He Said, She Said: Accessories

Here are our girls: Angelina Jolie (who's gorgeous, but definitely not my type) and Kate Beckinsale (holy fucking shit so hot!).


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Both lovely ladies are wearing equally lovely black tailored coats and sleek leather boots. Yet, somehow, they appear different. They are both pretty alright. But somehow Angelina looks a bit more laid back and elegant whilst my girl Kate looks just smoking H-O-T. Well, let me break it down for you: the difference is in the accessories. Angelina is wearing nothing but a very delicate understated necklace, while Kate has gone all out, wearing huge gold hoops (which I LOVE)and dark oversized glasses. She completes the outfit with a loud big-buckle belt. The point I am trying to make is (hopefully) obvious: accessories can transform a relatively plain look into a spectacular one. And vice versa. They can destroy a perfectly respectable selection of individual clothing items and turn it into one big accessorized mess. They tie things together, they make individual pieces form a whole. They set the tone of the statement you are trying to make through your selection of clothing. Oh! And please, please, please think twice before you tell me you don't think you're making a statement with the clothes you wear every day!

Also, accessories are not necessary the way clothing items are. You do not need to wear earrings, scarves, or belts the same way you are required to wear clothes. Wearing clothes is not optional. Accessorizing is. It is an add-on, it is something extra. Thus, accessories give away a lot more about the person wearing them than any other individual clothing item does. They convey more about the choices that an individual makes and, most specifically, how willing they are to draw attention to themselves and what type of attention they would want that to be. Think of all the shy women that you know. Does any single one of them wear large earrings? What about all the men in your life who like to wear brightly colored ties? Are any of them shy?

Finally, I think that accessories reveal the level of detail at which an individual operates. I have no empirical evidence in which to ground this, but I'm willing to bet that the number of accessories a person wears is a significant predictor of the extent to which their job requires them to be detail-oriented. Or something like that. Some people simply can't be bothered with details. They see big pictures, they make plans, they focus on strategy. Others, on the other hand, think micro. They know that the devil is in the details and that even the grandest project depends on the success of the smallest components. Those people accessorize.

If the devil's in the details, accessorizing is playing with the devil.

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Peio on accessories. In Bulgarian.