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