I don’t think fashion was such a bother back then. Nowadays, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to look good and remain in style. Seriously, and it isn’t even funny anymore. Clothes have become so expensive, make up costs an arm and a leg, and you have to pay through your nose to get your hair done.
I mean, there was a time when one could afford to change hairstyles like every other week. Now you wouldn’t think of it, except you’re so rich it really doesn’t bother you, you’re not paying for it because some man you’ve successfully ‘maga-ed’ is paying for it or your girlfriend who is such a sweetheart doesn’t mind improving your looks for free.
Clothes nko? To get a decent pair of jeans now is hard work. It doesn’t help that fashion just keeps changing. You spend like half your earnings to get your wardrobe in tune with the latest trends (ok, I’m really just exaggerating for effect, I wouldn’t spend half my earnings on clothes, but you get the picture?) only for everything to be out of style the next season. Urrggh! But what can a gurl do right? Now, I’ve ditched all my flared and boot-cut jeans for the skinny ones because they are oh so chic and trendy when worn right. I just hope I rock them well enough before the ‘unseen forces’ controlling the fickle world of fashion decide to throw them out for reasons best known to them.
Lace wigs, Brazilian hair, Indian hair etc are like the craze right now. What I find crazier is that I would have to pay tens of thousands, sometimes even up to or over a hundred, to get one. And that does not include the stylists’ charges o. Haba, 5, 6 digit figures just to get my hair fixed? Abeg, I bless God for those who re-introduced the scarf and made it fashionable.
Make up? Shoes? I don’t even wanna get started. They come in jaw-breaking prices. The other day I couldn’t help but fall in love with this gorgeous pair of Nine West. They really were so pretty and I was starting to picture my equally pretty feet in them. But when I saw the price, I was instantly heart broken. Eight hundred and sixty sumn dollars? How can they make all those cute shoes and leave us dreaming and wishing by fixing such ridiculously high prices on them? It really isn’t fair!
White is the new black and we immediately start grabbing the next white apparels we see. Then red becomes the new black and somehow we have more red shoes and accessories. Suddenly purple becomes the new black…..will someone please just decide and let black be black and remain the only black?
Seriously, if things get any ‘worse’ I think I’ll just become a tomboy!
