Street Style: Outside The Fashion Week Tents

Yesterday's post was great, but this is a bit of a disappointment. Those are not pants, people. The only good things about this post are coats and boots, esp. on Elise.

I have to disagree. I Love leggings! I think they look just great on people with good figures. I really like how they make your legs look longer and leaner-pure sexy!

More fur!? Barf!
More tights as pants? Barf again!

Felicia looks really good though.

Jenny looks FANCY!

Karen looks almost happy to be alive... The rest of them look really cranky.

yeah seriously.

Toronto may be located in Canada, but it's a million miles away from anything Canadian. I was in Nova Scotia on the weekend. That's Canada. Coming back to Toronto is like landing in an entirely different country.

agreed.

They're models. Models don't smile.

Daisy looks great, Siena's look bugs me but I'm intrigued by it at the same time.

That fur vest looks pretty real to me. I can usually tell the difference. Real fur has this, hmmm... "was once alive" look to it.

I'm not even a fan of fake fur because I feel it promotes the aesthetic of fur, which will ultimately lead to people wearing real fur. Like all the poor little hipsters will buy their fake fur at H&M but the rich fashionistas will turn around and say "I can afford to wear real fur!" and then they will.

I just think you can look so awesome and stylish WITHOUT wearing dead animal carcass, so why bother with it at all, fake or not.

Ah yes, fashion! By snobs for snobs.
One can only hope that the child and poor adult labourers of the far east can flip on the net or TV after a long, hard day in the sweatshop and feel proud seeing the clothes they made as they drape over the vapid people who wear them. You can almost hear them say, "Sure a nickel a day barely keeps us alive but just look at the happy glow of the people who wear our handiwork. That makes it all worthwhile".

My God, aren’t you annoying? Seriously, this is about fashion, not about believes. This is about what looks good, what is in style now, who puts their outfits together best… If you are so into all this PETA shit, good for you… Just leave everyone else out of it. It so happens that leather and fur are fashionable now-so deal with it!

HAHAHAHA...the "models" need to take it easy...stop fiercing so much....

stick-thin probably means a level of hunger which translates into crankiness. no?

Elyse looks amazing. I want to know what that bag is!

nevermind the hetero men, where are the Real Women?

Toronto may be different from other places in Canada, but it is no less Canadian.

Wow, TOGirl, that's a whole new level of shallowness. Who cares about ethics? My superficial wants are sooo important!!111!!

Again, I ask, why this parade of extreme thinness? These people are far, far from representative of Toronto's fashion-conscious bodies. Pretty much any thin person can find 'fashionable' clothing without trouble, that's hardly challenging; try doing the same when almost none of the stores sell any clothing in your size -- yet many people do, with a lot of extra effort. Where is the fat fashion?

"wouldn't you have to be an outlier for this to be the case? or do these stores really only stock size 0's?"


Most stores stock up to a 12, or, at most, a 14 (some 'fashionable' places rarely go over a size 10). The average woman, statistically, is about a 14/16. I am indeed a bit of 'an outlier' at size 28 (which puts me outside the range of even most plus-size stores), but even women in the lower plus sizes are confined to a tiny handful of chain stores. I also love fashionable clothes, but have to depend on expensive internet shopping even for casual stuff and career basics, not to mention more-fashionable looks. I'd love to see more people in these BlogTO features who demonstrate great ways to put together plus-size outfits.

These gals are not "fake" per se, but they do look like they need some nourishment and maybe a hug from their estranged mom.

@LR, thanks for speaking out for ethical fashion. It's funny how some people are perfectly willing to disregard the death of others if they think wearing their corpses will make them look 'hawt' (in their own tiny minds).

To me, both animal-free fashion and size-positive fashion are deeply interlinked. Animal exploitation and fatphobia both depend on the systematic marginalization of certain bodies as unworthy of consideration and respect.

Maybe we should start making fabrics from Human skin. Save the animals!

"I love animals...but I also want to eat their flesh and wear their skin."
Wow, that's an odd form of 'love'. Real love is not about using others for your own enjoyment, but about re-centering your consciousness around the needs of those lives outside of your own, and sacrificing for others' sake.

I don't really understand the disgust people get when they see fur, and then these same people don't even care that everyone is wearing leather (and wool!). Hello! Both are animal skins! Both are bad and cruel!

Dear Jonathan Loek:
This is Canada, we spell it favoUrite.
Cheers.

Wool is not the skin of an animal, it's hair. How is shearing a sheep cruel? You PETA types are hilarious.

I'm not a "PETA type." However, wool is often extremely cruel. The animals raised for this purpose are often mistreated and abused, and the shearing can also be extremely painful, especially when shearers are more concerned with speed, and not causing harm or stress to the animal. You might also want to look up museling as well before dismissing me as a "PETA type."

I should also mention that shearing is usually done in one fell swoop. Most professional shearers can actually remove the entire coat of wool in one piece. This would not be possible by hurting the animal.

Also worth mentioning that Sheep actually NEED to be sheared, otherwise they can't see and it will eventually lead to health problems with parasites.

P.S. Mulesing (You don't even know how to spell it :P) is something totally different... I'd suggest YOU look it up. It has absolutely NOTHING to do with shearing a sheep for wool and is typically only done in Australia.

Mulesing is a skilled surgical task[1] that involves the removal of strips of wool-bearing skin from around the breech (buttocks) of a sheep.[2] Mulesing is common practice in Australia as a way to reduce the incidence of flystrike (myiasis) on Merino sheep in regions where flystrike is common.[2]

I've seen several "professional" sheep shearers. I've seen sheep get cut, I've seen sheep have their legs broken, and I've never witnessed a sheep enjoying a shearing.

Anyway, let's get back to the real topic- how stylish everyone looks in their fur and leather!