Jess. NJ. Bit of an old soul. Cheery misanthrope. My eccentricities can be traced back to growing up in a haunted mansion.
I also help run this Tumblr.
Things you'll see here: 80s decadevomit, general personal musings, my face - if you're unlucky enough to catch it whilst scrolling by, and between the New Romantics and the shattered remains of my sanity - some punk music and other odds and ends.
New romantics.
“Jon Savage has described one early Johnny Rotten outfit thus: “a velvet-collared drape (Ted) festooned with pins (punk), massive pinstripe pegs (modernist), a pin-collar Wemblex (Mod) customised into an ‘Anarchy’ shirt (punk) and brothel creepers (Ted).” Punk was a cut-up of every post-1945 style, put back together collage-style in a mocking critique of what everyone else was wearing. Essentially, punk threw it all up in the air and then left the stage to let it fall where it might. In the immediate aftermath, the Rotten outfit separated back out into its original components: there was a Ted revival, a Mod revival, and even - in the shape of the “Punk’s not dead” third wave of bands - a kind of punk revival.
But the New Romantics came at it in a different way. Instead of taking these trousers or those shoes, they carried on with the cut-up method itself. Only now it wasn’t just post-war street style that was up for grabs, it was the entire history of costume. They left the twentieth century.”
-The Look
(Source: nomadicstatic)
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New romantics at the Blitz.
Steve Strange.
“Jon Savage has described one early Johnny Rotten outfit thus: “a velvet-collared drape (Ted) festooned with pins (punk), massive pinstripe pegs (modernist), a pin-collar Wemblex (Mod) customised into an ‘Anarchy’ shirt (punk) and brothel creepers (Ted).” Punk was a cut-up of every post-1945 style, put back together collage-style in a mocking critique of what everyone else was wearing. Essentially, punk threw it all up in the air and then left the stage to let it fall where it might. In the immediate aftermath, the Rotten outfit separated back out into its original components: there was a Ted revival, a Mod revival, and even - in the shape of the “Punk’s not dead” third wave of bands - a kind of punk revival.
But the New Romantics came at it in a different way. Instead of taking these trousers or those shoes, they carried on with the cut-up method itself. Only now it wasn’t just post-war street style that was up for grabs, it was the entire history of costume. They left the twentieth century.”
-The Look
(Source: nomadicstatic)
