Everyone is at it. KOS is on a DIY rampage that I'm incredibly impressed by (the choice of fabrics in particular). A friend who has previously been buying up Dior Homme and Rick Owens has taken to altering Gap womenswear jackets and customising them with leather sleeves. The markets may be recovering but the long term effects I think will affect the middlers (the neither poor nor particularly rich) and how they buy things and those with a dab hand at DIY will take to the sewing machine even more.
As I have no sewing machine access anymore and the Argos catalogue is confusing me as to which one I should buy should I choose to buy one (any recommendations incidentally?), my DIY habits are fairly limited. I do however have a knife and a washing machine and after wearing a weekend of grandparental pleasing dresses and Salvatore Ferragamo bow flats, goddamnit I'm going to vent my frustration on a pair of lonesome black jeans that I NEVER wear and slash away. Too Martin Margiela SS08 and therefore so tragically passe (I felt physically ill whilst typing that last word by the way...) you say? Well, I suppose you would be right but alas, there is no way I could ever get this low quality denim to fray quite so heavily so instead, I went for jagged cut-outs, rather like the crazy tiling that people were so fond of in the 70s'. I only had the time to snap this one outfit but the point is that the useless pair of jeans can now go over any sort of tights/leggings and thus highlight my fondness for accumulating legwear. It's sort of like a flip reverse effect as the black jeans tones down whatever is going on underneath but then draws attention because of the crazy slashes. Still, I've kept the back unslashed so as to avoid the Gisele Bundchen effect and scare young children...
