You think people should be jailed for Crimes of Passion? How about Crimes of Fashion.
I posted this all over Orkut, in the Fashion Police forums, in the Vancouver community, wherever I could.
Spotted today. I had my camera with me, so I took a picture. The little old Chinese lady is wearing a SUPER-HOT-PINK velour tracksuit, and a matching fuschia and black spotted bag, with brown leather shoes, a brown leather coat, and a fuschia and white hat (the fuschia in the hat is also very bright), with big sunglasses. I suppose she’s matched the fuschia, but with the brown it’s painful to look at. She sat down right away, and she’s behind plexiglass, so you don’t get the full effect of full-body fuschia pink next to brown leather.
I saw lots of scary fashion today, but this was the only person who was stationary, and I could take a photo at a distance.
[ADDENDUM March 28: Anyone who takes this post seriously either hasn't read the two-drink disclaimer or is not familiar with the word facetious or my attitude toward the colour pink.]
Sunday, 28 March 2004
Sorry, but old people wearing loud clothes is definitely NOT a crime. See, you should aspire to what they have attained- the self assurance and knowledge that it doesn’t really matter how the candy bar is wrapped up, that the ones who complain are the ones who take the safe path in life.
In another time, hell, even this time, you could have walked down Kings Road in London, and seeing someone who was 19 YO, in hot pink pants, wearing brown leather as well as a few well placed safety pins and dog chains, would be a fashion statement that lets the others know- THEY JUST DONT GIVE A [edited by admin], and the others on the street would go “Whoa- give that feller (or gal” a wide berth- they obviously can put something on that the normals would consider rude, AND MAKE A STATEMENT.”
Old people who dont give a [edited by admin] what you think about what they wear are the original punks, and it makes you look boring and safe by comparison.
Sorry, but that’s the way it is.
Sunday, 28 March 2004
Hey Bob, ever heard of tongue in cheek?
Besides, posting anonymously is COWARDLY and IS NOT A LICENSE TO SWEAR, even if it’s followed by the word sorry. If you’re looking at making your own statement, you just have, with your crassness.
Sunday, 28 March 2004
Oh come now- touched a nerve, eh?
I see your little addendum- let’s see, ‘facetious’, as I scan the page, the only place the word facetious pops up is on your addendum.
So tell me how your post is tongue in cheek? You post reads exactly as written. In a nutshell ‘I spotted bad fashion, and I spread the news far an wide on the net- clearly this affected me. I was so affected I thought it appropriate to snap a photo of a private individual so I could post it on the web and show how smug and self confident I am in my fashion sense.’ Did you actually read what you wrote?
If your post was done in jest you certainly took great pains to make it look otherwise, and your only allusion to it being a big ‘haha’ joke is when someone cried foul.
And as far as anonymous posting, you don’t know me from adam and I just followed a link here, what difference does it make to my argument? As far as licences to swear- if you can post a person’s piccy w/o permission, why can’t I curse for effect? You do realise, swearing has it’s place in valid discourse, like it or not.
Oh, feel free to not bother rebutting my arguments by saying “I was having you on- can’t you tell?”. But looking at your orig. log, I can tell you really were looking to dump on the subject, a la Mister Blackwell.
Now here’s a tissue, wipe the tears and go on with your day. Toodles!
Sunday, 28 March 2004
I’ll make this simple for you, Bob, and save the verbiage:
fa…ce…tious: adj.
Playfully jocular; humorous.
The words “jail”+”crime”+”fashion”=facetious.
Men are more prone to colour-blindness than women. Lucky you.
Sunday, 28 March 2004
Hey, “Glamour” magazine does the same thing all the time, and they’ve got a much wider circulation that some Internet journal! It’s funny, dammit. If someone’d snapped me in the eighties, with my pink ostrich-feather coat and stripey hotpants on, I’d've been tickled pinker than my coat, I tell ya! Bring on the fashion police!
(Gail, your facetiousness is faceting bright and spectrumous, by the way. Most prismatic. Oh, boy. What AM I havering about?)
Monday, 29 March 2004
I liked the post, Gail.