Remembering

I can remember how this started happening because we'd laugh about it. Not just with friends but with people we didn't know too. As it changed there was a sort of feeling that it was a bit of a joke.

Started when everyone started wearing black and you'd go out and so many people looked as if they were wearing the same because they were all dressed head to toe in black more or less. And it was a kind of a joke, you'd meet people's eyes and grin if you weren't in black and you'd joke about it because you'd just think it was a temporary fashion thing. No one was getting uptight.

But it went on for so long only to be replaced by the designer fashion fad where instead of wearing black you choose what you'd wear by label to some extent. And if you couldn't afford the real thing there were copies that were very similar or looked the same down to the wording a lot of the time.

I mean the fashion police have always been around but there've been sub cultures where you stay in the circle of the subculture so to speak but there is quite an avenue of free expression to allow you to be creative within the subculture you're with and that would be reflected a bit in society.

But stylists became the gurus. People flocking to follow them. I have friends who are stylists and are still happily original but they live in their own lifestyles. I'm talking about stylists who tell you what you should and shouldn't be wearing.

I've noticed in some magazines that they can't seem to make their minds up about what's in and what's out. Think it depends on the day.

It just limits everything and then that goes further out into society as well.