| Funny, I don't usually watch E! TV, and my | | | | elegantly. But I still don't have the time |
| boyfriend watches it even less, but when I | | | | or money to dress well. I told you how I |
| went in to the living room last night, to my | | | | dressed in the 60's but, I have to confess, |
| astonishment he was watching the TOP 50 | | | | you'd do a double-take at some of my outfits |
| Fashion Do's and Don'ts. The show was well | | | | even now, in fact, especially now. Sometimes |
| done, with some wry humor here and there, and | | | | I will be in a store, and it is only after |
| managed to keep my interest. But I was | | | | I've gotten a couple of odd looks that I |
| saddened by one of their fashion don'ts -- | | | | realize I'm wearing those really comfortable |
| the schrunchie.Now how am I supposed to wear | | | | 'khakis' that land right above my ankle, with |
| my hair when I haven't washed it, or worse | | | | my socks showing and my really old and very |
| when I haven't gotten a haircut in six or | | | | puffy sneakers that make my feet look yet |
| seven months or years?As you may have | | | | another couple sizes bigger than the 9's they |
| guessed, I'm no fashion guru -- never have | | | | are, poking out grandly.I would have made a |
| been. There was a time in my life when I | | | | great guy. I really don't care when people |
| went barefoot and wore torn bell-bottoms, but | | | | look at me, starting at my feet and traveling |
| those were the hippie days -- after the first | | | | incredulously up to see whose face wears |
| couple of years, I stopped getting looks. In | | | | these clothes. They always avert their eyes |
| fact, at that time I considered anyone who | | | | if they notice me catch them; and it's kind |
| followed fashion to be some sort of | | | | of funny watching them trying not to laugh, |
| brainwashed, bleating sheep -- I just | | | | especially if they have a cohort nearby. I |
| couldn't understand it -- the worst | | | | think it might have upset me when I was |
| perpetrators of this 'Simon says' mentality | | | | younger, though I'd have brushed it off by |
| were the quote unquote hippies themselves. | | | | exclaiming how rude, how arrogant and how |
| They were supposedly going against the status | | | | snobbish of them. Now I laugh and make a |
| quo, but wouldn't be caught dead with the | | | | note to tell my sisters next time I wear |
| 'wrong' hairdo and they always sneered at my | | | | these pants to their house that I wore them |
| makeshift purses too (ahem).That being said, | | | | out to the store.Francesca Goldston is a |
| in my older, now wiser years, I have come to | | | | writer, living in Atlanta, happily surrounded |
| understand the desire for fashion and I | | | | by three cats and one sweetheart. |
| appreciate it, especially if it is packaged | | | | |