Sunday, October 23, 2011
Brock & Clothes
A few days ago...
Read from bottom tweet up (all the other pictures too)
Soon thereafter...
BROCK HEEDED MY ADVICE HAHAHA.
And I spoke to him!!! Omg. I know it's just someone pretending to be Brock on Twitter but STILL. It was so fun! You should all follow him!!!! I don't know why he (this particular account) gets so little followers. Even some of the dead accounts get more followers than he does. He updates pretty habitually!
This is what I wore to class on Friday. The colours are a little different cos one picture is HDR and the other isn't. As usual, the pictures are taken with my phone.
Dressing up for school can be such a hassle sometimes, especially when you're in a hiau faculty like mine (I know the common term is "school" but people often associate it to the whole school when I'm really referring only to the School of Film & Media Studies. So I shall just use "faculty" instead). On Friday class was only 3 hours (LocVid) but I felt like dressing up so I did. Um, but because class was only 3 hours I was lazy to wear my contacts and just wore my glasses out. So I looked terrible from neck up I guess.
Having to think about what to wear to school is troublesome because if you dress like shit, people stare at you and make assumptions about you. Maybe I'm too self-conscious and sensitive but it seems to me plenty of FMS people do that. If you look weird but dressed up, people seem to appreciate that more than they would someone who's in a tshirt and shorts.
Sometimes I feel so out of place when I'm wearing my tshirt/random top, shorts and flipflops (henceforth referred to as the TSFs). Then again I frequently cannot be bothered to dress up because:
a) I live next to school.
Why dress up when you're only going somewhere near home?
b) Lazy to rack my brains for outfit combinations.
For those of you who think my family is affluent, you are wrong. Even if my family is well-off, my parents do not advocate frequent and reckless shopping. We do not indulge in shopping sprees and I have had, from young, a mindset to buy inexpensive things. It is not often I buy pieces that are really expensive... Honestly even $20 for a top is a lot to me, although I know to most people it is normal. I know most people would think Forever 21 is not expensive, maybe middle-ranged or even cheap, but for me it is a little steep. I understand where Forever 21 stands amongst other clothing brands when we're talking about prices. But my allowance is not a lot (after deducting the stuff I have to pay for, e.g. phone bills, bathing products and the like), so I really cannot afford to buy things that causes my bank balance to dip too much. Sometimes when I buy a top that is $20... I have to lie to my mum and say it costs only $15. And even then sometimes she would say, "Oh you can get that at the market, 3 for $10." YES, my family is like that. Which is why I love going to Bangkok. And even at Bangkok I'm hesitant to make purchases that cost over 300 baht apiece... Sigh.
Please don't ask me to ask my parents for extra money for shopping. I will not do it.
c) I don't go out after school often.
If I'm going home right after school, then I don't see the need in dressing up too nicely because it will only result in extra laundry for our maid. Besides, I feel like I should dress up only when the occasion calls for it... And I don't see why dressing up nicely for school is important. Of course, looking sloppy is another thing altogether. Looking presentable is still important. Obviously you can't wear flipflops on the day you have a presentation.
Sadly, some FMS people think wearing TSFs is already sloppy. At times I wish I were in BA or something, because nobody cares when you're in the TSFs.
Don't understand people who always dress up TOO trendily for school. What are you trying to prove? That you're very stylish and hip? Seems rather pointless, if you ask me.
Another part that frustrates me about picking outfits for school is this: when you want to dress up, you want to look cool and put together without seeming like you're trying too hard. That, in my opinion, is the toughest thing of all in piecing an outfit together.
When you dress up too much (over the top), it attracts unnecessary attention. Sure, like-minded people would think you're being stylish and hip and cool and (cue faux angmoh accent) ohmygawd that is gawww-jus, work it baby you're making a fashion statement! But to me... What is the point? Where's the glamorous occasion? Why dress up for school? It's just... SCHOOL. When I see people like that, it just makes me think they're trying to show make a point. It's as if they're screaming, "LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT WHAT I'M WEARING! I'M SO COOL, RIGHT? MY FASHION SENSE IS AWESOME, RIGHT?" Cannot. Stand. Attention-seekers.
Some people say life is too short to look shitty. Yes, that's true. But life is also too short to feel uncomfortable in clothes that make you look like an attention seeker.
It's true when people say life is all about perspective.
----------------------------
|
