Hello my dear readership,
transparency, the summer-trend is a big topic in the world of fashion. Check out how one style-variety and dive deeper into the topic in the following.
..and then the knot breaks.
A very precious friend of mine recently said something very insightful: “Let go of people no good for you”. Even if they seem to be your closest friends, even if it feels hard to let go and therefore you would not like to. In the end these people with whom you try to keep a relationship alive for the wrong reasons are toxic for you. “Trust me, do it and you will feel better.”, she ended her speech. She was talking out of her very own experience sharing it with me as I started to finally burst out in emotions telling her what was going on around me and the personal crisis I was going through that time. She, by the way, was not the only one who mentioned something like this. What seems to feel right does not necessarily need to mean that it is also good for you.
I followed her advice – at least to a certain degree. You do not necessarily need to choose the radical way immediately. Remember to give chances, share your point and give it some time to possibly recover. So after proper thinking I finally made the decision to finally let it out and tell longterm friends of our family directly our position and state of being – remember! You may have your fights but do not act as if the others would not have feelings or struggles in their life. As a first step I downgraded our friendship – there had been pros and contras, consideration, but also comparisons, even if people legitly say that you should not make comparisons. It sometimes is not so bad to go out of the rule. I am now keeping our friendship on a low-profile. No expectations, no more giving. Of course I gave them a “warning” on this step so they know.
Now I can tell you that this step never felt so freeing and so right. Especially seeing how they are dealing with it (not reacting anyhow any longer not even to the lowest) I feel even more confirmed to downgrade. We have reached a point where it could not be lower from their side and poor arguments were put in between to keep it low. Finally we ended up wondering “if you cannot even call them at your worst (or even your best) what for do we actually keep them and keep putting effort?” especially if you take the least of the less that has remained. What is going to be left…? And with such a behavior no one should be surprised if we would be going to end it completely.
Sometimes you have to let go, downgrade or keep the relationship low-profile to protect yourself most.
Trend: Transparency
Transparency is an ongoing heavily discussed topic even among the highest editorial offices of established fashion magazines who are trying to provide styling-advices around the latest fashion trends. While first you had the “visible-bra”-look as first step of self-determination which I caught up last year here even without transparency we are now even facing the “no-pants”-look. If you ask me the Estonian songstress Lenna Kuurmaa and the US-American actress and producer Nicola Peltz-Beckham are putting this trend pretty good into practice. But in a world with conservative world-views and structured and women facing constant sexual harassment even only from their lipstick transparency is being made almost impossible to be worn at work as well as in your free-time therefore transparency is a hard as well as an important topic. From these two women (39 and 29) show that age as well as status are no obstacle to wear this trend. My variant provides an office-look leaning on the Japanese style.
My Look in Details
- Turtleneck by Ted Baker
- Faux leather-leggings by H&M
- Boots by Bronx
- Watch by s.Oliver
- Lipstick by NYX Professional Make-Up
Love, Johanna
Strengthen Your Spirit 