Are you a fashionista or a fashion-no-star?
B is as stylish as a homeless panda
Are you a fashionista? Do you keep up with all the latest trends and make sure you only buy brand names?
Do your outfits always have to match or be colour co-ordinated?
If you answered yes to all of these questions, how do you do it?
Fashion is one of those ever changing things which some can’t quite seem to grasp. What’s popular one year, is a fashion disaster the next. But who decides what’s hot and what’s not? Is there a wizened old man on a mountain who decides that camo is the must have for 2017? Or is there a group of fashion fundis who hold a council every year and decide what’s in and what’s out. One person who is clueless about fashion is Uncle Bobby’s nephew, B.
B is as stylish as a homeless panda (also the name of his future fashion label).
Homeless panda fashion is wearing lots of black and white, like a panda, looking cute like a panda but also retaining a somewhat haphazard look as if you dressed in the dark or in a cardboard box. With homeless panda fashion, you can also accessorise with twigs or grass in your hair/ fur.
B doesn’t understand what’s fashionable and what’s not and is often frowned upon for his dress sense. His famous faded blue jeans have been described as farmer’s blue jeans, which are apparently a fashion no no. But to him, as long as you’re comfortable and happy in the clothes you wear, why should it matter to others that you’re wearing a Pep Store’s T-shirt with faded farmer blue jeans?
Are brand names that important, that those who don’t wear them are considered unstylish? What’s in a name anyway that just the mere logo or name on a product sky rockets the price? Prada recently launched a paper clip that would set you back $185. Prada have said that it’s a money clip, but after spending around R2 400 just for a small metal clip with a Prada logo on it, will you have any money left to use the clip for?
Trends, styles and the latest must-haves are all good and fine if you can afford them, but if you can’t, don’t break the bank just to fit in. As long as you’re comfortable in your own clothes, who cares if the fashion police come knocking on your door?
