Thigh socks rock

Friday, October 23, 2015

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My outfit is basically an homage to one that caught my eye twenty years ago in the crazy days of childhood. Picture the scene: Mum's driving my friend and I through the pitch black countryside in the evening in the mid nineties to a disco for Brownies the local area. I was nervous. We were a little lost. Then all a sudden we came across the venue, which was unmistakably the right place due to the blaring music and lights. As we drove closer I heard the most amazing track start to play and witnessed my Mum's face display a look of pure horror. Had it not been for my friend in the car I'm in no doubt we would have U-turned and been out of that car park faster than you could say “teenage pregnancy”. Anyway, I was somehow allowed out of the car, ready to make the coolest entry to a party imaginable to Coolio's Gangsta's Paradise. It's been one of my very favourite tracks since that day, bringing back memories of that evening. 
thigh socks and a miniskirt in the woods
Some things never change. I didn't really speak to anyone much that night. The music was so loud I couldn't hear anything anyone was saying anyway and I only knew a couple of people. The evening was mostly spent awkwardly dancing and trying to blend in as well as drinking copious bottles of panda pops and eating crisps I expect. As well as learning the f-bomb for the first time (Who the f*ck is Alice, shouted loudly to the chagrin of the brownie leaders) I also realised how much younger and plainer I looked than the other girls my age. Although I was around 10 or 11 at the time, I felt so much more childish than the other girls, both in looks and in the way I acted. The boys were a foreign species. Not one of them looked at me, not one of them spoke to me and of course absolutely none asked me to dance. It seemed to set a precedent for every other social occasion (ever).
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There was this one girl who turned out to be the same age as me who wore this amazing outfit which has stuck with me for the last two decades; a red tartan mini skirt, over the knee socks and a turtle neck top. She looked so cool and all the boys wanted to hang around her. Urgh. Anyway, I've finally recreated the outfit for myself and feel happy as a pig in sh*t.


Sophie  

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