Thanks to Youtube, I can share my love of Arab pop stars with anyone foolish enough to humor me. "Wait! Just one more! This Nancy Ajram video is awesome! The guy's deaf! Where are you going?"
I roped my 12 year old L.A. born and raised cousin into sitting through one of these sessions. In return, she got to show me the music her generation likes these days. It's not Hannah Montana, to my surprise, but some other Disney with a name that escapes me but reminded me of a latte. (Levi Mochiato?) And vampires.
I was showing her the latest Dana video (ana alasl) when my aunt joined. She mentioned that Dana would be considered somewhat chunky in American media.
Are you fucking kidding me?
At least Syria and America are decided on one thing: tight jeans. Pants that are tight to the ankle are not a Syrian thing, as I supposed, but were everywhere in America. Especially LA. Leggings, often in lieu of pants, are popular in both places as well. Actually, the styles in Syria and America were pretty much the same. My cousin laughed at my flare jeans, as much as my boyfriend does in Syria. The windbreaker I wore to go out on the town was considered as uncool in the States as it in Syria (I don't care! It's freaking cold!) .
Is this what globalization portends? A world in which I can go nowhere without being confronted with stupid skinny jeans? Where the fashion is the same across 11 time zones and supposedly huge cultural gaps? Last summer an American friend went to visit the States and came back with this report: fat and naked. Perhaps it was too early for the expanses of American flesh to emerge, but I still think it's going to be the same basic fashion in NY and Damascus come summer as well.
Whatever. I am now of an age where I can refuse to care about fashion. I liked the pants we were wearing in the late 90s/early 00s and that's what I'm sticking with, and that's what I'm going to stick with for the next 20 years.
This is exactly why I'm going to grad school: sweats for the next 5-6 years. I am officially old and it is damn comfortable!
Thursday, April 16, 2009
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I noticed exactly the same thing with the shorts. Remember those, girls were wearing knee length shorts (black, or denim) a couple of years ago. I came to London and surprise, surprise, everyone's wearing it too!
We're not unfashionable, we're unique!
great post!!!
Demi Lovato!
Lemi Dovato? wait.
yeah I dont like your flare pants either, when i see you in them it makes me mad. i like this one skirt you have, a black tank thing that involves safety pins, something red that you wrap on your arms (i think it might have been some crepe paper you saved and wore as an 'accessory') and your like a virgin and say yes to michigan shirts. i tried to like the patterned collar shirt you have...but i just cant. i also like the coin belt you have that sheds coins
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