I was sitting on the bus to our local hospital to visit a relative this evening and a young man and woman sat in front of me. They were dressed in similar clothes and had identical hairstyles. Both had longer hair on top, drawn up into a bun, and shaved close to the head below. Both had pierced ears, the young woman had inserts about the size of a 10p piece while the young man’s were smaller and both had other piercings along their ears and in their noses. My late Dad would have said “Can’t tell the girls from the boys these days” but he said that back in the 1970s when I used to wear jeans, boots and a leather jacket and rode a motorbike, which he seriously disapproved of. There’s a lot of fuss about ‘gender fluidity’ lately but it isn’t really any different to our adulation in the ’70s for David Bowie and Marc Bolan, who pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable in male fashion and style. The sky didn’t fall on our heads back then and it won’t now.
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Aw, a lot fun it indeed is, observing other people. I catch myself gaping at structures of hair and other stuff as well. For others it might even not be interesting at all. Sometimes it’s just about observing, I think. One time I was so very mesmerized with the structure of some kind of posh patchwork bag, that first, I was longing to feel it’s various surfaces, hand almost stretching out, as if I were some weird child, and second, I missed my stop.
hahaha I get really absorbed in things too, much to the embarrassment of my young nieces and nephews 😀
Arr, they’ll get over it… Never stop, in my opinion there are far too many who take things for granted, don’t really get astounded anymore.
Marvelous drawing as always. And I so agree! I just wear what I need to slog through the woods or stay comfortable or stay warm enough and the heck with “style” unless I’m going out to an event. I was going to answer your last comment and found the system won’t allow any more comments on that one conversation. So I’ll just say that being cats, Sparta Puss and Ultraviolet certainly know who the smartest animals are!
Oh they certainly do. We think we’re the top of the tree but who lives off our labours? Yes you guessed it.
this is my hairstyle of choice. as a 47 year old woman (who has had this hairstyle off & on since 1990) i grin whenever i see a 20-something sporting it. i was often been mistaken for a boy when i was younger, and now i have sons with hair longer than mine 🙂 the other day i was watching videos from the 80s–full of men wearing way more makeup than i have ever worn–and wondering how there were people still upset about gender bending & gender fluidity.
ps. i like your sketches!
I so agree. I’ve always been a ‘tomboy’ and have one frock in my wardrobe – for best – but best never happens and I haven’t worn it for about 8 years 😀
ps thanks for liking my sketches 🙂
People always need something to talk about
They do indeed, and it’s always what ‘the younger generation’ are up to 😀