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Simply detailed

Nitz — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:59:05 +0000

Picture from The Sartorialist Blog

What a beautiful dress! Simple and many details.

Printed dress?

Nitz — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:57:15 +0000

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Style at face hunter blog

It’s not impossible to dress a printed dress and continue with tzniut! You know that colored dress that’s in your closet? Take it off and give some taste to life!

Why it works?

The dress is divided with a belt, that breaks and gives a restart to the printing.
The coat over neutralizes the colors of the dress. It could enhance if the coat would be beige, but the gray enhance the darker colors. In both cases it would be beautiful.
The shoes are different, but the colors don’t conflict with the dress. Soft colors. ;)

People don’t have to loose their style to dress with tzniut.

Understand why we choose our clothes

Nitz — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:21:36 +0000

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Any transformation that people do in their body, like for instance, the clothes, surgical procedures or just use make up, are complements that act on the gesture (body language), we try to communicate ourselves though clothing and to that some elements are necessary in order to complete our body. In this way we complete the inner-self communication we have.

I.e: You’re in a black-basic-dress and to give tone to your personality you’ll put a handsome necklace and use make up as well.

We’ve commented on our previous posts that we invest in our style to express something to the public, and this is the body language and image - but now something important to be notice is that the same clothes mean something to us as well, this is our perception.

When the reaction about the black-dress is positive, supposing that people had a formal impression, this impression not only remains to others but specially for us.

Because of that its a re-affirmation process, we get dressed to create a formal identity, it would be like that will all the clothes and also with all the expressions we know.

Drawing from the researches of Millie Motts

With who do we look like?

The moment of picking a clothe, it’s more important to think in how we are going to see ourselves instead of thinking how we wish that other people got to see us. Think on who you are!

Choosing a more subtle and discreet way of dressing it’s to look inside ourselves and to be ready to just not be another object. It’s to pick a clothe that won’t point any false impression from our personality and it will, after all, point who we really are, because the point in which the attention will be turned are our virtues and attitudes.

It’s not the image that must endure our typical traits, only through self-knowledge we will know who we are.

The secret of aesthetic

Nitz — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:11:41 +0000

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Why do we get dressed? Because we have aesthetic necessities.

When a work must be done, the motivation not only happens from the trivial necessities of an action, it means, all work present us the feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment, that comes from the connection of our work with our ideas.

I.e: We have a shirt to iron, the motivation that we have is to have a smooth shirt but actually, what we want is to look pretty. The action to iron the shirt, it’s connected with our idea of good looking.

I.e.2: A mother cooks to her sons, her first motivation is feed her children, but actually she wants them to like her food. The action of cooking is connected to the idea of the kids enjoying the meals she’s doing it for them.

Aesthetic is a psychological necessity, in the way that when we get dressed, the details have an “intention” that runs way beyond decorating ourselves and that’s one of the ideas of communication through clothing. The fact of being dressed and communicating, allows a playful way of living, where is possible to perform according to the place in which we are. Like an actor with his scenes.

The whole point is, what’s our intention when get dressed? Do you know yours?

Once we dress in a less attractive way we show that we are not in a movie scene, or even that we are in our own movie. To show off less the body it’s to communicate the exterior part that is inside us. In other words, when there’s too much light on something, its color gets deformed instead of appearing the right way.

Communicating ourselves without a word

Nitz — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:40:40 +0000

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If communication has no words, wich tools are used to make a speech?

We saw that through the body we can express our thoughts, receive and create new sensations. In fact the body becomes a support for our gestures and clearly, for our clothes. When we join both, gestures+clothes, we gain a style, that is expressed through colors, textures, forms, etc.

Independently if the reason we dress is physical necessities, culture construction or aesthetic, one dresses and behaves since experiences that they had. Not only experiences define our preferences, experiences define the clothes we are going to wear, how we are going to speak or to walk, that is, all things we like is because we had good experiences and the opposite also, if we didn’t had good experiences we won’t like.

Example 1: Somebody suggested you to dress a blazer for that interview you have, you dressed. You felt beautiful, formal and confident, the interview was a success and your are contracted. Probably you will like blazers and use them to special occasions.

Example 2: You dressed a beautiful orange dress to the party, nobody liked it since the beginning of the event and you felt alone all the time, you will probably be distrustful to use a orange dress again.

Style from Face Hunter fashion blog - What she wants to say?

So when we dress and behave, we want to mean something, that is, a feeling we had that we want to express and want to have again.

When we communicate ourselves we want everybody to understand us, what can be difficult in body language (that’s what we are talking about), because each one has different experiences, and clothes or behavior means something different for each one.

When tzniut asks to be discreet it’s saying: “don’t call attention to how you seem instead of what you do“. With tzniut it’s not so clear for others to see what I support, so the focus goes to who are you (we have talked this before)? That is because tzniut doesn’t let you expose itself and take the risk of being confused its appearance with who are you.

So communicating ourselves without a word is easier when we dress with tzniut.

You don’t have to be a First Lady to be elegant.

Nitz — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:42:45 +0000

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Since April 2nd at the G20 summit in London I’m keeping this image. It’s a long time but elegance doesn’t change, just improves. ;)

What the suits of first ladies have in common?
All are dressing skirts below the knees and blazers with long sleeves, independently of the color. It’s curious to think that they are dressed in accordance to tzniut lengths and this raises a question:

“Are they elegant because they are dressing skirts and blazers or because they must be elegant they are dressed with this lengths of clothes?”

In this case, the order of the factors does not modify the result, because they are chic!

Queen Elizabeth and Michelle Obama

The point is that tzniut is being discreet and when somebody doesn’t dress tight clothes the attention goes to who the person is and not to how the person seems.

Of course, with tzniut, you will always be adjusted to all occasion, not vulgar, not showy, simply perfect and elegant.

Physical necessities

Nitz — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:43:04 +0000

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Why we get dressed? Because the body has physical necessities.

The life that we have implies in a different lifestyle for each one, when we look at great length, but generally, we are all against same things. It means, the work or studies, car or bus to arrive at the places, if it’s day or night and the best example: the weather.

The last text was about what would be best adjusted for each situation, that is, the best clothes for work. This is culture. Now the topic is about what is necessary for the body to get daily survival, that is, physical necessities.

So, with the best example it’s easy to understand: the weather. If it’s very cold, suppose -30 degrees :-P, never ever somebody will go out with a t-shirt. But it doesn’t need this cold to understand that the body needs protection. If there is a travel where there are rocks and snakes, probably we won’t go hehe, or, yes we will go and will dress the more closed shoes existing in the world!

If the clothes satisfies our physical function, the garment is a good product and has his fulfilled aim. Clothes are nothing out of body, so when it is a satisfactory product for our necessities, we buy (although there are other reasons to buy a clothe that we will see later).

When we need to buy some clothes, it is not possible to forget the requirements, our necessities. If you need skirts with tzniut (that is 5 fingers below the knees), don’t buy skirts 3 fingers below the knees, because in the end you are not going to use.

Make a list with the requirements, that is, which are the circumstances of the occasion that you will be using the clothes. (weather, transport, etc)
and go with a good and sincere friend.

It is colored!

Nitz — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:44:31 +0000

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Today has two special occasions:

Rosh Chodesh (First day of the month) Elul
Shabat, since it’s Friday!

In special occasions, it’s a costume to dress specially beautifully. Here goes a special picture, that all girl I know would ask: “Which blouse must be used with this colored skirt?”

Picture from The Startorialist blog!

It’s possible to notice that the color of the blouse is not any color of the skirt, correct? This is what makes the look possible, otherwise, it seems very much “matched” or worse, it calls attention for only one color.

It’s possible to use white or black, but it’s also going to call very much attention to the skirt. So instead of a strong purple, it’s possible to use weak colors or baby colors, in this case, it’s possible to use any color since all the colors of the skirt are strong.

All this is valid to the hat - or the kissui (covering for head/hair of married women). Choose a different color of the skirt or a weak one.

The shoes? Choose a neutral color. The girl is using beige, but it could be white, black, or gray. Something very neutral.

Shabat Shalom and Chodesh Tov!

Culture Construction

Nitz — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:19:04 +0000

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Why we get dressed? First reason of all, is culture.

The body is the way that the thoughts are expressed, that is, it’s possible to feel, see and enjoy different experiences through the body and create them also, for example, speaking, acting and interacting.

This whole idea is about expressing thoughts to acts and to live as human beings.

So, when transformations are worked over the body, they can be,

necessary like surgeries or treatments
desired like piercings or make up

these are the first steps to construct culture.

Example: When the baby is a girl, the room is pink, when it’s a boy the room is blue. The child has no choice, and it’s already placed into culture.

Example 2: Indians have a different culture, not what would be called “fashion” (although it is), they paint their face, and this painting means something. Since they had not been born thus, they are constructing their culture.

What is your content, what’s your package?

Since we don’t walk completely naked (as we were born), we are normally using desired transformations - that is everything that improves our appearance, so when choosing clothes, colors, whatever it is, we are affirming a culture.

When girls dress with tzniut, they are affirming the jewish culture. They are choosing skirts and blouses with long sleeves and through this they say they believe the Torah .

When you are choosing your clothes (or acts) you have the power to affirm something you believe, want it or not. Do you believe what you affirming?

Do you at least know what you believe?

Tzniut fashion collection

Nitz — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:26:16 +0000