posted on April 19, 2005 01:44:23 PM new
BOHO. It seems to be the new catch word but I don't know what it means. Please don't laugh at the fashion challenged.
posted on April 19, 2005 03:02:13 PM new
Yes, I believe it's short for Bohemian. Not a fashion expert by any means but as I understand it, Boho is kind of 'hippy chic' with natural fibres such as cotton and silk. There's lots of embroidery and beading on the tops and peasant type skirts with print patterns. Dangly earrings are popular too. It seems to be a worldwide fashion and looks very feminine if done right.
posted on April 19, 2005 03:04:56 PM new
Right...it's Bohemian
"Let’s take a look at this beaded, belted, swirly phenomenon. Boho chic is the look that every female aged 15 to 30 (beyond that they have no excuse not to know better) is revelling in at the moment. It’s cowboy boots, floaty skirts, vest tops, studded belts and lots of jingly, jangley jewellery. It’s the look that shows how little the wearer tries. All she has to do is roll out of bed in the morning, scrabble around on the floor and she emerges looking just fabulous. But it’s like natural makeup, just because it isn’t caked on your face it doesn’t mean it took less than an hour to apply."
"As the name suggests, boho is supposed to be about alternative clothes and people. Free loving, hippy people who drive around in a bus with psychedelic flowers painted all over it and eat wild berries. These people don’t care about money or work, they want fun. They worship the sun and take hallucinogens. Bohemian people are unconventional in appearance and ideals. They are nomadic, artistic and disregard notions of “normal” behaviour."
posted on April 19, 2005 03:13:19 PM newAll she has to do is roll out of bed in the morning, scrabble around on the floor and she emerges looking just fabulous.
posted on April 19, 2005 03:19:20 PM new
Lady...Quick, register the word "Boho" as your trademark. Then list a bunch of clothes. You can Vero every one of your competitor's auctions that use that word. You'll have a corner on the market. Just like the person that registered "chabby chic".
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
posted on April 19, 2005 03:37:41 PM new
I would have guess Bohemian but wasn't sure.
No thanks sparkz after all day measuring and remeasuring my vintage clothes - I'm ready to throw them out the back door along with the skinny mannequin which displays them so perfectly after 2 hours of adjustment!!!!!!!!
posted on April 19, 2005 04:30:45 PM new
Rename your vintage clothes and tell the buyers that size is of no importance or relevance in the BoHo fashion world .
Having been of the “hippy age” during the “hippy era,” I do not see the BOHO look as anything like the true “hippy” look.
”The Bohemians devoted a lot of their time to undermining mainstream culture. This meant sitting all day in a cafe and buying only one cup of coffee or setting up an easel and nude model right inside the cafe, and it also meant showing defiance through dress and manner. Bohemian Fashion is something of a contradiction in terms, because usually the bohemians dressed themselves in whatever they could scrounge up.
However, as Hanna Manchin discusses in her essay, "The Grisette as the Female Bohemian," the bohemians turned their poverty into a statement and made it powerful. "Their irreverence for bourgeois norms was partly due to necessity, but it was the meaning that they made of their situation that made them subversive." The bohemians were always known for being dressed in out-of-date styles or unfashionable colors, "but they did not understand this as shameful" (Manchin).”
In the above example, the hair is all wrong; the look just does not fit the 1960’s hippy. These are much more representative of that era.
The 1960, “hippy era” fashion wise (if one can call such fashion), is clearly noted for headbands for both males & females; bell legged pants again for both males and females; often Beatle style sunglasses, Peace symbol necklaces, and definitely long, long hair.
I recall my elder son’s use of the word “Bohemian,” which is how he “tried” to explain me to his wife to be, prior to our meeting. I do not consider myself “Bohemian,” at all, although rather a non-conformist. I would describe myself as eccentric, and reclusive. My poor “child,” was marrying a gal who had the “all American” type, LEAVE IT TO BEAVER mom, and I was, at that time a 45 year old married to a 26 year old! Actually, we are extremely conservative in most political ways. By the way, the “boy toy” I married when I was 42, we are still married, going on 22 years, and happy as the day we met!
The BOHO picture look in one of the above posts, merely looks to me like a nice dress combined with a tacky hat, equaling no style or fashion at all.
~"It does not matter what I think, it does not matter what you think. The only thing which matters is: What is the TRUTH!"~
posted on April 22, 2005 03:48:25 PM new
actually boho is a reference to a Lynard Skynard song....
Big wheels keep on turning
Carry me home to see my kin
Singing songs about the southland
I miss Alabamy once again
And I think its a sin
Well I heard mister Young singing about her
Well I heard ole Neil put her down
Well I hope Neil Young will remember
A southern man dont need him around any how
Sweet Home Alabama
Where the skies are so blue
Sweet home Alabama
Lord Im coming home to you
In Birmingham they love the Governor
Now we all did what we could do..bo hoo hoo
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Baseball season has started,but they have it all wrong.3 strikes and you're out,4 balls you walk.I can tell you right now a man with 4 balls could not possibly walk
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posted on April 22, 2005 03:59:43 PM new
And Joni Mitchell sings "THE BOHO DANCE"
Down in the cellar in the Boho zone
I went looking for some sweet inspiration, oh well
Just another hard-time band
With Negro affectations
I was a hopeful in rooms like this
When I was working cheap
It's an old romance-the Boho dance
It hasn't gone to sleep...........
posted on April 22, 2005 04:42:19 PM new
I liked "Big Yellow Taxi" a lot better
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Baseball season has started,but they have it all wrong.3 strikes and you're out,4 balls you walk.I can tell you right now a man with 4 balls could not possibly walk
