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Kate Pierson
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ith Canterbury Fashion Week next week, and our latest cover a fashionable nod to what we can expect from this year's show, I've been thinking quite a lot about the subject. Generating billions of dollars per annum in New Zealand, fashion is the untameable beast at the heart of consumer culture. The chameleon like nature of the industry keeps loyalists to 'what's hot and what's not' on their toes, and leaves the rest of us who consider ourselves a 'work in progress' rather perplexed. All of this 'threads and kicks' talk has inspired some nostalgic and rather cringeinducing memories for me as I reflect on my style – or rather unstylish evolution. It would be difficult to determine which of the styles I donned as a kid of the eighties and nineties eras deserves the 'most heinous' fashion faux pas title. My obsession with unflattering fabrics; oversized, wideleg jeans, and tie-dye leggings with slouch socks spring to mind as does a denim 'cowgirl' styled dress covered in sequins, which I picked up second-hand shopping with my Mum and wore to the point of its extinction. That was a sad day in our household. I also can't forget the pink, patent leather heels that my friend and I wore on “Beauty catches the eye;out. character catches the heart.” girls' nights My preoccupation with heeled shoes (no longer the case these days) in fact started at around the age of six when I begged my parents for my own pair of 'clip clops'. I still vividly remember when they took me to buy them. It took six weeks to strip back the insisted onoily, sun in kissed but was not the sunlove damaged I think I probably sleeping them such of these $20 40-year-old linoleum white, in mypointed first house, andon. a frame which is slender yet curvy… heels with bows The interesting thing about Iawonder, lot of the styles have banished to the back of scrape back the half-inch of adhesives in thewe pursuit of perfection, ourbelow, minds/wardrobes they find in vogue when binding it to the timber punch is thatwhen didthemselves we stop back recognising the style royalists decide to give them a second wind. the nails down below the surface and fill beauty in character? After all, laugh Ultimately, fashion is an extremely subjective, personal thing, but I believe one them with putty to erase the evidence lines, stretch marks and grey hairs are of the best parts about donning something you feel really proud of, is the of their existence, before sanding the the hallmarks ofofaafull life. these days, I know I confidence injection. Despite being somewhat Tomboy surface to a uniform fialso nish. Atover 92 me years, second homegarment. too has love the feeling that comes whenmy wearing a beautiful I hope reading through some of the not-so-fashionable hallmarks of mytimes youth So I was pretty upset to discover a had a full life. She was loved many provides greathad conversation this weekend yougrowing share some of family of timber-loving borersome beetles beforestarters us, evidenced byasthe your own sartorial sins with friends and family.
Melinda Collins
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already started on the job. Whether by virtue of wisdom or the ‘in the moment’ nature of reassurance, ‘character’ was my dad’s comforting perspective. Although I worked far too hard on those floors to commit to this sentiment quite as enthusiastically, it did get me thinking about beauty. We seek skin that is dewy but not
statures of her more youthful former residents carefully carved into a timber doorframe and decorative stickers on an inbuilt mantelpiece. It’s this mix which has culminated in a family home that is rich in character. Only now I can appreciate the beauty in that, but perhaps that’s just the wisdom that comes with my smile lines.
Kate Pierson
Correction: In the Cellar Selections article in our 23 November issue, we mentioned Fiddler’s Green Vineyard & Bistro is open for tastings. The winery is not currently open to the public.
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