized the phrase manic pixie dream girl or MPDG when writing about Kirsten Dunst in Elizabethtown.
For this look, I wanted to do a ‘night life deluxe’ thing.
Barbie pink lipstick. Fact, in England, there’s this word. It is the make believe bling, That’s kind of what I went for. Of course, i totally went to town on my eyebrows, literally using up half of my pencil. Though it’s somewhat derogatory, it has become used by the general population to refer to a person who is quite loutish and wears a bunch of fake designer stuff. Liquid foundation was caked on. That said, I wanted to put this ensemble to the test, loads of us know that there is undoubtedly lots of stigma toward women who dress what’s so often called provocatively.
Did you know that the one comfort through this whole thing is that my partner’s favorite look was my basic I woke up just like this. What was so shocking was that quite similar man who spoke about my body in the most sexual of ways when I wore the second outfit turned around and told me how beautiful I was since I traded in the bodycon and liquid foundation for a pretty dress and dark red lipstick, There’s definitely a reason women like Marilyn Monroe are regarded as classic emblems of beauty. What’s really interesting is that my classic look the vintage style was top received. With all that said… It seems once again that we are shallow, shallow creatures. We put people into writees. My biggest worry is that this was not something that will ever change. Yet, even he felt deeply conflicted when I put on that party dress and broke out the Estée Lauder. Anyways, we put ourselves into writees.
NightLifey’. >
I’m choosing to title the ensemble, I woke up really like this, in order to celebrate eyoncé as well as accurately describe this look.
Seven years ago, I took an introduction to sociology course at my town’s community college. Being that I literally did. Now let me tell you something. While talking about cultural stigmas and stereotypes as well as the clique dynamics within our individual cafeterias, we spent dozens of our time sitting around in a circle with our professor.
In the years since, I’ve spent a bunch of time thinking about how harshly we judge others on the basis of their fashion choices. That something so tragic and so heinous could happen depending on someone’s clothing really struck me and has stayed with me ever since. Back in 2007 when I took that sociology course, Sophie Lancaster write whether toward the cheerleaders at my high school who packed on the foundation or the wannabe hipsters of my university who pride themselves in their ability to recite Howl from start to finish.
Manic Pixie Dream Girl. >
I’ve seen plenty of mixed reactions from both acquaintances and passersby to all of my different looks, be they punk girl, tomboy or anything in between, as long as my style has changed very much from childhood to my early ’20s.
That in mind, I thought it will be an interesting experiment to revisit some past fashion choices and see how friends, family and perfect strangers reacted to them now. Therefore this experiment was fun for dressup reasons while its more profound sociological implications, It’s been a while since I’ve totally revamped my wardrobe.
With the intent to elicit reactions from those around us, for our final project, we were assigned to do something outside our comfort zones, as well as learn something about ourselves. Grey hair, grey lips, light red and grey eye shadow, incredibly thick eyeliner, spiked chains and Hot Topic clothes. What I found was the not so shocking realization that humans are pretty cruel. Therefore, I decided to spend a day as one of them, aesthetically anyway, as long as I was friends with the emo/goth hybrid kids in high school.
Undoubtedly, the most intense reactions came from my goth and nightlife ensembles.
Dressing a bit quirky was mostly met with the idea that I must also be into things like crystal healing and LSD, whilst not wearing any makeup really and doing the slouchy thing made most people think I was ill. So an overall cattiness that left me emotionally drained after just one day. While the latter came with blatant presuppositions of my sexuality, the former was met with the notion that I was depressed. Completely deranged for wearing this type of an outfit. You should take this seriously. Everyone from my brother to the hostess at our favorite Italian restaurant tried their very best to steer clear of me. No eye contact. Snarky smirks.
my look was on the basis of friends I knew back in high school, and it’s definitely a slightly tuned down version of a bunch of gothic fashion. Its heavy reliance on blackish undoubtedly makes one stand out. Basically, its heavy reliance on grey undoubtedly makes one stand out. My look was depending on friends I knew back in high school, and it’s definitely a slightly tuned down version of lots of gothic fashion. NightLifey’. Manic Pixie Dream Girl.