When I was eight years old, I wanted to be Jem.
Each of us had a style icon who influenced her early sense of style. Who was yours? Punky Brewster? Rainbow Brite? Margaret Thatcher?
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Lunchtime Poll: Childhood Style Icons
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Cyndi Lauper. My mom humored me and let me spray color my hair as much as I wanted until I started kindergarten.
I miss the technicolor hair. I rocked that.
I wanted to be like Joan Jett when I was a kid. Actually, I still do as an adult sometimes. That coal black hair, the bandanas, the Chuck Taylors. She can still pull that look off almost 30 years later.
Did you see when she was blonde? That was very wrong to me.
Yes! I love the short hair cut on her but the blonde just didn’t look right on her.
Mary Poppins and Dorothy Gale. I’ve always been vintage :)
Clueless came out when I was in 5th grade. Even though it was not age appropriate for me, Cher and Dion were absolutely my style icons. Mid 90’s FTW!
Rogue from X-Men the Animated series. I wanted to emulate everything about her.
I wanted to be Marlo Thomas because of Free to Be You and Me. I would spend hours in my bedroom, singing and acting along to the LP. Actually I didn’t really even want to be Marlo Thomas. I just wanted to do a one-woman Free to Be You and Me show.
Punky Brewster and Stephanie Tanner. Pigtails, overalls, neon-colored bike sorts with oversized tshirts? That was me all the way.
I think the earliest style icons I had were pretty diverse; Debbie Harry, Boy George, Kate Bush. But I’m a kid of the late 70s/80s so ‘style’ was varied/all over the place, and my low/no-budget clothing was pretty much a style all its own back then. Still to this day, I love 40s-inspired pieces, 60s acid-psychedelic, neon-angular 80s, steampunk, goth… when I looked over the stuff I pin on Pinterest, I finally figured out that my dream home is a medieval castle that robots on acid decorated, so I kind of dress to match that aesthetic…
Your dream home sounds awesome, and I totally want to visit if you ever find the robots to the work.