I have never been what you could call a fashion victim or even follower. From a young age I learnt that, it may be in fashion, but it can still make you look like a berk. So I am one of those people who have the basics and always keep stocked up on them and a load of crap for the rest. It was the shrinking of one of these basics that sent me in to town, shopping! And can I just say what the hell is going on with fashion these days?
The basic that I shrank, because I still think that reading the label for things is a waste of time, was a black polo neck. Do you think I could find one anywhere? I know it's the wrong season and all, but there must be a shop somewhere that hasn't lost it's mind.
I felt like i had been thrown back in time to my very own 80's nightmare.
Everything was neon and punk, ripped and misshappen. I know I'm going to sound like my mother, but who would wear this stuff? I looked around because I thought I was in the kiddies department. Everything was so small. I like mini skirts. I'm not going to be able to get away with them forever so what the hell, but what I saw weren't skirts, they were belts just like my dad used to say. And the tops were pornographic, if you have a substantial chest, you would get arrested wearing this stuff. There is a world of difference between looking sexy and looking slutty, maybe it's a distinction learned with age. Maybe I am getting older and starting to see my mother's point.
<*dv_0*> I didn't like the 80's the first time around and if the fashion is anything to go by, it's a good job I wasn't sexually active because there is no way I would have got laid wearing this crap. Not that I would have wanted to have sex with someone sporting the flock of seagulls haircut (Simon hides his photo album).
<*dv_1*> The guys look Uber gay when dressed in these fashions (term used very loosely), and the girls look like hookers who got dressed while they were high on crack. I mean neon pink fishnet tights and legwarmers (don't even get me started on those) Next time I see someone wearing legwarmers I'm going to knock them from their bike, hold a gun to their head and bark: "Are you an extra in Fame?, well take those F*****g things off then." I mean, wear trousers if you're that cold.
Please tell me it's not the same in the UK, please. I always knew the Dutch were weird, I just hope it hasn't spread. And if it has, don't give in, it'll pass. If you take deep breaths and don't look directly at it, maybe you can make it.
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