Is your Instagram feed full of people talking about how woooonderful fall is? Mine is and I’m feeling very resistant to all the kumbaya-fall feelings. As much as I love fashion, I actually only like having to wear ONE layer at a time. I like warm sun, not stifling layers! Maybe I’m so resistant because I didn’t get any beach time this year. Will do some self-reflection and get back to you.
But here we are – it’s fall. It was only after looking at these outfit of the day photos that I realized that my version of a “fall” look is to get a plaid skirt and pair it with a crop top. No, not in the Britney Spears, nauseating-lollipop-sucking way. We’re making it Fashion.
Last week I went to a cocktail party/art show downtown, and wore this crop top/skirt combo. I admit that even I was a bit nervous about wearing something so “LA” to a San Francisco Party, but it turns out that people care much, much less than you’d think.
A Note on the Art Show
I know very little about art – everything I know I learned from Sister Wendy and my Aunt Diane. What I do know is that the featured artist, Leon Loucheur, has a lot to say about corporate greed and the health of the individual. Right up my alley, right? The collection is called “Pick Your Poison” and if you’re downtown, I’d suggest you hop over to 111 Minna and take a peek.
Back to the Clothes: On the Plaid Skirt and Some History
This plaid skirt blends the old-style “great kilt” format with Grecian draping. A great kilt is a super old-school kilt that had to be wrapped, as it consisted of nothing but 5 yards of tartan and a belt. Like a Scottish sari of sorts. You’d lay it out on the ground and roll yourself up in it (not at all like a sari in that sense – saris are actually very difficult to put on correctly). You know I’m allllll about family heritage, so the Scottish part of my heart does a little jig when tartan comes around. A tartan geiger-counter, if you will. It does the same thing around shortbread.
Thankfully, this skirt had a zipper in the back, so no rolling needed (although I do think we sacrificed a potential moment of hilarity there, don’t you?). I did, however, affix it to my body with double-stick tape because it was too big on the waist (do what you gotta do, you know?).
Anyhoo, I do love a good plaid skirt AND a good drape, so it did take the edge of this whole summer-to-fall transition. Even if I did have to wear a crop top to fool myself into thinking it was still summer.
Coming up next – Fashion Community Week looks AND Milan Fashion Week rundowns. Stay tuned!
love,
Stig.
