My love for tie dye peaked when I was at the age of eleven and withered shortly afterwards. I used to love tie dye, I loved it so much I used to fantasize about converting particular items in my wardrobe (like those dreaded skivvies) from uber daggy to uber chic in just one sunny afternoon. I begged and pleaded with my father accordingly but to no success. Eventually, my father agreed to purchase a purple tie dye top from sportsgirl. I thought I was so cool in my purple tie dye tee, which I eventually teamed with a pair of long awaited maroon Rip Curl trackies. To those of my generation who grew up in Melbourne suburbia, remember those carefree days when tie dye and rip curl trackies seemed near the coolest outfit ever? Well, as it turns out, we were wrong. Tie dye is rarely cool and this photograph should prove as a testament to my opinion. I am telling you this (and using this poor fool) as an example because as we get closer to Winter you can expect to see tie dye everywhere, the March publication of Vogue Australia has already dedicated a page to tie dye, general pants co already stocks tie dye. If you were sucked in by the on surge of fluoro it may be too late for you (while fluoro accessories are still cute in my book), you probably already own a tie dye tee. In my opinion, if you are going to do tie dye the only way to do it is in muted colors or with a limited color palette.

In my artbitch folder on my computers desktop I have saved this photo as birdnest.gif

While I am a fan of the tousled JBF look, it should look sexy, never look intentional and it should NEVER EVER look scary! I am also all for kooky, I like kooky, kooky is the clever guy or girl who doesn’t follow the grain and kooky often sets the trends. But this is beyond kooky, this is CRAZY! Crazy is the guy or girl that smashes bottles on a footpath and screams out for the love of God.

You know that phrase ‘a picture tells a thousand words’, well this picture tells a thousand words that no-one wants to hear.