It's the Russians You need to Worry About...

Okay so I'm just going to preface that today everything seemed to be going wrong so I came home and went to sleep hoping to wake up and start over this evening. I woke up to an email with some good potential so now for some entertainment: When Britney Spears, Christina Aguleria and Co. first came onto the pop scene (circa 1997ish) people were shocked by their clothes and worried what kind of message they were sending to the young girls who followed them. Well since 1997, I have not seen many young girls dressing like they belong in a music video 24/7 and now I think Christina's grown up and defined her image and her audience has grown up with her, Britney's no longer a role model (she lost that status when she married K-Fed) and Jessica (formerly the virgin Minister's daughter) Simpson is the one marketing on sex appeal (and being overtaken by her newly cuter younger sister). Pretty much the others in the business at the time have either moved onto other things, gave way to new vixens who are not teens (i.e. Shakeria)or grown up themselves. Basicaly, I have not seen the negative side effects that were predicted to result from this generation of pop stars...and then I met a girl from Moscow, Russia. She is about 25, maybe 27 and each day she comes into class dressed like a poorly wardrobed back-up dancer in a music video (the type that would love K-Fed for his sleeziness). Her hair is bleached out and long (possibly extensions) with a few strands of hot pink, a few strands of black and, my personal favorite, a 3-inch wide section that starts about 4 inches from her roots and alternates between black and pink stripes. If you can believe it, the hair is far from the worst part of her daily ensambles. According to Patrick, she is part of the well off section of Moscow that gets MTV and uses it to form opinions of America and fashion. The thing is her clothes are so tacky they look more like Rave than Forever21 (and that's not saying that Forever21 is the best but they tend to be classiey than Rave). A typical outfit consists of boots, embazzled with sequins, beads or some sort of friverlously decorative article. Said boots are black and either have a stiletto or a 4-inch platform, she does own one pair of white boots that lace up in the front and zipper down the back all of said boots are of synthetic materials. One day she didn't wear boots but that was equaly disasterous with a pair of stacked wedge pumps (sounds cute but read on) black with bronze rivets all around the top and outlining the entire wedge, a gold piece of string that looked like it came off a box of Russel Stovers was tied around her ankle and it was visable as she was wearing black pants that stopped at the knee cumulating in a gathered snap and only suitable for well-to-do Pilgrims. If that wasen't bad enough, the pants had pleather back pockets with silver trim and a chain! These pants were paired with textured tights, a black long sleeve velvet shirt that had two sholder cutouts with mesh inlay and accented with giant hoop earings (the only thing not black but purple and sparkly), fishnet hand socks without fingers and the tackiest belt ever (not in belt loops of course) black pleather with multi colored jewels all over it and a jewel incrusted oversized silver buckle. This is as good an example as any of her daily look. Often the hair is braided at the bottom and a terrible mesh baret looking contraption is used to cover top (hence why I think extensions may be involved.) Every day, I look at her and hate American pop just a little bit but moreso I wonder when she will wake up and realize that no one in the real world dresses like that!