During my long stay here in Belgrade, I've noticed a trend that is very prevalent here that I haven't seen people actually wearing in the US. Fashion is an intrinsic part of cultural and I think that street style is more important than what the catwalk dictates (I'm not saying that I don't treat fashion magazines like my bible though...). Check out these
Harem pants and these street style blogs that I love perusing for inspiration!
So, although I have seen harem pants (I like calling them
genie pants, in honor of my friend Sam who first bought them on a trip to Spain) mentioned in my beloved magazine, Belgrade is the first place I have seen real people, and not models on the runway, wearing them. Basically, genie pants have a low, baggy crotch and are usually tighter at the bottom... like
Aladdin! I have seen these pants in floral and paisley patterns at
Zara and
Bershka, but these are very hard to pull if you have a larger
derriere, so proceed with caution. I'm kind of ambivalent about my thoughts on this trend, but that's probably because I can't find a pair that looks flattering on me!
And now for the street style blogs:
I think being a street style photographer would be so much fun because I see people I would love to take photos of but I'm too shy to ask and I don't really have a good excuse for taking their photo besides my own personal style inspiration.
I am finally back home in the USA (!!) and have been browsing through my 10GB of summer photos and ordering prints (yes, my family still does that). I wish I had a real, professional SLR camera rather than a plain digital one (I use a Sony 12 Megapixel Sony Cyber-shot W350)because the photos they take are AMAZING. Yes, SLRs are bulky and you have to actually know a thing or two about photography to use them, but the results are well worth it. Look at how much fun I had last summer when I borrowed my uncle's Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi to use around Seattle's Gas Works Park.
