Just the One Earring

I have always wanted to be a Trendsetter. 

Or at least I've always Thought that I wanted to be one. But I was wrong. 

There's nothing trendsetting about me at all. I'm sure you've got to have a Gene for it. And I don't have it.  

Which isn't to say that I'm a Slavish Follower of Trends.  I only follow trends if they fit into a set of Fashion Rules that I have been almost Unconsciously Following over Many Decades.

For example, Footless Tights. As soon as they became fashionable again, I began wearing them. And I may continue to wear them for the next thirty years. 

I remember when they were a trend  in the eighties. Back then, I wore them with Big Sloppy Joes aeronautically engineered with enormous shoulder pads that gave the appearance of a Bar Fridge or perhaps a Gorilla. I often wore the Sloppy Joes with a large diamante safety pin. And I'd like to think I also wore Just the One Earring.

Which leads me into the Subject of Today's Post. What a clever segue.

This morning, one of my students presented the above item to me, torn out of a mag called 'Shop Till You Drop'. I was touched.

I also loved that it was a French Couture House that embraced what I like to think is My Trend. 

But I hardly consider myself a 'Brave Fashionista' for wheeling myself out in public with Just One Earring. In my books, Brave would be wearing a Joan of Arc style suit of armour complete with Flag, or wearing a large hat that was really a birdcage with a real bird inside it. Or even a stuffed bird.

 That's the sort of outfit that  Poor Dead Trendsetter Isabella Blow wore & look where that got her?

Coincidentally I wore Just One Earring Today. I couldn't believe the Synchronicity, or was it, Serendipity of it all? 

Anyway, I made it myself.