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anna_wingI've never bought anything from Etsy but I am Very Seriously Tempted by this:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/AisteAnaite?ref=simple-shop-header-name&listing_id=198571191&page=2#items
https://www.aisteanaite.com/en/collections
Each outfit can be made to measure, which is good, since I am probably a lot shorter than the average Lithuanian. This designer did inspire the random thought that perhaps the "Clothes that make you feel safe" thing may be a psychological effect more prevalent in cold climates, where wearing a lot of clothes does actually make you physically safer. It then occurred to me that literal safety clothing is mostly only worn in intrinsically hazardous environments. A bullet-proof vest would not actually make me feel safe in any environment where I actually had to wear one (safer, perhaps, but that's not quite the same thing...).
On the other hand, there is a definite sense of psychological comfort when I know that I'm both well and correctly dressed for the occasion and milieu (I can cope if I'm not, but it does require a bit of mental energy).
I spent a few days in Vilnius in winter, for work some years ago. The whole centre of the old city is a UNESCO World Heritage site, and the nice thing is that it is still alive - there are shops and offices and flats and restaurants, it's not just a museum and tourist area (I have nothing against tourist areas, they are usually better policed). And Lithuania has lovely linen and very beautiful amber, so the shopping was good too. Food was a bit iffy, local cuisine-wise because of course Lithuanians eat Lithuanian food at home, not when they go out. I think the best meal we had was at an Uzbek restaurant... I did manage to buy some very nice honey-mead at the airport (my housekeeper used some of it to make a truly spectacular tiramisu), and some very tasty tinned venison.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/AisteAnaite?ref=simple-shop-header-name&listing_id=198571191&page=2#items
https://www.aisteanaite.com/en/collections
Each outfit can be made to measure, which is good, since I am probably a lot shorter than the average Lithuanian. This designer did inspire the random thought that perhaps the "Clothes that make you feel safe" thing may be a psychological effect more prevalent in cold climates, where wearing a lot of clothes does actually make you physically safer. It then occurred to me that literal safety clothing is mostly only worn in intrinsically hazardous environments. A bullet-proof vest would not actually make me feel safe in any environment where I actually had to wear one (safer, perhaps, but that's not quite the same thing...).
On the other hand, there is a definite sense of psychological comfort when I know that I'm both well and correctly dressed for the occasion and milieu (I can cope if I'm not, but it does require a bit of mental energy).
I spent a few days in Vilnius in winter, for work some years ago. The whole centre of the old city is a UNESCO World Heritage site, and the nice thing is that it is still alive - there are shops and offices and flats and restaurants, it's not just a museum and tourist area (I have nothing against tourist areas, they are usually better policed). And Lithuania has lovely linen and very beautiful amber, so the shopping was good too. Food was a bit iffy, local cuisine-wise because of course Lithuanians eat Lithuanian food at home, not when they go out. I think the best meal we had was at an Uzbek restaurant... I did manage to buy some very nice honey-mead at the airport (my housekeeper used some of it to make a truly spectacular tiramisu), and some very tasty tinned venison.
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Date: 2020-10-01 02:11 pm (UTC)Those clothes are lovely, but phew, for those with fat wallets. I love how she used an older woman with an ordinary body as a model and not the usual twig of sixteen or so.
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Date: 2020-10-02 05:22 am (UTC)Yes, I liked the fact that her models were normal, slim-built but obviously fit and healthy people. I remember the skeletal days of the 90s and early 2000s, ugh. Kate Moss was only 1.7m, so her slimness wasn't so horrible, it's a normal East Asian build, but when you took her size and stretched it up another 20 or 30 cm that looked awful, especially in contrast to the glamazon goddesses of the 80s.
When I worked in New York twenty years ago it really surprised me even then how New York City was the only place where most people were a normal, medium size. Once outside, suddenly everyone was overweight (the minions tell me it's much worse now), and in California it was even more striking that except for the Asians most people were either obese or stick-thin, neither of which is a good look. I see more fashion ads from the US, especially on-line, using obese and morbidly obese women now, which is a bit sad, and a terrible sign for the prospects of the US health-care budget. I saw it in the sewing pattern companies too (not Vogue, obviously, but all the others).