Young Reporter: [who Travis has a crush on] Say are those girls jeans?
Travis : [who bought them at a thrift store and didn't notice there was a difference until this moment] Uh...yeah, yeah they are. It's the latest thing.
YR: Really?
T: [brazening it out] Yes, it is, but it's totally punk and underground and stuff. Just for hardcore shows [which he knows the reporter doesn't go to]. It's like emo, but for fashion. Kind of a, um, Bowie androgyny thing, but for hardcore.
YR: Oh, that explains the hair.
T: [didn't wash his hair and one greasy lock keeps covering one eye] Uh...yes, that's part of it too.
YR: 'Caus the style is sort of like an 80's new wave girl, sorta. A really burly, unshaven 80's new wave girl.
T: That's the point. It's so strange it's cool y'know.
YR: All you need is the white belt -
T: [had no idea until this moment] Oh, we've got the white belts.
YR: We?
T: Yeah, me and my pals we step out to shows all, uh, uh... fashioncore style.
YR: [no longer skeptical] Fashioncore? Really?
T: [brazen] You bet, two of my friends are fashioncore and there's usually a bunch of fashioncore guys at a show.
YR: Wow, that's kind of sexy gender play.
T: Actually it's a whole new subset of hardcore - too tough for emo, but softer than the stupid macho crap.
YR: Wow, this would make a great story! I usually avoid hardcore like the plague but this - I just need a photographer. When's the next show in the fashion core scene?
T: [weakly] Um...next Friday?
YR: Thanks Travis, you are so cool.
NEXT SCENE:
Danny: You want us to WHAT?
T: Please guys, she's really cool and I'm gonna look like an idiot.
Brandon: Dude, I am so there. I just hope you know Reflux is going to kick the shit out of us when they find out you labeled them fashioncore.
I wish that was true. Were it so, I would buy drinks for all the kids.
I think another dialogue may have occurred, though, among the fashion "guerilla marketing" crowd. It has been pointed out to me by at least two people that women's jeans are a lot more expensive than men's, and that the ladies ready-to-wear industry has got to be delighted by all of this.
And if it results in Saves the Day or Taking Back Sunday wearing skorts and espadrilles on stage, it's all worth it.
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I'm suspecting
Date: 2004-09-21 07:34 am (UTC)Young Reporter: [who Travis has a crush on] Say are those girls jeans?
Travis : [who bought them at a thrift store and didn't notice there was a difference until this moment] Uh...yeah, yeah they are. It's the latest thing.
YR: Really?
T: [brazening it out] Yes, it is, but it's totally punk and underground and stuff. Just for hardcore shows [which he knows the reporter doesn't go to]. It's like emo, but for fashion. Kind of a, um, Bowie androgyny thing, but for hardcore.
YR: Oh, that explains the hair.
T: [didn't wash his hair and one greasy lock keeps covering one eye] Uh...yes, that's part of it too.
YR: 'Caus the style is sort of like an 80's new wave girl, sorta. A really burly, unshaven 80's new wave girl.
T: That's the point. It's so strange it's cool y'know.
YR: All you need is the white belt -
T: [had no idea until this moment] Oh, we've got the white belts.
YR: We?
T: Yeah, me and my pals we step out to shows all, uh, uh... fashioncore style.
YR: [no longer skeptical] Fashioncore? Really?
T: [brazen] You bet, two of my friends are fashioncore and there's usually a bunch of fashioncore guys at a show.
YR: Wow, that's kind of sexy gender play.
T: Actually it's a whole new subset of hardcore - too tough for emo, but softer than the stupid macho crap.
YR: Wow, this would make a great story! I usually avoid hardcore like the plague but this - I just need a photographer. When's the next show in the fashion core scene?
T: [weakly] Um...next Friday?
YR: Thanks Travis, you are so cool.
NEXT SCENE:
Danny: You want us to WHAT?
T: Please guys, she's really cool and I'm gonna look like an idiot.
Brandon: Dude, I am so there. I just hope you know Reflux is going to kick the shit out of us when they find out you labeled them fashioncore.
Re: I'm suspecting
Date: 2004-09-21 11:13 am (UTC)I think another dialogue may have occurred, though, among the fashion "guerilla marketing" crowd. It has been pointed out to me by at least two people that women's jeans are a lot more expensive than men's, and that the ladies ready-to-wear industry has got to be delighted by all of this.
And if it results in Saves the Day or Taking Back Sunday wearing skorts and espadrilles on stage, it's all worth it.
Re: I'm suspecting
Date: 2004-09-21 01:41 pm (UTC)