I just got really confused. My name is Jenna and my daughter's name is Sadie, and I thought perhaps we had gone Rodarte touching in our sleep last night. Phew, crisis averted.
Unrelated to the topic but related to something in Jenna's post I don't get-- Why is Williamsburg now codeword for hipster? How did it become something of a hipster mecca? Is this Williamsburg, Virginia, the colonial town?
@remedios: although frankly it would be refreshing if the denizens of Williamsburg, Brooklyn started dressing like those of Colonial Williamsburgh, VA. half the dudes already have appropriate facial hair.
@sportz.star: I've always thought that "Williamsburg Hipsters Set Adrift In Colonial Williamsburg" would be a generative concept for possibly the beat reality TV show ever. Call it "Williamsburg Crossing" and get Attenborough to do the narration.
@Jenna: Oh god, Attenborough. That is awesome. Course if he was narrating it would need a naturalist survival of the fittest theme. Brooklyn hipsters surviving with colonial tools in Colonial Williamsburg. Much like KidsNation, or whatever that was, only with highly educated and highly inept hipsters. It would be brilliant.
@Penny: I've been hacking off the back of my growing out pixie for weeks. I know there are ways to grow out the back without being a circa-2007 fashion mullet but I'll be damned if I can figure it out.
@J.D.Regent: I used to do the back of my pixie cut with a Bic razor, running it down sections of hair to thin it out and shorten it at the same time. It is was more forgiving than the scissors...
Please add to the Undignified List: Unicorn-print Vans. I'm technically twice as old as I need to be to get a free pass on these, but they make me so happy, and they seem to put a smile on the faces of all my friends and also random passersby.
I tried to embed a photo of the unicorn sneaks in the post, but I am too confused about the "new rules," plus I've never been an HTML whiz.
@SharonTaint: I'm with you on that. Also, I saw nothing wrong with that shirt Madonna was wearing! Actually, now that I think about it, whoever came up with that slideshow was an anal prude! Humph!
Reading that list is painful. I'm a pretty dull/conservative dresser - lots of dark colors, simple and classic pieces - but even I find their guidelines boring and restrictive. Clothes should be fun!
I used to wear really crazy clothes when I was in school, but got very conservative once I graduated from college. I had an epiphany a little while ago that I should dress "fun" again. I'm in the progress of replacing all my plain t-shirts and jeans/slacks with vintage threads. Luckily, I know how to do vintage a little better now than I did in high school (i.e. no big collared thick polyester lime green shirts).
@cate3710: I wore a big hat with sunglasses to an art fair, and all the poor artists thought I was a rich heiress and showered me with brochures for their galleries. I totally recommend wearing outlandish hats.
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I tried to embed a photo of the unicorn sneaks in the post, but I am too confused about the "new rules," plus I've never been an HTML whiz.
Here's the pic in old-school link format:
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w15/otherpeoplesstories/unicornsneakers.jpg
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