Knock Knock. Who’s there? Spring! Spring who? Spring it’s time to wear sandals!!! OK, so not my best knock knock joke ever but it served the purpose I enlisted it for; introducing the topic for today’s column: sandals.
Getting tired of your winter clothes, coat and snow boots? Me too. But it’s not spring yet — sorry to break it to you, although the two feet of snow on the Arts quad should be hint enough — so we need to keep bundling up to stay warm and dry. The challenge, and hey, we’re Cornell students, we do love our challenges, is to do so with fun and flavor.
It’s the spring semester, so if you’re a senior and you aren’t freaking out about next year… I’m impressed. Seriously though, seniors and all other years alike, spring semester is the time when we prepare for what comes next — jobs, graduate school, summer internships, TA-ships for the fall and so on.
We’re going to talk about holiday dressing! This is the time of year when cheer, chocolate and parties abound, so I want you to be prepared. The tricky thing is adapting what you want to wear to be appropriate for the company and weather.
Okay so. You have all these clothes, some fabulous, some good ol’ reliable standards and some that you’re not quite sure how you ended up with them. Now, how are you supposed to figure out what to wear? I’m sure I’ve mentioned several of the following points in various other columns over the past year and a half, but today I’m going to try and give you a compressed version of how to put together an outfit.
One must be wary of buying hats. They are sneaky creatures that trick you in the store and so often lose their charm when pulled out of your closet. But a good hat, a perfect headband, a perky flower lovely enough people suggest you spray it with perfume … any of these good accessories on your head can make all the difference in the world.
Talk in my last column of lace- and otherwise scantily-clad women on the Fall ’09 Runway generated conversation among some of my friends and my editor about Cornell students’ most frequent occasion for getting scandalous: going out. I was going to say: “Friday and Saturday nights,” and then I remembered how the weekend apparently starts on Wednesday. As if there were not enough to figure out, getting dressed to go out is complicated by our lovely fall / winter weather.
Despite news of rising employment rates and other positive economic indicators, the recession is still very much on everybody’s minds. The Fall 2009 collections that debuted last spring are interesting snapshots of the fashion community’s take on where we were then and where we would want to be this fall. The general consensus is that designers handled the gloom in one of two ways: through extravagance or a more staid conservatism. This, as with any binary system, is a gross over-simplification, and many designers mixed these two elements in one collection.
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