THE NEW CLASSICS

by ene ijato - January 15, 2017

On young thieves or not who make a habit of raiding through the wardrobes of lovely grown-ups with hoarding inclinations

Its 2am on a Monday morning I’m in bed, my grandma glasses resting on the bridge of my nose and my computer staring brightly at me as I write this hurriedly yet seriously devoting post because I’m trying to keep you guys happy.

Admittedly one post per week isn’t really as daunting (I’m trying to rectify this) but there’s a lot of business going on in the art of procrastination and I buy into it more times than I’d like.

The whole concept of this post and photo was created from these shoes. Believe it or not they were my mothers’ and as fashion has in recent times adopted retro as a niche I therefore could not think of a better way to indulge this than to ransack my parents wardrobe (and believe me I’ll be writing about what I found in my dads’ soon, keep your mind open for an Elvis Presley/Jackson Five/Disco costume. Good thing I have the fro to match!)

Crop trousers, a pretty coat, satin necktie and a horizontal pleat dress completed this look for me and dare I not forget the safety pins I wore as earrings that got my mother and my friend Sarah wondering about my sanity and if you’re wondering too, I mean I’ve pretty much established how much of a weirdo I am by now. (and don’t they just look freaking gorgeous yeah?)

The classics are things that will still look good years from now, innovative and creative ideas, styles and pieces. The new classics are the reinvention of the classics at a time or moment like now. We are the new classics, we who are daring and not afraid to be a little crazy every now and then. We who take strides when others tiptoe around the issue, we who are bold.

So perhaps all I’m doing now is nothing short of rambling and maybe I can hold to account that it is the fault of the ridiculous amount of caffeine in my system or the insane number of calculus problems I have battled in one night like a firewoman due to the evil in my head –procrastination. But I like to believe you will pick out a few coherent statements from this “massive” junk of words I have unloaded and you will go out into the world raiding the wardrobes of your mother, father, great aunt, second cousin twice removed, uncles etcetera and make of yourselves a new classic with whatever ~~moth-ridden junk~~ you happen to find.

Consistently I’ve had to pull an all-nighter to keep up with the pressures of the so-called hustle. Feel free to throw Uni in the heart of the mix. These eye bags don’t lie to nobody! (Although they’ve been pretty much living on my face longer than I can remember)

Happy Raiding loves! And don’t forget to sleep… I’m serious.

Nylon coat - Message

Horizontal pleat dress – Bamboo

Crop trousers - Ejato

Editing // Ene Ijato

Shot with a Canon 1100D (I have received questions)

Tags : Style

10 comments

Unknown15 January 2017 at 20:57
Best One Yet!!!!
👍👍👍
Honestly, I enjoyed this
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Unknown16 January 2017 at 00:57
This post has more direction than the last I think, rehashing forgotten style is definitely worth a try, but I doubt I'd fit in vintage overly broad suits or pants...but I guess some day.
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styles16 January 2017 at 06:48
Very well done dear
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Unknown16 January 2017 at 08:33
From the topic,to the write up & right down to the pictures, All I could say was 'WOW'. Goodnews was right;This is the best one yet.👍 #Perfection-At-It's-Best
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Olamide19 January 2017 at 15:14
Another lovely piece.
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