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Saturday, December 27, 2003
actually mat, you wont believe it but pirate eye patches are really popular here at the moment! Except some idiots are taking the fad too far anf wearing them on BOTH eyes. Not a good idea. Um, I know pin stripes are in for both sexes and for girls theres heaps of frilly florally girly stuff *girly giggle* in portmans and sportsgirl and stuff. But otherwise, I don't know. I haven't seen any particular fashion accesory around lately but I did get one of those new evian nomad bottles the other day. Very cool. i got a few interested looks on the train when I drank from it. It's the best bottle design I've ever seen or felt.Excellent really. they must have put a lot of research into making a good bottle. Listen to me, what a design nerd. Hmph!I
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From: Andii Sent: 29/08/2002 1:59 PM
Mat I can back up Cara's little thing about pirate eyes, I've got a pic that I'm gona put up... you can ask as many people as you like in Australia and they will all say that indeed,
Captain Feathersword is the new King of Cool..
Think about it, it all makes sense.. the wiggles (the Captain in particular) have been around for what.. about 8-10 years now? Think about how old the kids who USED to watch the show are now.. if they started watching around the ages of 8, then they're 16-18 now.. so you can see that clearly the Wiggles are going to have an effect on fashion.. we all thought Mr.Cusworth was a dick.. but now his little 'I'm from the wiggles' exploits are being copied in all major cities as people realise that dressing up in a primary colour with ill-fitting jeans and a daggy grin isn't as kitch as once believed.
And where does this leave the girls? Well, clearly they all can't dress up like the only female member of the wiggles (dorothy) so they've adopted the 'peasant' look. It's the woman's answer to Feathersword... they become the pirate whench with their frilly-sportsgirl earth toned, low-riding, gipsy-bohemic, asparagus-hexagon, skirty things and tops.
Though I agree with Cara that some are taking it a little too far with their 2-eye-patch antics, I think the real disaster here is the fake parrots in tropical colours that are all the rage in Cosmo and Geelong this psuedo-spring period.. i mean really.... they just get in the way! I was wearing my own parrot the other day (yes, I AM another fashion casualty also) and trying to drive was incredibally difficult. They say the bigger the parrot, the better, but, mine was hitting the roof of the car. and when I needed to make right-turns I couldn't see out my window cos the parrot was in the way.. I couldn't turn left either cos my eye-patch was making things awkward.. so I drove for about 20minutes in the one direction.. got lotsr and had to reverse back home because I couldn't do a u-turn becaus that involed turning. You can imagin how embarrased I was..
At least I looked cool, and that in itself, is some concilation.
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From: muskawo Sent: 29/08/2002 8:56 PM
So you have a parrot andrew? A guy brought in one of those old school 2 dollar talking parrots the other day. It was a bit lame though. I like the ones they sell in general pants heaps better. The pirate thing isn't as big in geelong yet, but I've started seeing more of it. especially in people in my class cos we went up to chapel street last week, and you knoe all the fashion stuff they have up there!
you know what happened yesterday? This guy in my graphics course had one of those "peg Legs" and he was trying to walk up the stairs, but he just ended up falling over.
Actaully I'm thinking of getting one of those skull and crossbones flags to put up. I've seen HEAPS of people in the mall with them, except I saw a few skanky chicks who hang out there trying on fleathered hats in speakeys so i don't know... I hope it doesn't end up all corio-ish like adidas or somethingg
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From: Andii Sent: 30/08/2002 4:38 PM
Speaking of peg legs and footwear.. I LOVE the fact that people have taken ug-boots out the living room and into modern fashion.. to think that all this time I hadn't worn them because they didn't really offer proper support and now to find out.. it just doesn't matter! Ha! Don't I feel the fool!
Yeah pegs (that's what we call them here) are awsum.. but only on flat ground! I saw this REALLY kewl one just then in my Maths Lecture that this guy had on... it was all carved with pirate stories on it like a wooden comic book! My peg is giving me cramps.. I should do what my friend Ben did and just amputate it so I can have the full effect.. but do you think it's just a fad.. or is pirate and peasant here to stay? Cos I don't wanna remove my leg and then when I get out hospital find out we've moved on to something like Henry the Octopus.
I think every fashion trend ends up Corio-ised.. I mean in some sense they always try and follow the fads. BUT they first need to adapt it into something as skanky as what them is always wearin.. It has to first become part of there culture and then it kind of changes from being Pirate to a sub-catagory corio-pirate.. I saw a really good example last weekend of an adaption of fashion into their sub-culture.. a corio-wog had vamped up his commodore into a pirate ship.. It was AWSUM, but you know, at the same time it was really try hardy and corio-ish.. like every rope had a parallel rope so it was like adidas style rigging, and all the cannons were dada.
So yeah I think in some sense it will be adopted by Corio, but I think it's too popular and, well, almost sacred, to become skanky.
