THE OLD NOW THE NEW
I could not wait to meet my friends. With them it was always more of a fashion or runway show. You had to dress to impress. There was no room to try, you either got it or you are out. The main reason I was really looking forward to this day was because I had just bought a designer dress, shoes and clutch bag. Chanel to be precise. I knew today I would be the envy of them all. As I was about to leave the house, my mother called me. “Are you seriously going to leave my house dressed that way?” “But mum...” before I could even finish my sentence she interrupted. “Go back and change, you cannot leave my house with such a short dress, or else you’re going nowhere!”
It was quite ironical how my mother told me to go and change. Come to think of it, at her youth she wore the same exact length of dress or skirts sometimes even shorter. Well at least I have the evidence from her photos. So what has changed? If one was to ask me I would say nothing. In fact, it is the very same fashion that was there in the 1970’s that is being brought back today. It is interesting to see that what our elders are discouraging us from wearing are the same things they put on.
It is also interesting to note how the 70’s fashion is now the fashion, the in thing. What you call hipsters now, were belly bottoms then. Your plastic doll shoes were ‘sandacs’. Your boyfriend jacket was a blazer. Maybe you even wore blazers in school thinking you will never wear them again only to find them coming back. The afro some men and ladies have on their heads, existed 30 years ago and was a current trend by many including our fathers and mothers. Your ‘button’ earrings that you think are so cool, perhaps your mother wore the same ones. Also the wedges ladies wear were actually worn by mostly men and some women as blocks. I mean fashion is quite unpredictable. You never know what you will be wearing tomorrow, in the name of fashion.
Compare this; the dress tops ladies pride in wearing usually with stockings or leggings existed in the 70s and were actual dresses worn without anything inside. I even tend to think people back then had more freedom of dressing than we do today.
Remember the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton in April this year? A major accessory worn was the hats, best known as couture hats or fascinators (big hair pieces that are not really hats but which do decorate the head without actually covering it). These are the same old hats back in the 1950s, which have come back just a little improvised and modernized.
Ever tried dividing seven by six expecting an exact number? Impossible. You will get a recurring number. Just like fashion it recurs.
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