Flashionista

May 7, 2010
Styled by Default: But in Recovery!

Frumpy woman
If it looks like a duck and dresses like a duck, it must be a duck.

It's easy to look like something.
All you have to do is dress the part.

You may not be the voracious fashion consumer you once were. But where, exactly, are you now?

If you're fashion mojo's gone  missing, here are some Icons and Decoys to wake up your style swagger.


You're too comfortable with comfort clothes.
Elastic waists and baggy, loose-fitting styles can foil your style and sabotage your glamor and your diet.

Before
10

After
Comfort after

Who's Sexy Now?

There's something fetish-like about a middle-aged sexpot.  In this example, 2 familiar blonds with access to hair care, makeup and stylists each show a distinctly different style.

Christy Brinkley exudes luminous energy. Pamela Anderson SCREAMS sassy-crassy-badass. But both obviously work at it.
 

Pamela Anderson & Christy Brinkley
Pam & Christy

Overboard on the good ship lollipop.
There's an interloper in the playhouse. Is she Mrs.PeeWee Herman? Is she PeeWee Herman's mother?

Before
Mrs PeeWee
After
Mre PeeWee after

A Makeover to Idolize
Susan Boyle's new look is achievable, believable, and simply beautiful.

Before
Susan Boyle 1

After
Susan Boyle 2


Duane Hanson
Art Imitates Life.

Low-brow fashion becomes high-priced art. The painful irony is this museum worthy sculpture by artist, Duane Hanson, is based on the average American Tourist...

Bad taste is interesting as long as it's not our own.
 

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