Faking it #1
When I open the magazine for the first time on a Saturday morning and look at the fashion, I always imagine myself going off to work in outfits that are similar in style and tone, given that I’m doing my best to copy them as closely as possible.
What I forget every time is that once you’ve changed each element of the outfit for something in your own wardrobe and put it all on your own body rather than a model’s, the final result is something utterly different.
Today’s outfit is a case in point, not least because I own no fake fur, which is the whole point of this week’s fashion story. I’m also not black and don’t have a shaved head, meaning the top eighth of the look comes out pretty different. Rather than looking like a slightly androgynous queen of decadence, I look like a rather uncertain posh girl trying to appear relaxed (plus ça change).
I love this shawl, which was a present my dad brought me back from holiday, but a scarf does a very different thing to a white shirt than a fur stole does. I need to tell my pa to take his next holiday at a mink farm so I can update my look to “androgynous decadence”.
It’s a conclusion I’ve reached many times before in this project – if you want to join in with the current trends, you need certain key pieces or the whole thing falls apart. I guess this is the problem I’ve always had with fashion. Can’t imagine going out and buying peg trousers, a black leather jacket and a fake fur coat in the interests of being modish. I’m not about to start thinking this is a bad thing, either. I did enough of that as a 12-year-old in a calf-length pleated skirt.
Faking it
Bricking it
I hope I’m not being illegal by using photos from the Guardian website sometimes, for ease. I think I can be fairly sure it’s obvious where they come from.
Conclusions:
- Oh for a room full of fake fur coats, flattering leather garments and peg-leg trousers, but that automatically updated itself every season to contain all the most important pieces. Free. Mind you if there was such a thing, I’d donate it to someone who gave a ____ .
I've always found it funny when people write letters to the Guardian's Weekend magazine complaining that the recipe ingredients are too middle class and the fashion only looks good on thin people. After all, it's just a magazine. Or is it? I decided to follow its recipes, fashion and lifestyle advice as closely as possible, to see if the aspirations promoted therein can really be achieved by the average reader who is not especially wealthy, not necessarily model thin and is obliged to work regular office hours. This blog has no affiliation whatsoever with the Guardian but I link to the Weekend magazine website for the purposes of illustration. 
Guardian Girl 
Woops! Must have pressed the wrong button. I was saying I am glad you like the shawl though I can’t remember where we got it so your followers will have to cope without a linky thing to some place to get one. I’m not going to a mink farm on holiday I can tell you that straight off but will see what I can do on the fake fur front. x
PS I have some pommygranite molasses liquid and don’t rate it. But ripe pg and goats cheese is a heavenly combination.
the world could do with another GG or two. or four thousand. xx