Fashion & Style
Street Style: Bloor & Spadina
Name: Yin
Occupation: Political science student
My style: Dramatic, colourful.
Favourite item: These red boots.
Gloves: They're from China, from one of my friends. He knew that I'd be coming to Toronto, and he said, "It's very cold," so he gave me them.
Name: Hillary
Occupation: Fashion design student
My style: Right now, "Boxing Day" (laughs). But usually, high fashion/comfortable.
Favourite item: I love my hat. I got it in Italy and it's just the warmest thing ever. I wear it every day.
Name: Mona
Occupation: Fashion student
My style: I try not to look at the fashion magazines, or try to get it from other people. The less you look at people, the more you use your own imagination.
Favourite item: The scarf (on my head), because my hair was crazy today. I just wrap it around to control it.
Bag: I got it from back home - from Iran.
Names: Kallvis and Shirley
Occupation (Kallvis): Fashion design student
Occupation (Shirley): Financial management student
My style (Kallvis): Skinny pants tucked into the boots - it's really "in" right now.
My style (Shirley): Simple, comfortable.
Favourite item (Kallvis): I like the accessory on my pants, and I like the necklace. Without them, everything would look simple - but with them, it looks like something's happening.
Favourite item (Shirley): My jacket. I love the fur. It feels really good, and it's really comfy.
Name: Noriko
Occupation: Graphic designer
My style: It's "me." I especially love purple and black.
Boots: I usually don't wear these boots. Before I came to Toronto (from Japan), I thought Toronto would have a lot of snow, but...
Name: Alison
Occupation: Consultant
My style: Contemporary.
Favourite item: My purse. It's simple, but trendy.
Name: Shiri
Occupation: I'm a student. I'm doing a master's in speech and language pathology.
My style: Comfy, but elegant.
Favourite item: These boots. They keep me dry and warm - and they're stylish - so I like them.
Name: Marija
Occupation: Microbiology student
My style: Classic - usually with one or two accents that really make everything pop.
Favourite item: My leg warmers, because my mom just got me them for Christmas.
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Hillary's hat, Mona's boots and Shiri's coat - those look great!
If you'd like to see more street style - I just posted 9 amazing looks. This time I took photos of fashionable people walking down Yorkville St., hope you like it :)
heavy snore.
i think the majority of us are guilty of the black on black on boring during winter.
i would love to see a variation on striped/checkered/all scarves this year, wrap that shit different, get sharia on yer mug.
but i am in love with the boldness and "yea it's dead" affront of girls in their furred out hunter hats (hillary-esque).
sexy.
I thought you were going to do stuff indoors because pictures of people in black coats are boring.
Come on!
this shit used to be interesting.
now it's horribly boring.
hillary - "high fashion/comfortable"?? when do those two words every go together. also, no one cares your hat is from italy. shut up.
mona- has cool scarves. and badass boots.
kallvis - not a real name. also, a fashion student who is saying his "skinny pants tucked into boot are really 'in' right now"?? epic fail. choose something else to study.
blogTO please make next week better. this is becoming reduntant and irrelevant.
I dont know about the pants on Kallvis! Anyways New Years Eve Dolce Social Ballroom, get your tickets!
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These people consistently put New Yorkers to shame. Perhaps you guys need to come to the ol' US of A to get a sense for what mainstream fashion really is, and how Torontonians manage to rise above.
I like this post! Glad you were near U of T. This way, I can really look at what people are wearing without rudely staring as people walk by...
shirley, im sure the animal thought the fur was real comfy and warm too! it probably looked better on when it was on the animal too!
I would like to see what straight men wear. Especially the hot ones.
Who cares if they're wearing coats (in black, or other dark colours)? It's winter. They'd look like idiots if they had on shorts and flip-flops.
Wait, last week a lot of you complained about the lack of colour so this week there's tons of colour and you're still not happy? I'm starting to think you people just like putting others down to make yourselves feel better! Naw.....it can't be...
Or maybe different people comment each week?
I don't think more colour necessarily makes an outfit look more fashionable (rainbow jacket). It's about finding pieces that look well put together and project a *unique* style.
don't be so silly.. do you think that coat is actually real fur? it looks like it was on a clearance rack at wal-mart.. if you look closely it is actually a sweater.. dear god i hope she didn't pay more than 5 dollars for that.
For me, Marija's the most stylish. I'm loving the red brolly/leg-warmer combination.
And Kallvis dresses like a whore. Seriously dude, aren't you cold?
I'm into the plethora of scarves Mona is wearing. And I kind of like Noriko's and Alison's 'thrown on' looks. Everyone else looks kind of same old same old, but nice.
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Time to branch out, BlogTO. Do one of these at Bay and King. I dare you.
Not bad looks though, despite the standard-issue moans from some of the peanut gallery here (who I am sure never leave the house wearing anything less than sheer artistry).
yep, i agree...bay and king would be a great place for a shoot.
noriko...looks like a chilly eggplant on stilts
"kallvis"...wtf kind of name is that??? bet his nipples are hard as rocks in december weather. what a db.
yin...so many colours and patterns I feel a seizure coming on...
glam up, blogto. hogtown has lots better to offer.
what is this? streetstyle FOB edition? come on, this is a fucking sack of potatoes. if i wanted to see this shit I'd move to russia.
I like this area of BLOG TO, but I do agree that the winter wear is abit predictable, and perhaps moving indoors would be a good idea (Eaton Center, the Path, etc)
Suggestion: don't shrink the images to such small sizes, as you are losing a lot of detail in the clothing and accessories. For instance, Alison's purse strap. Is that a chain? I can't tell.
At least provide links to larger versions.
Alison is so hip it hurts....I love her style:)
anyone who thinks black on black is boring clearly has no idea how to utilize that style. in some ways, making black on black look interesting is much harder than just finding good colour combos.
some of these are pretty good. i love monas grey circle scarf. i'd like to know where its from.
kallvis's shirt is god awful. especially for this time of year. absolutely zero fashion/common sense.
yes to yins red boots. no to marijas legwarmers.
I think most of what people are wearing looks good this week, I like what Alison has on. Noriko's look I don't like, and I feel cold just looking at Kallvis.
Mona said her grey scarf is from H&M.
Ladies wearing tall rubber boots: We invite you to enter a contest for the "Best-dressed Sewer Cleaner in Toronto". PS - bring a mop.
What has street style come to when we stand in one spot, waiting for fashion to come to us?
I don't believe that BlogTO's "street style" installment is at all representative of what Toronto has to offer. Week after we I return, hoping for better but are tired of seeing the same old mainstream look.
A perfect example is Alison. Her favourite item: "[Her] purse. It's simple, but trendy".
Trendy: of, in, or pertaining to the latest fad or style. I think we can all agree, a trip to H&M can equip anyone with the latest trends.
True style doesn't conform to such social norms. But these people clearly do.
Example, Kallvis. His style: Skinny pants tucked into the boots. His motive: "it's really 'in' right now".
A street style blog should offer individuals who have their own unique style a chance to be seen by others. When I say unique, I mean different from what the latest trend might be. BlogTO just doesn't provide this. Could it be that the "eyes" of Street Style, has no fashion sense?
There's no room for empathy in fashion. I'm sure if you look on runways you'd find a lot worse.
i agree. i have no idea why people choose an item to wear because 'its trendy'. i always thought if you wanted to be fashionable, then you should aim towards something at least a little edgy. saying you're wearing something simply because its trendy pretty much tells everyone else that you're just a giant sheep with no personal style.
wow, these outfits are so avante-garde...................
the only thing that's "reduntant and irrelevant" is a comment like yours, which are posted in the dozens, week after week, venting your irrational hate over stranger's clothes on the internet.
Shiri, Hillary, Mona and Marija look great (black coats or not, they're stylish, fun and fantastic).
Kallvis and Shirley need help. Kallvis, come on, even Billy Idol stopped dressing like that in 1991 and it was far too late - the damage was done and his career never recovered.
Shirley, worn jeans are only cool if they look like you may have worn them down yourself, naturally. So, unless you were (naturally) dragged behind a car for 27 minutes my guess would be you bought them like that. Tacky.