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> Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 10:15:54 -0800
> From: "Miss Jenn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: modslist-digest V1 #1072
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> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Re: A note from the old folks' home
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> >how would you expect someone to do this when you just told them everything
> >to do(in detail) to be accepted, or be a real ""mod""? do this or what?
> >you'll make fun of their nievity?
>
> I think you misunderstood my post. The idea was basically this: a lot of
> us subconciously chose to associate with a style subculture (mod in this
> case) in order to be unique (I'm sure everyone here would agree when asked
> if one of their worst nightmares is to fit in with the crowd down at the
> local Wal Mart) but when you follow a bunch of rigidly set rules disguised
> as "tradition", you're just going to look like the rest of the masses. If
> you make up your own style based on mod, you're going to be the modern day
> equivalent of the original (i.e very very very first) mods, not the 90s
> version of some kid that saw the Who on TV and thought their clothes looked
> neat. What I posted wasn't "telling people what to do in detail", it was
> putting common sense (that anybody who has belonged to a particular
> subculture, not just a mod, should know) down in writing. It was a broad set
> of guidelines that can be used to help someone get out of the parka and jam
> shoes rut (you'll notice that nowhere in the post did I actually tell them
> go go buy anything specific - no Eames chair, no Prada bag, etc...)
>
> As for the point about naivete, I am going to give you a completely honest
> answer. When I see someone walk into a club who has obviously discovered
> how to create their own style, I turn my head for a 2nd look and think "Hey,
> there's somebody who'd be interesting to chat to". When I see someone walk
> into a club with a bad attempt at a French Line haircut, a parka, bowling
> shows, and a big Who patch, frankly I laugh my @#$ off. If it's a kid I
> won't because a lot of them just havent' been exposed to the style long
> enough to get out of that pahse (I was in it too once, or at least the
> female equivalent thereof) but when I see a grown man walk in dressed like
> that, he's just fodder for my jokes the rest of the night. I'm sorry but
> I've met enough 30 year old men walking around looking like an extra from a
> Secret Affair video to take them seriously. :-)
>
> >you should take a suggestion from your own e-mail and relax. you are more
> >uptight than the kids you preach to. don't follow dave(whoever the fook he
> >is...), create your own.
>
> Ha ha :-) You have to realize that i come from British Columbia. ***I have
> smoked more weed than the cast of every bad Jamaican gangster flick
> combined**** I think you can scientifically prove that I am incapable of
> being uptight. :-)
>
> Miss Jenn
>
How long ago was YOUR "phase" of mod cliche? Just discovered the Eames chair?
(WHICH Eames chair by the way...) Man, you are light years beyond the rest of
us...
Keep talkin', I'm takin' notes...
Dan
