우리 “길거리 스타일” 컬럼은 개인의 패션 선택만 벤치마킹 하는 것이아니라, 차라리 대표적인 길거리에서 보일 수 있는 패션 장르를 잡으려고 해요.
“Street Styles” tracks not just individual fashion choices, but tries to capture real Korean fashion that is representative of types of fashion genres visible on the streets of Seoul.
와우. 어제 아리랑방송이 날 인터뷰한 날인데 우리 사이트를 위해 사진을 찍는 모습을 보고 싶었다고 했거든요. 근데 연기하는 건 너무 어색해서 진짜로 길거리에서 누구를 잡아가지고 찍는 모습을 어때냐고 물었더니 조았대요. 눈에 띄 이 특이한 원피스를 입은 여자가 나타났기 때문에 딱 좋았어요. 진짜 샤스같은데 사실 원피스이고 밑에는 요즘에 유행하는 프릴도 있었네요.
Yesterday, Arirang TV was interviewing me about my blogging and wanted to get a shot of me in action in the streets. Since I’m not an actor, I decided that rather than cheesily faking like I was taking pictures, perhaps it would be best to simply grab someone like I normally do and snap away? And how lucky I was to spy this young lady with this really interesting dress that looks almost like a shirt, but with frills at the bottom.
그리고 이번 여름의 많이 인기 있는 ‘글래디에이터’샌들도 신고 있었기 때문에 딱 좋았네요. 아 — 그 음악이 생각을 난다…
She was also wearing the “gladiator”-style sandals that were ever so popular this summer. I can hear the strains of the music now…
여기는 또 다른 글레디에이터 스타일 생들이다. 비번 여름에 이런 비슷한 로마스타일 샌들들이 아주 인기 많았죠.
Here are some more Gladiator-style sandals. These and similar Roman-style sandals were quite popular this summer.
그리고 대단한 하이힐 글래디에이터 스타일이다. T-스트랩, 가죽식, 그리고 그런 글래디에이터식으로 만든 끈 — 진짜 특이한 수구죠?
Now, here are some really smoking Gladiator-style heels, which mixes the popular t-strap, leather style, and romanesque straps — she’s ready for fashion battle.
그래서 이 친구는 진짜 귀여운 거죠? 귀여운 발이랑 어울리는 거잖아요. 그래서 요즘에는 진짜 페디큐어를 잘 관리해야 하죠. 요즘에 발노출 많이 하니까. 진짜 글래디에이터 발이면 안되잖아요!
So, our friend’s sandals are pretty cute, no? They go well with a similarly cute pair of feet. You wanna have all your pedicure appointments set up for the Korean summers. Unless you REALLY want your feet to resemble those of a gladiator!
귀여워라! / Cute!
그리고 가방도 매력적이고 격자무늬 원피스이랑 진짜 어울리는 거네요.
I also really dug her little satchel purse and the plaid.
이 사진을 보면 좀 전 글에 나온 사진을 생각난다. 건셉은 비슷하죠?
The look reminds me of this, from a previous post. Similar concept, huh?
웬지 찍었던 사진들 중에 계속 나오는 패턴이네요.
I don’t know why I keep seeing this pop up in my pictures again and again.
휴! 일단 우리 길거리에서 만난 이 글래디에터를 감사해야 하죠. 갑자기 확 사방에서 찍고 막 질문을 묻는 사람들이 나타나고 부끄럽게 했는데 끝까지 화이팅했네요! 잘했다! 그녀에계 ‘힘과 명예를 위해!’
Wow. In any case, we’d like to thank our inpromptu model for sticking it out to the end, like a good sport and true gladiator! To her, goes “Strength and honor!”
Yeah, still hate the gladiator sandal. It stumpifies everyone’s legs and reminds me of sandals my mother forced me to wear as a little kid. Trend is not always right. You know like might does not mean mean right
Which just goes to show that Korean dressers aren’t so concerned about their shorts legs because if they were, they would one and all reject gladiator sandals AND leggings. I think they should just except the stumpy. I mean I have. Sort of
gladiator sandals themselves aren’t bad, it’s just the specific ones. I agree they look shitty with leggings on short-legged girls, but you can’t go off wishing for people to change their bodies either…
Just another case of certain trends being latched onto and choked to death in Korea… If things didn’t have to all go one way for everyone, then I’m sure trends would have a bit more longevity as well. Gladiator sandals have a couple honest years in them, but they will be dead in Korea by the end of this summer, because of how ugly the last incarnations will get. Watch Korean girls murder all that is good about those Margiela open-toe sandal boots next year.
Oh, I hope not, about the open-toed boots.
I’ve already seen them here, and have been hoping they’d kind of pass without tipping over into the mainstream. So, I will predict that they won’t. Still, I know, half of that is hope, more than prediction. We must hold onto hope somehow, right?
So — it won’t happen!
Let’s hope I’m right.
Well, I like open toe sandal boots, and especially the Margiela S/S08 ones (both ankle and thigh-high versions), but the problem that we’re facing here is that as fashion trickles down, it just becomes cheap and availability to the masses makes it look tacky because the masses make it tacky.
Inherently, there is no reason for why, 10 foot away from a camera lens, some things look cheap and some things look nice, but in the end it somehow works out that way, right? It’s just nature of clothing companies trying to be a certain style without copying them directly, which leads to some pretty cruddy results and finishings sometimes.
I also wanted to say I really like gladiator sandals on men, it was a novel look on the Raf Simons S/S 07 and 08 runways, but alas that is just another thing with the potential to go terribly wrong in the wrong hands.
I don’t want Korean women to change their body types at all! That would be a little too much uh self-hating even for a professional hata such as myself. It’s okay for people to look short, because I myself am fairly short, but Koreans are the ones that are obsessing over their height and their lines. I have yet to PS myself so that my legs look longer in my photos. So you know, it’s the war between trendiness and creating the sort of illusion you purportedly want, that’s the point I was trying to make.
Shoes and I have a love hate relationship anyway. Gladiator shoes are also often cut for a particular foot shape, long and lean, unlike hooves like mine–short and wide feet. I just think it’s a v. unforgiving look. So I tend to go for more classic silhouettes in shoes because of that.
Avant garde things like open toe boots rub me the wrong way, because they really only tend to work if you get the originals, not the knock offs, and they really don’t last for more than a season. Who has tens of thousands of dollars to pay for a pair of shoes that will only last a few months, if you’re lucky? Knock offs can be fun but how do you knock off an open toe sandal boot? And I could see those shoes becoming mainstream,
I think this is why I will never be a fashionista, even if I am interested in fashion. I suppose this is why fashion is art for people. But I think my practical tendencies are showing, alas.
they dress so much like the women in the US
I too am not a tall Korean guy, and have been blessed with short (though not thick) legs. It’s all I have, but I too veer away from cropped pants and highwaters (even though I really want to wear some) and stick with long 34″-36″ inseam jeans that stack up and give me visual height. I’m gonna give long super-tapered trousers a good workout this fall, as well, a la Lanvin.
And Jae Young, you are right, you do have to buy the originals oft times, to get the ‘look’ going, as is the case with those Margiela thigh-high open toe sandals. You know what the solution to funding those kinds of interests is, though? Designer resale. I think with ‘pieces’ that are iconic though, they have an enduring quality that makes them cool to wear for quite awhile, even longer than they will last. Prada S/S 03 is a collection not really that iconic or remembered, but it actually was pretty novel and I still see lots of it’s influences on the street even today. That whole ‘futurism’ buzzword that brought about silver everything and futuristic gladiators and zoris, super short shorts and oversized tops and jumpers, that was all in Prada SS 03. All of that would have stayed pretty relevant even until this summer, and maybe even into next, on the streets.
are the checkered button shirts the trend in korea now or what? lol u captured so many of them in ur photos.. while i thought the checkers should be gone by now
oh btw gladiators are everywhere in my country now that i thought i’ve grown sick of them.. at least there are people wearing variations of gladiators somewhere else but girls in my country seems to be wearing all the same gladiator shoes – scary >.<
i saw the gladiator shoes once go with long skirts – imagine how horrified i was
I was just in Singapore and saw some people wearing the original gladiators. I prefer the ones with gladiator styling like my black heels I bought in Apgu on Rodeo. The “originals” aren’t too cute. But they still beat those ugly Crocs.
@lovelyprincess, the era where people worshipped the Crocs have JUST passed.. count urself lucky you don have to take that lol..
the crocs were everywhere on the streets then.. :/
I think it’s funny how here in Korea it’s mostly the kids wearing those things. The only adults I’ve seen wearing those things are westerners. Not me, though. My Mom hates those things, too.
Leggins and flat gladiator sandals are a most unfortunate combination. I don’t care how tall and thin you are, it’s just about the most unflattering combination I can think of. Wear one of those two items if you must (though, personally, I’d never touch either), but both of them together is like you WANT your legs to look as unappealing as possible.
Having said that, heeled gladiator-styled shoes are fine and something I’d actually wear.
Heeled gladiator boots? That there be ajuma territory! – along with all those various see-through lace and other crazy boot materials.
And dude, what’s wrong with crocs?!? LONG LIVE THE CROC!
From reading the comments I feel like I am the only one who loves these shoes lol. I even own a pair of knee high gladiators like the ones Mary-Kate has and a couple of other ones in different styles. And thankfully, the part of California that I am from these shoes aren’t rocked that often.
Yes, I’d agree that heeled gladiator boots are getting into ajumma territory.
i wish i was taller so i’d actually look good in gladiator shoes. i always try them on though when i see a pair…hoping i’m going to look better in them. hahaha. too bad that didn’t work out….^~^
anyways, congrats michael on your arirang appearence. i’ll check it out when i have a little more time.
Ok, Ive been looking at this site for awhile, its interesting, a bit funny and as an expat living in the Philippines, in an area with a huge number of Koreans ( I lived in Seoul for 5 years ) I see many of the fashion trends the Korean women bring here. LOve the short shorts and heels, the local women here are also pretty with great legs, but they tend to go for the sandle look…great for us feet afficionados, but the Korean women just look so much more feminine, in fact here its the local women that have a clunky walk in heels, the Korean women do it a lot better! anyway just an opinion from afar, I guess I jumped in now, so I will be adding thoughts..who knows, I may have to get pics here to add of fashion trends Koreans take with them !