Yesterday's TOTP2 had a Generation X-clip from 1978 in it. Two things:
1) I'd forgotten Billy Idol'd ever been a moon-faced young lad with a mullet;
2) the man's going to be 48 sometime this week!
1) I'd forgotten Billy Idol'd ever been a moon-faced young lad with a mullet;
2) the man's going to be 48 sometime this week!
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Carol X
Shame the band were crap.
Well, I always thought so...
As for the band, don't think they were any worse than the others that were around at the time. I listen to the Sex Pistols now, I can't believe I used to be so impressed with the rawness of it all. Mostly just sounds like noise to me now!
My 15 year old nephew's quite into that sort of thing now though - he's been plundering my record/CD-collection to burn his own, and is planning to hold a talk about it in school.
(psst there maybe more fic today! Just got to give it a look over. I've got the afternoon off so fingers crossed!)
But no, I'm sorry, I never thought to tape it...
So they gave her £2000 and told her to look for clothes in the vintage shops...which she didn't want to at first because as she said, she wanted clothes that were new, not worn by someone else; but in the end she found some great stuff: flowery, frilly, floaty dresses, fitted on top but with very wide skirts; and short fitted jackets.
Colours, lots and lots of colours -- and makeup, which she didn't use before; and high heels; and to wear dresses over trousers.
She got a beautiful flowy dress-like top from Harvey Nicks, fire engine red, stunning, that she had to wear over jeans because it had openings in teh weirdest places...but you know, it was red, and sheer, and floaty...and she looked a million dollars in it.
I'm glad the show's back on BBC2 now -- whatever possessed Auntie to banish it to BBC3 recently?
I did see the one abotu the regressing woman. She was such a fool to go back to the horror that she was...but tehn I seldom meet well-dressed poeple. Most women seem to have a talent to look their horriblest.
In all fairness to our sex, it's not just them. You look around you at the men you work with, and you start to feel real despair. For instance, how many men in The Netherlands still believe it's perfectly alright to wear white tennis socks...and grubby white tennis socks at that? Plus, if they're wearing a suit, it's always an off-the-rack of the buy 2 pay for 1-variety, with a jacket that hangs off their shoulders as if it's hanging from a sack of potatoes, and creases into the bargain, and the colours! Can I confess to a horror of mint green or aubergine in menswear?
With me, it comes and goes...I can look real smart if I put some thought and effort in, but most of the time I just wear what feels most comfortable. And I tend to dress from the feet up; first I decide what shoes I'm going to wear, then I'll think about what goes with them.
And I totally agree with your statemetn on mint and aubergine in menswear. I remember when I was still in ICT the guys alwasy thought it was just great that they were wearign them. The horror. And prereably loafers or gery plastic shoes from Bata...
Eeeewww!
And of course I knew you never had me in mind when you wrote that! You wouldn't dare: I know where you live ;-)