From the garish pout to the clingy tights, the broad spectacles to the suicide shade of blonde, the picturisation of the song Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits is 80's all the way! The sound, uniquely Knopfler only adds to it.My wonder years, my back pages...
The starkness of white combined with the loudest of colours to create, I think, the worst fashion phase! But who cares??? How many of us would dare to flaunt green stilts with fuchsia lipstick, metal loops and leather jackets,today? That too, with such effortless panache! Minimalism? It was symptomatic of bad fashion sense then!
Such riotously carefree, colourful times!
Whoever burst the pink-bubble!!!
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over the topism has its uses. in a time and milieu where the platform to stand out is never made available to the hoi polloi, and guarded ferociously by the respectability hounds, the outstanding will find her way anyway. and do so most grotesquely. you know why today we don't have these fashion trends anymore? because we cannot block the outstanding anymore, we have lost our cocksure cultural vanity for good. and its to these gawdy fashion pioneers that i turn when i try to seek the root of this new tolerance among the articulate middle class that has finally learnt to accept its irrelevance. but there is a continuity after all. we watch karan johar's movies, and ekta kapoor's soaps and their countless copies. we party with weird colored and slithery textured clothes. we listen to hindi news channels. we think candlelight dinners and roses and chocolates will buy us love. we tell our children we always stood first in class, without explaining how then we became our boss' slaves for life. where is sublimity today? give me eighties any day. they at least spoke for everyone, or claimed to do so. whatever.
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