Reading Material.
If you know me for long enough, you will know that I don't bother about paperbacks - the latest novel, or memoir - non, cherie; I love my magazinesssss. They are my monthly ritual. Marcus loves to say that each time I stroll past a magazine stand in Holland V, he can sense my 'radar' turn on and start bleeping - "ShouldIbuyshouldIbuyshouldIbuy", as my eyes scan the stand quickly. And he's actually pretty right.
Joycey and me (those good old days...sigh) used to sit in the back of our Sec 2 classes together, and surreptitiously flip through Flirt! and Female and Her World magazines (could only afford local back then, and there was no Style yet) while classtime meandered by. No wonder my grades in Sec 2 were marginal, to say the least. I spent most of my year daydreaming in class with Joycey. Anyway. We loved fashion, and dreamt of being fashion designers or magazine writers, or store buyers. And now, eight years later (!), I think we still do love fashion, but not with that kind of child-like fervor that belongs to the idealistic any longer.
I was reminded of all this because I just bought a copy of the March issue of Vogue - all $15.90 worth of it. And I LOVE IT. I don't regret the purchase one bit, despite the price tag. My usual diet of Glamour UK and Glamour US, Cosmo, etc. have stayed within the below-$10 range.
Oh, but Vogue! Filled with advertisements of different papers and textures, that I can pore over; interesting and well-researched articles that tell me things I don't know (versus all those mags that just repeat the same things in different ways issue to issue); beautiful pictures of luxurious clothes and shoes and accessories... and to know that this is The fashion directive of them all just makes me want to take it all in and believe in it.
What is it about pretty pictures that just make style-loving women (and men) go ga-ga? I still can't figure out exactly why. It's just pure visual pleasure, innit? I cannot explain how comforted I am by a good monthly fash mag. And I believe this is one magazine I will still refer to six months down the road, and that's saying a lot in this fickle world of fashion.
Okay, enough of blogging. Back to poring over my Vogue mag. Toodles, dahhling. / insert airkiss here
Joycey and me (those good old days...sigh) used to sit in the back of our Sec 2 classes together, and surreptitiously flip through Flirt! and Female and Her World magazines (could only afford local back then, and there was no Style yet) while classtime meandered by. No wonder my grades in Sec 2 were marginal, to say the least. I spent most of my year daydreaming in class with Joycey. Anyway. We loved fashion, and dreamt of being fashion designers or magazine writers, or store buyers. And now, eight years later (!), I think we still do love fashion, but not with that kind of child-like fervor that belongs to the idealistic any longer.
I was reminded of all this because I just bought a copy of the March issue of Vogue - all $15.90 worth of it. And I LOVE IT. I don't regret the purchase one bit, despite the price tag. My usual diet of Glamour UK and Glamour US, Cosmo, etc. have stayed within the below-$10 range.
Oh, but Vogue! Filled with advertisements of different papers and textures, that I can pore over; interesting and well-researched articles that tell me things I don't know (versus all those mags that just repeat the same things in different ways issue to issue); beautiful pictures of luxurious clothes and shoes and accessories... and to know that this is The fashion directive of them all just makes me want to take it all in and believe in it.
What is it about pretty pictures that just make style-loving women (and men) go ga-ga? I still can't figure out exactly why. It's just pure visual pleasure, innit? I cannot explain how comforted I am by a good monthly fash mag. And I believe this is one magazine I will still refer to six months down the road, and that's saying a lot in this fickle world of fashion.
Okay, enough of blogging. Back to poring over my Vogue mag. Toodles, dahhling. / insert airkiss here
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