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What I wear to class....

Hey Guys I'm sure at times you wonder what I wear to class. Well simplicity will never kill you, especially when you have a Mass Comm or Politics class to attend.

 

These are just some of the outfits I've been hiding my glorious body in, in the past few days. Share your pics too zinhlefiercekhumalo@gmail.com

WELCOMING WINTER

So Ms Z just can't wait for winter..........

well her striped, grey wool, short-sleeved top says it all ........

"A man will never love you as well as a store...’’ True that because shops bring clothes in all sizes and you get to choose what's perfect for you. And you can always return it or exchange it if it doesn't fit well. You can't do that with men, not unless you want 'slut' to be your middle name.

But your love for clothing shops can grow like cancer and if not detected early, you can find yourself in a cute stylish 1,70 m long and 50 cm wide coffin, if not Shopaholic Anonymous. You know that feeling you get when you pass by Mr Price or Me Me Me that tells you the pair of shoes you bought last week is no longer the 'in' thing. And oh, that,you can get the same  outfit Rihana wore going out for coffee in LA in a low price.

Yes it slips your mind that the main reason you're at the mall is to get food. Well I’m guilty of that and sadly Joan Rivers wont charge me because she'll have to charge herself too.

Being a Tertiary student is no easy task. Having a stylish lifestyle as mine is a good curse. I've been staying at res which means I'm far from my mom who doesn't allow me to spend money on unnecessary shoes and bags.  She doesn't get it anyway. I sometimes find myself broke and counting days till Friday when I get my weekly allowance. Well at first my parents use to give me monthly, but because of my addiction, they got annoyed with me crying in the middle of a month for food money. Well since then, weekly works just fine. I get money but before I even buy food, I'll go check if there's no sale at any department store. Mr Price and Legit usually have a sale which is reasonable to students and I always buy. I don’t buy much though, just a pair of shoes, a top and even some accessory. That's not a lot right? I try to hold myself but my heart tells me I need it. The rush I get when paying for it comes with guilt but it feels so right, the world seems perfect.

It makes me forget about the mass communications assignment I have to work on, and my bad love life seems useless. Seeing myself in that mirror takes me to the great fashion capital city Milan. yes. Then I wear it and wash it and realise it's not the same anymore. And I need something else to keep the feeling. It’s like a drug; your life evolves around it.

A week without shopping is like a year without water,. Sometimes I'll open my designer purse and realise how broke I am. I don’t need rehab though, at least not now. I'm only 20 ...I just want to shop.

FASHIONISTA OF THE WEEK

Ms K We love her short summer dress which can also be teamed up with a nice pair of leggings.

Yes denim jackets were never out and will never be, so if you gave yours away , well you gonna witness the stylishness it brings in any outfit from Ms K. With that black sling bag, you'll never go wrong

SHOPPING WITH MOMMY

I got hold of an old issue of Oprah Magazine and there was a feature fashion article on mother-daughter shopping. The article by Robyn Cooke had shopping guidelines for both mothers and daughters. To summerise them

  * Set a budget

 *Enjoy the experience 

   *Talk smart 

     * Do your homework

   *Set time aside 

  *Argue intelligently

Well if you read the article you will understand because the pointers are too formal and boring for a fashionista. Reading the article got me thinking if we even want our mothers to come shopping with us. I don't. Main reason being , my mom will be preaching to me about how decent and normal i'll look on that skirt. How good and innocent the girl next door look on that dress. How flumpy or indecent women who were super skinny skinny jeans look. How revealing the lace top I want is. How too short the pink summer dress I'm craving for is. How weird the net pumps are .

These are just all the unnecessary, appetite-finishing statements my mom would make that I don’t even want to hear. Well, at least not in front of everybody.

Maybe your mom is better and a little fashion forward. My mom is not. She's that kind of a mother who will buy you expensive, ugly, leather shoes just because they will last you 10 dull years. My mom dress up only because it’s politically correct to dress.

Guy shirt

Well poor guys , we seem to be hijacking their everything these fashion days . If I were to count for you what we've stolen from them, I would have to be given the whole day to do that. If you are one of those who are guilty of theft, don't worry , Taylor Momsen from Gossip Girl is also guilty. So now you have a prison cell mate .

THE FASHION MESSIAH

Shopping is essential, especially designer clothes shopping. It helps relax the forever stressful, stylish brain of a super fabulous average woman. But it can get fierce when you have to pay for those expensive items. And we all know that not everyone who owns that expensive LV bag can afford it . That's why we have credit. Credit style , so they call it. But because we are fabulous beings and real couture counts, the fashion Godddess Mother Nature decided to send a fashion Messiah, not just to liberate us from the inconvinience of having to pay for expensive couture. but to also add value to the South African fashion scene. Cleo Droomer, winner of the Elle New Talent Design Search 2010. He is the man born to show you the short walk to fashion freedom. His debut collection is out and I'm already inlove with his colourful skinny pants. I love the unique, bold garments he used. He also used muted pastels in apricot and spearmint contrasted with melange, stark white and vibrant tangerines. I know, that makes him even more unique. I also love the carefree simplicity of the 70s. His collection is versatile and for fashionistas like me who want to wear items up and down, it's vital. thank you Cleo, now I dont have to save for years to buy that pant from the Italian designer whose name I cant even spell .