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Fearless Fashion

Liz O'Donnell

Friday, September, 19, 2008

What a trip Boston Fashion Week has been for a girl raised on Talbots and Papagallo, Dean’s sweaters and Pendleton skirts. I appreciate high style and trends. I even sprayed my hair blue once for a high school dance. But no matter how much I mingle with the city’s chic, the reality is boiled wool and Bleyle knits are in my blood.

So it was with wonder and a touch of envy that I observed the twenty -somethings who attended Sam Mendoza’s fashion show at the Liberty Hotel the other night. Sam is a recent graduate of Boston University and many of his peers came out to support him.

Wow. These girls have no fear when it comes to fashion. Their looks were fun, fresh, daring. They were decked in multicolored shoes, sky-high, thigh-high boots, glitter and feathers -- feathers in their hair, on their clothes and even on their eyelashes.

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The best fashion of the week wasn’t on the runways. It was on the fearless, fashionable women who clearly dressed to please themselves. I dressed to please myself too when I was that age. Who else would have appreciated my bright pink wide wale corduroys or my wool knickers and argyle socks?

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Liz - I LOVE experimentation
Posted Mon, 09/22/2008 - 09:30
Liz - I LOVE experimentation with style. I'm actully a tad envious of the style you were raised with. I would love to wear clean, sophisticated lines like Talbots. And believe me, I try. I just feel like such a. . .FRAUD in those clothes. They look so sharp on my mother, with her elegant stature and I can imagine them looking the same on you. I end up feeling like some dirty, grubby little kid who is about to get cookie-dough finger-prints all over everything. Thus, out of necessity, I have my own quirky style. I mix pencil skirts with tops from Free People and some pretty outlandish shoes. I'll wear a very sexy, off the shoulder sweater. . .and a pair of Chuck Taylors. It's not pretty, not in the least. But it's interesting and it's "me." I'm also jealous of the girls wearing feathers. I've always wanted to wear feathers! Somehow, it always felt less Aviary Princess and more Vegas showgirl. I just don't have the bod to carry it off. It sounds like fashion week is a blast for you, though!!! :) So jealous/happy for you! xoxo