#10 Elaine's blazers
Hello! Hope your week is going well. Mine was long and difficult. I'm dealing with arduous administration work that has left me exhausted and a little sad actually. I’ve also been ignoring some important things I'm supposed to do lately by re-watching old shows and obsessing over completely useless things.
I've been thinking about Elaine Benes' beige toned oversized blazers a lot lately that she often wears in the first few seasons of Seinfeld. I'm pretty sure now that fashion is much more democratic, her style sense is considered to be much more cooler than it was until the early 2000s (that time when we wore low waist jeans that no one should ever wear again because they're just so goddamn uncomfortable).
The big hair, the consistent dangly earrings, large blazers and weird loose pair of pants is my favourite outfit recipe right now. But since I have nowhere to go I only think about it.
I saw a video of Julia Louis-Dreyfus going through her looks over the years where she says that her outfits in Seinfeld were au courant for the 90s but advices people to not wear them again.
In another one she wears a fringed brown suede jacket (supposedly Ralph Lauren from her own wardrobe) with a graphic vintage t-shirt and weird round sunglasses. Unsurprisingly, none of the older styles seem unfashionable now. Vintage is bigger than ever; thrifting, up-cycling, mixing trends that traverse multiple decades is completely normal now. Say yes to velvet, yes to large shoulder pads, yes to pants in which your navel gets lost.
In another one, she wears a doily shirt buttoned to the top with an oversized jacket and (not a Mom jeans) a dark dad jeans with it. This one is definitely my favourite, so current, so cool.
I watched a speech like thing of Seinfeld saying that her character was not really planned and was an afterthought. This isn’t so shocking because who could think of a woman being funny in the 90s and getting as much attention as the other men do on the screen? What I think makes her stand out even now is that her character is loud, often angry and expressive; funny, articulate and has ugly dance moves; someone who wore ill-fitted clothes while somehow still keeping her ‘classic’ femininity which I guess was required for the audience back then. Her slight physical presence is contradicted by big hair, big clothes and her big personality.
I'm not going to get into the furniture and utensils (I want this kettle) from Jerry's house and Kramer's shirts (can I call them Hawaiian shirts?). I know I’m not saying anything new, but I think of all four characters’ clothes often. Somehow they seem so timeless, and the great thing is I can find them in my parents’ closets.
Anyway, here's a drawing of some disparate orange flowers and a lot of colour purple for you. Have a fun week! I miss you!
