When autumn comes, I want to revisit ancient films, especially in movies that tell autumn stories, and I can always find fresh inspiration about clothing and life.
Recently in the pot is Saoirse Ronan, Sweet Tea and Emma starring "Little Women". The film is not very old, but the outfit in the play always makes me feel like I am in an old bookstore, a quiet but determined and powerful vintage Erya.
Brown red, lime yellow, indigo, oil painting-like colors belong to autumn, and so does the small vest on the heroine Joe.
Screenshot of "Little Women"
I have to say that her vest vest is particularly agile among the sisters wearing corsets and skirts.
When I first watched it, I only thought it looked good, but I later realized that the inappropriate fashion given to her by the director is actually a kind of praise for girls, some perseverance, freedom, casualness, and bone charm.
Screenshot of "Little Women"
In my opinion, Joe is a fresh woman in that historical story. She doesn't like to win her life through marriage, but just wants to write and live her own life.
She chased herself, although she missed love, she also frankly accepted all the consequences of this choice.
It can be said that this is the spiritual strength of her choice of clothes: an irrepressible energy to dare to be the first and live exactly according to her own heart.
Screenshot of "Little Women"
I like to call this rare style a "girly character" hidden inside the vest. I have always felt that Gentlewoman Style is actually not an extension of any gender style, but an alternative original for girls.
Just like Shanghai around the 1910s, the most fashionable women's fashion at that time was to wear a cheongsam and a vest, which broke the original dress rules that girls could only wear tops and skirts, and opened up the aesthetics of girls at that time with a more free and changeable style.
Improvement of women's vests in Shanghai in the 1910s-1940s
The girls can be more thoughtful in dressing, they wear vests "borrowed" from boys, but they have precipitated their own characteristics.
They express themselves by mixing and matching clothes, sometimes dashing, sometimes playful, and it doesn't matter if they are not ladylike.
From this small piece of the vest, women have forged some new modern will, an interesting, free vitality.
Shanghai woman wearing "new clothes" in 1930
But looking back on now, although taking advantage of the retro trend, the vest is popular again, and girls who love to wear shirts on the Internet may be able to become masters of waistcoat wearing, but now too many people only wear boyish imitation tones, taking care of the details of the exquisite appearance, but less more urgent relaxation and frankness.
Like the 2004 Vogue "About a Boy" blockbuster, supermodels are just posing in vests, ties and soft hats, pretending to be pure tomboys, but without a deep soul.
"About a Boy" model: Gisele Bündchen
I have always felt that girls who can wear vests well actually have an independent and conscious demeanor.
Like Kate Moss in the 1990s, she loves to wear vests. In those years, she was ridiculed for being "unaesthetic", and she kept wearing a vest and fighting back against negative comments in the light. The little girl in the camera has a huge and calm beauty with a thin body.
And when it comes to the "gentleman beauty" in the vest, it is also impossible to bypass Diane Keaton.
In 1975, she participated in "Anne Hall", and the black vest vest, white shirt, and a few strands of curly hair under the hat when she first met the male protagonist Ive was too attractive.
Screenshot of "Anne Hall". As soon as they met, Ive said to her, "I like the clothes you wear. ”
Her vest became a popular item in girls' wardrobes during that period, and girls learned to wear vests, of course, not simply to become some kind of "boyish", but to create a "stylist" that belongs to girls, like Diane Keaton.
Later, Sophie, who wore a black vest and white shirt as soon as "K-song Lover" appeared, was naïve and straightforward and insisted on self-determination, I believe that the inspiration also came from "Anne Hall".
On the left is Diane Keaton, and on the right is a still from "K-song Lover"
Diane Keaton, who puts on her own private clothes, is actually Anne in real life, and they are all people who think endlessly about life and aesthetics and insist on themselves.
According to the aesthetic tradition of the screen, she is not even "beautiful", and when she was young, she was criticized as "unfeminine" because she loved to wear vests, suits, fur hats and ties, but she has been cool for so many years and has never been influenced by anyone.
Diane Keaton and Keanu Reeves
She has a frenzy to explore life, and she also has a deep sobriety to see herself after precipitation. Look at her take the award and take it, people love her, it's really not because of what she wears, but she deepens her charm in fashion.
She starred in a movie and catalyzed the single-hand-created "Annie Hall Style" into a fashion benchmark; Although not a beauty of the sexy route, she was named one of the "100 sexiest movie stars in film history" by "Empire" in 1995.
After so many years of debut, she actually did not have any sustainable style to speak of in the early days, and she was not willing to just "Annie", and later played many roles of different styles.
Crazy writers, two-faced personalities... If you want to challenge anything, play it, her charm may be here, it cannot be disciplined, and the vest is just her spontaneous and free bearer.
In her, there is no beauty in sight, only a youthful heart that has endured for a long time.
This cool woman is more interesting when she is old than when she was young
People are middle-aged, or play whatever they should. Her hobbies seem to never end, and even become more and more interesting as she gets older.
Over the years, I heard that between filming, she also held film festivals, made red wine, wrote books, and fell in love with remodeling her residence when she was over seventy, and even learned to be an "architectural apprentice" to design her home in a decent way.
Diane Keaton's autobiography "Then Again" book cover
I really admire her energy and dashing of being true to herself. Her outfit is never laborious in fashion trends and pure beauty displays, but a kind of directness that penetrates the bone marrow, which is actually the same as the "Effortless" promoted by fashionable elves in recent years.
So the retro of the vest is traceable.
Last year, Vogue was still saying, "Will Tiny little vest catch fire again?" This year's catwalk and street have seen cool girls wearing various vests.
The vest vest worn by Kendall Jenner is on fire
To be honest, it's fun to watch cool girls wear vests. Don't look at the single vest looks old-fashioned, when it fits in with different girls, it's a different story.
The gentle girl wearing the vest is a playful romance like a spring breeze; The tough and calm elite girl wears a vest, and it is a lazy, wilderness oxygen at the top of a mountain.
Julia roberts
From the 1970s to around the new millennium, vests were actually everywhere. After the popularity of women's wide-shouldered suits, the most fashionable should be the lightweight, easy-to-wear small vest.
Like Monica, who is full of action in "Friends", she loves to wear vests.
She is the kind of person who has a disobedient nature, and wearing a vest is also crisp and neat, so most of them choose a deep V or square collar style, wear alone or with a white T-shirt, and are full of the cool atmosphere of an urban girl.
Bella's retro look in a brown woolen vest earlier was probably also inspired by Monica. The way she walks casually on the street in leather pants and loose curly hair is really too attractive, full of energy to rejuvenate her career.
At that time, her photos went out on the street, and a large number of netizens who once felt that she could not be ranked as a supermodel shouted "fascinated".
Bella Street photo
Obviously, her coolness does not come from a certain brand of clothing, but only focuses on the silent tension of comfort and personal expression, a sense of steady power.
If you think about it, it's really hard not to love the "girl in the vest".
They are all nuclear beauties, with inner freedom and abundance, so that they always maintain a conceptual awareness of their clothes, and they are never in a hurry to deal with the pressure brought by "seasonal fashion" - no matter what the fashion trend is, they themselves are the "indicators".
In the end, beauty is not just a vest, but a precipitation of cultivation, temperament, talent, girls wearing vests.