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Article: Why we should sock it to these sad fashionistas
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- November 5, 2004
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The other day I sat opposite a girl on the tube who was wearing a
pair of knee-length white socks. She must have been the same age as
me, it was utterly freezing outside, but she was wearing bobbly
patterned knee-length white socks. And people wonder why there's
still a crime problem in Glasgow.
I have never understood this desperate need to dress like someone
who has only recently mastered their three-times-table. When I was
that age I couldn't wait to graduate to ankle socks or, the real big-
girl stuff - tights. Part of the fun of being young was dressing up,
trying on my Mum's high heels and party dresses, and smearing on the
odd streak of illicit lipstick. I was desperate to appear ...