I Wear: The Inkblot Test
May 3, 2012 3 Comments
So here’s the first look from my shopping spree last month. Mid-week, welcoming in my favorite season of the year and stepping out for a casual evening. It’s really simple and easy.
First, we start with the star of the outfit, the top I picked up on my spree. I fell in love with the inkblot print and chose this short, loose square-cut top from the plethora of options (kurta, dress, singlet). It’s a light cotton that was standing stiff on its first outing but will probably lose its starch over washes and be drapey instead (that sounds better than ‘fall limply’, doesn’t it? 
). It’s not sleek or sexy but it looked (and is!) so comfortable, I just had to own it!
These were paired with the new classic blue jeans I picked up early in the month (having decided to quit being in denial about my old jeans that have been 2 sizes too small for me all winter). It’s such a pleasure to be able to breathe. And never mind the itty-bitty-pretty and unreliable sandals, I was continuing my ‘comfort-0ver-chic’ attitude. These zebra-printed babies (seen before here) are kitcshy but so comfortable!
And that…pretty much…was it! Plenty of talcum powder, a dab of nude lipgloss, I ditched my handbag for a few notes stuffed into my mobilephone cover. And I was ready for a cool summer evening out in town!
- Black & white inkblot cotton top: Rs.699, Cotton World
- Blue jeans: Rs.1500, Pepe jeans
- Black & white zebra print sneakers: Rs.399, Lifestyle
* Cross-posted to Divadom.
I Wear: Hipster In Progress
January 14, 2013 Leave a comment
‘Hipster’ is a term I see thrown about in the Western pop-culture sources that I frequent. I’m yet to fully understand the meaning of this, especially in the Indian context so let’s just say my perceptions are evolving. From what I see, hipster isn’t a complimentary term. On the other hand, that’s probably just one viewpoint. Hippies were thought to be unsavory in the 70s but I’m pretty sure I’d have been a hippie had I been around then.
Hipster sounds to me, like a millennium-plus version of hippie and that’s not just because of the first three letters. Counter-culture? Rebellious? Intelligent but too cool to prove it? Ironic in a way that few people get? Fusion that clashes and complements all in one? Here’s my interpretation. The weather was cool enough to co-operate (read grey, skin-dulling and cold).
Going by this infographic, my look is probably closest to 2004 but the scarf seems to put me closer to 2007. What do you think?
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* Also spotted on Divadom. Photographs shot by Adnan.
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