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The Wedding Dress
The idea that a fashion parade ending with a wedding dress is ironic. It kinda imply that once one gets married then one desire to be fashionable is over. I imagine it to be the ‘happily ever after’.
The model supposedly glides down the catwalk, her stride interrupted abruptly every two steps by a stair. She turns left, right does a twirl, while cameras flash away. She embraces the end of that catwalk like its her last moment to shine, lapping up the attention. Her hair does not budge because the can of hairspray has fixed it into the ‘ultimate 80′s do’.
I pity the model who cant walk.. but I envy the one who has that dead prominent waistline and invisible hips. Im sitting in the audience… green as a goblinĀ (but a cute one). I start feeling so typically female: jealous. Funny this is that if I knew the girl we would probably be best of friends.
The gothic queen takes the stage, everyone gasps, her tiny frame further squashed into a rich blue velvet corset like top, with lacy puffed sleeves. Still remaining graceful despite the exaggeratedly short skirt that brought the whole outfit together. All the men are now gasping, drooling and whatever else happens to them in such instances (I wont get too descriptive here) but even the gay men were reacting to this piece of art and I can assure you they weren’t admiring the craftsmanship of the garment.
Quite controversial don’t you think, to begin at the place where its supposed to end: ‘The Wedding Dress’, the girls dream, the precious moment. As if! a man in this patriarchal country would let his wife wear anything like the blue outfit except for maybe in the bedroom. You are mine now, you do what I say, you wear what I tell you can wear, I love you hunny now be my bitch. A kiss, snog, pas call it what you want… a rub up and down, its all over. You are his now. He throws his cloak of possession over you . You were cheap… a couple of drinks and ‘wham bam thank u ma’ am… Ill have you more than once’…
And then… no more pretty dresses and sexy legs on parade, the wedding dress has covered them up and the courtship was their final show. Take a step down from the stage that contented during your liberal days and give it up for him… for a ‘I guess he is worth it’