Racing Fashion: Get Ready for Spring and BE YOU!

Monday, 15 July 2013

Get Ready for Spring and BE YOU!

Winter in Melbourne is bitterly cold and being near the Yarra Valley we are hitting -3 at times. There are glimpses of blue sky today among the clouds hovering and snippets of sunlight on iris and tulip bulbs waiting to burst. Spring is about to shine soon with blossom bursting promising new growth. This is not just with the plants but also within who we are.

I am currently collating looks from the very proper, 'Royal Ascot', The Runways latest Spring Showing for their next season and trawling the department stores, online stores and chain stores to see and forecast how we will see the next season of Racing Fashion.

Now , I allow myself to feel fantastic, but in fashion we are the fantasy we want to portray. We are not models, we don't do this for a living. Even if we are models, I know it is a really hard job and work from one job to the next never knowing when someone my cut the rope from underneath you. Find the way you want to be portrayed. I love fun, happiness and sunshine, yes, it is a fantasy, I love my life being happy and fun, but in reality I am dealing with making meals for a family, washing, cleaning, toilet training and sleepless nights. Not exactly a fantasy. Others may dream of being the corporate hot shot, bombshell, retro fashionista or the rock star! That is fantastic and in fashion we all have the ability to dress the fantasy and no one has the right to tell us we can't. I love my Fashion but in no way does it define who I am. Be who you want to be, looking at a celebrity style or runway style to want to become that is an impossible fantasy and you will fail as most of the time it has been styled and almost been manipulated for you to want that. Let us put our best Instagram foot forward and enjoy the fantasy, but once you say goodnight to the phone and take off the dress you are left? Have you stood for all you believe in that dress and image, do you feel good? That is all that matters and when you hang your hat or put the lid on that Hat Box, it should have been a journey of happiness and discovery of your dress and hat!

Rather than walking out there and comparing yourself to others, compare yourself to the last time you stepped out. Are you feeling fantastic that you are dressed up in a hat, or is it something that you are trying to Keep Up with the KKKKKs?

We will never keep up with them, and would we really want to???

Here are a few happy snaps from Royal Ascot and I do declare that Carol Denford from 'The Hat' magazine had by far the best collection of hats for the whole Royal Ascot 2013.