Spring Fever: Austinist's Spring Fashion Picks

Pride in one's ignorance (see your president W), seems to be a persitant trait in these parts. Support a person's art or don't. But don't walk into a gallery/store/place of business and say, "I think that's dumb... I cud do that... why does that cost so much?"

I mean what do you do that enriches others lives so profoundly?

Knowing all that detail about the designer of the pink dress doesn't make it any more appealing or attractive to me. Sorry.

Well, that clears everything up! Personal, one-of-a-kind tube dress? Well, I'll have to rush right out and get one--thanks so much for edu-ma-cating me about NYC fashion. This is Austin, y'all.

The only person who ever looked good in a baby doll dress was Kim Shattuck of the Muffs. And that's because she screamed.

Thank god you can still walk into Vespaio in flip-flops, hair bedraggled from a Barton Springs dip, and still get service. Maybe not for long, though.

the pink dress...

"An artist who happens to design clothing, Elisa Jimenez made a name for herself in the mid-90s with her innovative clothing design and open sewing circles. Her show “Ten Years of Change: A Retrospective Celebration of an Accidental Collaborative Career" takes place this Sunday, 10 September 2006, at Mixed Greens in NYC. This exhibition highlights the importance of collaboration and community that help make her work so rich and, like Elisa says "is about continuing to be an artist while working in the fashion world.”

Elisa started out making giant puppets and wended her way into making super-sexy fitted to the body clothing. One summer I saw her take a horseshoe crab shell that she found on the beach and crochet it into a bikini. For her Hungerworld couture clothing, she literally sews dresses onto the customer. You can't get any more personal, or one-of-a-kind than that.

Support from her talented and eclectic clientele inspired Elisa to curate a selection of the most extensive collaborative couture relationships. From pop singer Sylvia Tosun to actor Mizuo Peck. Clients will wear their own older Hungerworld dresses, style themselves, and walk the runway, before donning couture designs made of Ingeo paper-cloth that are made to be worn once and then used as you like—hung on a wall as art, buried, recycled, or worn until transformed completely."

and the white dresses are called "baby-doll".

I dunno--I think what people are trying to say is that it's hard to get excited about an expensive retread of 80s fashions, particularly if you lived through them the first time around (the magenta tube dress with the rolled hem gave me awful flashbacks). As for the faux maternity dresses, well, if it's chic to wear a nightgown out on the town, so be it.

If, on the other hand, you'd prefer a nice sundress by local designers at less than half the price of these absurdities, go to Moxie and the Compound or Parts and Labour. They look great with flip-flops.

oh snap, we got called fat! that alone wins any argument...we might as well give up and stop, you know, daring to think for ourselves now. i mean, if it's been repeated for the past few seasons and is all over the place, who the hell are we to question it?

holy motherf'ing moly

"why would anyone want to wear a dress that makes you look pregnant?" it's an ultra chic, generally flattering shape that's always been a classic.

have you been living under a rock?! the sack dress silhouette has been repeated the past few seasons and is all over the place! Trapeze dresses are one of the Spring '07 dominating looks. you'll be wearing it 2 years from now when everyone's done.

these girls hardly look 100 lbs-too bad TX is one of the fattest states in the nation!

So sneakers, jeans and a t-shirt is style? Oh wait, you're talking about the $200 jeans, $90 t-shirt and some overly priced kicks....now I get it. I think its the "vintage" belt buckle that's mass produced that puts it over the top. You're right. My levis, skechers and fruit of the loom looks nothing like that. (sw) for the feable.

I'd rather meet a nice girl than a zombie or a shallow bitch like you. That's all I'm saying.

Ha! That's your excuse? Yeah - it's all the women's fault that you can't "get to know one". Because if they just got to know you, they'd see how insightful and deep you are...

AND...

that people were a hellava lot more interesting when they didn't give a shit what anyone wore. Women nowadays are so busy looking each other up and down you can't have a conversation and get to know one to save your life.

mac & cheese,

it hurts me that austin has become so shallow and fashion focused that people are actually gonna pay mind to the nitwits that dictate what crap they're gonna wear like they're sheeple from houston or dallas baaing in agreement to retarded fashion nazis instead of improving themselves or doing something worthwhile with their lives. that's what hurts me. that people are spending time and money on fashion in the slacker capitol of the world.

HA! :D

yeah... losers.... shame on y'all.

What a boring life you must have that complaining about the multiple comments of others is the highlight of your day (week?, month?, year?, decade?).

OMFG, this is so freakin' meta.

People who make multiple posts crack me up. What kind of boring life must you have that Austinist comments are the highlight of your day? I mean what did they do to hurt you so badly? Move on.

Jumpers for grown-ups?
Also, Men's Fashion seems like an oxymoron, all I saw was jeans, t-shirts, sneakers, and a cowboy shirt (so last year haha).
Also, no mention of scarves. I have noticed many a scarf/neckerchief on men wearing the usual t-shirt/jeans/vans uniform.

when will the 80s ever die? oh, you 20-somethings, keeping alive that decade which you don't even remember? jumpers? really? wow. and the maternity-wide dress? on whom is that flattering? maybe uber-hot young women with legs and faces of such beauty that they can overcome that hurdle of a dress? that's like 5% of the population. anyhoo...what do i know?

And all those bitches look the same. Some idiotic idea of zombie-hot according to some disturbed old fat assed man from New York.

Woman and Men of Austin - wear whatever the fuck you want. Don't be slaves to these fashion nazi that want you to wear a black t-shirt and $200 jeans when it's 100+ outside.

I hate the fact that those assholes have that Just Guns sign. I hope the owners of Factory PeePee fall off that balcony.

those preggers dresses are completely unflattering and unattractive. they are tailored specifically towards women that actually are pregnant. if you wear them when you are not pregnant you completely defeat the purpose of wearing such a dress.

Pregnant chicks are hot. Pale is also hot. Skin cancer sucks. Wear sunscreen!

I agree with rick about the black though - too warm for Texas. I guess I am more the Service Menswear/Factory People type than the Kick Pleat type, but I already knew that.

Ah, the 80s. Where would hipsters be without you?

Gross. WTF? So the theme for Spring is that the skinnier and paler you are, the uglier and more unflattering your clothes should be? Who are you people that thinks that looks good? Seriously, you out there...who are you?

Terrific pics, and I L-O-V-E the setting for the first shot! Guns and fashion: Ah, springtime in Texas.

Perhaps the pics would have held together a bit better thematically if the chick in the too-tight pink dress were holding a shotgun, but that's nitpicking. ;)

I think I can see up that chick's skirt.

annie ray photos rock

i love that tunics are back. LOVE IT.

Cool...the flickr photoset has some good ideas.

Any clothes for people over 100 pounds you hipsters? Bet that black thing above gets warm when you don't wanna be that warm...and nothing says Spring like black!

Why would any sane woman (young or old) want to wear a dress that makes her look pregnant when she isn't?