Bizarre designer fashions

Well, my son doesn't have a "group" -- he just thinks it makes sense to avoid things that could damage his body. Some sXe'ers used to think they had the right to force their viewpoint on others -- but most do not. This is the first I've heard of any white supremacy notions. Some of my son's heroes are black, and some of the people he supports are black. I don't always agree with his choices of heroes, but skin color has nothing to do with it. He went through an anarchist period, but has moved away from that now.

If you can have a gang that has no meetings, no "officers" or any other structure, then surely any group of people could be labelled a "gang." Boy Scouts, fraternities, civic clubs, chess clubs, people who grocery shop on Fridays......the possibilities are endless.

Oh, much better than I found! Since it has Carol in it.

Tangerine Dream:

"Knit Chic" wrote in news:aclIg.3652$ snipped-for-privacy@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com:

are you following me? :)

lee

...people who sew.....people who participate in online sewing 'newsgroups'....

;-)

Beverly

If you wear that, you will match your coach when it turns back into a pumpkin at midnight.

Uh oh!!!

Wanna be in *my* gang?

I would consider it an honor. The heck with those coppers.

Hey, I LIKE this one ... I'd add a little 'tag' hat and wear it for Halloween! Hershey Kiss with boots. ;) PAT, Official Chocolate Taster at RCTQ*

Oh my gosh you found it!! That's great... thanks so much for posting it!

If your mother dressed you like a convent girl, and you resented it, and wanted to dress like the "other girls," you might be likely to be more sympathetic to a child of your own wanting to dress like the others. Then there are the mothers who married too young, now feel that they missed out on their own youth, and want (consciously or subconsciously) to relive it vicariously through their children.

People are funny. The most outrageous dresser I know is an older woman who wears vividly colorful clothing and huge, unusual jewelry -- she was raised in a Mennonite family. She is aware that she is reacting to years of navy blue and burgundy dresses with aprons and caps.

You'll notice they don't show that one on a real person. I'll bet they couldn't find anyone to put it on!!

Ms P

I dressed like a convent school girl when I was was one: nasty navy uniform. During the holidays I looked like a proto hippy! Luckily, other than vetoing totally unsuitable stuff I'd never have worn anyway (think dressing like my granny or a tart on the game) my mum never vetoed anything I chose to wear. My dad only tried once, but choked, as he put it, on the stench of burning martyr! Luckily I had reasonable dress sense for a teenager in the mid 70's. Sort of cross between Laura Ashley and Twiggy in the 60's. Even in those days I liked Jean Muir... I was always more Biba and Mary Quant than acid pop.

I never resented the convent girl stuff: I just let it slide over me and slip off when it wasn't needed. On a mufti day, I dressed like I usually did at home: brown cord loons, my favoured shirt of the day, big MASCULINE belt, cloppy horse-hoof platforms, brown eyeshaddow, matching lippy... Sr Angela queried the lippy - but just smiled when I pointed out that it matched the nail polish! She complemented me on the blouse, but I pouted that *this* wasn't how I wore it at home... Show me, she said, so I undid it up to the midriff and tied the tails in a knot, showing my tummy. Her comment: Possibly not for school, but at least I had the figure for it! Our nuns were realistic, if nothing else!

At least she knows what she's doing, and probably has more style than most folk her age! ;)