Re-Post: The Joneses

A couple of days ago LadyBowTie celebrated her 1st birthday.  In celebration, I wanted to re-post a bunch of my favorites from this last year for my new readers to enjoy and so you could reminisce with me.~Cori

The Joneses

I just watched this movie, The Joneses, and I thought, Wow! this is perfect for LadyBowTie.  The idea for this movie is, this perfect family, Dad – David Duchovny, Mom – Demi Moore with their two gorgeous teenagers move into a new town.  They have the greatest house on the block, the newest cars, the hottest wardrobes, the latest gadgets and it is all completely fake.  They are not a real family and these aren’t their real things. They are a cast of characters hired by a marketing company and implanted into the perfect demographic neighborhood in order to sell their products.  All of their clothes, make-up and products are all picked out for them by the marketing company.  They pretend to be the family that “has everything,” and entice their neighbors and schoolmates with their wares and it works. Until one poor guy and his wife are sucked into this fake family’s perfect image. He goes nuts and he buys everything, hides it from his wife, his house goes into foreclosure and he commits suicide from all the debt he incurred trying to buy his way into his version of a happy life.  I know, I know, I just told you the whole movie and killed the plot line but I wanted to get the lesson out.

 How does this pertain to fashion? If you are reading LadyBowTie it means you probably love fashion, you admire designers and you wish to some day dress in those designer brands you’ve seen and read about.  Some of you might already do, good for you.  My point is, if you are a younger person just getting started in life, don’t let the brand hold you to a standard that you are not financially ready for.  That same message goes for fans of fashion who are already out there in the world.  Don’t let what you wear or what you own measure your success.  You are your success not your clothing or your fancy car.  Don’t let the pressure of “The Joneses” get to you and live outside of your means.  Let your education and your life experience and your grace be your badge of success and not the emblem on you ballet flats.  And certainly do not go into debt trying to buy your way into a perceived success – in the end you will still be you but with a whole lot more debt.

That being said.  Work hard, save for the things that you want, don’t use credit and be patient.  All of those things, nice clothes, great handbags will all come with time.  Make sure you know what you can afford.  Simply said, are all your bills paid for the month, yes ALL of them, event that stupid one hiding behind the plant on the counter, that one too? What is left over in your account? Now take half of that and put it into savings.  What’s leftover is yours to spend and spend only that on those new earrings you’ve been dying to have. God willing, there will be another paycheck, wait for it.

Do you know how hard it is to wait, looking at clothes and studying fashion all day? Working fashion shows and trade shows at night and on the weekends? Being around all these amazing stores day in and day out.  Its tough, I know. I am not without my wants.  I have a whole list of wants. But I wait and I save and you can too.  I’ve been wanting for a year now (or longer) for some of my wants and it is okay.  I will continue to wait and save because I know eventually it will happen.  I will get those shoes I’ve been dreaming of but, until then, I wait.

Photo from IMDb

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I have more than a few theories on style. LadyBowTie is a site designed to celebrate those thoughts on fashion, beauty, and fearlessness. LadyBowTie encourages positive self-esteem and freedom of expression through personal style. It also encourages a healthy relationship between fashion and your wallet. And last but not least, LadyBowTie is here to educate on aspects of the fashion and beauty industry through style news, street-style pics, interviews, trend/forecasting, articles, weekly series, and readers’ suggestions. ~Cori a.k.a. LadyBowTie

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