Mountain of Fire & Miracles

whatkatiedoes:

I look at my baby cousins with their sideways hair and eyeliner and sometimes feel sorry for them. There seems to be no strangeness left that hasn’t already been co-opted for a mobile phone ad or poorly imitated by Primark and sold back in identikit form to the people who invented it. Growing up in the pre-internet era it was much easier to be weird, but also much harder to live with it. Our friends were constantly beaten up because of what they wore; that’s more unusual now.

Back in my callow youth I used to describe my style as “a young, thin Pat Butcher”. As I hurtle through my 30s, not quite so thin as I was, I’m starting to suspect I might need to come up with a new phrase, but I still love this coat, so perhaps not yet.

(via Lauren Laverne’s style counsel | Fashion | The Observer)