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Amos Oz
Monday, 3 May 2010
1984
The jumpsuits in the Observer magazine are horrible. I used to have one - red with gold stripes and bows that you tied on your shoulders and flapping bows at your calves too - but this was 1984 and such things were allowed then.
As we were there, and wore them the first time around, we now know what a timeless mistake they were.
My shallow heart does beat a little faster when I see 80s fashion, but only because it takes me right back to Miss Selfridge in Edinburgh, c.1985 (with a spectacularly bad-tempered Shirley Manson behind the counter).
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As we were there, and wore them the first time around, we now know what a timeless mistake they were.
My shallow heart does beat a little faster when I see 80s fashion, but only because it takes me right back to Miss Selfridge in Edinburgh, c.1985 (with a spectacularly bad-tempered Shirley Manson behind the counter).
Lottie, It's even worse, I once wore the red and gold striped jumpsuit to a party, with a fake fur bolero from Oxfam and gold flip flops.
When you say "once"... was this recently, in some sort of homage to the era, or at the time?
If at the time - I think it's forgiveable (on the basis that if you're absolved, so would I be for countless crimes against fashion).
It was 1984, I am not culpable!
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