Fashioning a Fairytale

FASHIONING A FAIRYTALE 

BY POPPY

Whimsy has taken over, the obsession with fairytale-like fashion, long flowy skirts and delicate blouses, is the desire of the new gen. We ache to be the princesses of our childhoods, the hardships of life pressing so hard we repress back into plastic high heels and sparkling tiaras. We look for airy clothes to wear to project that idea of innocence and delicacy. We treat it like we don't know what is in the world, hiding ourselves in soft satin and pastel colours. But does it help, there are benefits to it of course, reveling in knowing you're smarter than how you look, the confidence and attention from these slimming and showing clothes the fashion industry pumps out as soon as something gets enough traction. So, has innocence really come back into fashion?

Another idea of this fairytale fashion is the more broadcasted want for a man or in this case a ‘prince charming’ the belief that chivalry isn't dead. But what does a man have to do to fit into that ‘prince’ category, bring a girl roses without the poison thorns, pick you up on a white steed, maybe even live in a palace, but is it that truly the need for a saviour is what's back in fashion and we are just trying to fit into the right mold to get one.

Snow white, sleeping beauty, cinderella two got to sleep-in and wake up with a man and the other just had to fit a shoe, i’d understand why girls are trying to be like them if it was that easy but nowadays men are running in the other direction, the epidemic of casual relationships taking their eye more than any fairytale, so is the look to attract or repel? The temp of a fling with the shackles of something serious hiding behind it or the realisation that we dress for ourselves more than we care for a man’s company.

The cold world outside is cruel and hard but I understand our love for the aesthetic. As the layers of lace and tulle do make the cold much more bearable, even if it's all just pretend.