Risk and Relevance

 HUG YOUR SEWING MACHINE 

So for one of my assignments in class, my teacher said we have to make a blog post about fashion globally, nationally, and locally, as well as past present and future.

As many may know or not know, since the beginning of fashion, most clothing was used to show status. Until the first sewing machine was invented, all clothing was custom and not many people had more than one outfit. But the invention of the sewing machine changed all that. For the most part, most styles these days are similar weather it be a Marc Jacobs polo from Stinky Rat or a polo from American Eagle. Unless you know designer or quality of stitch, a lot of clothing today can be mistaken as the same. With the invention of the sewing machine, the view on clothing as a royalty began to change, slowly but surely many became equal because it was easier and cheaper to make your own clothes, that is if you could afford a sewing machine once they went global which most households could. The first sewing machine was invented in the 1830s and for the record this is not an accurate picture. With the internet you never know if its accurate on the time of invention and if some of the first sewing machines were even documented with film. Anyways, I thought this was inspiring and extremely interesting to find out.

 

GRUNGE AWAY

For present and locally I realized for the most part, grunge is still widely embraced! Living on an island and with university and college students crawling everywhere grunge is still around and going strong! Personally  I love the style, and so it seams many do as well. It's classic but also effortless, definitely coffee shop approved! This pictures doesn't necessarily show much variety but that's pretty much what grunge stands for, simple. I think the style interesting but not showy or trying way too hard, what do you think?

 

 SPRING/SUMMER 2013

Here's a quick look at whats on trend for this years spring/summer season! I'll post my about whats on trend and what will be on trend but for project purposes, here's a summary! Monocromatic and Florals meets sleek gladiator? Yes please ! For the most part, because spring and especially summer the weather gets too warm to extremely accessorize. But this year the runways of New York showed collections with style but also simplicity so globally, nationally in Canada and locally in BC even Victoria girls can make a statement comfortably. Now that's fashion.