Akemi.died.of.flaws: Confused stilyagi goes shopping

Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I don't have a boyfriend.
- Lucy Liu

Recently I introspected my fashion influences as the inevitable had finally arrived- I had to buy clothes specifically for my office. Adding to that, I work in the graveyard shift, so that indeed was the tricky part. As my mom reasoned that ‘no one will see your clothes anyway.’ But fashion is not for others its for yourself, my style is what makes me happy and peaceful. If I am going to die anyway, I might as well stay true to my fashion style till my last breath!

Anyway, I adore the 40’s where women's fashion was so epic that it has come to haunt us again. Good for vintage lovers like me, read more lace, chiffon and ruffles.

And to top it all, the androgyny in the fashion world now, gives way to so many interesting options. The Zazou pants are being worn again with usually a midriff baring crop-top and the Zazou blazers are teamed with short shorts. I tried that look in my previous post here.

Anyway, I am ecstatic about the entire high waisted skirt revival and have incorporated it in my regular work wear. It is just so vintage chic, whenever I wear one I slip into a black and white, Virginia Woolfesque era ready to run to my kitchen put on my baking gloves to bake a pie for my revered beloved. Adele Simpson's cinched waisted, flowing dresses and classy hats still make me drool. i am SO born ahead of my time.

This soft, feminine phase in fashion came after the women wanted a change from the shoulder pad dressed era during the World Wars. Shoulder pads transform any outfit to give it power. It is so fierce. I have a special corner in my heart just for my brass buttoned black military jacket.

I personally feel powerfully seductive whenever i rock the 40's chic. The mysterious, feminine allure of chiffon is powerful.

Anyway so armed with my vintage spoils, won after endless sticky rummaging in thrift shops in New Delhi, i have arrived the work place and have already found a tiny thrift shop where i can continue my vintage escapades.