#BreakItDownNow: @SaintPepsi on Fashion
<editorsnote> Nerds, meet Jordan. He's been writing for us for a while now ... actually come to think of it, he was one of the first writers on this site - so he's been here a superly duperly long time. He lives in Kansas, and recently came out to LA to hang out. Here was his take on the fashion ... </editorsnote>
#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @SaintPepsi
Ok, I'm not going to claim to know everything there is to know about fashion. In fact, I'm generally a T-shirt and jeans kind of guy. Still, my friends and the girls I have dated have told me I've got an eye for it. So when I come to California; I get excited to see some fashion conscious peoples. While Kansas isn't that bad fashion wise, you are usually stuck with some pretty set fashion statements. One of those particular fashion statements is plaid. In fact my dad who is a farmer has been rocking plaid for his whole life. To my surprise and slight horror what did I find in every top notch fashion store? Plaid! I went to Armani, Prada, Hugo Boss, all over looking for a nice shirt for dinner tonight only to find my options were all in plaid. Had I known, I would have stolen some shirts from my dad. Because button up plaid shirts have been fashionable for farmers sense farming started. Even if I shelled out the cash for a designer plaid shirt here in LA, as soon as I stepped off the plane in Kansas I would be one of many in the agriculture area of fashion. I would have been endlessly mocked for wearing a plaid shirt that cost more than 10 bucks too. We are frugal people in Kansas.
Don't get me wrong plaids can be exciting with so many colors. Each of these colors interwoven and subtle. Plaids have a long and wonderful history. The Irish and Scottish used them to distinguish clans. I wonder are their certain clans in the fashion world that know who their enemies or allies are based on the colors of plaid they wear. Do they walk by each other sneering and glaring with the intent to harm because their opposing clans plaid was worn so blatantly in public. Do runway models purposely bump into each other to show their dominance for their clans worn plaid. Maybe plaid is like gang affiliation colors of the modeling world. Sporting west side manufacturers or East side designers. Do battles go down in the dressing rooms with hair spray set to flame, and hair picks being thrown like shurikins. Screams of agony as a pleated plaid skirt gets ripped in the fray or a popped plaid collar gets put down in it's proper position. Breaking bottles of conditioner and raising forces of spartens over the colors of a tarten. Checking others out with a fist of foundation for their checkered cloth choice. I can only assume the battle rages on as the models rush out for fear of joining the fray. So where did this surge of plaids come from in the fashion world. What brought about this illogical leaning towards the fashion of the dust bowl. 
This happened years ago when Nirvana made it big into the music scene with Flannel. Yes sir yet another in the plaid family. Flannel coats and shirts started popping up all over. This wasn't fashionable it was merely copying the clothing of the most influential band at that time. When asked about it Kurt Cobain said something to the effect that he didn't care about the fashion of it, he wore flannel because where we lived it was cold and flannel was comfy and warm. So in relation to that statement I wonder where button up plaid shirts got their fashion momentum. I'm thinking the large influx of country music in America. Honestly, I don't know. All I know is that paying 420 dollars for a Prada plaid shit that may be very nice; but still looks a lot like the same flannel my dad has been sporting for years just doesn't make sense. I got to say I feel like you are dropping the ball fashion industry. Last time I was here people were wearing winter gear in 80 degree weather. Why? Because it was the fashionable. I know it doesn't make sense. While I was in San Francisco it was fugly ugg boots and shorts or skirts. Sigh...
So in summary knock it off fashion world. Practical while it can be fashion, doesn't make one's head turn. I want jaw dropping inspiration. I want to be forced to rubber neck because your statement is spoken over a body no longer a blank canvas. Spin your woven wonders and place them on god's or rodeo drive plastic surgery's greatest works of art. Plaid may make a few heads turn in LA but give me a style that makes the world wonder of it's origins. Craft me perfections in the folds of cloth surrounding a goddess and gracing her with it's glory.