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A small touring diary about my tiny adventure of two months in Europe on a bicycle

Col de la Croix de Fer, Altitude 2067 meters

The airline lost my luggage for the trip! Can you help?

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Fashion Report

Bloomer-like pants seem to be in style here. The Rastafarian look is also in for, "the teenagers". And they put them together - so especially into-this-style people look like brightly colored skateboarders from like, 1993.

The pants are what are really crazy - extremely billowy and then tight tight tight at the ankles, with elastics.

Which is interesting, OK - but they also have shorts of the same type - billowy pant legs, elastic bottom - but they stop mid-thigh. This one women had these pants stop at around mid calf, with knee-high socks, stripped red and white. Denver isn't known for its rapidity in fashion, so if you see this look in 3 years - you heard it here first. If not, well, chalk it up to Euro Trash.

I'm really enjoying some of the fashion here. Some of the more creative teenagers here kinda take the, "ripped and put back together with safety pin" punk thing, with like, very beautiful couture stuff. It embarrasses all that is Hot Topic, which I find embarrassing to start with. It does put the idea of the, "punk look" in a bold type though. I remember myself with green hair, mohawk, etc, etc - without realizing that, there was no scene for me to be in. It was gone - like, *very much gone*. Decades gone. The scene itself was this weird echoing of the past look that had no foundation. And this is somewhat of our contemporary position - I think a lot of contemporary art is similar in this way. A look, looking for a scene. And that's why it seems all so... empty and souless.

OK, I have about 20 minutes of daylight left.

Bon Soir,

Justin

1 Comments:

Anonymous nikki said...

you sir ovbiously need bloomers, short ones. i think they will like you better if your touring in wacky shorts. Also their needs to be pictures. Strangely when I think french fashion I think stripes. who knows why. I like to wear stripes and eat cheese....

July 17, 2008 5:27 PM  

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I feel like a chump to have to ask you this, but this is my sad, sad story:

My touring gear was lost on the plane trip from Denver, to Paris France. Merde. I've had to re-purchase my panniers, tools, clothing, a lot of my bicycle accessories and all my camping gear (tent, sleeping bag, mat). Because of this, I've completely blown my budget for the trip. And, I'd like to eat for the next two months. If you enjoy people that just get on an airplane and go roving about without a map or a itinerary and like what I'm writing about, well, I could really use your help. Can you spare a couple of bucks and help make sure I make it home OK? Here's a PayPal link:

It's for $5. If you'd like to set your own donation, you may do so by sending fund to: personalpaypal@skazat.com. I will love you forever. Or at least the next pain chocolat you allow me to purchase for petit dejeuner. But seriously. Thanks a ton if you can help this silly traveler out.