I have only stepped onto the blogging scene for less than a month and already one of my article's got published on the LSE Fashion Blog!
I am both honoured, and elated by this news. Being a member of the Fashion Society myself makes it all the more special as the society has been fighting endlessly to build on their media department and have recently gained a section on the LSE Newspaper. They have an amazing blog informing about the current fashion news, and insightful perceptions about fashion trends. Check them out on http://lsesufashionsociety.wordpress.com !
Justjode xox
Saturday, 12 January 2013
Style, not Fashion.
Why is it that we can write about fashion, but not about style?
The answer : simply because we can.
Magazines today are crammed with rules and guidelines about "Whats Hot", and "Whats Not", but what's truly not hot is the underlining message behind these articles. We're more inclined and somewhat pressured to abide to the latest fashion trends that the fashion publications dictate, rather than wear our own style. And I would not blame you in the slightest to be an offender of this crime; I for one can be considered as a serial offender in this instance! In a society full of mayhem and distress, its almost soothing and reassuring for someone else to dictate to you what you should be wearing this month, rather than you thinking about it yourself. But consider this, we can be dictated about what fit of jeans we should wear, or what's the new "it" colour, but there is no truly justifiable reason as to why we should actually abide to it.
What are the fashion houses gonna do. Shoot me?
What you will be murdering however is your personal style. Style can neither be purchased or borrowed, its a gradual evolution, a by-product of your personality and interests. The outward defining the inward you. Your style is like your own personal scent. It smells different, lingers on you different, and most importantly defines you differently than it would on the next woman. Consider when skinny jeans dominated the fashion scene a few years ago. Yes, on women with figures like Kate Moss with never ending legs they looks eye-wateringly sensational. On the rest of the muffin-top nation, like myself, it looked like two sausages bursting out of its skin!
This article is not surging for a radical movement for all women to rebel against the fashion houses, and deliberately not follow any trend that emerges onto the scene.
1) That is stupid, and
2) Did I mention that it's stupid?
I'm encouraging you to wear your style and not let the "it" style wear you. Your identity is nothing a fashion media publication can inform or guide you on, all they simply state is the current seasonal trend that will become a fashion-hate in a few months time. So, if anything wear the trend, but spray it with your style scent, costing at $0 found only by you! Its all about Style NOT Fashion.
Now that's "Whats Hot" in my eyes.
Justjode xox
The answer : simply because we can.
Magazines today are crammed with rules and guidelines about "Whats Hot", and "Whats Not", but what's truly not hot is the underlining message behind these articles. We're more inclined and somewhat pressured to abide to the latest fashion trends that the fashion publications dictate, rather than wear our own style. And I would not blame you in the slightest to be an offender of this crime; I for one can be considered as a serial offender in this instance! In a society full of mayhem and distress, its almost soothing and reassuring for someone else to dictate to you what you should be wearing this month, rather than you thinking about it yourself. But consider this, we can be dictated about what fit of jeans we should wear, or what's the new "it" colour, but there is no truly justifiable reason as to why we should actually abide to it.
What are the fashion houses gonna do. Shoot me?
What you will be murdering however is your personal style. Style can neither be purchased or borrowed, its a gradual evolution, a by-product of your personality and interests. The outward defining the inward you. Your style is like your own personal scent. It smells different, lingers on you different, and most importantly defines you differently than it would on the next woman. Consider when skinny jeans dominated the fashion scene a few years ago. Yes, on women with figures like Kate Moss with never ending legs they looks eye-wateringly sensational. On the rest of the muffin-top nation, like myself, it looked like two sausages bursting out of its skin!
This article is not surging for a radical movement for all women to rebel against the fashion houses, and deliberately not follow any trend that emerges onto the scene.
1) That is stupid, and
2) Did I mention that it's stupid?
I'm encouraging you to wear your style and not let the "it" style wear you. Your identity is nothing a fashion media publication can inform or guide you on, all they simply state is the current seasonal trend that will become a fashion-hate in a few months time. So, if anything wear the trend, but spray it with your style scent, costing at $0 found only by you! Its all about Style NOT Fashion.
Now that's "Whats Hot" in my eyes.
Justjode xox
Monday, 31 December 2012
New Year, New Wardrobe?
With 2013 dawning upon us, millions of women will aspire for a new and improved version of themselves, making it a great incentive for a brand new wardrobe and an empty wallet (preferably from Louis Vuitton or Prada, a girl can dream!)
But why waste your money on an entire new collection of clothes to better yourself? For an improved you, use your imagination and money productively and cautiously. Look through your wardrobe and question yourself on the following;
Which 3 key items would boost my style up a gear?
Perceive your wardrobe as a house, its contents the furniture. What pieces of furniture could be added to turn your house into a home, a better representation of your individual style? What item would bring an extra bit of ' Va Va Voom'?
Does my wardrobe have the core fashion essentials?
A house can never become a home without the essentials (let alone livable!). With no bed, no sofa, no TV, your house is empty and bare. So how you expect your wardrobe be too? Pull out your notebook and make a checklist on whether your wardrobe has all of the key ingredients of a true fashionsita? Does it have a good pair of jeans tailored for your body shape? A nice crisp white shirt? A leather black jacket? A LBD? If not you know what to do.
With essential staple pieces such as these, you'll be prepared for any event thrown upon you! These essentials are both timeless and versatile; you can always build upon them with accessories, and can be reassured that they will never go out of fashion.
Do you have any fashion fiasco's hiding in your closet?
In a house, you take out the trash on a regular basis, or it will become a complete bombsite. So why should your wardrobe be any different? You cannot expect to improve on yourself, or your style if you're still laden with excess baggage. It has disaster written all over it. So give your wardrobe a full one on one inspection and get rid of any items that either ;
Do you really need to buy anything at all?
This question is for headed specifically at all you shopaholics out there! You've shopped til' you've dropped at those Christmas Sales, and now your wardrobe is bursting more than Christina Aguilera's jeans. Your wardrobe isn't like Narnia - it doesn't expand, at at this rate it will explode!
So don't be delusional with the concept of "New Year, New Me, New Wardrobe".(Unless your Courtney Love, then that's a whole new different can of fish!) Invest your money into key pieces that gives your wardrobe the X Factor, this isn't 60 minute makeover honey!
Happy New Year!
Justjode xox
But why waste your money on an entire new collection of clothes to better yourself? For an improved you, use your imagination and money productively and cautiously. Look through your wardrobe and question yourself on the following;
Which 3 key items would boost my style up a gear?
Perceive your wardrobe as a house, its contents the furniture. What pieces of furniture could be added to turn your house into a home, a better representation of your individual style? What item would bring an extra bit of ' Va Va Voom'?
Does my wardrobe have the core fashion essentials?
A house can never become a home without the essentials (let alone livable!). With no bed, no sofa, no TV, your house is empty and bare. So how you expect your wardrobe be too? Pull out your notebook and make a checklist on whether your wardrobe has all of the key ingredients of a true fashionsita? Does it have a good pair of jeans tailored for your body shape? A nice crisp white shirt? A leather black jacket? A LBD? If not you know what to do.
With essential staple pieces such as these, you'll be prepared for any event thrown upon you! These essentials are both timeless and versatile; you can always build upon them with accessories, and can be reassured that they will never go out of fashion.
Do you have any fashion fiasco's hiding in your closet?
In a house, you take out the trash on a regular basis, or it will become a complete bombsite. So why should your wardrobe be any different? You cannot expect to improve on yourself, or your style if you're still laden with excess baggage. It has disaster written all over it. So give your wardrobe a full one on one inspection and get rid of any items that either ;
- Does not suit your style
- Does not suit your body shape.
- Does not fit you. PERIOD.
Do NOT chuck out any items on the reason that "its no longer in fashion". The fashion world is like a cycle, its consistently changing and evolving, but it will always return back to the start. Look at 2012 fashion scene. We had a 1920's throwback with the peplum dress. Don't be surprised it''ll dominate the fashion world again in the future.
This question is for headed specifically at all you shopaholics out there! You've shopped til' you've dropped at those Christmas Sales, and now your wardrobe is bursting more than Christina Aguilera's jeans. Your wardrobe isn't like Narnia - it doesn't expand, at at this rate it will explode!
So don't be delusional with the concept of "New Year, New Me, New Wardrobe".(Unless your Courtney Love, then that's a whole new different can of fish!) Invest your money into key pieces that gives your wardrobe the X Factor, this isn't 60 minute makeover honey!
Happy New Year!
Justjode xox
Saturday, 29 December 2012
Don't blame me, blame the fro!
Using my fro' as an excuse for my naughty ways;
Its all political.
Nomnmom
Justjode xxx
- "I can't go and exercise!! It'll muck up the fro'!"
- "Why am I ordering a large pizza to myself? The carbs strengthen the fro'."
- "I can't do overtime today. The weight of the fro' is doing horrors to my back."
- "Sorry Officer, I didn't mean to drive over the speed limit - its this fro' you see....."
- "I'm so sorry for knocking that book over! It wasn't me, it was the fro'."
- "The fro' said so."
- "Don't blame me; blame the fro'right here. And don't expect me to get rid of it ; technically you're asking me to destroy one of God's creations."
Its all political.
Nomnmom
Justjode xxx
Friday, 28 December 2012
Love the fro'! Embrace your natural beauty!
The more I think about it, the more I believe that the word fro is the best name for such an iconic Afro-Caribbean hairstyle - the sight of once literally fro's you off balance!!
Perfectly circular and showstopping, the fro' is the best hairstyle I know. Both timeless and stylish, it differentiates YOU from the crowd, giving YOU a step ahead from the other feisty fashionistas. The style works for every Tom, Dick, and Harry, even for all you shoplifters out there, you could hide a tin of baked beans in your hair and no one would be none the wiser!
The fro' is not rated enough in these days. If I walked out onto the streets of London, I can certify that you will see at least three beautiful women who're not embracing the feisty fro' God has blessed them with, hiding it beneath a blanket of weave. This not me releasing my inner psychic (because believe me I'd use them to predict tonight's Lottery numbers instead!),this is me stating a fact. I just wish and hope that such women can realize how beautiful their fro' truly is, and not allow the pressures of today's "ultimate" celebrity or media sides delude them to thinking otherwise.If I had a genie, that would for sure be one of my three wishes.
So hey yo to the fro'! Its liberating, beautiful, and helps out your bank balance! Whats not to love? :)
Justjode
xxx
Perfectly circular and showstopping, the fro' is the best hairstyle I know. Both timeless and stylish, it differentiates YOU from the crowd, giving YOU a step ahead from the other feisty fashionistas. The style works for every Tom, Dick, and Harry, even for all you shoplifters out there, you could hide a tin of baked beans in your hair and no one would be none the wiser!
The fro' is not rated enough in these days. If I walked out onto the streets of London, I can certify that you will see at least three beautiful women who're not embracing the feisty fro' God has blessed them with, hiding it beneath a blanket of weave. This not me releasing my inner psychic (because believe me I'd use them to predict tonight's Lottery numbers instead!),this is me stating a fact. I just wish and hope that such women can realize how beautiful their fro' truly is, and not allow the pressures of today's "ultimate" celebrity or media sides delude them to thinking otherwise.If I had a genie, that would for sure be one of my three wishes.
So hey yo to the fro'! Its liberating, beautiful, and helps out your bank balance! Whats not to love? :)
Justjode
xxx
Thursday, 27 December 2012
Breaking my Blogging Virginity
Its justjode here. Just Jode, its as simple as that.
I've always been intrigued - my boyfriend and mum might argue addicted - to the blogsphere world, continuously spending my free time reading and listening to the views and interests of other randomners like myself voicing their views and opinions about certain "thingies" and "doodahs". So, I've decided in my simple just nature to nag about the "thingies" affecting justjode's life.
I just wish my life was as simple as that sentence implied.
I'm not going to characterize myself as just "your average normal girl", because lets face it - what do you define as bloody normal these days! If I were to anyways, that would be a complete and utter lie. In fact my nose would grow as long as Kim Kardashian's hair extensions. Or her boyfriend list. Whichever you prefer!
I'm a girl entering both the world of adulthood and university life simultaneously, struggling incredibly, but prospering greatly at the same time alike many thousands of you. What differentiates me however is that I'm a total weirdo. A celiac-diseased, fro' loving, Essex girl whose loves and passions vary as much as Nicki Minaj's weave. Luckily not so expensive though. (I'm going to sincerely apologize now for my harsh but sadistic similes, I hope you find them even partially funny!)
What I will not apologize for though is the contents of my blog; this blog is my baby! My own little creation; in this scenario my genes come in the form of my views and interests on whatever "thingys" and "doodahs" I choose to talk about!
Now I can add to my list of attributes that I am no longer a blogging virgin. I can practically certify that I will become a blogging whore in the near future.
I hope you enjoy my 'whoring' tendencies, my baby, my blog.
justjode xox
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