Fashion & Style
Street Style: Yorkdale Mall
Names: Mark and Marilyn
Occupation: Students
Favourite item (Mark): My jacket. I just bought it.
Favourite item (Marilyn): My shoes, because they describe me - colourful and bright.
Name: Episode
Occupation: I'm an artist in the city.
My style: I just do me. The skinny jeans thing that's going on right now - I'm not really feeling it.
Favourite item: My kicks, because nobody's got 'em yet.
Name: Diana
Occupation: Self-employed
My style: Casual, relaxed.
Favourite item: My boots. They're very comfortable and they're warm.
Name: Katherine
Occupation: Psychology student/yoga teacher
My style: Vintage boho chic. I sort of throw things together. I mix and match.
Favourite item: This jacket. It's super warm, and it reminds me of Kate Hudson in Almost Famous.
Name: Sarah
Occupation: Office personal assistant
My style: I like mixing something wooly with something studded - two clashing things.
Favourite item: My cardigan. It just goes with everything. It's comfy, it's cozy, and I like it because it's long and thick.
Names: Ruben and Ruby
Occupation (Ruben): Business management student
Occupation (Ruby): Police foundations student
My style (Ruben): Urban, hip-hop.
My style (Ruby): Urban.
Favourite item (Ruben): My kicks. Four buckles. Undone. Adds a little flavour to them. I got them at Aldo.
Favourite item (Ruby): My leather jacket. I like the fit.
Name: Selly
Occupation: Journalism student
My style: Fun, funky and relaxed. I like having unpredictable stuff that no one else would dare to wear.
Favourite item: My legwarmers. They're different and they stand out.
Name: Maghan
Occupation: Science student
My style: I like a lot of vintage stuff, and I like mixing patterns. I wear tights a lot - and layers.
Favourite item: This skirt, which is my friend's. She picked it up in New York. She lent it to me for a while, because I wear it way more than she does.
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Others, need a little adjustments here-and-there. Selly would look great with a longer shirt/jacket. Ruben is asking us a question? Diana just looks comfortable, tshirt and track pants. Mark would look 100x better with a more sophisticated coat. Overall, I didn't get many style ideas from this post... Maybe going indoors was not such a good idea? I managed to find great outfits at Queen and Peter, just posted them.
Ahem, Ms. Selly, your legwarmers might stand out if not for the fact that you were wearing vivid blue tights and NO FRIGGING PANTS! Between your Puffy coat & hat, puffy legwarmers, and tight tights, you look like a Q-Tip. Look at Maghan, she knows how to wear tights: under a goddamn skirt!
Kids these days, I swear to Christ.
Good job Katherine and Sarah. Casual and smart, some color…
Oh, and is the work “shoes” obsolete in English?
Katherine - Cute! Love her outfit; its appropriate for the weather and stylish.
Selly - You must've missed the memo...tights are NOT pants. Put a skirt on, for crying out loud.
Also, Katherine and Maghan are cute as buttons.
episode: trying too hard, but I'm sure he thinks he's too sexy for his shirt.
diana: not sure how she made the list. she looks like she spotted the photographer and begged to be included a la lil mama. which is ironic bc she kinda looks like her.
katharine: girlfriend looks homely.
sarah: meh, not bad
reuben/ruby: scarborough chic (cheap and tacky). I'm thinking half of her outfit is from urban planet and the other half is from sirens.
selly: I don't like tights/leggings as pants. No one wants to see your camel toe!
maghan: haphazard, print mixing, boho hippie. I'm over this look. The pieces would not be bad separately.
definitely not a fan of selly and the tights/leggings only look. honestly at least wear a skirt over it or a long cardigan. i'm tired of walking around in malls and having to see extreme outlines of peoples asses. it looks skanky and never fails to make me wince.
ruben and ruby = no. tacky shirt and rubys shirt and jeans colour combo looks terrible.
Ps. The comments today are very, very entertaining and funny. That's half the reason I read this each week. Keep it up guys!
As for Selly's look - I do agree, the whole tights/boots thing is overdone, they are not pants! But I can however also agree that 'some' girls can pull it off. imo, not Selly... or maybe it's the colour tights or the fluffy boots, something just isn't right.
I like this one more than the last couple- something different and new. Im sure its hard getting people to agree to be photographed, placed on the web, and then judged.
Point is, fat people don't look good in skinny jeans. But guys/gals with a nice body can easily pull it off. If you conclude that only creepy people can appreciate that, well I guess projection is a bitch pal.
Tights like I'm wearing to keep my legs warm under my skirt, which was before the past (too) many months their normal role. This makes me a prude? I don't think Steve is ashamed of the human body because he doesn't want to see every single nuance of every single human's body.
People commenting here need to ease off and have a little more fun with these posts. Thumbs up blogTO for venturing to a place outside of the downtown core which its been getting alot of heat for by readers/haters.
its refreshing to see people and their take on style and fashion outside the typical downtown trend. Stop taking yourselves so damn seriously.
Great post!
Irony is played out people. New decade (in a way) means time for new awful trends that we will hate even more as we continue to get older.
Love the Jersey Shore comments though. I honestly thought "wow, Diana, your'e all boob like the fat one on the Shore." Ha!
2. When did I call you a prude?
3. Panty hose are not tights and vice-versa.
4. I enjoy every single nuance of the human body in all forms. Not sure what's wrong with that. When Steve implied that only creepy people enjoy every single nuance of the human body he lost his point to me and it was easy to conclude (assume?) that there is some underlying issues there on his/her part.
2. You didn't call me a prude, but I share Steve's point of view on this viz. creepos, and you more or less called him a prude, so I made the inference.
3. Tights are thicker hosiery for wear under other garments. They are seasonal analogues to pantyhose. Leggings are more like tights, except still camel-toe-tight enough to wear under a long sweater at very least.
4. How enlightened of you! They should still keep their vag silhouettes and ass cracks to themselves, and let others like yourself enjoy them out of sight of those who don't wanna.
MJP: The lady doth protest too much
But seriously, Katherine is definitely smokin'.
OMG NO ONE LIVES ABOVE BLOOR!!!!
And how can it be so sure that no one has his so called "kicks"??
Also, i keep reading about how poor "artists" in this city are. Yet the Situation, i mean Episode, can afford to shop at Yorkdale?
And Epi-pen...carpenter jeans are much cooler than skinny jeans, eh guy?
Douche.
I guess thats in vogue these days.
THOSE DAMN KIDS AND THEIR ROCK AND/OR ROLL! They should not leave the house looking like that... in my day we would wear girdles... ewww to having to see your fat & push those bras up ladies... disgusting!
lol go back to whatever nursing home let you use their internets, take a nap or something.
I'm commenting about Selly's choice of outfit, not the photography which, while not as consistent as The Sartorialist, does a very good job of capturing people's outfits in situ. I've never had a problem with the photos in this series.
Have you looked at your site lately. Look like designed it in windows 3.1 and hasn't been updated since 1998."
Come back when you learn to speak English.
Probably some nerdy, stereotypical skinny jean wearing wannabe scenester who got picked on in high school in the small town you came from and escaped to the big city to try and start over fresh where no one really knows how lame you are/were back home, and try to pass off as cool.
p.s. Anyone who still uses 'douche' is precisely that. Played out man. Come with something new.
typical Toronto outfits right here... everyone trying to be cool...
this reminds me of the mass amounts of goose coats i see downtown... these ppl spend all this money on 800$ coats and probably dont stand outside for more than 20 minutes.
Toronto's fashion is a disgrace...nobody has their own style, everybody copies each other.... by far the worst style I have ever seen. I cringe everytime i see goose coats, hunter boots, uggs, vans, tight jeans. people need to be themselves
No matter what BlogTO posts (Older people, Younger people, A mix) everyone will still bitch. You Torontonians are self-hating fools. Stop the hate, start to appreciate the DIFFERENT styles you see (they may be from last year, two years ago, 20 years ago, 2 seconds ago) because if everyone looks the same (ie. like you want them to look) then we as a city will be the laughing stock of.. Toronto?
Case in point: a week ago as I was walking I saw two girls (not friends) walking behind each other who looked EXACTLY the same: Same style jacket, same style pants, same style shoes and purses. I laughed out loud, in real life. Stop watching TV or reading magazines, just wear what is comfortable for you, don't copy.
I love the haters, you are all just so cute! Arguing on the Internet and all!
I'll never forget my first visit. This post made me laugh, but I would have rather seen the 40+ chubby men with gelled comb overs in D&G skin tight shirts with their gold chains hanging over top.
That's Yorkdale to me.
Seriously, Toronto fashion is the WORST you've ever seen? Time to travel a bit I think.
That said, I did LOL at the prevalence of people wearing $800 Goose Down coats - that is true...
I was at Vaughn Mills last week [hey, hey, I was shopping for goalie skates]. My God, it was boiling in there! I think they purposely crank the heating up so you stop for drinks every few paces...the place is too huge, you need a scooter to get around. Must be a 5km walkabout! That's shopping? That's torture. Better park right next to the store you want or you'll be gassed.
Over to Dorkdale then, heh
I don't care for Mark's puffy jacket. Meh. Marilyn's Mike Jackson vest looks great with the turquoise T shirt& belt. And her shoes. Excellent. The hat, meh.
Episode, LOL. OMG, whadda poser. Can't get with the times, stuck in da old school. I do like old school rap though.
Diana, in a T-shirt, so? Nice glasses.
Kaherine must be baking in that coat. In that mall. Nice coat, nice boots. Don't care for the scarf much, s'all.
Sarah, meh. An older rocker I presume. Black, shiny gold and silver studs...ahm, nah.
Ruben&Ruby, What Is Fashion, indeed. Not a grey t-shirt. ugh. Get a pant length that fits, mmm k? See a tailor.
Selly, oh. my. I know you're skinny girl, but....Not with those boots! Small wonder she needs that hat, scarf, jacket and boots if she's going to be nekkidy in between. lol.
Maghan, cute, but that dress looks like she's wearing it a tad high on her waist, er stomache...so if she wants that skirt length, she needs to roll up that rim, er waist of the skirt.
B. "vintage boho-chic" is so overdone at this point that we should just call it contemporary.
C. "I like it because it's long and thick."
That's what she said :(
On a more positive note...Katherine for the win, Ruben's shoes is pretty cool and Meghan is cute.
Ha! Aldo... tard.
--> Steve, I do that several times a week, feel free to take a look
You and the Episode keep on keeping it real, guy.
..douche.
The whole pants falling off your ass thing is so stupid, I'll never get it. He reminds me of my idiot room mate who is apparently too broke to buy his own toothpaste, laundry detergent, etc. but will buy louis vuitton clothing and has 30 pairs of shoes.
Why else would they devote an entire article to the H&M Winter Collection ?
Oh and Ruby...even Batman didnt wear his cellphone on his belt.
Try harder. And anyone that uses the handle 'A Real Torontonian' is obviously over-compensating for something.
Further FYI? The term 'TDot' expired immediately after the Rascalz used it in 1998.
Treat yourself to an over sized scarf, you earned it champ!
I'm kind of a big deal around here in Toronto, I could make it in either of those cities, but I'd suggest you stay in Toronto your smalltime.
All down hill from here for you it would appear, guy.
Ron Burgundy: I don't know how to put this but I'm kind of a big deal.
Veronica Corningstone: Really.
Ron Burgundy: People know me.
Veronica Corningstone: Well, I'm very happy for you.
Ron Burgundy: I'm very important. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.
COME ON PEOPLE, TAKE IT EASY!
its interesting to see how riled up some people get about others sense of style and fashion.
have a cookie. it will make you feel better :)
that isn't to pick on those two, they look good, but most of what you see is derivative