Friday 24 August 2012

Bare bones of fashion


This summer I have noticed an abundance of white-on-black skull pattern on scarves, tops and leggings of young woman. Now, it's nothing new to choose clothes with potentially shocking patterns but I feel like walking up to them and asking - why do you feel like wearing skulls? is it a sign that you are worshipping death in some way? Revere it? Have a morbid fascination with dead bodies? Are toying with the idea of necrophilia? Or suicide? Collect skulls in your cellar? Mark yourself as a member of a flash mob that will descend on the city centre at some unspecified time and stand together to form a shape of a skull? Secretly wish that Thanatos might get attracted to your screaming child? Maybe you used to listen to death metal? Or dabbed in Satanism? Or you study medicine and are quietly fascinated with bones? What is the reason that you choose to display one of the universally recognisable symbols of death, decay and danger?

However, I won't ask, as I fear that the answer would be a blank look and a mumble about it being fashionable or cool or on sale.

Next summer it will be a pattern of black-on-white penises, mark my words...

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