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How many of you were fortunate to have experienced the electric 1960s?? No I do not refer to home installed gas and paraffin installations being replaced with electricity (that arrived a little earlier) but rather the decade when the air was full of excitement; charged with Tamla Motown music;? and the latest fashions worn with pride! Shoes shone bright, irons were regularly heated to maintain razor sharp creases,? and hair kept crisp and immaculate, leastways in the U.K ! It was akin to army conformism, but with variation and sparkle, and no 6 a.m. daily cold shower. The fashion industry kept most youngsters keenly and gratefully on their toes! It was an utter pleasure to be sharp in appearance.

The vibrant ?music and dancing led life’s charge,??and in a way provided the inspiration and belief that life was truly exciting, was worthwhile, and most of all possessed a spiritual purpose. The air buzzed with the notions of peace love and understanding as 'The Beatles' sang 'All you need is love,' practiced transcendental meditation, and everyday straight boys wore their psychedelic kaftans with ease. ?

Fashion usually fizzles out quickly but not so the secondary love of blue denim jeans as casual wear. Such exploded in the 60’s with Wrangler, Levi Strauss, and Lee, and continues to a lesser degree until today. But of course today’s youth are innovators, often fashion revolutionaries by heart,? and so it comes of little surprise that jeans' design has been re-written? via heavy sandpapering and tearing.? Almost certainly the result? of today’s saturated ‘higher learning’ and an increasing tendency towards dazzling lateral thinking. Even though admittedly it took several decades of careful progressive experiment and development. In fairness, they were challenging innovations. (Cough).

And of course today’s fashions embrace the times, and just as in the past likewise embrace protest. The sexual revolution has resulted in many young men refusing in allowing happy males to kiss them in greeting, and so ?routinely refuse to shave by way of spikey protection. Whether or not teeth are routinely brushed as part of the protest I have not enquired. ?In any event prolific male on male greeting kissing has been stopped in its tracks. Often at first sight inexplicable and odd behaviour possesses such hidden logic. Although attempts to re-print ‘Ban the Bomb’ signs T shirts with ‘Ban the Bottom’ was, just as expected, ?quickly closed down by new government? standing D-Notices.

The biggest challenge facing the creation of new fashion has been? that although around 88% of new undergraduate courses are ‘Art’ none of such embrace representational drawing,? and seamstresses have always struggled to interpret edgeless paint splodges into clear measurements. Possibly because most of their number are practical people, smart enough not to embrace such formal?higher education for themselves. Nevertheless, pre-play school education in the form of extended learning must be kept alive whatever a student's age as it is the very backbone of U.K. higher learning.

So what to do? Our ever inventive youth fight their frustrations, attempt to be creative by drawing pictures on their bodies, sticking things in themselves and generally gouging holes in their flesh, followed by taking regular handfuls of pills to combat the anguish.

Their electrocuted hair styles respectfully mirror those of their favourite leading politicians (so as to hopefully please benefits clerks), and although bringing a token symbolic contemporary electricity into their lives? such has been around for many years via E.C.T. treatment. But then what is truly new?? ?God bless the consistency of E.C.T. and its support for the fashion industry via the N.H.S. ?I so love nurses, even without those black stockings, and particularly the way they so gently apply the soaking flannel and skull bucket. I'm tingling all over!

P.S. I refuse to watch movies employing actors who are to afraid to shave, and provide the other team with at least a sporting chance of securing a little innocent affection. Live and let live!

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