victim

fashion makes victims of us all. at some point or another we have all tried to wear something that wasn’t us but was in style at the time. most of us soon learn that we can’t carry it off and find “the look” that makes us comfortable.
while i am not a dedicated follower of fashion, after all i don’t need to be slobbishness is timeless, i understand the need for some people to fit in. so while i think low slung jeans are among the most stupid fashions going i can see why you might want to wear them in order to be at home with your posse/gang/set/crowd (or whatever the hip term is).
in my pantheon of stupid fashions is the wearing of baseball caps at jaunty angles – call me old fashion but they should be worn with the peak at the front or at the back, anything else is just plain stupid and makes most of the wearers look like window-lickers. but like i say what do i know about fashion?
i do know that there is a time to be “fashionable” and a time to just wear the item the way it was designed to be worn.
there i was the other day walking by sainburys and watching a traffic warden at work doling out tickets. he was hard at work, diligently checking each and ever car trying to discover an infraction that he could book them for: uniform equals power.
now i would like to say the chap in question looked smart in his uniform, well he did until you got to his cap. there it was in all its glory the shiny peak pushed over to the left, to make the wearer look so cool. all he did was remind me of a benny hill character.
it has to be doubtful if the trendy street youth who may have saw him thought he was the bees knees, if they paid him any attention they probably thought he looked liked a very silly traffic warden. lets be fair nothing you do to a traffic warden’s uniform is going to make you hip and trendy, once you put it on you just have to accept that for the rest of the working day you are going to look like a bloke in a uniform.
though for this one chap his ability to move the cap to a jaunty angle proved that once again fashion makes fools of us all.