{"id":7006,"date":"2011-01-31T02:19:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T10:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=7006"},"modified":"2011-01-31T02:19:05","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T10:19:05","slug":"sartorial-coolness-and-nonchalant-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/sartorial-coolness-and-nonchalant-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"Sartorial Coolness and Nonchalant Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve had an epiphany and here it is: I don’t want to know about anyone’s personal style!<\/p>\n

After reading about Andrea Linett<\/strong>, a nice woman who looks like Sarah Jessica Parker, at stylelikeu.com<\/a>, I find the whole Look-at-My-Wardrobe craze to be WAY too much information. It’s all so embarrassing.<\/p>\n

People seem to be hopelessly enamored of their own specialness. I hate the word “enamored” but I’m using it to get in the mood. I think the awful prose of the stylikeu wordsmith is rubbing off on me!<\/p>\n

Try this: “Among the voluminous amount of people that inspire Andrea is …”
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Are you happy with the usage of “voluminous?” Me neither! It just gets worse until you want to stab yourself or puncture your eardrums.<\/p>\n

Here’s what Andrea says of her boots:<\/p>\n

“Somebody said, \u2018I love your go-go boots,\u2019 but they\u2019re not go-go boots. They\u2019re almost like Victorian sneakers or crazy old ice-skates without the blade. I love them.\u201d <\/strong><\/div>\n

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She reveals that her style muse has always been Bob Dylan, and she checks her style choices by asking herself, “Would Bob wear this?” \u00a0 I guess Bob approved the go-go boots, and I wouldn’t want to second guess him. Then there’s some crap about Kurt Cobain’s Iconic Sweater and the gushing appreciation of Ms. Linett ends with…<\/p>\n

“The sweater is as much a reflection of her taste for edgy classics, as it is for her sartorial coolness and nonchalant grace. In her layers of patchouli and turquoise, Andrea has a gift for choosing the consumate creative influences, but she is one herself.”<\/strong><\/div>\n

Oh god. It’s not all Andrea’s fault but she has to take some of the blame.<\/p>\n

**As an antidote to this terrible journalism, let me introduce someone who can really write: \u00a0 Leigh Alexander<\/strong><\/a>, who was brought to my attention by Lauren<\/strong><\/a>, a blogger with some fascinatingly diverse interests.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve had an epiphany and here it is: I don’t want to know about anyone’s personal style! After reading about Andrea Linett, a nice woman who looks like Sarah Jessica Parker, at stylelikeu.com, I find the whole Look-at-My-Wardrobe craze to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2,7,6],"tags":[433,1100,119],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-1P0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}