It’s like all of a sudden there’s this contagious fashion disease in the country. Once a color trend or some style is out, tela2eeh yedrab zay el influenza!
When pointed-toe shoes came out six years ago, it was a disaster. Everyone was wearing it. Ya3ny no matter what a girl would be wearing, jeans, skirt, formal, casual, athletic, you look at her feet and there’s pointed low heel shoes. Fel seef pointed sandals we fel sheta pointed boots. To me it was like a total disaster. They didn’t suit me nor felt comfortable in the first place. And there was no way but to wear them, mesh 3ashan moda, but because there was nothing else in the shops but that!! It wasn’t until last summer that you could find rounded edge shoes; still a very rare occurring :S
Obviously we need to redefine the word fashion. Most of us still go with it being a trend or a dominant style, like the more people wearing it the more it’s the hottest. But if everyone seems to criticize this manner, yeb2a akeed feeh 7aga 3’alat!
This last summer I could swear that there’s a secret organization with an undisclosed green in yellow dress code! Everywhere I went I ran into not less than a dozen girls dressed in green and yellow. A green shirt with a yellow tank, a yellow scarf with a green bandana and probably green shoes with yellow socks. Mix and match ba2a all sorts of combinations; with the same makeup shades tab3an. El moseeba when it moved on from gals to guys. Yeb2a tool be 3ard we 3adalat and he’s dressed in a green shirt with a yellow collar and edge trim. So after it was out to that extent, almost everyone I met was mocking it. Tab if everyone I know is making fun of it, why is it still out there!
In the same manner came out the green and purple combination and the yellow and purple combination, dreadful attempts to be creative and obviously sprouting from the original green and yellow combo.
I admit that I’m completely fel daya3 when it comes to fashion, but I know one thing for sure. Fashion is wearing something different from the norm and feeling damn comfortable in it. Ya3ny when you go shopping you look for stuff that no one has worn before. If you’re good you may build your own combination according to the season even if somehow related to the trend. Ya3ny if you insist on green and yellow, yeb2a a green shirt with a necklace of green and yellow beads; and that would be it! No green scarf or yellow shoes.
You wanna get more stylish, think of fashion as a dress of the future which should in no way be worn after it’s out. That’s why people pick up fashion trends from shows or magazines and not from the street. It’s very similar to trading in stock market. You can only make profit when you buy shares before anyone else. Buy it after the news spread, and you lose!
Going pro ba2a is to become an inspiration yourself. In other words, you set a trend. Just like drawing a painting. You bring together all the elements from your imagination, the dress style, colors and accessories worn according to your own design.
I just say that if you want to play a game, play it good. So this is how it goes, you’ve got to be feeling damn comfortable, definitely working on camouflaging body flaws, then to walk around without having to meet a couple of people dressed exactly like you!! That’s how the fashion game works.
MarwaYehia
