Fight the Power!

There was a time when I was an angry (go figure!), trend-setting, club-rat.  While that time is long past, I would still like to impact the fashion world around me.  The laws of physics, however, make that challenging for an aging, angry hausfrau.

So, if you cannot create, you can always desecrate.  I now consider myself the leader/founder of a movement I call: "Fashion Killer."  Yes, it is a more embittered way to address the trends but, then, I am a more embittered person than I once was.  I will again blaze the trail of your enlightenment.

I like to take ANY current trend of those in "power" (i.e., the young) and wear it out publicly. While this is progress, it also makes the wearer seem silly.  The fashion-killing comes when I over-identify with my co-wearers.   

Case study:  The Snoop-dogg t-shirt.  

There was a time when it was very hip to wear your favorite rapper's silhouette on an oversized t-shirt.  Oversized?  I can do that.  So, I got myself a Snoop-shirt.  

I wore that thing to the Home Depot, grocery store, liquor store (it's like clubbing, only the drunks aren't pretty), childcare pick-up...  I would point to the shirt, shoot some Isaac (from the Love Boat) finger guns at another trendy soul, and smile widely, as if to say, "HEY!!! LOOK!!! I'm cool like YOU!!!"

The reaction went like this:  1) nervous laughter, 2) some variant of "no she didn't" 3) silent, yet obvious, self re-evaluation. 

I understand that time kills fashion, too, but nothing says "IT IS OVER" more than a round, middle-aged, graying stay-at-home wearing a trend.  NOW, who has the power?

Further, this works with hair-styles, trendy phrases, and anything that the young decide that they like....moo-wah-ha-ha.

I love my new foray into fashion!  I have regained my former title!  All hail!!!  

I have even found an unintended benefit to my fashion-killer spree:  managing the boundaries of my own children's fashion whims.  When they hold up a micro-shirt that would be "great for school" I just ask the salesperson if it "is available in "Plus" sizes?  SERIOUSLY!!! I Must have THAT!!!  It is too cute (fashion-killing word numero uno)!!"  

Desire for said shirt? Zero.

The world is an agist, heightist, "out-with-the-old" kinda place.  Let's not forget, however, that wisdom and bitterness go a long way.  "Yes, she did!"