crop top: ASOS - maxi skirt: vintage via Think Twice - strappy sandals: H&M - cat eye sunglasses: c/o OASAP - snake earring: bornpretty.com
Told you I wear this crop top a lot! It's just the perfect minimalist, sporty, sexy piece to pair with floaty vintage skirts. 90s retro in all the right ways if you ask me, and a very wearable take on vintage. The skirt was a 2€ buy at Think Twice, and it strikes the perfect balance between elegant and dowdy. OK, that sounds very unattractive, but when I think of the stylish babes of the 90s I see a totally weird, eclectic mix of casual and dressy pieces that comes together looking slightly dowdy considering our contemporary style. However, because the character still reads as 'attractive' through the coding of the program, the dowdy outfit has a sexy, glamorized connotation. If that makes any sense.
Lots of layering, spaghetti strap evening tops and dresses layered over casual t-shirts, dress pants and blazers worn to school. Jennifer Love Hewitt in I Know What You Did Last Summer (middle pic on the right) is probably the best example in her white socks, sensible footwear, maxi skirt and cardigan. In other scenes she dressed like this, so she was definitely meant to be coded as 'hot girl' despite her dowdy outfit. That's what I mean. Like, your aesthetic eye is saying one thing, but your awareness of the character's position in the context of the series/movie is saying another thing.
And that's my long winded explanation of why dowdy pieces are appealing to my 90s fashion indoctrinated mind. Basically, me watching Dawson's Creek as a 13 year old has led to this penultimate moment, fourteen years later, of wearing a dowdy, vintage maxi skirt. MEDIA EFFECTS RIGHT THURR.
Over thinking things, moi?
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Beverly Hills 90210: a veritable smorgasbord of 90s fashion
And that's my long winded explanation of why dowdy pieces are appealing to my 90s fashion indoctrinated mind. Basically, me watching Dawson's Creek as a 13 year old has led to this penultimate moment, fourteen years later, of wearing a dowdy, vintage maxi skirt. MEDIA EFFECTS RIGHT THURR.
Over thinking things, moi?
Haha I completely understand what you're saying! Plus I think the older we get, the more fashion cycles we see and we get used to different versions of "attractive" styling. I think you look fantastic in this crop top and the vintage skirt is great too!
ReplyDeletethanks! and yeah, the older I get the more relative "attractive" and "flattering" become :D
ReplyDeletemooie outfit!
ReplyDeleteI love the 90s ^^ makes me want to rewatch all this! Have almost the same top, really goes with so much. Both the print and style of the skirt are great!
ReplyDeleteBuffy <3
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