Riverside- An interpretation about growing up
August 11, 2020
Even though I didn’t start with high hopes, I came up with my most versatile dress yet. I like to think about it as a little floating white cloud in my wardrobe. It has huge Peter-Pan collars and for the pun, I really think that it’s something Wendy would wear when she’s flying to Wonderland. It’s very wide, so it’s not the most shape revealing dress ever, but it shows some skin through the lace on the waist line. As we go further down it’s all gathers and ruffles, it’s flowy and twirly, and, well, for my taste a little short, but that was all the fabric I could work with.
This is a summer dress, no doubt about it. But I haven’t worked with it so much just to pack it away at the end of the season, under the bed in a box. So I started styling it in different ways to be appropriate for the upcoming colder nordic months. I think I will extend this list later on, because I’m sure I will create several outfits with my white mini-dress. I started to understand why danish girls like this type of wide but feminine dress so much: it’s comfortable, versatile, and it looks elegant. It’s another story that they often put jeans underneath (which I will never agree with) or that they exclusively wear these cute dresses with white sneakers. Why though? As you look around Copenhagen you could assume that this is the only type of shoe they sell here. Is that the case? Not really. It’s just trendy… ugh… another thing I don’t agree with. But that’s a different topic, to discuss later.
It's likely that I will add more pictures to this post later, as I wear my dress more. I’m in love with the big white crisp collars, and I would like to add them under all of my sweaters and cardigans. I’m thinking of making attachable collars only- without the dress to make it even more versatile. I’m afraid I’ll end up wearing white collars all the time, like a good school girl.
It makes me think of a story about a teacher in a village. You know, it’s from old times, when there was only one school in town with one teacher. All the pupils thought that he must be rich because he had perfectly clean and crisply ironed white shirt every day. Once a kid visited him in his home and he was shocked by the poverty that he saw in the house. Where does the teacher get all the expensive shirts from? By curiosity he opened a suitcase while the teacher wasn’t watching, and he realized the man was only smart, not rich by any means. He saw a whole bunch of cuffs and collars, each pair tied together with a string, so they won’t separate while wearing. The teacher was wearing a clean pair ever day under his wool sweater, but no real shirt. He worn them to earn everybody's respect and to hide his poor cicumstances.
