Archive for the ‘Fashion’ Category
Chic Fatigue – The Hangover
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: August 11, 2011
Bender: The status of being bent for more than a day. Usually results in loss of memory, money, strange tattoos, and other things you’ll have a hell of a time explaining. (Urban Dictionary) Things were going so well. For a month I had been thoroughly enjoying my new, clean-living, acquisition-free existence. Despite the fact that pretty [...]
Chic Fatigue – Prose Needs Clothes
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: July 28, 2011
I received my first piece of reader mail this week, from a memoirist: Dear Chic Fatigue, I just saw on my weekly e-sale roundup a “poet blouse.” (I admit, at first I felt jealous cause there was no “prose blouse.”) I looked it up and saw it was similar to the “peasant blouse,” with which [...]
Chic Fatigue – The Compact
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: July 14, 2011
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Over July 4th weekend, I noticed a Facebook post by a friend about something called The Compact. The objective: to counteract the negative global impact of US consumer culture and to reduce clutter and waste with the goal of simplifying one’s life. The rules: buy no non-essential new items for a year. Food, underwear, and [...]
Chic Fatigue – Where Are You, American Fashion?
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: June 9, 2011
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It’s a busy time here at Chic Fatigue HQ: A new season is upon us—our favorite!—so CF is trying to make crucial assessments on shorts length, sandal acquisition, and get a handle on swimsuit trends before the month is out. But no rest for the weary! On Monday night, the Council of Fashion Designers of [...]
Chic Fatigue – Color My Black
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: May 26, 2011
For the 7th grade science fair, I wrote a paper on how color influences mood. More of a book report than a science project, I read a couple of articles on the observed effects of colors on human behavior, (e.g. babies cry more in yellow rooms; prisoners are less irritable in blue cells). For the [...]
Chic Fatigue – Wallet Upgrade
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: May 12, 2011
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Let’s go back to 1996. I am a 15-year-old exchange student in Paris. The bread is good, cheese is too weird for me, wine is thoroughly uninteresting, and my most significant discoveries are of Jarvis Cocker, Diptyque, and Mandarina Duck. My host sister and her chic friends all have these sleek little zip-around wallets, made [...]
Chic Fatigue – The Transition Coat
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: April 28, 2011
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One day, it will be summer. Until then, most of us still need a coat. Now, I love, love, love my two-year-old water-wind-sleet-whatever-proof Postcard jacket (nickname: “The Fortress”). If my house were on fire, I’d save that coat, my laptop, and my vintage Balenciaga sunglasses. But after March 20, I want The Fortress out of [...]
Frontier Cyclist, vol. 18 – Biking in Style
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: September 7, 2010
[Our weekly cycling column appears on Tuesdays] My first bike was a hand-me-down – a red and yellow two-wheeler that had been owned by a local boy several years earlier. Thankfully, the “boy bar” was removable on this particular model, saving me from further embarrassment over not having a brand-new more blatantly girl bike. So [...]
