If you read this blog (and care about finding a prom dress), you’ve learned that in Toronto you can go to the Make Den and make your own prom dress, scour vintage shops for stylish options, or even pick up a cheap (inexpensive) dress at the mall.

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Sometimes you go to a party and everyone actually made an effort to be fashionable and/or stylish…these gorgeous gals make style simple (shorts, tanks, high heels) – yet managed to stand out effortlessly in a crowd.

photo: Pink Cobra (exclusive womens line of Carte Blanche & the other half of Cult de Laissez Faire – the new mens line at Carte Blanche)

Much Love and Kudos to the FDCC – Toronto’s Fashion Week Organizers, however,

The big news this fashion season in Toronto is that:

1. a handful of talented, functional Canadian fashion designers chose to show their fall collections off-site and before the scheduled Toronto’s LG Fashion Week (Philip Sparks, Greta Constantine, Evan Biddell, Nada, etc…).

2. Robin Kay and her slew of feisty volunteers at the FDCC, the small group that organizes LG Fashion Week, had many location issues, but eventually secured a new fashion week landing spot at the Allstream Centre – which naturally is criticized.

3. LG Fashion Week has become a fashion circus (which I think we sometimes like). It is not only held after the fashion buying season, but is increasingly becoming a platform for general public fashion junkies – which makes local media feeling unhappily squished and claustrophobic.

On this rainy Monday – a little pessimism:

1. Why We Didn’t Go To Toronto Fashion Week, Courduroy Magazine
http://www.corduroymag.com/fashion/why-we-didnt-go-to-toronto-fashion-week

2. Fold The Tents, Eye Magazine
http://www.eyeweekly.com/blog/post/86967

3. Toronto’s Fashion Week Needs to Work It, Amy Verner, Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amy-verner/torontos-fashion-week-nee_b_522486.html

i was thinking, if they were handing out Canadian beer to everyone in the audience, that would actually be hilarious – and the international media would say, ‘canadians drink beer at fashion shows’ (but only if it was cdn brew)…

however, Peroni (italian beer) is the official sponsor, so everyone – and I mean all like 1700 people, got a beer mid-David Dixon at fashion week yesterday. so i guess, yes Canadians drink beer at fashion shows. kinda fun.

Ok, ‘gaudy’ is pushing it a little – but eyeglasses are now much more conspicuous than ever! In the 70s they were just huge, the 80s made new wave eye fashion acceptable and then for the next 15 years, we used wire and frameless frames to make our eyeglasses disappear on our faces.

The cool kids have been bringing back the trend for almost 2 years, but now big, colorful, plastic glasses are even more popular – but of course hundreds more expensive!

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