Sex is always in fashion
January 25th 2011 04:12
They say that fashion repeats, and that notion can certainly be evidenced if you spend just a few moments browsing fashion history books, or even an op shop. Just look at the power shoulders of today’s on-trend jackets and dresses which are a throw back from the 80s of not all that long ago. Remember leaving that decade behind and swearing off shoulder pads forever? Oh how quickly we forgot that mantra! Instead we’re wishing we’d kept all those embellished and enhanced monstrosities so we didn’t have to fork out for new ones.
And although it doesn’t sound like a very trendy way to be considering fashion, I realised just how big those old 80s shoulder pads were when I was watching The Golden Girls on the weekend. Those ladies were seriously ahead of their time. And I’m not just talking about the fashion, which brings me to my point. I believe those four ladies in Miami were the precursor for Sex and the City, and proof that sex has always been in fashion.
Just a naive wee one when the show was in its prime, I clearly missed a lot of what was actually happening on screen, and just thought four old ladies kicking it in a beach house was kind of funny. Today watching it as dare I say it, an adult, I gasp at the subject matter and the comparison of it to the SATC gals. Is the promiscuous and proud of it Blanche not Samantha come retirement? Is Rose with her endless optimism not an early day Charlotte, albeit a farm-born and slightly stupid version? And Dorothy’s scathing opinions are certainly reminiscent of Miranda. Okay, I can admit I have no idea who Sophia compares to (Miranda’s housekeeper?), but the point is that these ladies were talking about taboo subjects relating to sex all the way back in 1985, way before Salt N Pepa decided to talk about it in 1991, and certainly way before the name Carrie Bradshaw meant anything to anyone.
The truth is, sex has always been in fashion, even if it comes via four retired ladies in Miami. Dorothy did indeed fall for a priest, although she refrained from referring to him as Friar F*ck, and one of her lesbian friends did indeed fall for Rose when staying with the four Florida dwelling ladies. Subjects such as this were still considered relatively off-limits when the sassy foursome of New York brought them to our screens, so the mind boggles as to how fashion-forward The Golden Girls really was when it went to air. Not to mention all those sequins and the shoulder pads big enough to make an NFL player nervous.
Sex and fashion will always go together, namely because sex sells, whether it be designer clothing, perfume, or an 80s TV show.
And although it doesn’t sound like a very trendy way to be considering fashion, I realised just how big those old 80s shoulder pads were when I was watching The Golden Girls on the weekend. Those ladies were seriously ahead of their time. And I’m not just talking about the fashion, which brings me to my point. I believe those four ladies in Miami were the precursor for Sex and the City, and proof that sex has always been in fashion.
Just a naive wee one when the show was in its prime, I clearly missed a lot of what was actually happening on screen, and just thought four old ladies kicking it in a beach house was kind of funny. Today watching it as dare I say it, an adult, I gasp at the subject matter and the comparison of it to the SATC gals. Is the promiscuous and proud of it Blanche not Samantha come retirement? Is Rose with her endless optimism not an early day Charlotte, albeit a farm-born and slightly stupid version? And Dorothy’s scathing opinions are certainly reminiscent of Miranda. Okay, I can admit I have no idea who Sophia compares to (Miranda’s housekeeper?), but the point is that these ladies were talking about taboo subjects relating to sex all the way back in 1985, way before Salt N Pepa decided to talk about it in 1991, and certainly way before the name Carrie Bradshaw meant anything to anyone.
The truth is, sex has always been in fashion, even if it comes via four retired ladies in Miami. Dorothy did indeed fall for a priest, although she refrained from referring to him as Friar F*ck, and one of her lesbian friends did indeed fall for Rose when staying with the four Florida dwelling ladies. Subjects such as this were still considered relatively off-limits when the sassy foursome of New York brought them to our screens, so the mind boggles as to how fashion-forward The Golden Girls really was when it went to air. Not to mention all those sequins and the shoulder pads big enough to make an NFL player nervous.
Sex and fashion will always go together, namely because sex sells, whether it be designer clothing, perfume, or an 80s TV show.
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