{"id":818,"date":"2010-05-17T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T13:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allisontait.com\/the-letter-of-the-day-v\/"},"modified":"2021-03-22T11:23:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T00:23:39","slug":"the-letter-of-the-day-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allisontait.com\/2010\/05\/the-letter-of-the-day-v\/","title":{"rendered":"That one time, I worked at Vogue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I did something I haven\u2019t done in a very long time. And, no, it wasn\u2019t housework (though this could have been a contender).<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t even writing fiction \u2013 though it should have been. No, this was all together more outrageous.<\/p>\n

I read Vogue<\/i> Australia.<\/p>\n

Once upon a time, I read Vogue<\/i> for a living. As Chief Sub, it was my job to read every word, every month, three or four times.<\/p>\n

To caption each picture, from the outside in, top to bottom.<\/p>\n

To know that Cameron Diaz was a woman (it was early in her career), that Lycra needed a TM symbol, that Collette Dinnigan was a 2-Ls, 2-Ts, 3-Ns kind of girl.<\/p>\n

Those who know me well still wonder aloud how I ever found myself at Vogue<\/i>. I wonder it myself.<\/p>\n

For a person whose sense of fashion stretches to basics and not much else, it was an education. Getting dressed every day was, I confess, a chore. Until I realised that everyone in the place had their own signature style. American Prep, Upmarket Goth, Chanel, 1960s Racer Girl, et al. Mine would be Basic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I took it, I owned it, I rocked it as best I could \u2013 not easy when you\u2019re 25 with no cash and you\u2019re getting dressed hungover most mornings.<\/p>\n

I loved working at Vogue<\/i>. We worked long hours but it was a lot of fun. How could it be anything else?<\/p>\n

My focus was all on the words. The Fashion Office was a hallowed hall of gorgeousness, where I\u2019d venture only occasionally to find someone to please give me caption information for the 10-page shoot due to go to press that night.<\/p>\n

It takes only five minutes on a magazine like that for some of the \u2018glamour\u2019 of working in fashion to fall away. Fashion assistants put in longer hours than CEOs and get out of bed for a lot less than $10,000 a day.<\/p>\n

That said, working at Vogue<\/i> puts you in a strange headspace.<\/p>\n

You think nothing of spending $500 on a pair of shoes when you earn half of that each week.<\/p>\n

You find yourself talking in the singular \u2013 The Pant, The Shoe, The Eye. The only place you really run into problems with that kind of thing is when you come to The Jean. It just doesn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

Jeans work only in pairs.<\/p>\n

Flicking through today, I notice that some things have changed. Even shoes comes in pairs now.<\/p>\n

But much hasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s still a magazine full of improbable clothes (of incredible expense) modelled by amazing looking women. The \u2018real-life\u2019 pages still feature tousled, honey-skinned beauties with immaculate pedigrees who do fabulous things and buy lots of shoes.<\/p>\n

Between lavish spreads of full-page photographs are type-heavy pages of well-written features, as well as those itsy-bitsy pages so beloved of designers the world over.<\/p>\n

The Builder bought me the Vogue<\/i> to take my mind off last Friday<\/a>. It worked. For pure escapism, you can\u2019t beat it. As a memory trip, it brought a smile to my face.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m left with a genuine desire to buy something that is not a black, long-sleeved T-shirt.<\/p>\n

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