Fashion irony

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/aug/15/sleeve-mary-portas-duchess-cambridge

This is not an obsessive rant or anything, or a sigh festival over royalty. I just like the fact I've read yet another article discussing the need for some fashion cues that doesn't extole the self-flagellating joy of limiting (or blindly embracing) a set of high maintenance values that you just don't like.
Hello anyone who owns a yellow dress, bikeshorts, lycra, Laura Ashley florals or slogan t-shirts.

For me, this means hooray - I found a dress I can wear to work, look good, feel confident and actually like to wear.
This is the opposite feeling to just buying the dress 'because it's in fashion', but it then lives in your wardrobe with the price tag still attached.
My wardrobe, the black forest of tears and desperation.

Well, no more of that. I have been secretly staging a coup over the past few years and taken fashion blunders in hand - the black forest has park rangers now and an express highway out of there straight to jail (well an opshop).

I agree that the notion to dress with care and individuality is paramount, but within reason. I'd prefer not to have to think too hard about how to wear it. I read somewhere if an outfit is too complicated and requires instructions, it won't sell (because we've already done some bizarre solo wrestling match/dance in the change rooms and lost interest after 8 minutes).
I just love the fact it's not just me who is losing interest in what current fashion dictates and where my money will be frittered away next.

And it's not limited by age either. Not everyone has more chutzpah that you. I've looked at a stunning array of people 20 years or older that me who are just as clueless and wandering around in get ups that they don't look that thrilled to be out in public in. Perhaps we all need some alone time to reveal fashion is not your friend. It's out to get you.
So a dress with sleeves is a radical idea, but unwashed navy tracksuit pants, greige anything, jelly shoes and toeless boots are deemed fantastic?
Oh, and newspaper articles and ads that keep chanting 'unsightly' this or that.
One persons 'unsightly' is another persons 'this is all have to work with'.
I think the aim should be not jettison everything you ever owned, but understand how to evolve and not punish ourselves too much.
Be kind to yourself and what you wear, but if others are waking up to the need for change (which flatters), start the revolution please. And embrace the laundry. Don't get me started on clean clothes....

I said this wasn't going to be a rant. Damn.