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"Do you live in a big city or a small town? Are your friends, family, and neighbors fashion-savvy? Do they think you&amp;#x27;re a total trend-setter because you wear certain pieces of clothing, have a cool handbag, or rock a red lip?Today on The Gloss, blogger Lindsay Cross writes about how she lives in the &amp;quot;second largest metropolitan area of Indiana&amp;quot;&amp;amp;#8212;a.k.a. Fort Wayne, pop. 253,000&amp;amp;#8212;where fashion choices are more conservative than, say, in New York or Los Angeles.In her story My Town Thinks I&amp;amp;#8217;m A Style Icon For Wearing Skinny Jeans, she writes this about pants:Let me tell you that the Midwest is strictly bootcut territory. Don&amp;amp;#8217;t give them your high-waisted or skinny-legged nonsense. The only variation on fit-and-flare jeans are fit-and-flair capris. Sorry Ash, your drop-crotch pants just have no place here. After all, this is God&amp;amp;#8217;s country. No one wears anything with the world &amp;amp;#8220;crotch&amp;amp;#8221; in the title, no matter how much you try to desensitize them.Then there&amp;amp;#8217;s me and my skinny jeans. I&amp;amp;#8217;m not talking ultra-tight skinnies. I&amp;amp;#8217;m not talking jeggings. It&amp;amp;#8217;s plain old skinny jeans, and even worse&amp;amp;#133; I tuck them into flat boots and throw on an oversized cardigan. Now this might sound like the uniform for most young women in the city, but in a small town, it&amp;amp;#8217;s positively trendy. And you know what, I love it!Lindsay&amp;#x27;s blog post really got me thinking. I was born in a small city in England but grew up in New York City&amp;amp;#8212;where you see people dressed to the nines everywhere you go. Seriously, it&amp;#x27;s fashion week right now and you would not believe some of the get-ups folks are sporting. Being a fashion icon in New York is, well, pretty out of the question for me&amp;amp;#8212;&amp;quot;Fashion Icon&amp;quot; is the kind of cutthroat title given here only to A-list celebrities and street style megastars. Do you live in a city or a town where you are a style icon? What makes you a style icon? Has anyone ever made comments about something you&amp;#x27;ve worn because it&amp;#x27;s the slightest bit edgy? Tell me in the comments! I&amp;#x27;m dying to know!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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