Spring fashion woes...

[holliwood66]

Meh~ Every year after I clean up on fall/winter holiday sales I am completely grossed out by spring clothes offerings in the stores...What the hell to wear when it gets warmer out? Every year I can't for the life of me figure out what I wore the year before.

Any suggestions for online places to shop? I don't want to default to replacing 100's of faded black tank-tops and long black cotton skirts all summer. MEH.

*more complaining* The spring colors this season, could they be more gagtastic? Lime, mango, beige, turquoise, and sinus-infection yellow!! ewwwh!

Also tired of white t-shirt with dark jeans...or jeans with aforementioned tank. Perhaps what I want doesn't exist. Even Furvert would be better than the crap they are pushing this coming season.

[saechalyn]

I feel your pain. Spring colors just get worse and worse.

100's of faded black tank-tops and long black cotton skirts all summer.

Like what I will end up doing. Meh is right.

[Ginevra]

Personally speakin, I wear what I want to wear. If I want to wear a t-shirt/tank with my jeans, then that's what I wear, fashion be hanged.

But yes, VERY much so, the spring colours are horrible. Do they really think we want to wear that stuff? And I don't think it has anything to do with us being "goth".

[JaneDead]

*more complaining* The spring colors this season, could they be more gagtastic? Lime, mango, beige, turquoise, and sinus-infection yellow!! ewwwh! 

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aren't those the disgusting colors we are offered every year? i have walked in stores and turned right around and walked out before even really looking because of the wall of lime, yellow and turquiose around me.

Perhaps what I want doesn't exist.

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this is how i feel every time i look at clothes anywhere. i never see anything that i really like and feel that it must just not be out there for me.

[Brenda Starrr]

Excuse me. I like lime and mango.

[saechalyn]

Excuse me. I like lime and mango.

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I like them to eat but not to wear!

[Ginevra]

I like them to eat but not to wear!

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Thank you for saying this. Very much.

Sorry, Brenda; no offense intended. I don't think it has anything to do with that we're gawth or like darker colours per se. But when I look at some of the stuff we're carrying this spring at the retail store I work at, including some of the bathing suit colours, it just makes me want to be ill. This includes some of the shoe styles that we have. They're atrocious.

[saechalyn]

Thank you for saying this. Very much.

Sorry, Brenda; no offense intended.  I don't think it has anything to do with that we're gawth or like darker colours per se.  But when I look at some of the stuff we're carrying this spring at the retail store I work at, including some of the bathing suit colours, it just makes me want to be ill.  This includes some of the shoe styles that we have.  They're atrocious.

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Exactly...it has nothing to do with being goth; today I wore gray slacks and a cherry red top to work and the only thing about my look that even hinted at gothness was my black hair.

I would wear some lighter colors, like pale blue, or even some brighter colors, like certain shades of pink...but turquoise? Beige? Lime? STD Yellow?? No thank you.

[Brenda Starrr]

No. I wear it. And I wear it well. It's all a matter of buying tasteful pieces, as opposed to cheap ghetto shit.

I'm so effen sick of black, it's not even funny.

[saechalyn]

There's just no way to make those colors look tasteful on me. It just doesn't work with my coloring/hair/etc.

[Nevaeh]

i cant pull off bright colors at all.

its all the pink undertones in my skin and being so white.

[Ginevra]

Whereas with my colouring (darker complexion with light olive overtones), I *can* wear pink, mango and whatnot and look good in it. But I don't *like* brighter colours like that. A light lavender is as about as far as I will go.

[AstralCrux]

I've been shopping lately and have found some amazing things, but they're all mostly that fabulous clearance from winter. NY & Co. though expensive usually carries basic blacks, greys and whites every season. However the color patterns from season to season are never going to change- spring is pastel and dayglo at times, summer takes bolder colors, fall is orange, brown and red, and winter covers blacks, winter whites, and varies with it's color- though usually bold and dark.

For pale/pink skin- I have it- I have never looked bad in dark reds (burgundy, wine, blood red), purples (dark or bold shades)- honestly clothing with a red color spectrum base usually looks good in darker shades.

[Homicidalheathen]

Yup.

Whereas with my colouring (darker complexion with light olive overtones), I *can* wear pink, mango and whatnot and look good in it.  But I don't *like* brighter colours like that.  A light lavender is as about as far as I will go.

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[Crazed Vampyress]

Meh~ Every year after I clean up on fall/winter holiday sales I am completely grossed out by spring clothes offerings in the stores...What the hell to wear when it gets warmer out? Every year I can't for the life of me figure out what I wore the year before.

*more complaining* The spring colors this season, could they be more gagtastic? Lime, mango, beige, turquoise, and sinus-infection yellow!! ewwwh! 

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Yea, every year i go thru a few months where the stores make me want to puke

[holliwood66]

heh~ I made a vow to buy 4 colored things for every black item I buy. So far so good. It is so much harder to find things non-black: you have to get cut, color, fabric, expense vs. wearablilty all down in one swoop.

I do have some flowered things for warm weather...along with dusty rose, pale blue, and medium spring green. It's just that most stores follow color forcasts now: so that everything put out is the same colors. I knew the abominations that would be populating the clothing, furniture and home stores this spring as I got the Panetone color forcast last year...ugh!! Thank be for small boutiques. However, they do charge an arm and a leg.

[Fierce Critter]

I tend to buy pieces based on compatibility. And I'm just not fond of anything that's not primary or jewel-toned.

Where are the scarlets? The Royal Blues? The Forest Greens? The dark violets?

I'm sorry, but I don't do fuchsia, chartreuse, turquoise or hot pink.

[Shade Everdark]

That's why I'm goth: I'm just too lazy to color-coordinate.