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San Francisco women finally gain style
I grew up in San Jose and couldn't wait to get out. As soon as I could, I left and went everywhere else - Boston; New York; Cape Town,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], South Africa; London - and I'm just returning from a yearlong fellowship in Berlin. The Bay Area keeps pulling me back,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and every time I return, there's always some small change that leaves me wondering what happened.
Like fashion. While I was gone, women in San Francisco learned how to dress.
Not men - the situation there is still dire.
But women in San Francisco have long gotten a bad rap about the way they dress, and they just don't deserve it anymore. A year ago,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the romance novelist Danielle Steel told the : "There's no style (in San Francisco), nobody dresses up - you can't be chic there. It's all shorts and hiking boots and Tevas - it's as if everyone is dressed to go on a camping trip."
Locals were outraged,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but Steel was right. Sloppiness, not sleekness,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], ruled the day for far too many years: For most of the '90s and the '00s the daily style composition of San Francisco was Ode to Fleece.
Disappointing 'events'Our "events,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," outside of the seasonal music and dance galas, never felt eventful, because even those in a state of dishevelment could attend. Our prized restaurants and performance spaces rarely offered patrons the chance to experience a grand occasion, not when our fellow diners and patrons were clad in North Face and Nike. To my recent memory, this sartorial disaster was equal opportunity.
I left,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. A year passed.
Now on the streets I see women wearing dresses,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], blazers, heels, trench coats. There are accessories,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and they're not even ironic - flattering sunglasses, bright belts,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], clutch handbags. Some women have always dressed well in the Union Square area, but now they've ventured further afield, into SoMa, Potrero Hill and Glen Park. We're not New York, but there's been a shift in the order of things, an acknowledgment that grooming and age-appropriate fashion are standards for which to strive.
People in this city - in many cities - contend that such things don't matter. They offer the argument that has strangled American style for decades,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], that has led to the horrifying sight of flip-flops at school graduations and shorts at church weddings - that what matters is being "comfortable," that they "don't need to wear fancy clothes" for work or play or to be productive citizens.
Convincing the menMen in San Francisco still buy this argument. They still wear the same tragic sports gear and hipster flannel,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], still dress as if the only activities they ever do are weekend warrioring or ordering in pizza for their startups. Many of them are recent arrivals - from places like San Jose - so I believe that there's still time for them to change their ways.
And change their ways they must, for the same reason they moved here: because San Francisco is supposed to be an actual city,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], with the things that actual cities have: taxicabs,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], good restaurants, public transportation, nightlife,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], interesting people, and the air of possibility and promise that comes with all those things.
Nothing embodies that sense of possibility more than the sight of our fellow citizens on the street. When they look good, all of the sacrifices we make to live in a city seem worthwhile. When people present themselves in a challenging and exciting way,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], they create the sense that a city is still a place of stories and excitement,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], still a place where dreams can come true and greatness can flourish.
If the people around you look like they have stories to tell and a cultural proposition to make,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], you feel excited to be part of it. If we're not getting that daily charge from our immediate surroundings, then all we have left are our cramped apartments,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], our frustrating transit system,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], our dirty streets and our price premiums for every basic service.
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