Ready to Wear, If I Can Find It: Shopping for My Personal Style
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My fashion role model is a 40ish woman I saw several years ago walking through a square in the Renaissance town of Conegliano, Italy, just an hour or so north of Venice. The beautiful hilly town, part of a wealthy section of the Veneto, enjoys a diversified economy based in wine, textiles, shipping, and manufacturing, and many of the residents look like fashion plates. The time was autumn and the town was wrapping up a mushroom festival when I noticed this woman strolling through the square. She had longish dark blonde hair, pulled back in a loose ponytail, and she was wearing straight-leg blue jeans, a fitted tweed jacket of autumn colors, an artfully wrapped dark green scarf around her neck (could have been pashmina) and on her feet, she had on drop-dead gorgeous Italian boots. She looked confident. I think that it helped that she was tall, but maybe the boots (I think they were Salvatore Ferragamos) gave her the illusion at least of being tall in the saddle.
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Images: Zooming in on the Empire State Building this morning, and a little cut and paste for my WOTBA paper doll.
See the follow-up post: Gucci, Prada and Pucci on Fifth Avenue: Thoughts Outside the Box.
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