Mental Health and Fashion opinions with Quincy

This is going to be my final post for this blog! I very much enjoyed speaking with you about the topics I had written about previously. This week I wanted to write an appreciation post about some of my favorite people who have influenced me in some of the things I wear. The first type of style I wanted to talk about is Tyler The Creator’s style. Known for having cropped pants, colorful designs on his shirts, or his nails, platform loafers, and the unique hats and trunks he incorporates. Tyler has been a big inspiration to me because he wears what he wants, and he doesn’t care what other people wear. His style is unique and has influenced many other people to wear certain things that they may not have worn before. Another big influence for me is Lil Yachty. His style in my opinion is oversized clothes, sometimes vintage preppy look with Ralph Lauren Or Tommy Hilfiger. He mixes different types of shoes like boots, sneakers, designer trainers. His style is very broad due to his exte

Mary Quant was known for her many fashion revolutionary looks in the 1960’s. She is known for her short skirts, tights, a jersey dress and even trousers. She set a path for women to be able to wear more than just long droopy skirts. What I would like to talk about is the revolutionary design for trousers. Trousers were seen as a masculine garment in many cultures. There were even rules for women to not be able to cross dress. Mary Quant opened a store in 1955 that featured trouser, female students and females of the outskirts of fashion were some of the people who were buying them. Although most women wore them in private, Mary Quant was determined to test the already made gender established norms by creating trousers to be worn for almost anything. Trousers were an easy alternative for women who didn’t want to wear shorter skirts. Some of the trousers she made then still have an impact on the fashion industry today. Bell bottoms, wide legged pants, flared trousers, and even pant

If you don’t already know what Post Consumerism waste materials are I will give you a brief explanation. Post consumerism waste materials is any type of garment that the consumer may not want anymore because of it being worn out, it being damaged, or it going out of fashion. Then that product that is unwanted would get recycled and get used for a different item. A brand that is known for using recycled materials is a spanish brand named Ecolaf. The brand's intention was to create a sustainable brand as a result of not having a large market for 100% recycled materials. An example of a product that is made from recycled materials would be their Aneto jacket. It is made out of recycled polyester from used plastic bottles, and Sorona which is a biopolymer that is made from corn production residue. Another product is their Bas Bucket Hat. The product is made from 100% organic cotton which is grown without the pesticides and all the negative things that could impact our environment. I

Hello, it is Quincy again. Today I wanted to talk about brand names that are known as offensive or insulting and brand names that are inclusive. Brand names are very important, and when you are choosing your brand name you should account for other people because you never want to offend anybody. The brand I am going to be talking about is a vegan blog that produces vegan cookbooks called “Thug kitchen”. You may be asking, “how is thug kitchen offensive?” The word thug has been basically assigned to black people over the years. It dehumanizes somebody, and being called anything based on your skin color doesn’t make anybody feel good. The blog started in 2012, which shared content written in AAVE ( African-American Vernacular English) and often included rap lyrics by popular black artists. In 2014 the blog released their first cookbook which led to the world finding out the owners of the blog. Being both white, the brand got a lot of backlash for appropriating black culture, and digit