flora & fauna

flo·ra  (flôr, flr)

n. pl. flo·ras or flo·rae (flôr, flr)

1. Plants considered as a group, especially the plants of a particular country, region, or time.

2. A treatise describing the plants of a region or time.

3. The bacteria and other microorganisms that normally inhabit a bodily organ or part: intestinal flora.

fau·na  (fôn)

n. pl. fau·nas or fau·nae (-n)

1. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) Animals, especially the animals of a particular region or period, considered as a group.

2. A catalog of the animals of a specific region or period.

Funnily: it seems the more determined I am to give blogging a break - give street shooting a break - I just can't seem to shut my blogging brain off. Not bringing my camera with me when I'm out is no use: I've still got a camera on my phone. And while my part of London ('leafy South Kensington') is pretty much a dead zone right now - everyone, literally, is away, or if they're here, they're hiding inside so no one knows what a loser they are for not being away on holiday, or rather, for not owning a holiday home somewhere warm.

However, the few people I do see, I can't help noticing one particular trend right now: floral jeans. So while I'm not showing you any here, I'm letting you use your imagination. Jeans plus florals equals, etc.

I have a few theories why this trend is catching on. First: it's new. Which means, if you're seen wearing floral print jeans, it means they're not vintage, and you haven't shopped your closet. And everyone likes something new. The other thing is, if you're sporting floral print jeans, chances are, they're not your only pair. They're not your 'go to' jeans, the way I am with my current favourite, my ankle length slightly cropped wonderfully comfortable white DL1961 pair, from the Raw Denim Bar. Floral print - or, say, the Fauna version, i.e. snakeskin - shows you can be a bit frivolous. Bit impractical. It's an extravagance, I feel, buying print jeans. They won't go with everything.

But that, I guess, is kind of the point.

Where do you stand? Are you a pattern person, jeans wise? Or a purist. A minimalist. And if you go print, are you a Flora, or a Fauna?

Photos by me, shot on my phone. And since I don't have instagram (does anyone know: can we get it if we don't have an iPhone?) I take the longer route and make things in photoshop. The fauna reference is a tiny detail that I didn't notice when I was leaving the cinema: a dog print. Or so it seems. But it must have been a whopping big old dog.