fashion victim
fashion victim
Natalie had to "interview" me for homework the other night. She was asking questions about what I was like when I was her age. The questions were simple and fun to answer, and I admitted to her that my favorite song at the age was Rock On by David Essex and she seemed suprised that they had radios "way back then." Then she started asking questions about fashion, and I think at some point my eyes glazed over and I went into a trance where I relived the whole sordid decade.
My mom was the cause of all my major fashion woes. She was the dress nazi. My friends wore jeans to school, I had to wear dresses. Once in a while she would relent and let me wear neatly pressed and creased jeans, but while everyone was wearing Levi's, my mom would take us over to the bargain basement at May's Department store and get us Wranglers. Levi's were light blue and soft. Wrangler's were dark blue and hard. They made you walk like you had a stick up your ass, and the Wrangler label on the back of your jeans usually signified that you were horribly out of the fashion loop.
What the hell did it matter to me, anyhow? I was stigmatized from back in first grade when my mother dressed me up in this hideous pinafore type dress that had an embroidered clock right on the front of it. Can we say DORK? This has become one of those family inside joke things. Whenever I am trying to blame my mother for mental quirks, one of my sisters will always yell "you made her wear a dress with a clock in it!"
Don't even get me started on the ponchos or the red, white and blue pants. Or the hideous Dorothy Hammil haircut I was forced to get every month.
There were dresses made out of terrycloth and macrame and velour and shorts that were really skirts and sweaters that doubled as jackets.
I revolted later on, if you can call it that. Yea, I thought I was being cool. I had Earth Shoes, damn it. I had courdoroys. Yea, baby...cordouroys. I had my first pair of platform shoes -with corked heels no less - and groovy bellbottom jeans with patches all over them.
The later in got in the decade, the worse the fashion became. Everyone looked like Stevie Nicks at one point, all angel sleeves and flowing, handerkchief cut hems on the dresses with patterns that could make a blind person dizzy. If you weren't Stevie Nicks, you were Annie Hall, dressed in whatever unmatching ensemble you found under your bed that morning. It was impossible to keep up with what was cool to wear in the late 70's. But when the disco style came in, I bailed out of the fashion race. I toyed with androgony for a while, sporting an ensemble that usually included Chuck Taylor Converse All-Star hi tops in black, a concert jersey (baseball style, with colored 3/4 sleeves), worn out Levi's that were all frayed at the bottom and my then-boyfriend's army jacket.
Then I found my fashion voice. Black. It's simple, really. When you can't figure out what the smart fashion is, or you don't like what everyone else is wearing or you want to hide your head in the sand and pretend that fashion doesn't exist, wear black. You can't go wrong. Black shirt, pants, shoes, sweater...hell, I've got it down right to the bra and panties. You never look dorky or hopeless. Even better, you usually blend into the crowd, and people don't even notice you. Which is nice, if that's what you're going for, like me. It's the ultimate fashion statement, really.
I think I've figured this out. It's the inevitable evolution of my fashion sense and pride. Next time my mother yells at me for wearing black all the time, I can just point my finger in her direction and blame it all on the clock dress.
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Fashion history is so humiliating because we were all such eager participants in the crime. My wedding dress had a handkercheif hem. It was a vision of chiffon-y layers and it had an attached poncho. Kind of like the Anit-Stevie Nicks. My daughter is wearing it to her junior prom this year, along with the high-heeled spaghetti-strap sandals that completed the look.
Posted by: BtC | March 2, 2002 07:43 AM
Did your mom use that, "You're going to school, not a fashion show" line on you as well?
I admit, I liked my Dorothy Hamill cut until I was about 8. Then I had a couple of really bad shaggy haircuts. But the worst was when I was in kindergarten and my mom decided I needed a perm. My long, beautiful, auburn waist-length hair had been turned into a tight afro.
Posted by: Nikki | March 2, 2002 07:52 AM
Yes, my mom always said that. Her variation was "You're going to school to learn, not show off your wardrobe!" At which point I would ask why then it wasn't possible to just wear my pajamas to school.
Shag haircuts ruined my hair forever.
Posted by: michele | March 2, 2002 08:17 AM
ypu wear panties?....;-(
Posted by: g | March 2, 2002 10:25 AM
When I need a break from black, I find that grays produce virtually the same effect. they can be easier to match than blacks, too.
Posted by: space | March 2, 2002 10:51 AM
Are you sure grays aren't "out" this season?
thinks fashion is funny. Once had a boss tell me I couldn't use vellum paper on a packaging project because it was *so last season. Come on, now it's PAPER.
Posted by: Olga | March 2, 2002 01:02 PM
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Posted by: michele | March 2, 2002 01:15 PM
I wasn't allowed to wear all black then. So of course, I do now. What I couldn't understand was that my father, a pastor, got to run around in all-black so why couldn't I. Then I learned, only the devil-worshipping types of kids do such things. Confusing.
Posted by: Laura | March 2, 2002 02:38 PM
I don't understand what it is about mothers that makes them dress you the way they think you ought to be dressed instead of the way you want to dress. I wasn't allowed to wear jeans on the first day of school until fifth grade. And yes, I remember those horrible Wranglers.
Posted by: Pfish | March 2, 2002 03:28 PM
Did your mom and my mother go BOWLING??!! IN grade school, I got picked on because I was forced to read frilly Little House on the Praire dresses only this was not the fucking 1800's. Instead of Adidas (I grew up in the 80's), I wore mary janes with those evil lacy socks...This all leaves a sour taste in my mouth.
Wait, am I too young to think that Rock On was that Mark Damian (is that his name)'s song??? Okay, can I shove my foot further down my throat... :)
Posted by: Felicia | March 2, 2002 05:50 PM
I think he remade it, Felicia. I know someone had the nerve to remake it.
Posted by: michele | March 2, 2002 07:04 PM
"I don't understand what it is about mothers that makes them dress you the way they think you ought to be dressed instead of the way you want to dress." - ditto for girlfriends. I used to wear 501's and dress shirts everyday. SHe changed that, made me dye my hair, and grow big old side burns (this was when Luke Perry and 90210 were popular). I never understood what the big deal was. Yes honey.
These days I'm usually 50% clothed black. Either black pants or black T-shirts. When I wear all black (especially since all motorcycle jackets are black) I always wonder if someone is saying "There goes a PIB".
Posted by: chris | March 2, 2002 10:10 PM
I forgot to clarify that was an X-girlfriend - I eventually realized she wanted me to be an entirely different person, which is a bit tough.
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