let's begin

I love fashion, I love clothes, and I am an admitted clothes horse. I read fashion magazines, fashion blogs, buy books about fashion. When I was young, my fashion sense was severely restricted by budget and imagination. I don’t think I really came into my own fashion sensibility until my forties. Part of this was an initial reluctance to be fearless and to stand out. Once I reached 40, I felt liberated. I wasn’t getting any younger so what was I waiting for? So out came the vintage fake leopard skin coat bequeathed to me by my grandmother. I wore it to the next Christmas party.

This brings me to my reasons for starting this blog. As I mentioned earlier, I love fashion blogs, not just because of the clothes but because of their sense of beauty. The very best blogs present beautifully composed images of the clothes but also offer us glimpse into the character of the wearer. This is perhaps why I love street fashion, real people putting together outfits that work for their daily lives and yet say something about them. To be human is to have some artistic sensibility. Even those of us who are not artists by any definition of the word use our bodies as palettes to express our moods and our thoughts.

My second reason for starting this blog is that most of the bigger fashion blogs and most “street fashion” in the media is from fashion capitols, New York, Paris, Milan, etc. Many of them have beautiful, gorgeous images of lovely people wearing clothes that most of us could never afford and footwear that seems a little impractical. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good pair of heels, it’s just I just rarely see people wearing them (even in NYC) as they run around on their daily business. Yet I see so many lovely and delightfully put together people who are stylish and chic and practical. So I'm out to explore GRR with an observant eye.