Replicants
April 10, 2007 | Filed under Style
If there’s one thing I don’t like about going out in my area, it’s the fact that everyone looks exactly the same. It’s almost as though there’s a standard appearance for “spoilt rich kid driving a Benz given to them for their eighteenth birthday”.
Walking into the Hawthorn tonight (my local pub/bar/miniclub), I was dressed pretty simply – I’d just been out to dinner with a few friends, so was only wearing jeans, a gray tee, and my favourite black puffy short sleeved merino wool vest with black ballet flats. I walk in and I find myself faced with group after group of girls who looked exactly the same – not only in terms of what they were wearing, but their physical attributes as well.
Tall. Tanned. Showing a large amount of leg, arm, decolletage, etc. Wearing a printed mini-pinafore dress with high heels. Long, straight, blonde hair. I could swear that each one looked exactly the same as the one before them – almost as though they had come out of the Blade Runner factory of replicants.
Where, I ask you, is the originality? Where, I ask you, are the people who trawl op shops? Where, I ask you, are the people who are willing to do the obscene and pair an eighties bubble prom dress with a pair of Chucks? I cry for the people living around me. Most importantly, I cry for myself, because the longer I live here, the more I contemplate buying a printed mini-pinafore dress and pairing it with six inch heels.
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For me, I’m no fashion guru. Quite the opposite, in fact. Which is why I always turn up at school wearing an outfit that isn’t composed of high heels, blue flaring jeans, and turtle necks.
And I see a lot of oddities here…shorts in -18 degrees celsius, togas even. Now, if that isn’t original I don’t know what is. Maybe you just live in one of those monotone communities?
Ramsha on April 11, 2007 #
You should hang around Prahran more often. You can wear ANYTHING there! ^_^~ I go all out crazy and wear my mom’s old clothes with a few hip belts and stuff.
But when I’m at Hawthorn – it’s all polos and jeans again! It’s funny isn’t it? Knox is pretty bad too – most of the girls are clones as well. Just a little bit on the chubby side.
Mish on April 11, 2007 #
I quite like the printed mini-dress, but maybe four inch heels instead of the six. Ideally with no heels at all (unless the heel is solid, and the shoe is open toe, in a bright colour). Everyone where I live looks pretty much exactly the same. My friends despair over my love for brightly coloured, loud, whacky prints though. I can’t help it. I just like ‘em at the moment!
Amber on April 11, 2007 #
I know how you feel. But that’s what fashion is, isn’t it? Designers design something, shops sell it by the truckload and everybody buys it, apart from those few who aren’t swept up with the same brush as everyone else. Admittedly, some fashions appeal to me, but not all. I don’t immediately want to go out and buy the latest fashion, just so I can look cool and feel confident that people will like what I’m wearing. I wear what’s in my wardrobe, and what I feel comfortable in. I’m not exactly Kate Moss, but then again I’m not exactly Ugly Betty either.
I say, wear what you want to wear! If it’s in fashion, cool, if it’s not, who cares?
Laura on April 11, 2007 #
Sadly, I don’t think it’s just there. Everyone, everywhere seems to look the same these days :P
Matt on April 11, 2007 #
Agree with the above, though it tends to ebb and flow in groups. While I’m in the mall at lunch break at work everyone in there looks like a Supré clone; cutoff denim shorts and 3/4 tights, baggy black sackshirts with gold lamé ‘punk’ designs, striped undershirts. Then when I go have dinner in the gentrified ‘trendy’ district everyone’s fashion moves into pinafores, wide belts and teetering heels. Then on the weekend when I go into town I’m assaulted by miles of boho arts students in keffiyeh and layered skirts and loose-knit beanies.
Maybe it’s just because I’m not ‘part’ of those fashions that I can’t see the difference… like being racist, but with clothes. o_O
Dee on April 11, 2007 #
I don’t notice how people are dressed much, but quite often I must say that groups of friends have the exact same hairstyle. There are so many girls with hair approximately shoulder-length, brown, with blonde highlights.
“my favourite black puffy short sleeved merino wool vest” If it’s your favorite, does it mean you have several black puffy short sleeved merino wool vests?
Julie on April 11, 2007 #
around here *some* people look the same. like the big sunglasses and flip-flops, but then again it’s So-Cal…so it’s normal for people to wear I guess. but yeah I’ve seen people like those around. kinda scary.
marilyn on April 11, 2007 #
I feel so ashamed I know what a pinafore dress is.
Paddy on April 11, 2007 #
I thought pinafores were some kind of sailing vessel?
Belinda on April 11, 2007 #
Screw trends, screw clones, yay me! lol.
Faith Bowie on April 12, 2007 #
Scarily, I noticed that myself. There’s just no variety in people anymore.
Jordie on April 15, 2007 #
Ah the hawthorn, i know what you mean, its filled with spoilt grown up brats.. you should try the nevermind for more originality..
caitlin on July 22, 2009 #