This has been on my mind lately so I just have to write it down. Coz of my knee injury, I can't really be wearing heels anywhere in the near future so I've taken to buying some flats to walk around the city in. But alas! These babies like to cut in from every angle possible. Why can't everywhere be like Tokyo and sell their shoes in different widths?
Admittedly, one good thing bout flats is that I can find my sizes in New York (perhaps it's the wide feet) but when it comes to heels, the size difference is telling and it's only in Tokyo and 5 shops in Singapore that I can find my size 3's. Most of the time I'm trying to stuff them with padding or trying to fit my feet into them and getting blisters in every imaginable location on my foot while dragging the shoe around town. And thus the hunt for the perfect pair(s) of shoes.
And it's only when I had this conversation with D that I realised how silly I can get sometimes:
Me: Look at this new pair of flats I bought!
D: Why have you been buying so many new pairs?
Me: I can't wear heels now that I'm injured and most of my shoes previously were heels... So I need more new flats.
D: But how many feet do you have?
Me: (Crap. He got me there.) Two...? But I like happy feet. You remember happy feet right? Happy feet!
Love affair with shoes
Fashion blogs
Hurray/ Hoorah! Today I was surfing around and came across a couple of blogs. The Clothes Project is a great one that goes around photographing people with interesting get-ups. I've always been surfing through Japanese ones and I've been so heartened with the discovery of this blog! And then there's fashion nation and fashion is spinach which I haven't had time to go through entirely. But this is making me so happy :)
Anyway, for my Honors thesis this year I'm thinking of working on Asian fashion businesses and its spread regionally and internationally and hopefully distilling certain common factors behind them. I'm planning on going more in-depth by separating them into couture and ready-to-wear and then also by technicalities such as funding, advertising budget and strategy as well as the fashion aspects such as sizing, design appeal to where they are expanding into, etc. I'm trying my best not to make it sound fluffy coz it really isn't I hope. I'll be meeting my prof on Tues to discuss this and then I have to churn out a proposal pretty soon!
The Starting Line
So... I decided to start this thing afresh and to be a disciplined blogger and not abandon my site after 3 random posts. We sure hope this attempt works out! Somehow it seems that my first post is always at 3 in the morning when I can't sleep and my mind is going wild. Yes, yes. Get a diary mich!
Anyway, I'd love to get input and opinions from you guys from time to time and it would really mean a lot to me. This semester I've been thinking of starting my new clothing pieces especially with the newfound time I have without dancing. Most of you would probably know that I've stopped dancing in general because my knee's worn out and that I should have probably stopped at 14 instead of continuing and dancing in heels for Ballroom. But better to have loved and danced and lost than to have never loved and danced at all right?
Anyway, back to my point. I'm maintaining a separate blog -- tressdress.blogspot.com -- for my finished pieces and what-not. So I really have to tidy that up. God help me! And then there's this. I didn't think I should combine the two because it'd get messy but we'll see how it goes. And I'm thinking of starting to make some items to sell. Partly because I want to know how it'll work and also because I want to start generating funds for the orphanage in Ghana that we volunteered at in the summer. There's a project proposal that we're working on in order to generate funds for the children there. And by the way, any donations for clothes and English books for children would be greatly appreciated - please let me know if you have any to give away!
I realise I ramble way too much so I do apologise in advance. Love!