one fake homeless person at a time.
25 August 2009
disturbing seattle fashion!
in this, my first foray into "living in the city", i've been privy to numerous odd choices. the "walk bike", in other locales known as the "bike", which is basically a bicycle--usually an overgeared, poorly fitted "track bike"--that one leads around by the stem. i've seen some of these "walk bikes" on the front racks of buses, following their "masters" around cap hill and ballard looking for "parking" and generally being WASTES OF TUBING AND FUNCTIONAL ARTISTRY. there's the "chunky eyewear" choice of a few otherwise sensible looking young women: frames that look like what you'd have found on the stereotypical "nerd girl" in a john hughes movie. these "eyewear choices" tend to be paired with ill-fitting thrift store t-shirts, the kind one would usually find in the bottom of a drawer, too "well-worn" to actually keep, but forgotten about. the kind one can see through cos the fabric is so thin. not sure what this is about. there's the "train conductor" cap on a woman who is obviously not "conducting" much of anything beyond her curation of mystique. the "so tight i can't pull them up but i carry them anyway so my boxers squish upwardly and outwardly and i look like a damn fool who's about to fall over" pant, the "jayhawk's reject" purple jean, the curated "newsboy" cap on a frat kid who's never "dropped" a newspaper in his life, and the list could go on, but my brain is feeble and i can't recount them all. and the colourways, yes, so many i don't even understand. the abovementioned purple jeans, the mustard yellow hoodies--i've yet to see mustard yellow in anything other than hoodies or poorly knitted cardigans--and neon mismatched everything. seems a few years ago there was just too much subtlety and simplicity. if it's ugly, flashy or even downright horrifying, one of the many "cliques" in town is probly carrying it. dollar signs, prints of benjamins, bling of all sorts "ironically" carried on the backs of otherwise normal looking cats. brown "courds" carried with broad-spectrum neon nikes, mothbitten "skullies" carried back on the skull so as not to do anything the "skully" was designed to do (y'know, keep the head warm). i don't know. maybe i'm being "skeptikal", but when i see a dude carrying carhartts to pump coffee or someone leading his or her "walk bike", i get just a bit het up. i'm sure the woman in the "conductor's cap" is just being "whimsikal", as the hat is paired with tie-dyed "scarve", but to me, i don't know, she just looks silly. actually, at second look, she's kinda cute. maybe there's some "lesson" there, in the "confusion" colourway.
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I've decided I'd better throw out all my wonderful colorful ageless wardrobe, and just buy black. Black with perhaps a bit of metal here and there, just to give it pop. To be sure I'm color coordinated, I'll dye my hair black, and learn to put on really really black mascara. Think a black tatoo is too over the top?
ReplyDelete(Oh, by the way, my skateboard is yellow. Is that okay?)