This is a good film fashion example because it is about a fashion magazine.
To me, this film is about finding your style in a changing world of fashion. This has happened to me at the moment even though I’m not old.
Fashion trends are hard for someone like me because I’m not a model. Before COVID, this wasn’t a problem because if something didn’t fit me I could just miss a season and wear some old clothes till the fashion changed.
At the moment the trend is just stuck on 3 sizes of women, so my coping strategy of wearing old clothes is running out.
If trends change fine, but they need to keep changing frequently so everyone can be clothed.
Maybe this is why there used to be trends.
This film is about couture fashion.
Have to be honest and agree with the house of Laguna. (it was mass-produced that took fashion to the masses).
Grace magazine was just for very rich women.
This is new to me because all I have ever known is the house of Laguna. My mum has a theory though that mass-produced clothes actually achieve a better fit than couture.
After nearly getting married, I have to agree with her.
If I had bought an off-the-peg dress that I knew fit, I may not have had a stress breakdown worrying about how the alterations to a plus-sized dress would turn out. (especially having seen other brides really unhappy with couture).
Couture versus mass-produced fashion
Now I have started studying fashion, as I can’t purchase any clothes that fit me properly, I realise the whole industry revolves around designers like Grace who set the trends,
Grace obviously designed the clothes to fit her.
Therefore if you aren’t built like Grace the clothes won’t fit.
Before COVID the clothes fitted me and just about all the women out there. Wondering if this film holds the answer to why clothes don’t fit anymore?
In this film, I was upset how I didn’t like any of the clothes in it, even though the film is about fashion.
Saving Grace
Luckily right at the end, I noticed a suit I liked. However not sure if the ‘style’ of suit would fit me.
Couture to fit but in the wrong style.
This was the wedding dress problem.
They could make the dress ‘fit you’, but the ‘style‘ still won’t suit you.
What is the answer?
Not sure really apart from getting your own fashion house. Not a very practical solution unless you are a billionaire.
I’m a weird shape, so not sure anyone would want to purchase clothes that fit me personally.
If I get down to 8 stone, I’m almost a perfect size 8, (this measurement would be closer to fitting me better at the moment) but at the moment I’m not balanced out enough as I’ve put on the pre-covid weight, not on my hips either, which most of the fashion at the moment is bigger fitting on the hips.
Hopefully, someone will take pity on the masses of unclothed people who can’t breathe in the miniature clothes in the shops at the moment that don’t fit properly. Not wanting to moan, but I had an accident in the summer due to some size 10 – 12 leggings that were mis-sold. They were actually waist trainers for ballet-dancing children possibly. This breaks quality control laws so not sure what is going on? This is why I stopped doing weekend parties on Pinterest.
As I’m not a model and don’t always suit trends, think studying fashion may give me some answers. Really need a sewing machine and fabric shop that will send its products.
Hopefully, fashion will come back soon, but even when it does the ideas I’m learning will come in useful, even for couture pieces designed in styles that may not be your style.
Body Types
Learning your body type is essential for finding your style.
If you are athletic build, straight up and down without curves
or
apple shape, no waist, and slightly curvy
You will find there is nothing in the shops for you at the moment to suit your style.
I’m apple shape meets athletic build, so my ideas might help you. At size 8 I have a more athletic build, when I put on weight I go more apple, but I’m never perfect.
I used to just read in magazines what to buy to suit my shape, but since all the fashion magazines turned activist I have been a bit lost.
Hoping magazines will go back to normal as well, still don’t know why someone turned them into activist magazines instead of just starting a new magazine with activism in?
Another thing I’ve discovered since COVID fashion is I have a small back, you might have too.
It isn’t a good feature like big busts or small waists, so hardly ever mentioned in fashion since pre covid, but essential in discovering why your outfits might not fit you properly at the moment.
Back sizes
At the moment there are only two back sizes available in clothes.
Large back or small back with cup size A
With large busts being the only one of two bra sizes that can get a bra, this is possibly why clothes are for large backs. Large busts have larger back measurements. Thus if you are average build your top will be too baggy and make you look heavier than what you actually are. Comes up large is the better one to go for if your breathing has been restricted in the tops for Size A cup size.
The other problem is size A cup bra size being the only other bra size available. Here the back will fit you, but if you have the average bust size of 34 b, there won’t be any room for your curves to fit the top. Thus a feeling of not being able to breathe.
This said and discovered, am excited to solve this problem with my experiments into couture for my style. Haven’t got my own fashion house or designer, so am trying to teach myself. It could go hideously wrong, but you never know till you try.
Saw a jacket idea in the film Praying Mantis.
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This is how I worked out what has been going on with fashion during covid pandemic 19 fashion restrictions.
From watching old films due to digital tv being rubbish, think there was a similar problem with fashion in the 80’s. Someone came up with a clever idea here by putting lace in the back of this jacket, which could actually be for someone with a large back, as Jane Seymour has a small back the lace design highlights that she is slim build in a plus sized jacket. If you can sew, this might answer some of your current fashion problems.
I got this massive shirt at the beginning of covid, if you tied it at the front it still didn’t work because there was too much fabric in the back. As I’m not a seamstress, wondered about hemming the back?
As I don’t have a sewing machine threw it in the feng shui bin.
If I do this project need to find a jacket first, get some fabric and a sewing machine, but once I take the jacket apart it can then be rebuilt with alterations to suit my style. Would enjoy doing this, not interested in making it from really cheap knock off though? or turning a knockoff outfit into something else? would just buy knockoff that fits and doesn’t need altering. Knock-off can’t be altered anyway because of the cheap production methods.
You are best experimenting with calico first I think? something like that anyway, can’t remember.
All these ideas will stay under the umbrella of blogging film fashion as I’m not a fashion designer and I don’t want my own fashion house. I think I just want something to do and find a way to get couture clothes for me personally. There is nothing like purchasing clothes that fit like a glove. Then I want to go somewhere where I can wear them.
Just discovered people who build cars, don’t know what they are doing when they start either.
Clothes are easier I suppose.
If mine are a disaster, maybe yours will work.
Plan to just customize fashion that doesn’t fit. Purchased some design books when COVID-19 fashion appeared so hopefully will receive them. Everything will be really simple and beginner-level.
Film Fashion
Didn’t really get the idea of this fashion till I saw Loretta Young in the street.
This suit is for the professional businesswoman in the city.
She really stands out from the crowd and you can see she means business. Her heels are just the right height to set the style off.
Love this suit now, hopefully, the more times I watch this film, the more I will understand couture.
Love the fabric in this suit, not sure if I would suit it, but she looks stunning in it. Would hope to get something similar and give it a try, so pretty and feminine.
Like the puffed sleeves.
The curves at the back hem are interesting, guess it suits a body type, but not sure which?
The front hem goes up as well and the neckline doesn’t have lapels.
This might suit an apple shape as it has the effect of a dress, I struggle with dresses sometimes, but love them.
Doesn’t matter whether it does or doesn’t suit me anyway as it won’t be on sale anywhere anyway.
Love the print design, just right for the suit.
Film Synopsis
Movie legend Loretta Young made her final acting appearance in made for TV film Lady In A Corner. She plays the editor of a fashion magazine that is the object of a hostile takeover by British publishing magnate Christopher Neame. Neame is a Rupert Murdoch type, a man whose other publications tend toward the sleaze.
Lady in the Corner (TV Movie 1989) – IMDb
Where to purchase the film
by amazon
film review
Watched this film twice now. Makes you feel a bit awkward as a viewer, because you probably agree with the younger editor, even though you are on the side of Loretta Young. Then you have to admit you would purchase from the Lady Lagoona knockoff warehouse.
In the end, it all works out happily and you understand couture because of the final outfit.
Hope the fashion world of today sorts itself out soon with an equally happy result.
Could do my film fashion blog a lot easier then and it would be fun instead of stressful.
conclusion
Will continue doing film fashion, but do not enjoy buying things that are completely of no use. When you are brought up poor you don’t waste money either.
Will purchase things that are of use or need altering but only at beginner level. Would prefer to just purchase clothes that fit me. Not really interested in cheap unsustainable clothes that fall apart. Just got a top that is already splitting on the hem. At the same time don’t want to pay thousands of pounds either for couture that doesn’t fit? That is the whole point of paying for couture; that it makes you look stunning and fits really well. If not why pay the money?
Apparently a lot of business people are complaining about the three body type only trend as they are fairly unusual sizes – not rocket science really. If people who own their own shops are selling it, must be really hard to pay their overheads. Think this is why they are worried. It goes over my head a bit to be honest, don’t really understand business tax and so forth?, it is also really annoying from the consumers point of view.
Only people buying it are the people in debt, but their cheap credit has stopped.
all this allegedly, but it is not on the internet.
Noticed a local businesswoman who was doing so well pre-COVID that she had opened a second boutique. She must be good at sales because her clothes were really expensive, ( I couldn’t afford to shop there), she has had to close down one of her shops as the only stock she can get now is cheap rubbish in big back sizes. She is wearing weird glasses on her internet site that don’t suit her face shape and make her look like a dog, but she isn’t a dog, I’m guessing she would have shopped at Karen Millen pre-COVID. Feel really sorry for her and her customers who may still be stuck in their houses in shock or not wanting to purchase cheap clothes that will make them look like dogs.
With two expensive high-end boutiques, she must have been paying a lot of business tax towards the economy.
Not sure what is happening to the economy, (as COVID fashion obviously isn’t selling), Can’t believe the bankers or government will let the British economy go under?
I guess the bankers will want to hold on to small businesses that are good tax contributors.
Quite enjoying learning about business also.
Will upload this film fashion if the fashion trends change to suit my style.
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