I Need A Break From Clothes, Let's Rant.

I need a break from writing about fashion.

As you might have read I work in retail. Well I don't think I wrote that I work there specifically, but I do. I love it there because the people I work with are just the best. Usually. Unless 2 people get mad at each other and cause problems, it's basically like highschool. A thing I don't like about working there is the customers. I'm sorry if you've ever had to deal with me on a bitchy mood at work, but honestly I don't like the customers. At all.
                        You probably just read that and you're like, Oh my god she just wrote that? Yes, I did.
So let me go on a rant about why I don't like the customers.

1. Right when I walk into work with my Hello Kitty lunch box and water bottle, before I even have my name badge on, you ask me to do something. How do you even know that I work there and I'm not just someone carrying a lunch box with me? It's like they see me and target me. You ask me to get something out of the display case, get a shirt down, or ask some question you could have answered yourself if you thought about it. But you didn't, so you ask me. A majority of the time I'll smile and help you, but if you have a attitude acting like you deserve to have that Juicy purse down, I'm going to get snarky and say "You're welcome".
2. If I'm working on doing the return rack, yes we do have a return rack but a majority of you people don't seem to comprehend that we do so you leave your clothes on the ground or just throw them near it. Did your mother raise you like a wild animal? No. So being the nice worker I am, aka I'm getting paid $7.50 an hour to make sure you have a good shopping experience, so I'm going to fake a smile and not make my comments about how you obviously don't know how to use a hanger, let alone know how to hang a shirt. I should just take a hanger and beat you with one because your parents should have when you started to not hang clothes.
3. I don't mind if you bring your children into shop with you if they are well behaved and don't cry and howl like a screaming monkey. Don't get me wrong, I think kids are cute and adorable when their quiet but if your child is running around, screaming, knocking stuff down and just acting like a ratchet animal, please take your child OUTSIDE of the store and tell them to quiet down and have them calm down before you bring them back, if you do. Please understand that even though you are buying clothes, we're not a free daycare to watch your kids and to pick the clothes up the throw around.
4. When I'm checking you out at the register, it would be appreciated if you have a set budget ahead of time that you tell me that, otherwise I'm going take all the senors off your clothes you want to buy, scan them and already have them bagged. If you change your mind at the last minute then I need to re-senor those things, void out those items and have a manager approve. Please think ahead of time.
5. The last thing I hate about customers is when you continue to look around the store and shop even though you knoe that were closed or were about to in 5 minutes. PLEASE get the hint. That's why we turn the music off and start to vacuum, it might be hard for you to realize this but we have lives too outside of work, we don't really want to spend the whole night doing the list of closing things we need to do.  (663)

Fall Fashion Trends

Fall Fashion Trends

I don't know about everyone, but Fall is my favorite season. I think it's because I love the noise of the leaves that crunch under your feet, the taste of pumpkin lattes, and of course sweaters. I could write a who post about sweaters because I love them so much. But tonight I'm going to be writing about the fashion fall trends that I've been seeing, writing, or obsessing about.

                   Skinny jeans

I've always loved skinny jeans because personally to me, they are the most comfortable pants in the world. I shouldn't say the world because yoga pants are pretty comfortable too. But when I do take the effort to pull them on and zip and button them, they make me feel great. I've noticed too that the flared-leg jeans have been going out for a while, but in the fall you can't go wrong with a big over-sized sweater with a pair skinny jeans.

Here's a pair of skinny jeans that I own, I've had them for over 2 years and they still fit and feel the same, I deffiantly recomend these.



http://www.ae.com/web/browse/product.jsp?productId=0432_7593_887&catId=cat1990002

               Knit Beret

In about every fashion magazine or blog I've been looking at I've seen knit berets are always a "must-have" in everyone's closet. Especially for the fall when it looks cute and it also keeps you really warm. I also think that it's an easy way to warm up any fall outfit, and it's also nice when you either have a bad hair day and you just want to cover it up. Trust me, I've been there.

 

This is a cute beret, they have it under a beanie but a beret and beanie are almost the same thing. And you can't go wrong for $7.80

http://www.forever21.com/Product/Product.aspx?BR=F21&Category=acc_hat&ProductID=2019572906&VariantID

               Scarves

I feel like scarves, just like the knit beret is a perfect warm accessory to any outfit. I have a few scarves, but I think I need to get some more because their basically all leopard print, which I love but I need to take a break from, it's becoming unhealthy. I could probably out due Snooki with my obessison.

 

I think this is a cute and it's super cheap too! I personally like infinty wrap around scarves because they always stay in a circle.

http://www.forever21.com/Product/Product.aspx?Br=21MEN&Category=m_accessories&ProductID=1025101257&VariantID

I'm Sorry.

I'm sorry.

Before I start writing about the fall trends that I've been reading, seeing, and just observing, I want to say sorry for the people, if there is any reading this blog. I haven't blogged lately. I've been having some personal things going on in my life. You're probably thinking in your head, "But this is for your class! It's basically you're homework!" I know but I needed to deal with somethings and be a little late on my blog. But I'm back and ready to blog about the fashion and world. :) (90)

My Designer Best Friend

My Best Friend is a designer.

I know I just wrote about a post about myself, but I forgot to add something that goes along with fashion and with my personal life.

         My best friend is Chanel. I know what your thinking, how can someone be friends with a designer? Well, it's actually my Yorkie's name. I named her after we got her when she was only 3 months old, and I chose to name her Chanel because I was reading a book about the fashion idol, Coco Chanel and I've always been interested in her life. It also helps that Chanel is just classy, and I hoped my dog would be classy. Hoped.

        Don't get me wrong, I love this little dog with my entire heart but she's not classy or even well behaved. When you walk past her in the hallway or when you come home she bites your ankles or feet. I don't even know why. She also has this problem when she gets mad at something she decides to bark at it and chew it, whether its a blanket, vacuum cleaner or magazine. Especially magazines. My mom also bought a new couch for the living room and she nibbled on it. 3 times.

       So despite all of her naughtiness and her chewing abilities, she's still my best friend. She climbs in my bed every morning, goes to bed with me and keeps me warm with her soft fur, and always keeps me laughing.   (248)

So here's my designer best friend Chanel.

Denim and Denim

Denim and denim.

When I first read about the denim on denim trend in my Seventeen magazine, I thought it was a joke. While reading the article about how denim is going to be the new trend this season, I was thinking to myself, 'Seriously? I don't want to look like I came back from the 90s wearing something like this'. But I was wrong.
            I think even before I read this I always thought it looked tacky but maybe that was because I saw tacky people wearing the trend before it was even popular. It's also a hard and contersival trend. Some people hate it, like I did before, and some people love it.
            But I've complelty have changed my mind, somewhat.
            I feel like almost everyone can pull off this trend because it's not like you can go out and buy a denim shirt and match it with any jeans. So below I made a list of tips you should take into considertaion before you go out.

Below are some rules you should follow with denim

1. MAKE SURE THAT YOUR DENIM SHIRT AND DENIM JEANS DO NOT MATCH IN COLOR. You need a contrast. Do I really need to write that?
2. Do not wear a belt with denim on denim. This trend is supposed to look like a quick put together but casual, and you don't want to tuck your shirt in and look like a semi-driver with a belt.
3. No flashy or gawdy cowboy boots, you don't want to be a cowboy.
4. You can either wear the denim shirt with leaving the sleeves long or you can roll them up. If your choosing to roll them up it would be cute to add a few bracelets or even a ring.
5. Add a femine piece to your outfit to give them a girly character look, an example would be to add a gorgeous bag, pair of dangling earrings, just something to add feminism.
6. Make sure that your shapes of each item don't match either, such as wearing a too tight of a denim button up and skinny jeans. It's either one or the other. I personally like the loose fit of a denim button up and skinny jeans.

          I really hope to see more outfits with this trend, below are the different ways you can pull this off.   (387)

Leather Jacket

The Leather Jacket

I love leather jackets because I think that they add a edge to any outfit and they're also perfect for layering and keep you warm during the fall season. I think that every person should have one because you can wear one with about any outfit too and they have always been around for ages. The leather jacket really came into the fashion scene around the 50s when everyone had the whole 'Grease' theme going on. Well, mostly the hot bad ass guys wore them and then later would let their girlfriend wear the jacket to show that they were dating. I would be lying if I said I didn't feel like a bad ass when I bring my leather jacket out of my closet around the fall. 

              If you're looking to get a leather jacket, if you don't have one already, you can spend either only around 5 dollars for one or you can either spend over four thousand. Personally I got my brown leather jacket at a vintage resale shop for around twelve dollars which is a good deal because I love vintage clothes and if someone wore it years before I did and it still looks good, I can wear it basically forever. For my black leather jacket I got mine last winter at Target for around $20 to $30, which isn't too high since it is faux leather after all, which I feel like is just a better choice, but that's my opinion.

              Below are some jackets you are able to buy and some outfit ideas to wear them with.

H&M faux leather jacket $49.95

http://www.hm.com/us/product/00723?article=00723-A

Target Coffee Shop faux leather jacket ON SALE $24.98

http://www.target.com/s/faux+leather+jacket

The ways to wear your leather jacket

 I noticed in all of the pictures I looked at of outfits with leather jackets, they either have a leather bag or leather boots. Something to keep in mind.   (293)

Who am I?

Who am I?

That's always the question that every single person has every been asked from someone or have asked your own self, whether its your teacher asking you to write a blog for your AP Lang class you chose to sign up for last year to challenge yourself, or whether you asked yourself this mentally because you did something bad like stole a candy bar. For the record, I've never stolen anything.
                                You're probably wondering what makes this blog special from another other blog about fashion, and it isn't. I'm just going to write and add pictures of the trends that I'm seeing around me, online and in magazines. Don't worry, I'm not going to write about how every single girl should go out and get a Louis Vuitton and carry a tiny dog and wear Chanel. No. I'm going to take my opinon on fashion and also add links to wear you can buy a look like for a alot cheaper.

                  Now since you're reading this wondering who is this person writing this blog for her class?

                   I can tell you all about my life story, which would be hundreds of pages and you wouldn't want to read for hours or I can give you a quick biography of me which would be easier for both of us.

                   My name is Ashley, my mom decided to name me that because she worked with someone who had a grand daughter named Ashley who always raved about her. I live in a town in Iowa which I really don't like living in, it's not horrible but there's literally nothing to do during anytime of the year, which every 17 year old teenager says about the town they live in. But it could be worse because some people live in the middle of no where in Iowa and have no internet or magazines such as Vogue, Elle, Glamour, etc.

                   I am an only child that lives with both her parents in the average white middle class neighborhoods, which isn't too far away from my high school which is convent so I don't have to rush to get ready in the morning, scratch that, me waking up at 7:10 and spending more time on what I'm wearing that day then the time I need to put makeup on, which I should make more time for that but I'm not trying to look like a model every day.

                 If all of that didn't stop you from reading to this point, that makes me feel great. So thank you. 

                 The reason I chose to blog about the trends going on in the fashion world is because I absolutely love fashion and makeup. Which isn't always a great thing because I work in retail and we get a 25% off discount, which I spend basically my entire paycheck on. But I always have thought that if you were on top of the trends and always, not always but a majority of the time, dressed nice it would make you look better. My example for this is that I've seen more people then I can count wear either ratty sweatpants or pajamas every single day in public, all year. I never understood why someone would do that, but it's really none of my concern. When I feel too lazy to put on regular pants, I prefer leggings. No zipper, no hassle. As long as I don't walk around with underwear lines all day, I'm good.
                 So I hope you enjoy reading my blog about the never ending fashion world, but if you don't, that's okay too.   (598)