Smart clothes must be a challenge. During some occasions, one shouldn’t wear clothes which attract too much attention or don’t follow the dress code. Recently, going to the Netherlands to attend the UN teenage meeting – Model United Nations(MUN), I had to take this fashion challenge again. You can say -,, What kind of outfit can you create with just the three colors: white, black and dark blue? The most important in this case are the form and the design. However, does it mean that we have to look for a “strange” jacket made of an expensive material, made by a famous designer? Indeed. On contrary, the fashion is about playing with fashion rules.
Choosing clothes for official celebrations I always try to create new combinations of the clothes I keep in my wardrobe. Even some additions can give a remarkable character for a usual white shirt with a pencil shape skirt. The simplest addition is a makeup or a red lipstick. You must admit that it really isn’t easy to find original and effective things to match smart clothes.
The biggest Discovery of my stay In Leiden (the Netherlands) were vintage shops. Having entered the first of them I immediately felt it was an ideal place for me. They are simply second-hand shops where clothes have been carefully selected. It is not possible to find two similar things to the clothes offered by famous chain shops. They are like little time capsules filled with clothes which can make you travel back in time. For sure I will take the advantage of next occasion to visit a vintage shop during my stay abroad. I can highly recommend this to you.
Are you dreaming about a unique and decent leather bag with a soul, but your grandma has already cleaned her attic? Are you looking for high-wasted jeans but usually they’re of poor quality and they don’t fit well? In that case, you should look for similar places. Despite an outbreak of second-hands offering clothes ‘from England’, it’s difficult to find good quality products there. Anyway, I encourage you to look for treasures which are often hidden under thousands of stuffed jeans with weird stains and stretched sweaters. I don’t know, maybe one day I’ll take a trip to Toruń second-hands area on Bydgoskie Przedmieście (one of the districts of Toruń), which is quite well known not only in my city - one journalists of Vice Poland described this phenomenon (link to the article here http://www.vice.com/pl/read/odwiedzilismy-w-torunskie-zaglbie-lumpeksow) and I’ll also show you things I’ve found.
Do you know any vintage shops? Maybe you’ve been in such places in Poland?
