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Having grown up with the influence of nineties and noughties rom-coms, many of us likely wanted to be a working girl in fashion journalism or marketing. From the likes of Andie Anderson, to Andy Sachs and Jenna Rink, we all adored the idea of frantically running errands through the streets of NYC in high-end couture. As a concept, it still doesn’t sound too bad, so why then has it lost its allure? The fashion girl in the past wore effortlessly cute and cool work outfits, but never the same thing. She was good at her job, had a great social life and still worked for and wanted more. This still fits the general aspirations of the modern day working girl, but no longer within the same realms.  Although this is largely due to the shift in the presentation of working women in the media nowadays, working a ‘silly fashion job’ being a dated stereotype. There is arguably another reason as to why the interest in this job has crumbled: the death of the fashion magazine. We see online media m...

 Why the mini skirt falls shorter than its hemline In a technologically developing world, it’s become difficult to avoid the never-ending cyclone of trends. And with that, the terms and labels promoting them. The trad-wife, trophy-wife, sugar baby and so on. I think within this context, the most surprising to me would have to be the ‘stay at home girlfriend’. A term previously pegged to the wife, now introduced to younger women and girls as an aesthetic. With day in the life videos, glamourising the low difficulty lifestyle of looking after their boyfriend.  I think it’s safe to say we’re fast approaching a return to a conservative priority within our lives — with women at the epicentre. From having prided ourselves on the awareness we had begun to demonstrate towards advancing women’s freedoms, from flappers in the 20s, to fourth wave feminists. Have we now fallen short?  If we take our first example of flapper girls in the 20s, characterised by short hair, short skirts,...

Making a statement in fashion outside of accessories  In an effort to keep the conversation lasting longer than just a few weeks, I held back on discussing the recent fashion in politics following the inauguration of President Trump in January. Since, the discussion surrounding this event has inevitably moved on: others filling the void of our interest. Another recent example that we’ll also be looking at is the Super Bowl.   Starting with the inauguration, a monumental event that occurs every four years in America as the President for that term is sworn into office. Aside from it being the first conducted inside since Ronald Reagan’s in 1985, this inauguration presented itself as discussion-worthy for a variety of reasons: fashion being a key one. It’s not a new concept in politics to make a statement through clothing. As we see with the recent example of people dressing up as characters from the Handmaid’s Tale to vote in this last US Presidential election. Similarities were...

A display of faith or distraction?  Throughout history, there’s always been a constant debate in regards to the Catholic Church’s involvement in various aspects of life: education, law and so on. In these cases, it is argued that the Church is the perpetrator of this involvement, forcing themselves into spaces where they don’t quite fit. But are there any scenarios where the church has potentially unwillingly been a participant in the shaping of our world? I would argue that fashion may been one of these grey areas that we should consider.   To find inspiration for this post and the pictures I’d need to accompany it, all it took was one Pinterest search to unearth a whole aesthetic of ‘Catholic core’. Christianity and its denominations are not the only religions subject to this romanticism, as the same occurred when I typed in the search for Islam and Judaism, two other major world religions.   For this discussion, I am going to be focusing predominantly on Catholici...

How a divide is stitched into our wardrobe I recently got one of my favourite Vinted purchases to date: a pair of 2000s Victoria Beckham Jeans for £15. I don’t think a lot of the people around me understand the gravity of that, but I hope some of you readers might.   I’ve tried them on countless times, just for the purpose of pairing them with my heels to pace up and down in front of a mirror, but noticed that on the inside, along the seams, it’s stitched with purple thread. I hadn’t noticed this in other jeans before, but when I then looked at the seams of both my other jeans, and those belonging to people around me, it was the only pair to have this. So if it’s not necessary, given that most other observed jeans were constructed just as well, why is it there? Surely that potentially increased the cost of production to change the colour of thread from a typical navy or brownish one along the seam, and despite the Beckham’s wealth, this cost isn’t necessary for something so minute…...