I always really like how stylish Angela Rook looks in this episode.
Before Covid you woud probably of been able to get a slim fit regular blouse in one of the fashion shops on the highstreet.
80’s style is notorious for bad taste and oversized fahion, a bit like now.
I set off on a journey of discovery through film and tv fashion to prove that women probably have found ways to survive throughout history, however garish or bad taste the trends were.
The character Angela Rook has opted for the bronze look.
I really like her blouse, I used to stock these on my market stall when I could get them.
It is classic style with just a hint of trend.
This is the 80’s and she has fine well groomed eyebrows.
The current trend is to do a sort of over the top look.
As I was told not to wear lots of makeup, Angela Rook is a style I could copy.
Her eyebrows work perfectly with her face shape.
Why has this look gone away?
Trends change but classic style is supposed to always be there?
Her earings are so small they don’t stand out, I can’t wear earings, but I’d opt for classic if I had to.
She isn’t wearing jewellery, just a watch.
Conclusion
Was dreading if I had to do the 80’s look.
Looking back I had to do it before once, but sort of did this look with fake tan and bronze colours.
This was when I had to do the 80s look, which was supposed to be rock and roll, luckily I found some classic 80’s clothes. Now I find it is a classic look that should always be there, running parrallel to trends. My jewellery is on trend so not classic, but I do like to add some trends sometimes.
If we travel back through the decades of bad taste trends, over the top makeup, oversized, undersized and bushy eyebrows, we discover one thing never changed ~ classic style.
How has classic style gone?
If you have fashion, you have to have classic style.
Either someone is getting it wrong on purpose or they don’t know what they are doing.
I still don’t know the answer to the above question.
But I have discovered you can actually look good in any era as long as you can purchase classic style and classic makeup.
Fashion isn’t about characature.
I’m fed up beyond of the 50’s look that isn’t fashion, just a sort of characature of the 50’s.
It is inspired by the past but doesn’t copy exactly.
This is the 60’s and I find you could do this hairstyle, which looks glamorous, it isn’t exactly the 50’s but an example of classic style from the past. She hasn’t got a massive bust or bushy eyebrows but looks pretty. No woman ever need feel ugly or there is something wrong with her just because she doesn’t emmulate ‘the best’ of her era. I sometimes got these sort of dresses on my market stall when ‘the best’ of that year was really tall and a large size ten.
My market stall paid my way through art college, while my friends were getting in debt on credit cards.
I also sold my projects for a profit, I liked how happy it made women who couldn’t get or afford fashion.
As I’m back to where I started in the 80’s, I think I have proved my point.
No woman needs to look a mess if she doesn’t want to.
Ludicrous makeup and bushy eyebrows is a trend not classic style.
All we are being offered is trends and bad taste.
Not sure the percentage, but guessing most women prefer to be classic.
I only liked trends if I suit them, but I don’t like trends I don’t suit.
(the bushy eyebrows only work if you have a blurring camera in real life it looks too much).
If you are expected to wear something based on the past, find the classic look and you should look good, ignore characture costumes of the past ~ that isn’t fashion, it is costume.
It is easy to say all this but we are reliant on retail and makeup manufacturers to provide the materials for us to create classic looks.
I’m not a fashion designer, so I just hope they take pity on women like me soon.
It is ok being trendy and over the top as a teenager, been there and done that with ludicrous cat eye makeup, but by 20 odd, most women grow up and want to look good. Older women definately want classic style and it is these women I worry about.
I found classic style in puppet on a chain.
If I had my stall I would of stocked it for older women as this stupid covid era in fashion obviously couldn’t care less about them. I’ve worked with all ages of people in my life so I worry how they coped with the tiny waste and baggy hip trousers or the wide hip low rise trousers that fall down to your knees if you have small hips. Where was classic style then?
Why classic style is really important for a fairer world. Film fashion from puppet on a chain
Tesco used to do similar classic styles for small budgets, now it has a pair of leggings for small waists and large hips and an oversized jumper with hideous patterns on it, then 3 other things I can’t remember.
If you are a revolting 14 year old in a revoloution I get why you would find this boring, I taught teenagers and we all have to go through that stage. This is why trends are important, but as a responsible adult it is essential we cloth are elders with dignity. If you are a revolting elder in a revoloution it is your life and you can do what you want with it. But to whoever is stocking shops at the moment, doesn’t seem to get how responsible their job is.
Fashion at the end of the day is for everyone; as we wear it everyday.
Advert for day 1 of the fashion calendar.
Enjoyed this year of fashion.
Have discovered quite a lot, hope you enjoyed this journey too.
I just hope normality resumes again soon, proper hairdressers come back, classic fashion and classic style, then anyone who doesn’t like trends can get there look back, which is the same as before covid if you like classic style.
In the 70’s on radio 4 and BBC 2 academics would do articles on studies like this, maybe why the world worked better.
Whoever runs fashion at the moment (at the top). Isn’t thinking it through at all. They have created 5 very hard years for the majority of both women and men, with clothes that don’t fit and food shortages.
There is everything on this planet to create food and fashion that fits ~ so what is someone somewhere thinking? Or more to the point not thinking.
The other problem I’m noticing in 80’s and 90’s films is when someone is told they are the best, (usually they actually aren’t that much better than other people), they are happy for all the clothes just to fit them and don’t care if they not only don’t fit other people, but worse still it makes them look worse than what they are or like the small waist and large hips pants causes physical harm.
The worse one to be the best is tall women as the majority of women are 5ft4, overweight women as the large bras never sold in Asda proving most people prefer being slim, unusual sizes ~ hardly anyone can get into unusual sizes.
I think it is quite sad these so called ‘best’ women accepting being the best and actually enjoying the misery they are causing, like an authoritarian ego trip.
This planet could be far more enjoyable if someone run it properly.
Hope you like this blog and it jogs your memory back if you like classic style too. I’m wondering if British Classic style is different to American classy ~ it seems like it might be but I’m not sure.
American and English words can sometimes be the same but mean something different.
If you are American and like the Angela Rook look you know what I mean. I hope you get your look back soon whatever the American word is for it.
Have a lovely weekend
Saphire
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