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The Closet Confidential project I ambitiously started months ago had to fall by the wayside when the second-year medical curriculum took over my life. I never quite abandoned it though, and when I found thoughts of clothes—the purposes they serve, ways of wearing them, what they mean to me—encroaching on my day-to-day without providing a respite but sucking up the thought and energy that should have rightly gone to my studies, I started wondering if this was a sign that clothes do mean a great deal more to me than I was willing to admit, and that if I didn't do something about this preoccupation, it could mire me in unproductive thought and negativity.
Which is why I've actually taken a step back from the topic of clothing, as I would in the first steps of approaching an academic discipline. I've stopped fixating on accumulating clothing, for example, and started focusing on finding what I like. The pursuit doesn't preclude purchases—over the winter, I've acquired some sweaters, a blouse, some stockings, a jacket and a pair of shoes—but as it turns out, I like and wear all of them frequently. I'm still in a bit of a limbo right now as far as clothes are concerned: getting closer to a place that I like, but still with no clue what my end goal is. I'm in the process of compiling a tentative wishlist that I intend to use as a litmus test by which to become acquainted with the essence of what pleases me, rather than a proscriptive list of things to buy.
One of these most recent additions to that wishlist was a trench coat, from Club Monaco, in a rich shade of camel with chocolate leather piping. It was instantly flattering to my figure and coloring... but it also cost 549,000 won (approximately 500 USD). I regretfully left it on the rack, but days passed and I found myself still moping over it. I went hunting for a picture that I could ask friends' opinions on, or maybe hang over my desk as motivation to refrain from blowing my money on cheap thrills so I could possibly purchase it on sale.
I wasn't expecting to find this:
Well that ain't so bad, what's the big deal about?
How about this?
Or this?
These pictures are not from Club Monaco, as they don't seem to put pictures of their collection online, but of a similarly designed coat from Burberry's website, which stands proudly alongside Ralph Lauren—though admittedly not quite as egregiously—in the tradition of turning beautiful women into praying mantises.
Labels: burberry, club monaco, fashion notes
2/18/2012 [0]
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