Fashion trumps pain when is beauty at stake
Hop Couture
The most common sacrificial body part is the feet. This act, characterized mainly by women, involves wearing those deadly stilettos or heels. Men often hear women complaining heavily about their feet, and to be completely fair, stilettos are relatively harmful to a woman's feet.
Blisters, deformity and callouses are just several of a long list of problems. In fact one of my friends divulged that after working a summer at Nordstrom, she was left with a beautiful gift: a stress fracture.
Two of my preferred sacrifices include the hot and cold sacrifice. The basic concept is very counter-intuitive. This usually occurs if I have a specifically chic outfit picked out for an occasion and the weather happens to clash with it. I can end up sweating or freezing, depending on how much I'm wearing, but I would never change.
Instead I choose to sacrifice for the better of fashion. Am I justified in my hardheadedness and tenacity, you ask? Fashion is about self-perception and not about being as boastful and pretentious as you can; as long as you are not desecrating a Dolce suit because you refused to stay out of the sun, sacrifice is for the better.
A group of beautiful girls from my floor recently ventured to New York City for the weekend. After walking around town for two nights in heels, one of them confided in me, "I have blisters, but I looked fabulous." Another cute floormate revealed that her friends told her to take off her shoes, she responded, "It's okay, I can't feel my feet anymore, so it doesn't matter."
I refer back to the lines or limits of fashion. There comes a time in every fashionista's life when they stand at the crossroads of safety and sacrifice. Do I risk my feet wearing my $700 Jimmy Choo's? Should I wear my Diesel jacket when the forecast predicts rain? My suggestion is simple: don't cross the line between risky and foolish.
You may have gotten the number of the guy at the bar, but was it worth the broken ankle you had to nurse for the next three weeks? I'm sure the fashion gods agree when I say that your core health never should be sacrificed, a few toes and a broken nail perhaps, but know when to draw the line.
Blisters, deformity and callouses are just several of a long list of problems. In fact one of my friends divulged that after working a summer at Nordstrom, she was left with a beautiful gift: a stress fracture.
Two of my preferred sacrifices include the hot and cold sacrifice. The basic concept is very counter-intuitive. This usually occurs if I have a specifically chic outfit picked out for an occasion and the weather happens to clash with it. I can end up sweating or freezing, depending on how much I'm wearing, but I would never change.
Instead I choose to sacrifice for the better of fashion. Am I justified in my hardheadedness and tenacity, you ask? Fashion is about self-perception and not about being as boastful and pretentious as you can; as long as you are not desecrating a Dolce suit because you refused to stay out of the sun, sacrifice is for the better.
A group of beautiful girls from my floor recently ventured to New York City for the weekend. After walking around town for two nights in heels, one of them confided in me, "I have blisters, but I looked fabulous." Another cute floormate revealed that her friends told her to take off her shoes, she responded, "It's okay, I can't feel my feet anymore, so it doesn't matter."
I refer back to the lines or limits of fashion. There comes a time in every fashionista's life when they stand at the crossroads of safety and sacrifice. Do I risk my feet wearing my $700 Jimmy Choo's? Should I wear my Diesel jacket when the forecast predicts rain? My suggestion is simple: don't cross the line between risky and foolish.
You may have gotten the number of the guy at the bar, but was it worth the broken ankle you had to nurse for the next three weeks? I'm sure the fashion gods agree when I say that your core health never should be sacrificed, a few toes and a broken nail perhaps, but know when to draw the line.
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