WHY OH WHY?!
I just don’t understand how we can have people like ClemencePoesy, Zooey Deschanel, Carey Mulligan and dare I say the super-cool, sickeningly on-trend Alexa Chung walking our streets (well.. the much cooler, cleaner and richer streets) and yet so many people chose to follow the style of Cher Lloyd. Yes people I said it. Cher Loyd, the fame-whore’ing, Cheryl wannabe, drama fanatic, whinge bag is taking over our streets in every Tom, Dick and Harry you can find (obviously the girl version of Tom, Dick and Harry).
Today was when this heart-stopping realisation came to me. I was walking down Henry street admiring the typical Henry street surroundings! Little boys with their ‘trackies’ tucked in socks, middle-aged woman pushing buggies whilst screaming down the phone at someone (I always thought it was quite unnnecessary to have a phone when they’re shouting so loud.. no doubt whoever they are talking to can here them wherever they are in the country) and of course the people whom, without Ireland would be, well… England probably, the token grannys at the sidestreets bellowing out ’2 FOR A EUURRRO LOVE’. Anyway, back to the point. None of this phased me in the least because just like the extraordinarily strange architecture of the Spire and the likes, I was used to it all.. But when I saw not one, not two, not three or four or five. But One BILLION teenage girls with high buns, bandannas, fake eyelashes and ADIDAS trackiesI knew that Ireland would not be the same again.
I would sincerely love for someone to explain to me how Cher Loyd, of all people, is now considered a style icon to the easily manipulated minds of the tween/teenagers of the 21st century? Will she go down in fashion history as the person who brought back bandanas after EVERYONE burned the photos of themselves wearing them with their flowery peddlepushers and Spice Girls t-shirts when they were 7? Will 2011 be the year that sales of Adidas tracksuite soared higher than they could ever have imagined? Will false eyelashes and panstick be just as obligatory as clothes are now in 5 months time?
Dear God, maybe i’m just making myself a tad crazy here…or maybe the XFactor should be banned for allowing such ill-advised (in the fashion sense, of course) tweens to enter into the public eye? But won’t somebody please just think of the children??
