The Cyndi Lauper '80s Look
Jul. 7th, 2006 11:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mishalakUpdated to be even more hideous!
Because my finger is on always on the pulse of the fashion world (sorta) I managed to be alerted to a truly horrendous fashion don't by Old Navy despite not seeing the commercial. Well the first fashion don't is "don't shop at Old Navy". Seriously. They're the Gap for losers. Take whatever cool Gap might have, strip it away, bring in lots of clueless wannabes and that's Old Navy. The second don't is don't wear tie dyed plaid shorts and skirts in eye numbing pastels. How the hell did they come up with eye numbing pastels anyway? For that matter plaid... well it isn't a good look for the most part. I mean sure if the plaid is traditional and you want to look like a Scott or a cowboy, that works. They work as alone as shirts, skirts, kilts, and perhaps shorts, but that last one is really pushing it and it needs to be with a solid (like white, because it won't clash) rather than with another bit of plaid. But I think the plaids that I've been seeing on the preppies lately just look bad. Like the guys want to look like they dressed up in 1968 cast offs that didn't even look good back then. I'd sooner wear a polyester suit in powder blue than any of these "Madras" things I saw in that commercial. Even the boy shorts in the background looked pretty horrendous.
Disco Inferno!
Because my finger is on always on the pulse of the fashion world (sorta) I managed to be alerted to a truly horrendous fashion don't by Old Navy despite not seeing the commercial. Well the first fashion don't is "don't shop at Old Navy". Seriously. They're the Gap for losers. Take whatever cool Gap might have, strip it away, bring in lots of clueless wannabes and that's Old Navy. The second don't is don't wear tie dyed plaid shorts and skirts in eye numbing pastels. How the hell did they come up with eye numbing pastels anyway? For that matter plaid... well it isn't a good look for the most part. I mean sure if the plaid is traditional and you want to look like a Scott or a cowboy, that works. They work as alone as shirts, skirts, kilts, and perhaps shorts, but that last one is really pushing it and it needs to be with a solid (like white, because it won't clash) rather than with another bit of plaid. But I think the plaids that I've been seeing on the preppies lately just look bad. Like the guys want to look like they dressed up in 1968 cast offs that didn't even look good back then. I'd sooner wear a polyester suit in powder blue than any of these "Madras" things I saw in that commercial. Even the boy shorts in the background looked pretty horrendous.
Disco Inferno!
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Date: 2006-07-07 05:16 pm (UTC)*shudders*
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Date: 2006-07-07 07:16 pm (UTC)Forgive me but
Date: 2006-07-07 05:49 pm (UTC)Re: Forgive me but
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Date: 2006-07-07 11:56 pm (UTC)Didja know I'm very remotely related to Cindi? Her mother's brother, Russell, is married to Sandy, who is the twin of my stepmother, Sue. It was one of the first things Sue told me, that I was going to be related to Cyndi Lauper. I liked some of her music, but not enough to want to be related to her, especially through my Evil Stepmother.
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Date: 2006-07-12 05:06 am (UTC)My first thought was, "Is it 1982 again?"