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Wednesday 28 November 2007

I've got nothing to wear for the revolution


Times fashion editor Lisa Armstrong gives tips for what to wear on the barricades, whether it's celebs supporting the screenwriters' strike or students protesting David Irving and Nick Griffin at the Oxford Union:

All the really successful anti-Establishment movements have had what fash-ionistas like to call A Look, whether it’s Boadicea’s striking face paint, the Roundheads’ distinctive hairdos, Eva PerĂ³n’s descamisados(shirtless ones) or those cute Bolshevik caps. Some of the lesser antiEstablishment groups – Mods, skins, Teddies – were so busy working their look that they forgot to think up a manifesto.

Then there’s the French, who, whether it’s 1968 or almost 2008, always put on a stylish performance out on the streets – a dash of black poloneck, an all-weather trench, a slim-line leather jacket like the one Cate Blanchett wore at the weekend to cheer in Australia’s new PM (and Che Guevara might have worn had he had a contract with Armani). Oh, and loads of black eyeliner for flirting one’s way out of a police cell.

3 comments:

dana said...

Winona at Daddy Likey had an excellent post on this. Keep reading to find out what her fashion choices for this event were. I thought she was spot on.

http://daddylikey.blogspot.com/2007/09/lets-play-political-blog-for-day.html

Susan B said...

Is a "polo neck" the same thing as what we Yanks refer to as a "Turtleneck?"

Linda Grant said...

yes indeed