Fashion and Fabrics Are Never New

1950’s poodle skirts made a brief come back. kids in the eighties thought it was funny, a fact. my own daughter had some scotty dog clothes too not knowing they were old, thinking they were new. I half expect those smock tops of the seventies to return. and the mushroom kitchen appendages – vases for your fern. nancy sinatra’s white boots have made a resurgence at school. they are worn by a teacher who clomps around like a mule. someone said to me last week “Polyester will never return”. we had to threaten that material, and finally match it to burn. it will show up one of these days as a trampoline or something. nothing is ever new, said the fabric-studying-professor king.