Conformity. It’s been on my mind lately.The reason is the change of seasons actually. Spring doesn’t exist anymore and now we move from Winter to Summer in the space of a thunderstorm.
And with that is the departure of boots and their leathery enclosures and spikey heels (usually) and is replaced with flip-flops, crocs and the like.
Sigh!
However, I was thinking the other day, almost praying, that this phenomena doesn’t exist in other places … in other cities. This city, Melonville, is filled with lemmings. (I’ve spoken of this before.)
Fashion lemmings. If one person establishes a fashion atrocity (e.g. crocs) then everyone rushes out to emulate it. Heaven forefend if they are caught NOT looking exactly like the person next to them.
For example, the shirts. There is a fashion right now, where one is to where a slightly smaller shirt over a baggier shirt of which hangs down over the bum. It gives the appearance of having dressed in the dark. Probably an Old Navy perpetration – and - can you blame them!! It doubles their shirt sales – Voila!
Everyone wears this uniform now.
Ten years back it was the black top, khaki pants fad. I used to call it the Melonville uniform. It was like one of those horrible scary movies where everyone in town is possessed by creatures from an alien lagoon and must wear the same thing.
Ditto for acid wash ten years before that!
That brings us to today. That is why everyone wears flip-flops and crocs. Not to mention that many have poor taste. Especially in their choice of shoes.
High heels are not for everyone. I wouldn’t want that. It would detract from the elegance of them and frankly, given the propensity of most to gravitate to ugly shoes, the quality of the high heel would degenerate. (e.g. running shoe high heels – what was that about!)
So the equation is thus: poor taste + lemmingness = flip-flops (variable is crocs)
It just doesn’t add up to a good summer – shoe wise!
Heelfully Yours
Gillian
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