Homework!

Back in the day,  the school library carried all these magazines.  I really wanted to peruse through "Vogue" and "Bazaar".  

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.  ;-)

The Same But Different

Again, huge Madonna fan.  She’s the messiah of look at me, Look At Me, LOOK AT ME DAMN IT!  Her spoof of Marie Antoinette, (another Doodle Diva recurring character), at an awards show back in the 90’s is  one of my all time faves. 

Part of the humor with Doodle Divas is how naïve they can be.  So the relationship between Madonna’s Marie Antoinette spoof and Doodle Divas is actually an ironic one. 

Madonna  wore this onstage to clearly demand attention.  Doodle Divas would wear this to go grocery shopping and be puzzled by all the stares!  ;-)