Slashin’ Fashion
We used to think that what we wore in public really mattered.
No one wanted to appear in clothing ripped and tattered.
But now it seems the custom is to vintage-up our fashion
like it has been ripped apart in the throes of passion.
Everywhere we go, bare skin is brashly popping out
as though we can’t afford new jeans and it’s a thing to flout.
When we gain weight we do not have to buy a bigger jean,
we simply use our scissors to augment the space between!
Old men shake their heads in shock and nearly lose their dentures,
and yet these wanton ladies draw their looks as well as censures,
for when they rouge their cheeks, they do not deal with only two.
Now they have to prep four cheeks for the world to view.
I worked on this poem for over an hour and when I tried to add an illustration, I lost it all! Nowhere to be found. Nowhere in drafts. Yes, a bit of cussing. I don’t know about you, but after I’ve written something, I forget it completely, so I had to start out again from scratch. This time it went more quickly, though, and although it is generally the same idea, you know what they say about the one that got away!
This time I’m copying it into my sticky notes before I try to save and illustrate it. This is the first time I haven’t done so in a long time and now I remember why I always did so! Image found on the internet. No credits given.
The Daily Addictions prompt is augment.
The Ragtag prompt is vintage.
It’s a juvenile fashion … makes me laugh! Cheers Jamie
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Oh My …. one does have to laugh. I hope she doesn’t thin no one is going to look.
She may be attracting the wrong type of person.
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I think the point is to invite people to look. There are people, myself included, for whom this would not be a “look” that invited admiration.
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“Four cheeks” is precious, Judy! Nobody is exposed to a multitude of them they way we are, on South Beach.
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Aha.. I bet. I’ve seen photos of videos of women walking down the street in bikinis. Now that is confidence.
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No, it’s the dress code of SoBe. By bikinis you mean a string in the back and three post stamps in front? And why only women? We are totally open to an entire alphabet soup here, and sometimes gender is very hard to discern.
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And so do you own a special bikini to cook in?
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This is great!
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Nicely (re)done, Judy. I once had a teacher who suggested that, after the first draft, we put our manuscript away and start again from the beginning. I haven’t done that.
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No.. I think that is a bit extreme. I do think we can benefit from looking at something we wrote long ago and cutting it down to the bare bones, though… especially with poetry.
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This was MY week to realize that some hugely hefty ladies are walking around in very short shorts. They are the kind of short shorts that I wouldn’t have worn at my fittest and most youthful and I’m still trying to figure out … why? What am I missing?
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I think we can thank Kim Kardashian for that.
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So funny.
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As a Social Work manager in the early ’70s, I sent a male social worker home to change his slashed jeans. This was before the fashion had hit, and I saw it as an insult to poor clients who nevertheless tried to look their best.
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He was ahead of the times, I guess. I think it is ridiculous, but then I guess adults found our teenage dress ridiculous, too.
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Yes, it used to be embarrassing to have a rip– and they were always on the knee, where one might normally rip jeans.
I always do my stuff in Word Perfect, cut and paste. Often comments, too. Some little glitch and stuff disappears. 😶
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I always think I’ll do so and then in the throes of creation, I forget.
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YES LOVE THIS
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So, do you own any slashed fashion, Paige?
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Nice post… personally I go for ripped jeans…love them….💓
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;O) Thanks for being a good sport about it! That’s what fashion is all about–personal choice.
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Yea!…xx
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Great poem, and so true!! (I also do love a ripped jean!)
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Bet you are a young thang!!!
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In my day it was patched jeans, the crazier the better!!
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I did that last week on a wordle. I did rewrite it. It is never the same though. Pita! ; )
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Thanks for redoing the poem! I always wonder why anybody would pay top dollar for jeans so badly ripped!
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