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miayearnfmpyr1 · 4 years

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NEW MYTHOLOGIES MENSWEAR

I chose this as anther one of the trend to look at as I really liked the style of the clothing. I also really like the tones used as they contrats, some are vibrant and bright, where as others are neutrals, however, i really like how these two different tones compliment eachother. I also think this style is massivley in trend with the over sized pufffer coats, especially in the colder seasons. This year the oversized look has become so fashionable.

This style is perfect for the urban lifestyle, I think the brands that made and styled this garment are closley linked with nature- i think because the tones within the clothing remind me of autum/spring. I like this because it links to the season and also makes the garment link with outdoors and nature. I love the colour pallets in these garments because it ranges from browns to bright sports wear colours. Thid links to the consumers lifestyle as I think these garments are focused on people who have a actuve lifestyle who are outdoors and wanna look stylish while also keeping warm.

I also love this trend because its very casual and is everyday wear, it also links to street- wear which i love because i think its so in fashion and trendy. I also love how this trend is examples of upcycling clothing- this is good because it’s sustainable, also the new generations are becoming increasingly comfortable with wearinh pre-owned clothing as the ‘vintage’ style is very in trend. I realy like the fact this trend has the retro, vintage look.

Patagonia Products Are Built To Last When Patagonia's durable products finally reach the end of their lifespan, they're designed to be repairable or recycled. The ability to recycle goods is even better for the environment, reducing the amount of raw materials Patagonia needs to manufacture new products. this collection is part of- Worn Wear is a set of tools to help our customers partner with Patagonia to take mutual responsibility to extend the life of the products Patagonia makes and customers purchase. The program provides significant resources for responsible care, repair, reuse and resale, and recycling at the end of a garment's life. This links well with this trend as this trend looks at upcycling vintage products and re-selling them. This generation more than ever want to find vintage clothing which is second hand as this has come back in trend. This brand links perfectly with this trend as they both look at upcycling old products to ruduce the waste and help the environment. The colour palletes link quite wel to as theres some bright, vibrant colours however theres also some brown, neutral tones which actually link very well together as they compliment eachother. This brand links well with this trend as it is sustainable, bright and have outter wear garments and their customers will be people who most likely have urban lifestyle.

I created this practical response using photoshop, I chose two of my favourite images from the trend and I collaged them together making one model using the polygon lasso tool. I really like how one is a full body and one is half the body as I think it makes the collage more intriguing and creative. I did this to show off the type of styling and colour palettes they use within this trend. This shows that's it very much casual and outer wear within this trend.

WOMENS WEAR-

Finding fresh meaning in ancient wisdom amid an uncertain world.

I like this trend as it is bold and has many different styles within it, like outerwear, layered garments, inspired 70s and many more. I will be inspired by thus by styling my outfits, with layers and the right colour pallets. With the colour pallets I will focus on using neutrals, and pastel colours and will make sure my edits are bright nd bold. I was my styling to link with outer wear to reflect the theme im aiming for- cvid-19 and becoming closer to nature. This is also why I chose this theme as it links with nature which I thought would be great as everyone in this pandemic has become closer to nature as we have no other excuse to leave the house.

RESEARCH- 70S FASHION

Women's fashions in the late 1970s included cowl-neck shirts and sweaters, pantsuits, leisure suits, tracksuits, sundresses worn with tight T-shirts, strapless tops, lower-cut shirts, cardigans, velour shirts, tunics, robes, crop tops, tube tops, embroidered vests and jeans, knee-length skirts, loose satin pants. There’s a reason the 1970s continue to be one of the most stylish decades of all time. From flares and bell sleeves to shearling coats and miniskirts, the era birthed an eclectic mix of style influences that evolved quickly over the 10-year span. Skirts got shorter, boots got taller, and a range of style icons like Jane Birkin and Jean Shrimpton helped spearhead some of the most memorable fashion moments of that time. Take a look back at some of the looks that helped define the decade's style—and continue to inspire today.

I researched this style on Pinterest and BAZAAR website as I think this links to the trend very well and this style has similar colour pallets and style. I think this is really cool and interesting to research because it shows how fashion has developed and changed within these years. I also think that the styles from the 70s like flares, fur coats and bright colour are coming back into fashion in some ways. I like this trend because I think it will be really exciting to edit and take images in this style. I will focus on hair and makeup for these shoots as well as the styling of the clothes.

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youmeanlove · 5 years

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all of them for yusuke !!!!!!!!!

SCREAMS thank you SO much im bout to end this mans (my wish to keep answers short) whole career

update: sorry this took so long i decided to become a novelistKJF LITERALLY its so long thank you soooo much for sending this ask i had a field day

fresh mown grass: what is your f/o’s favorite scent? does it remind them of anything specific?

paint is the obvious answer so ofc that but he rly likes the smell of a smoked out kitchen. probably because thats what happens every time he tries to experiment w food but it still makes him happy to hav fun with it

pastel sunrise: what was your f/o’s first impression of you? yours of them?

hehehe…he thought i dressed really weirdJFJF he was like one part intrigued one part ‘wtf ew’ but either way boy did he stare at me! for like, minutes straight because he has no self awareness. once we started talking he thought i was um..like, inspiring i guess. that sounds conceited but he just thought i was a cool ‘care-free’ model of life! i thought umm..he was very tall and kind of intimidating! i felt bad because the other students shunned him for being involved with his mentor nd thought he could do with like, literally any social interaction. i thought he was really kind, despite being very straightforward w everything! OH and i thought it was admirable how focused on his passions he was

blooming flowers: what is your f/o’s favorite part of nature? do they even have one?

the ocean!!!! we went to the beach once and he went ape over how the moon looked reflecting over the water

four leaf clover: does your f/o have any good luck charms or superstitions? do you? do the two of you share any?

yusukes really superstitious actually! unlucky words/numbers and stuff like that. one time he broke a comb on accident and threw it across the room lmao. we both go absolutely ham and wont sleep w/ our heads to the north bc we dont feel like dying young

ocean breeze: have you and your f/o ever traveled together? what is your dream vacation?

hoyah! we dont travel because we’re both poor ass art students but we do go to the park a lot! theres some really pretty ones near the schools so we’ll go stare at geese and flowers n stuff! we talk a lot about traveling to spain bc sexy

lemonade stand: what is your f/o’s favorite beverage? and yours?

yusuke my mans rly likes lemonade but like when its kinda bitter? he doesnt like really sweet foods but lemonade and tea are 👌👌. i really like cola uwu

fireflies: how do you light up your f/o’s life?

hehHEHE U///U show that boy how to have fun!! let himself go and chill out sometimes!! he’s always so hard on himself and i help him remember that he doesn’t need to be so focused and stressed all the time anymore!! lov that guy

music festival: what is your favorite type of music? your f/o’s? any overlap between your favorite genres?

yusuke likes chill out music like classical and stuff because hes a NERD and it helps him focus on work! i’m a speedcore rat. we both like swing music because we’re gay

pumpkin latte: what is your guilty pleasure as a couple?

sometimes we drink juice out of the carton and put it back in the fridge because like who has time for cups..nasty nasty. also idk if this counts but we’ll take those stupid buzzfeed quizzes for like an hour and judge our results OH we stan ‘accidetally’ falling asleep in our day clothes bc we were too tired to change

costume shop: do you wear couples’ halloween costumes? what’s your favorite thing the two of you have ever gone as?

HELL YEAH WE DOOOOO yusuke was like dude remember that time i turned into a mouse can i dress up like a mouse and you dress up as a giant block of cheese and i was like (slaps the desk) absolutely babe

cozy sweater: how does your f/o make you feel secure and safe?

ahejegfahjkgehaheehaejh tall. hes vv straightforward to every1 so i know he’ll always have my back if someone does something to upset me! and he’s always like Bro You Are So Beautiful Dont Ever Say You Arent Bro I Love You Bro except he doesnt say bro ofc hes Fancy

bonfire: what’s one thing your f/o has done to warm your heart?

ONE TIM OH one time he told me that i was one of the few ppl that never rly seemed like i judged him for not being very good at social stuff and that it made him want to talk to even more ppl and like get his childhood back and im :”) also one time he let me hide a stray cat in his dormKJF

ski slope: do you and your f/o play any sports or do any athletic activities together?

lol no we both have an iron deficiency we dont do anything about. we do like to play hand clappy games a lot tho he can beat my ass in slide

snowball fight: how do you and your f/o playfully tease each other?

HONESTLYFKJF we dont tease each other that much bc like. yusuke literally doesnt understand teasing most of the time and i cant bring myself to risk hurting his feelings! i jokingly made fun of his emo bang once and he was like What Is My Hair Bad Should I Get It Cut Do You Not Like It and i was like OH NOOOO!! he doesnt rly know how to tease either but its okay we just compliment each other a lot! no room for teasing in this house

gift wrap: what’s the best present your f/o has ever given you? what’s their favorite present they’ve gotten from you?

OH MY GOSH eheh one time he gave me a winter coat and that sounds lame but it was the best thing to ever happen to me bc i had been talking for like 3 weeks abt how gosh darn cold it was and this poor fool bought me a whole coat!!! raaaaaa!! yusukes fave present i bought him would probably be okay this also sounds silly but a dvd player! he kept buying dvds that were interesting and then realizing that he couldnt watch them anywherejkhf

rosy cheeks: tell us about a time your f/o has made you blush!

hehHEHEEJH okay so at lunch we used to trade so that id give him like food and hed draw me something bc his foster dad be like (whips and dabs) financial abuse but anyway his sketches used to be like scenic stuff or still life or random stuff he happened to see outside while we ate but then one time he gave me a sketch of me!! and was like cause u looked rly nice today i had to draw it and BOYYY WHEN I SAY A BITCH WAS RED!!!!!!!

OKAYFKJF I WROTE WAY TOO MUCH THANK U SO MUCH LEGEND im in love with an anime boy

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staggedbeetles · 5 years

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Autistic burnout broke my ability to be feminine, and I’ve never felt more like myself

Looking back over my memories and photos of myself, I have “presented” in terms of clothes, hairstyle, hygiene products etc, in a lot of different ways. When I was very young, up until my preteen years, I didn’t really care what I wore. My mom tended to put me in jumpers and leggings and so on but was also a bit displeased with how often they came home covered in grass stains or with the knees ripped out, because I was a super clumsy child. When I began being expected to choose my own clothes in the morning and also manage the new expectations that came with puberty, I liked bright, silly and unique clothes but still overall what was simple and comfortable.

Things started getting a lot harder for me in middle and high school. While I hadn’t ever been super good at fitting in, both socializing with and sometimes getting bullied by other girls now was a lot more colored by things like appearance, clothes, weight, makeup... All of these things can be sensorily overwhelming to an nd person. I felt hyper-conscious of how my body was changing. I remember the first time my mom suggested I start wearing a training bra to school, it felt so obvious and awkward on my body that I was sure everyone could practically see it through my clothes. All the books about what would happen to us described acne as generally “nonpainful” but I could practically feel my skin crawling and swelling as zits grew. I smeared on concealer that seemed to sit on my skin like oil slick on a puddle. Where I felt like I could make fashion choices, I still opted for the colorful and weird, but comfortable. All-over print hoodies, fingerless gloves from hot topic, and yes, homemade anime pants were all foundational parts of my wardrobe. For a time, I wore big dangly novelty earrings, smudged eyeliner around my eyes to look almost like a raccoon, and colored in my nails with a lime green sharpie. (I have never been “cool” per se but this was the early aughts so I stand by the assertion that this wasn’t AS uncool as it would be today, ha ha) throughout this time I would occasionally wear things like blouses, dresses or skirts, especially for special occasions, but it always felt kind of artificial/loaded/alien.

(long post abt autism/gender presentation/sexuality continues under the cut :))

When I got into college I figured it was a chance to start fresh, maybe have a more “normal” friend group and so on. I was also cheated on by my doofy high school boyfriend a week before prom and so in the midst of a bit of a crisis about my personal desirability. Going out of my way to be more feminine seemed to be a way to potentially “fix” this, whipping my face into shape with increasingly harsh, stingy anti-acne products, becoming a bit neurotic about what I “should” eat, clumsily trying to get better at makeup products beyond plopping concealer on my zits and smearing eye pencil around my eyes... I even tried wearing mostly skirts with stockings or leggings for a whole semester... unfortunately I was much more modeling on Twin Peaks than fashion circa 2010 and so the classification of “normal girl” still eluded me. Aside from the heavy wool skirts, which I mostly picked up from thrift stores, it strikes me how harmful, and if not actively harmful just wasteful or unpleasant these actual routines were to me, and yet my brain fixated on them as if they were a territory I was just on the verge of winning...

It took me until I entered postgrad to buy myself flannel shirts to wear. I know, it sounds ridiculous! I had always thought they were stylish and had begun to get more interested in the uncool-ly cool styles of male musicians, dorky post punk weirdos and kurt cobain’s dweeby multilayered looks, but actually owning a flannel shirt seemed too openly masculine via its association with “butch” sapphicism... fortunately I was also finally coming to terms with my bisexuality. Naturally trucker caps, an undercut and bomber jackets followed, lol. Despite this, I still felt like I had to wear makeup, especially when my hair was shorter. Even when seeing my own face made me feel alienated from it, even when I felt annoyed at the amount of plastic and glass detritus on my counter, even when I felt like I was not very good at it and not improving either, even when I felt like it was a waste of money.

Autistic burnout is the cumulative strain of years of “masking” hitting you all at once. And autistic women are often overlooked until later in life not just because of the “male brain” stereotypes that are applied to the diagnostic process and public perception of ASD, but also because of the social expectations towards women, we are most likely to “mask,” put up a normal and sociable “front” through the elements of life we have to endure, and then escape to restorative and safe solitude through reading or imaginative play later. This makes us “appear” to be not autistic to untrained or simply oblivious adults as children, but makes the possibilities for major mental health issues later in life more dangerous. Basically, in the second year of my PhD, between generalized anxiety, uncertainty about my research, TA-ing and pushing myself to attend many high social pressure events like festivals and conferences related to my research topic, I became exhausted. I felt like I had no time for myself, no time to think, and had become so racked with anxiety and fear over the future at every moment that I could no longer think about what I wanted or enjoyed doing. My body and mind needed to withdraw, and it wasn’t a matter of having a self-care spa day or weekend away.

I felt like my social and presentation skills tanked. My productivity suffered. I had trouble getting out of bed before noon on days which I didn’t have anything scheduled. I sought therapy with the aim of “fixing” these things, but the therapist referred me to an educational psychologist to be evaluated for ASD. When I looked up more about women’s experiences of autistic burnout, I realized that this wasn’t a setback or a hurdle I had to overcome, but what I, as an autistic person, needed to do to restore myself, from years of being pressured and overstimulated and unhappy with myself, as a “weirdo.”

Another element of the burnout was that, when once makeup and skirts and other style choices that were my attempts to fit in with expected femininity seemed like something worth giving a seemingly endless number of “second chances,” I now simply did not have the energy anymore. I stopped wearing makeup, I donated the majority of my skirts and dresses, and haven’t had the desire to wear the few I hung onto “for special occasions.” I got myself an old, oversized biker jacket and some heavy leather boots, the most heavy-duty minimizer bra I could find, more flannels, each bringing more joy than I thought a piece of clothing even could. I finally like how I look, and feel in control of it.

I guess I am still a little stumped about what to wear if I ever do have another sufficiently formal “special occasion” to go to... but I can always just skip it.

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