Bad Taste is better than no taste.

This season has many facets some good, some not to my taste.  However, the question are they in bad taste is mute because although they are not my particular fashion style does not make them wrong for someone else.  The really sticky area comes when you bemoan someone's bad taste, when they adopt a new fashion early and then six months later hope no one minds that you are strolling out in a remarkably similar outfit, now that you've been told by enough magazines that it is Fashionable.  A similar thing happened to me when I first saw skinny jeans, I recognised their merit for my friends and customers but they just weren't ever going to be for me.  WRONG!!  Yes it helped that I lost some size and I never wear them as anything other than an accessory, I'm not built for the spray on jeans, short top look (but then so few people over the age of 15 are).  Although I do wear them and quite a lot, with the knee high trend of last season, it was verging on off duty uniform, because they are just so comfy when you get the right ones and lets be honest a short trip to stylish without having to think too hard!  I love not having to think too hard, it makes my head hurt.

This season, I've been suffering with a number of raised eyebrows from clients as I introduce them to the large prints and bright colours that are the backbone of SS12 and it's true thanks to my sparkling personality and persuasive nature things have gone my way but I'd rather people just decided to leave a few of their preconceptions at the door.  If the Clash Trend taught us nothing it should be that the rules have changed, all those old adages, like "Pink and green, should never be seen" are gone.  Fashion, fabric and women have moved on.  So on the subject of taste the only difference between good and bad is preference and mine will never matter more than yours.

By making  a choice you are showing that you care enough to try, rather than just hoping no-one notices you are still wearing the same clothes you have always worn, just possibly a newer version of the same.  The problem with finding a style and sticking to it religiously is that you evolve and your clothes must too, otherwise your style just becomes a rut that you can't escape from.