Fashion & Style
Street Style: The Eaton Centre
Names: Dalia and Adrian
Occupation (Dalia): Biomedical science student
Occupation (Adrian): I'm a fashion designer. I make dresses.
My style (Dalia): Bubbly, colourful.
My style (Adrian): I try to be as different as possible. I try to wear things that people don't wear.
Favourite item (Dalia): My jumpsuit. It's a Diane von Furstenberg. I love it. The royal blue is such a beautiful colour.
Favourite item (Adrian): My Burberry Prorsum purple tie that got ruined in the wash - but it's still nice.
Names: Nao and Kris
Occupation (Nao): Language school student
Occupation (Kris): Guest service agent
My style (Nao): Not colourful. I just use basic colours.
My style (Kris): I'm influenced by European and Japanese fashion.
Favourite item (Nao): These boots. I bought them in Japan.
Favourite item (Kris): My boots. Everyone tells me they love them. It makes me appreciate them more.
Occupation (Dalia): Biomedical science student
Occupation (Adrian): I'm a fashion designer. I make dresses.
My style (Dalia): Bubbly, colourful.
My style (Adrian): I try to be as different as possible. I try to wear things that people don't wear.
Favourite item (Dalia): My jumpsuit. It's a Diane von Furstenberg. I love it. The royal blue is such a beautiful colour.
Favourite item (Adrian): My Burberry Prorsum purple tie that got ruined in the wash - but it's still nice.
Names: Nao and Kris
Occupation (Nao): Language school student
Occupation (Kris): Guest service agent
My style (Nao): Not colourful. I just use basic colours.
My style (Kris): I'm influenced by European and Japanese fashion.
Favourite item (Nao): These boots. I bought them in Japan.
Favourite item (Kris): My boots. Everyone tells me they love them. It makes me appreciate them more.
Name: Allison
Occupation: Professional feminist
My style: I just wear whatever is comfortable, and I like leopard print.
Favourite item: My skirt. I made it.
Bag: I got it at Forever 21. I like owls.
Name: Maria
Occupation: Business economics student (master's)
My style: A fusion. I like to mix everything together. Sometimes it looks odd, but I like it.
Favourite item: These gloves. I really love them. They're from Italy.
Headscarf: From Russia.
Occupation: Professional feminist
My style: I just wear whatever is comfortable, and I like leopard print.
Favourite item: My skirt. I made it.
Bag: I got it at Forever 21. I like owls.
Name: Maria
Occupation: Business economics student (master's)
My style: A fusion. I like to mix everything together. Sometimes it looks odd, but I like it.
Favourite item: These gloves. I really love them. They're from Italy.
Headscarf: From Russia.
Name: Unique
Occupation: N/A
My style: I like to be fashionable, and I like to be girly.
Favourite item: My dress, because I like sweater dresses.
Hat: My favourite colour is purple, so that's why I picked it out.
Names: Aprile and Jory
Occupation (Aprile): Graphic design student
Occupation (Jory): Programmer
My style (Aprile): Pretty neutral. My favourite colour is grey.
My style (Jory): I like browns, comfortable clothes, and mishmash.
Favourite item (Aprile): This Preloved sweater.
Favourite item (Jory): This sweater, because it's really comfortable. And these boots. They're vintage, from my dad. They're from the '70s, and they're in better shape than most of the shoes I've bought in the last couple of years.
Occupation: N/A
My style: I like to be fashionable, and I like to be girly.
Favourite item: My dress, because I like sweater dresses.
Hat: My favourite colour is purple, so that's why I picked it out.
Names: Aprile and Jory
Occupation (Aprile): Graphic design student
Occupation (Jory): Programmer
My style (Aprile): Pretty neutral. My favourite colour is grey.
My style (Jory): I like browns, comfortable clothes, and mishmash.
Favourite item (Aprile): This Preloved sweater.
Favourite item (Jory): This sweater, because it's really comfortable. And these boots. They're vintage, from my dad. They're from the '70s, and they're in better shape than most of the shoes I've bought in the last couple of years.
Name: Kristina
Occupation: Accounts payable clerk
My style: Contemporary.
Favourite item: My boots. I like the height they give me. I got them at Browns.
Bag: This is Lacoste. I got it on sale in New York.
Name: Leah
Occupation: Arts and contemporary studies student
My style: A mix and match of everything.
Favourite item: I love this jacket. It's animal friendly - it's pleather - and that's important to me in everything that I wear.
Hair: I did it myself. It's a white blonde with pink and purple in the front. I get a lot of people stopping me and asking me about it.
Occupation: Accounts payable clerk
My style: Contemporary.
Favourite item: My boots. I like the height they give me. I got them at Browns.
Bag: This is Lacoste. I got it on sale in New York.
Name: Leah
Occupation: Arts and contemporary studies student
My style: A mix and match of everything.
Favourite item: I love this jacket. It's animal friendly - it's pleather - and that's important to me in everything that I wear.
Hair: I did it myself. It's a white blonde with pink and purple in the front. I get a lot of people stopping me and asking me about it.
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Thats rich! Unshaven isnt hot.
And poor little Adrian. Wasnt he last seen following around Gwen Stefani about 5 years ago? Or some anime cartoon??
You look like an Eastern European gypsy.
Hide your wallet everyone.
Please, Allison, for your sake, get yourself a real job so you're not having to make your own clothes.
Adrian: outfit would be SO much nicer if those boots were brown
Allison: no comment. I've seen hobos with more style. Kurt called; he wants his one-stars back
Maria: just all over the place. Jacket does not work. Scarf does not work.
Unique: hat purple and jacket pink? really?
In any case...I have to question the fashion sense of the writer himself who is so easily fooled by seemingly fashion-forward people who really just throw any old shit together
Her scarf isnt that bad.
I like Dalia-so much color, beautiful hair, great smile. I though Adrian was a girl.
Nao and Kris-or so average
Allison-don’t get me started. You know, the main reason there are so many unhappy single women in Canada is feminism. Men are scared of women, they don’t want to be gentleman anymore. They don’t open doors, offer to carry bags, or vacate sits on the subway. And women-well, let’s just say they are dedicating too much time to “equality”, and not enough time to personal grooming. Get a manicure, waxing and get laid!!!
Maria-made me smile. I have a whole bunch of scarves like that from my babushka. They are really warm and beautiful, but not for outside. I just wear them at home as a shawl when I am cold.
Aprile looks good. Preloved makes great things!
Unique-will not comment
Kristina-very nice, but the outfit is asking for a different bag.
Leah-thumbs up for creativity, smile, and a skirt in winter. Just one thing-go for real leather. “Pleather” is for couches in doctor’s offices.
Sorry, I was a bit bitter today.
But a scarf which is black, blue, red, and purple with a tad of green has no business on a brown jacket (which has no business being worn with a black and white outfit).
Such a mess!
http://wp.me/pIDFN-3Z
Michael Bryant style.
This man right here is not afraid of women and will open doors, offer seats and so on.
http://www.facebook.com/metabaron
Oh and I hear Jodie Foster is single, if you're interested.
I still do it (old habits die hard) but not as regularly.
How can expect a man to open those for you??
ummmm what? Maybe you just pick the bad ones, because my close guy friends, my friends' boyfriends, and my boyfriend all do those things. And, while I'm sure they appreciate a girl who takes time to pamper herself a little, it's certainly not the dealbreaker you make it out to be. I feel bad for you, I can't imagine what kinds of scumbag guys you're picking up with your ideas of men and women!
Figure it out
I liked this crop- good mixture of this and that.
Have some respect.
And yay to Leah for refusing to wear leather! Nothing's more beautiful than compassion, and nothing's more ugly than supporting others' deaths for one's own vanity.
These folks certainly look better than the Yorkdalians of the previous Street Style, and better epitomize Toronto fashion, I think.
Unique - ....why is this even here?
Allison - Not 14, needs to not dress like she's 15.
Good shoot, Theo.
less mall douches, please.
This isnt a PETA form, scram.
I hear the OSPCA is hiring some goons.
Aprile, Jory and Kristina look well put together though.
The amount of stereotypes on this board about feminists is astounding. Feminism is complex; there are conservative feminists and socialist feminists. I hope everyone will at least read the wiki on feminism and feminist theory and realize that it's not some simple concept.
And..
leasttheycando: if women were encouraged to be anything but idiots, and if men were encouraged to like women who weren't idiots, then that would matter less.
Notcool: I think haha was being arch, in response to leasttheycando's comment.
TOGirl: Umm.. I've never been rejected because my nails aren't manicured. I'm with grittle, where ideally people are just nice to other people who look like they could use a seat on the subway, or a door held open, etc. Women don't scare men as such, and 'feminism' doesn't mean what you're using it to mean. C'mon.
Love Unique's jacket, just not with that outfit.
Winter is tough for fashion but some people are at least trying to have some fun with it :)
Take your femi-nazi rage and channel it into making an informed opinion.
And since you admonished us to read the wiki on feminism I will quote it to show you haven't - "The term feminism can be used to describe a political, cultural or economic movement aimed at establishing equal rights and legal protection for women. Feminism involves political, cultural and sociological theories, as well as philosophies concerned with issues of gender difference. It is also a movement that advocates gender equality for women and campaigns for women's rights and interests."
They simply do what they do (whatever that is) because they are media who*es, who need the spotlight shining on them.
Not because they have any moral conscience.
The Queen??? What significance does the Monarchy have anymore?
Madonna is a powerful woman as is Jolie. Jolie does a lot of humanitarian work, no? Who are you to say she has no moral conscience? Do you know her? What exactly are you doing that compares?
The Queen is also a powerful woman.
The point is, society doesn't consider them useless because they are over 30.
Geez, reading comprehension isn't your bag, huh?
Safe to say its messed up a lot of everything.
I just quoted the wiki because the other poster pointed us to it to dispel our "stereotypes".
My point is, why call it by a name that makes it seem more narrow than it, supposedly, is? The term may be outdated but, from what I have seen in all areas, feminism seems to be concerned with female enfranchisement and equality. Just because some women are from another ethnicity doesn't mean that feminism's scope extends beyond women to consider questions of so-called "racial" prejudice.
Maybe I am just uninformed about this "new" feminism, maybe if you had an example I could see.
That's actually one of the main criticisms about western feminism that started in the 80s. That's why there's now "Black feminism" and "Third World feminism." Many Black feminists separated from the mainstream fem movement because of issues like rape for eg. When Anita Hill accused Clarence Thompson of raping her, western fems automatically assumed that all women should support Anita. But many Black fems were wary about doing so, because of the history of demonizing Black men as rapists.
Allison - please email me for a free makeover.
Maria - lose the scarf. If only the jacket was long enough to cover the sweater dress...
Unique - Throw on a long gray coat and you'll actually look stylish.
Aprile and Jory - Brad and Gwyneth :) The best of the bunch. A nice scarf would complete Jory's outfit.
Kristina - clean and simple. Not bad.
Leah - well, at least she's really pretty.
Poor thing fell hard out of the ugly tree.
I think the reason it's still called 'feminism' is because people like to have an easy target (and hate to change their habits); if it were called something that encompassed equality for all, it would be much harder to deride publically like people have started to do here. It is also lazy to trot out these tropes about feminists, even if they're only concerned with women's equality -- such as the ones TOGirl mentions in her first post, about being man-frightening bitches whose not being waxed tip to toes means they are ungrateful and undesired.
I think the best example of a broader scope might come from the so-called Marxist feminists, who regard gender -- among most other things like race, socioeconomic status, etc. -- as a class like any other, thus a determining feature in the power and social relations into which someone can successfully enter. Of course, most argue from the point of view of women's oppression, being what is most local (ie., relevant) to them, but I always got hints of these overarching themes when studying them in school. There are others like Judith Butler or Monique Wittig who focus on issues of how we navigate our bodies and our roles, while having to use loaded and oppositional tools (like language) to help us. I'm at work and my old books and readings are at home, but if you actually want other names then I can forward them at a later time.
Failing that, suffice it to say they are out there and wish along with yourself, or myself, that we could stop using such a terrible term as 'feminism' for something that can be so inclusive. 'Identity politics' might be useful and is used occasionally, but I think mostly in formal academia.
no, you are not.. you are influenced by your grandma
here is a pic or google arare dr slump:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YPFDDjQ_y_Y/SMa1ryJS83I/AAAAAAAACMw/0f5UUkJAjno/s400/arare.jpg
if you think you're such hot shit, then please (and I do mean please with shoogs on top) please beg a blogto photog to take your pic so we can cause a ruckus round here. (with your comments attached)
Mr. Rich Man, this post isn't indicative of all Torontonians. We're not all douchebags.
Get a grip people, it's only fashion.
I'd love to see your blog or some sort of creative output so I can rip it a new one too.
Fashion is subjective, that's why everyone's is different. Get a clue.
Saying fashion is subjective is a lowest-common-denominator pseudo-intellectual statement. I suppose you also consider Beethoven and Lil Wayne to be musical equals since like fashion or art, music is subjective? There is a reason why certain tried and true rules exist, even in fashion, but then again, you don't exactly need to be a subject matter expert to publish articles on BlogTo, do you? If Theo R attempted to publish this as a piece on fashion forward people in, say, GQ, he would get laughed out of the building.
You tit.