Awwwww my lovely readers,
We are so sorry! We dropped the ball...I admit. lol. However, we've returned with new goals to keep posting as often as possible.
I've been traveling, working out, and out of electricity with the ICE storm in SOUTH CAROLINA (who would have thought). Yes, our weather has been so crazy. At any rate, I was able to travel to the wonderful NYC beauty in January!!! (I can't tell you guys why yet, but I will soon!) ;)
One of my lovely friends decided to take me shopping while I was there and I went to TONS of stores, but found nothing of interest (that day... hehehe). My goal was a pair of heels or a "tribal" pattern skirt, which I've been dying to find, but I realized the shoes/heels were SOOOO different.
My friend and I had an interesting conversation about the huge different point of views of fashion. Interestingly, women and men in the SOUTH see fashion as the "Runway" styles, whereas women and men up NORTH see fashion with the mentality that it has to be "Functional."
For example, you don't see a lot of women up north wearing pumps, platforms, stilettos, etc. during the day, but in the south fashionistas are not seen without heels. lol. Women go to the grocery store in heels. LOL. (I'm guilty.)
On the other hand, northern women wear small (I mean VERY tiny) heels or extremely chunky heels. (examples below) It's very RARE to see a woman in pumps on the streets of NYC. (Looking back at these picture, there are a handful of pumps, but I PROMISE there aren't very many. lol)
We are so sorry! We dropped the ball...I admit. lol. However, we've returned with new goals to keep posting as often as possible.
I've been traveling, working out, and out of electricity with the ICE storm in SOUTH CAROLINA (who would have thought). Yes, our weather has been so crazy. At any rate, I was able to travel to the wonderful NYC beauty in January!!! (I can't tell you guys why yet, but I will soon!) ;)
One of my lovely friends decided to take me shopping while I was there and I went to TONS of stores, but found nothing of interest (that day... hehehe). My goal was a pair of heels or a "tribal" pattern skirt, which I've been dying to find, but I realized the shoes/heels were SOOOO different.
My friend and I had an interesting conversation about the huge different point of views of fashion. Interestingly, women and men in the SOUTH see fashion as the "Runway" styles, whereas women and men up NORTH see fashion with the mentality that it has to be "Functional."
For example, you don't see a lot of women up north wearing pumps, platforms, stilettos, etc. during the day, but in the south fashionistas are not seen without heels. lol. Women go to the grocery store in heels. LOL. (I'm guilty.)
On the other hand, northern women wear small (I mean VERY tiny) heels or extremely chunky heels. (examples below) It's very RARE to see a woman in pumps on the streets of NYC. (Looking back at these picture, there are a handful of pumps, but I PROMISE there aren't very many. lol)
My friend (modeling the first shoe lol) did make a great point that NYC women tend to WALK ALOT and they need to be able to RUN from a creeper in the subway (LOL), whereas southern women can drive their cars everywhere. IT MADE SENSE!
I thought it was so funny that we "southern" women dress up like we are about to hit the catwalk, and women in the middle of "fashion city" don't. They still have very cute outfits, but it's definitely functional over fashion for 90% of them. Trust me...I wore pumps my first day there, and I got MANY looks... So ladies, enjoy the dressing as if you are about to hit the catwalk, because ladies up north can't as much.
BTW, when I did see women in heels...um...that's pretty much ALL they were wearing & it was at night!!! (Yes, even in winter some young women have no modesty. LOL) I can't. smh.
At any rate, I didn't find what I was looking for, but I did find this beautiful dress from Zara, and tons of fun little outfits for my nephew. (How does that work? LOL...it does when you love him to death!) I've never known myself to shop so little, but honestly...shopping in NYC is overwhelming. Sooooo much clothes, so many people, and so many styles. I needed to pause at every store, and observe. no joke.
I will definitely show you guys the dress on our Instagram account (@ddspurebliss) later on. Here are some more pics from NYC! Enjoy and thanks for reading!
(4 floors of H&M! O.o)
Have a blessed day.
Love,
D
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