{"id":1872,"date":"2011-07-10T20:48:17","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T19:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlottastermaria.fr\/blog\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2018-05-26T21:55:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T19:55:23","slug":"toward-a-better-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carlotta.land\/index.php\/2011\/07\/10\/toward-a-better-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"Toward a better balance"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The day when we’re all as elegant as a drawing by Gruau, well, will be a great day for fashion indeed…<\/p>\n

This week and the week before, I shopped a few items on sales. It’s a rather non-remarkable fact, but what’s more remarkable is that I didn’t purchase anything but a pair of shoes and a bunch of Petit Bateau tees (I had found them for less than \u20ac2) between the current sales and the ones before them.<\/p>\n

That was unpremeditated : I didn’t take a wardrobe refashion pledge or anything ; still, I’m rather proud of myself, considering the fact it’s a rather new experience for me. Even if I’m not the shopaholic I suspected myself to be a few years ago, I’m nevertheless a very contemporary girl : always happy to get new clothes, and never satisfied with what she already has. So why did my consumption slow down during these last months?<\/p>\n

I think taking sewing more and more seriously, even if I’m far from considering myself a good seamstress, has undubitably something to do with it. As I noticed it after the Made in France trade show<\/a>, I’ve grown more and more critical about the things I find in high-street stores. A gapping pair of trousers, a poorly finished shirt, an item that isn’t made of 100% something, and I leave the garment on the shelf. Even if it seems perfect, I always have the feeling that it shouldn’t be sold at this price<\/a> (I don’t think I purchased a garment at 100% of its original price for a very long time). There are also not-so-positive reasons : shopping as a leisure activity is making me feel less an less at ease. It might be hypocritical from someone dedicating her blog to style in general (after all, I beneficiated a lot from fast fashion), but over-consumption sickens me just as much as I find it worrying, since, as Zoe describes it in this excellent post<\/a>, it has become an essential part of our economy.<\/p>\n

I know we’re far from the Carlotta version of fashion & style wonderland, where H&M salesgirls are now local seamstresses, and where their customers own fewer, but much better garments in terms of quality, elegance and fit. Yet, at a very individual scale, I can’t help but to consider my “unpremeditated abstinence” as a good sign…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The day when we’re all as elegant as a drawing by Gruau, well, will be a great day for fashion indeed… This week and the week before, I shopped a few items on sales. It’s a rather non-remarkable fact, but what’s more remarkable is that I didn’t purchase anything but a pair of shoes andContinue reading “Toward a better balance”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[86,126,279],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlotta.land\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlotta.land\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlotta.land\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlotta.land\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlotta.land\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carlotta.land\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2294,"href":"https:\/\/carlotta.land\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions\/2294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlotta.land\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlotta.land\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlotta.land\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}