TRENDIES, ROCKERS AND NOTHING IN BETWEEN?

Do you know what I find so irritating? Fashion-sheep, that's what. All the completely uncreative riffraff who think that everybody has to wear Nike trainers and listen to rave.

Overheard at the bus stop: two girls talking about a particular item of clothing. The one said to the other "I like it but I wouldn't wear it." When asked why by the other one, the first one replied "Because I've never seen anyone else wearing it."

Now, I think that's pathetic. These sort of people have absolutely no originality whatsoever - they think that they have to dress in a certain way or listen to a certain type of music just because everyone else does.

The same people divide the entire human race into two categories: "trendies" and "rockers". If you don't possess a Benetton bag then you must be a "rocker". A lot of the rockers ("metallers" would be a more precise word, actually) go on about how non-fashionable they are, and how they "hate" trendies. A slightly hypocritical statement there, as there's as many rockers as trendies, which makes them equally trendy, doesn't it? Metal and rave both get into the charts, it's not as if the so-called rockers are listening to bands that no-one's ever heard of.

A few years ago, I started wearing 60s and 70s clothes because I wanted to be different and I didn't care what anyone else thought. I was seen in a pair of original platforms up town by some trendy who thought it was hysterically funny that I should be wearing such unfashionable footwear. Of course, platforms came back into fashion recently, and it was looked upon as slightly uncalled-for if you didn't wear them. At the moment some items of clothing that were "in" in the 70s are being dragged back again, to be donned by gullible people who daren't be different. Appalling. Now I can't wear what I want without looking like everyone else.

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