关于“风格”困扰，Dita回复一位粉丝的信

Dear Dita:
I adore your glamour style! However,I personally feel sort of overdressed in high h
eels,stockings & dress while around people in jeans, Everybody is staring at me & asking "What's the occasion for that?" Have you ever been in that kind of situation?
How to be brave enough to go on with glamour style every day? How do you deal with unwanted attention?
-----Malina kaa

亲爱的dita:
我很欣赏你优雅的风格！然而，当周围都是穿牛仔裤的人而我穿着连衣裙，丝袜，高跟鞋时，我个人感觉有一点过度着装。每个人都盯着我仿佛在问：“这是为了什么特殊场合？”你曾遭遇过这种情况吗？怎样才能有足够的勇气保持每天都优雅着装？你怎么处理不喜欢，不想要的注意？
---------Malina Kaa


Dear Malina,
In my 20+ years of dressing up in retro style, I've certainly had my fair share of stupid questions and criticisms, and I've even been flat-out made fun of, especially back in the early 90s before retro glamour became so popular and when my outfits were even more extravagant than they are now!
亲爱的 Malina,
在我20多年的复古着装打扮生涯中，我当然遭遇了相应那部分愚蠢的发问和批评，甚至还有很直白的取笑，特别是在复古优雅风没有这么流行而我的着装比现在更加奢侈夸张的九十年代早期。


我表示我灰常年轻，穿像DITA那样风格的，对我来说实在是太不搭，但我又灰常想穿又觉得不搭又想穿又。。。恶性循环

I recall a moment I had once that really cured me of feeling self-conscious. Two guys made fun of me in passing, who were both dressed in hideously ugly, stained and torn "University of Idiocy" T-shirts with mismatched shorts and some sort of offensive footwear.
我想起过去那把我这种感觉难为情，不好意思的感觉抹杀的瞬间。有两个男人在和我路过时取笑我，是两个都穿得非常丑陋的男人，穿着褪色有点破旧的“愚蠢大学”T恤衫和完全不配的短裤，还有某些令人不快的鞋袜之类。

I remember thinking. "wait a minute, the fact that THESE guys think I
look silly/crazy/unsexy is acutally a
compliment!"

我当时想。“等等，事实上此类男人认为我看起来 很傻/疯狂/不性感这个事实
才是一种真正的赞美！”

只有迪塔等小众们还顽强的保持着她们安安静静的一角，使得这个一眼看去“乱糟糟”的时代还有那么一些可爱的地方。其实，真正有品位的审美一直没有消失，只是被限制在一个较小的空间里，孤芳自赏。大众的流行趣味则占据着舞台的中央，也鲜明的反映出这是一个大众狂欢的现世。

I also began to realize that our appearance tells the world which tribe we blong to, or want to belong to.

I have absolutely no desire to be a part of the tribe that these two guys belong to, you know?

Imagine the hell of being asked out on a date with one of them???

Heaven forbid I would fall in love with him and be forced to watch sports on TV while fetching a beer and a Manwich for one of those guys.
That sounds like a special kind of hell to me.
我也开始意识到我们的外表在告诉这个世界你属于哪一种群体，或者想属于哪一种群体。

毫无疑问，我完全不想成为那俩个男人所属群体中的一员，你知道吗？

想象一下如果被邀去和他们其中任何一个人约会是多么的痛苦？？？

除非天堂消失我才会和他们其中任何一个相爱，被逼着享受着啤酒吃着硕大三明治看着体育栏目。
对于我来说这就像另一种形式的地狱。

I often think about my icons of beauty and style, and I am quite certain that they received their fair share of ridicule, but if they hadn't dared to be different, there are countless fashion styles that probably would have never made it to the mainstream.
我经常想到我的那些美丽和风格的偶像领袖们，我非常确定他们也曾遭遇过那部分相应的嘲笑愚弄，但是如果他们不是勇于与众不同，那么无数时尚风格或许从来都没有机会成为主流。

Can you imagine if Marlene Dietrich had merely accepted that hotels in Paris wouldn't welcome her while she was wearing a man's tuxedo?

Can you imagine the things people might have said as Isabella Blow wafted down the street in a billowing cape andone of her many enormous hats?
I'd met her a few times, always astonished by her inspiring style, and I can tell you that she certainly didn't give a crap what anyonethought of her, and for me and many others, she is highly regarded as one of the most important and most fashinable women ever.
你能想象如果玛琳黛德丽接受了巴黎的酒店拒绝她穿着男士礼服入内会是怎样吗？

你能想象当Isabella Blow 穿着她那巨大的披肩和她那无数巨大的帽子之一在街道上飘过时人们曾会说过什么吗？
我曾见过她几次，总是被她具有启发性的风格所震惊，而且我可以肯定的告诉你她完全没有理会任何人怎么看她，而对于我和去多其它人来说，她被高度认可为时尚风格中最重要和最时尚的女性之一。

好！

Nothing great comes without risk, and only the very mediocre are safe from being poked fun at.

Personally,everytime someone makes a snide comment, I feel I am proud to be part of the elite group of weirdos!

If you want to read a fabulous and hilarious book about this eccentric "club", check out Simon Doonan's "Eccentric Glamour".
没有什么伟大的事物不是伴随着风险的，而只有平庸能免于被嘲弄。

就我个人来说，每次有人给我一些嘲弄的评论时，我都感到自豪自己是那群“怪人”中的精英份子。

如果你想看一本非常轻松愉快非常棒的关于“反常俱乐部”的书，看看Simon Doonan's的“Eccentric Glamour".

I've had all sorts of comebacks to the various "vocal observations" of my attire and my look,but I try to say positive things like, "why yes, the special occasion is life, thank you for noticing!"
对于我的着装和外貌中各式各样的“发声观察者”，我有许多种类的机智回答，但是我总是尝试说正面的一面，比如，“哦，是啊，我的人生就是特殊场合，谢谢你的关注！”