Observations on Seattle Fashion
I'm not courageous enough to start covertly taking pictures of people on the street and/or outright stopping people on the street to ask them to pose like the fantastically awesome documentical girls at hel-looks.com, but I do notice certain patterns at play on the streets of Seattle:
- curiously high percentage of people using canes (not just the elderly)
- small but interesting percentage of people (okay, just one) of a girl with a broken leg who, instead of using crutches, had a little cart thingie that she used to half-kneel her bad leg on the little seat, then held onto the handlebars and rode the little thing around like those old-timey scooters that Marty McFly broke in two to make himself a skateboard.
- in certain geographical zones, increased cases of girls with clothes and hair modeled closely after Molly Ringwald c. 1982-1986
- unexpectedly high occurrence of sports fan fashion, particularly in support of the Mariners and University of Washington (special UW note: their mascot is the "Huskies" and I passed a store called "Husky Headquarters" the other day on the bus. I sincerely thought this was a store for overweight children, much like the store where Bobby Hill worked at as a husky-sized model in that one episode of King of the Hill.)
- lots of cyclists = lots of one legged pants rollup
- dogs
- and at the bus stop on the corner of 3rd and Pike at 2:30AM only...one guy in a Cuban military beret and an eyepatch. But he totally had style, like a combination of Dave Chapelle and Andre 3000. Oh, and Dale Chihuly.
In a certain high school in a certain small town in Texas, there was a girl a certain husband of mine called "Peppermint Patty". Her mother is CERTAINLY a hypochondriac, but I don't think she faked the foot surgery that netted her one of those leg scooter things. I wish I had first seen one on someone cooler.
Ahh, you may or may not remember me, I've e-mailed you a few times over the years. I've been reading you for like 8 years on Diaryland, and kept up through your Finland trip, and then you weren't updating so I stopped checking. Well I just randomly checked again today, and now you live in my city. :P Weird. Anyway, your observations are most definitely correct, and I'm surprised by the ones I don't see on the list. You should do another, now that you've been here a bit longer.