That was just like categorically unacceptable for boys.
So I was reduced to pretending to be totally absorbed in an issue of "Car and Driver" or "Sports Illustrated"!
YUCK!
Well that was grade school/junior high. Things changed rapidly. Fashion became very, Very, VERY important.
By high school, MTV wasn't just a music video showcase, it was a living and breathing fashion magazine.
Elsa Klensch was my hero as a fashion journalist that covered fashion designers and fashion shows across the country. She taught me who the pioneers and designers were like Chanel, Donna Karen, Ralph Lauren, and Calvin Klein.
I learned terms like 'haute couture', 'basic black', 'classic style', 'cut on the bias', 'hounds tooth', and 'paisley'.
By college, I knew who all the supermodels were, what was happening in fashion and the powerful influence of Madonna and Michael Jackson on what us ordinary people wore.
Today, I am just short of clueless on what is considered the latest and greatest fashions. I THINK skinny jeans, jeggings and burnout t's are the style of the day.
I'd look silly in some of today's styles. But since I learned at an early age what 'classic style' is, I just wear the basic classics so I don't get laughed out of social situations.
I did my homework. ;-)
