Sunday October 25 2009, 12:27 am
I know most people don’t like long blog entries but since I almost never write things this long please bear with me. And quite frankly I think that my longer blog posts about subjects I’m passionate about are more interesting than my short every day entries.
I’ve blogged about it before but I’m gonna blog about it again. Why do people think dressing alternatively is dressing like a teenager? I realize it’s more common for teenagers to dress more extravagant and that it’s a phase for many. I can’t say that that’s not the case with me because no one can be sure of how they’ll dress in twenty years. If it is a phase it’s one that’s lasted for a very long time though. 
It annoys me. That people think I should “grow up” because I have a different taste than they have. Shouldn’t I as everyone else be able to wear what I like and feel comfortable in? If I dressed differently I wouldn’t be myself. Sure I don’t sport skull patterned skirts every day. It’s not odd seeing me in light blue jeans and a pink top. And when I dress more alternatively I don’t think I look that weird. I buy most of my clothes at regular shops, not in punk stores (Hello! I live in a small town!) and when I wear an all black outfit I stick out more than others wearing the same outfit because of my black hair and piercings. Much of my clothes could be worn by anyone really. It’s all in the details and how I combine things.
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Plugs: Shaina, Joebs, Wattle, tiff k, maria, Alice, Alyssa, Ashley, Angie, kitty, Kristine, Maria, Crash, Aly, Daniella, Nimil
Sunday October 11 2009, 8:10 pm
I’m sure everyone’s already seen this photo but I had to comment on it anyway. This is the Obama couple accompanied by the Spanish prime minister and his family. Alternative kids isn’t anything new but alternative kids with a prime minister for a father sure is new at least for me. Just compare these girls to the Bush sisters. Even though they’re wearing god awful dresses they’re still cool and so are their parents for letting them be themselves, even when they’re meeting the president of the United States. I can just imagine what my dad would say if I was to meet Barack Obama wearing combat boots.
Plugs: maria, Kelsey, kitty, Grace, Maria, Vashael, Gel, tiff k
Monday September 21 2009, 2:21 pm
My dad thinks I dress like a fourteen year old. Apparently my love for granny boots, skull patterns and Palestine scarves makes me look like a teenager. Great. Then perhaps I’ll look like twenty-five when I’m thirty-five. I wouldn’t complain about that.
Teenagers get away with a lot of crazy stuff which someone older don’t. But as long as you’re ready to take the conflicts which may arise because of the way you dress shouldn’t that be OK? Who’s to decide what’s appropriate and not for a certain age anyway?
My personal experience is that if you’re friendly and polite people will like you no matter how you dress. Some of the nicest people I’ve met have been some of the freakiest looking. Just as some of the rudest people I’ve met have been some of the most well dressed.
What’s your opinions on this?
Plugs: maria, Shaina, Angie, Pauline, Karin, Deanna, Rose, kitty, Ivy, Anna, tiff k, Giza, Mallory, Mihoriel
Tuesday September 8 2009, 4:21 pm
I read an article about a bar in Gothenburg where people with visible tattoos no longer are allowed. Of course as a owner of a establishment you have the right to choose which people to let in but I think it’s wrong. To me it’s nothing but snobbery. To think that you’re better than another group of people, because of the way they look!
If someone was denied entry to a club because their sex, the colour of their skin or just the fact that they’re conscidered ugly people would think it’s horrible. To deny people because of tattoos, piercings and the way they dress is acceptable though. Because the horror, the horror if some punk with a tattoo and god forbid a hole in his pants wanted to dine at your fancy restaurant.
It’s not just the owners of establishments fault. To appeal to a certain clientel they deny another clientel entry. Because the posh 70 year old lady probably wouldn’t want the people dining next to her to have pink mohawks and wear bondage pants. And that’s almost always the case, people outside the norm are the ones affected by these kinds of rules. I mean, have you heard about a goth club who actually denies those who aren’t goths entry?
Like I said, it’s not nescessarily the owner’s fault that things work this way. It’s society in itself that’s fucked up. We’re so good at judging eachother and so good at looking down on those who aren’t like us. I do it too but I keep my prejudices to myself and treat others the way they treat me.
And for the record, no I don’t have any tattoos myself. I still find this is upsetting.
Plugs: Candy Blush Beauty Blog, Justin, Nicki, maria, Kristine, Brian, scott, Amy, Rose, kitty, Shar, Ria
Wednesday April 16 2008, 11:58 pm
Why do people always assume I listen to metal? I listen to a lot of differnt types of music but there are only two metal bands which I really like. And people who don’t know anything about my favourite band “Manic Street Preachers” quite often assume they’re some kind of though metal band. They’re surprised when I tell them MSP is in fact brit pop. Well at least nowadays. What is it with me that apparantly screams metal? Probably just my black clothes and perhaps my piercings. But that’s really not a metal dress code. It’s not any dress code but mine. You can’t possibly tell what subculture I belong to by looking at my appearance because I don’t even belong to one. I’m just too old to care.
Speaking of subcultures. It seems every teen nowday is emo, scene or whatever you want to call it. Where’s the individuality in that? They may call it whatever they want but for 90% of those kids it’s all about fashion. They’d deny it of course but that’s the truth. Trust me, I know. I was a identity seeking teen myself once upon a time. And oh how I denied that anything I wore was worn because of some kind of fashion. Fashion was like a cursing word. Some terrible, terrible sin. But really, what in this world is not some kind of fashion? Wether you’re a slave to it or try your best to avoid it you’re still affected by trends because trends are everywhere. And fashion isn’t just what you see in mainstream stores. There’s also punk fashion, goth fashion and hippie fashion. Of course you might say that you dress the way you do because you just happens to like those clothes but in 99% of the case you did get inspired by someone or something and pretty often that inspiration was something you’ve seen several times = a trend. My point is that you just shouldn’t care. Haute cotoure or scene? Who cares, wear whatever the hell you want and be happy.
Plugs: Maria, Nellie, maria, tina, Brittany, Holly
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