To make an omelette you must at first break a few eggs…here are my ten eggs…
10. Back in 2009, I was a very confident dresser, and heavily inspired by Zandra Rhodes and Patricia Filed, I took to a phase of my life of wearing underwear as outwear, corsets to be more precise. At the time I thought I looked edgy and cool, when all my friends were wearing slogan vests and cropped trousers I wore skin tight pencil skirts and Silky slutty corsets…
9. From age 9 I started singing so a lot of my show clothes and competition outfits were quite “out there” to say the least, but one that sticks in my mind, very typical of 90’s fashion actually, was a lime green two piece. The whole outfit was ribbed and very synthetic material , with a huge silver buckle on the skirt and matching waistcoat. In my defence…at the time highlighter colours and neon were very in…
8. I took an obscene amount of inspiration from pop culture in my adolescence, I tried to copy Billie Piper and Steps a LOT in my outfit choices, but one Spice Girls Influenced get up saw me wearing baby pink hot pants with a spaghetti strap dress over the top that I can only describe as split right up to the middle, so legs, shorts and belly button were all on full show. I used to finish this look off with sticking an oversized gem inside my belly button… Strong look for a 12 year old, right?
7. My Gina G Phase! I had a white lace dress exactly like Gina G wore in her Eurovision performance. I looked the dogs. It was epic but it was also way too much skin for a 13 year old to be showing.
6. Split Trousers. By 16 I still hadn’t got the memo that less is more. Less skin showing to be exact, and for about 3 years I wore black flare trousers that were split on the sides right up to the thigh. I would wear them again…
5. Gladiator Costume on my hen night. Vampy Russel Crowe, complete with huge red cape and golden high heel sandals. I felt like a godess as the rest of the hens were dressed in togas’. I looked a proper tit.
4. A more recent entry, not that long ago, I worked in early years. I was constantly covered in glitter glue and snot so I developed a sort of cbeebies presenter approach to my work wardrobe. I deeply regret the dungarees and the sparkly trainers but the children loved all of it.
3. When I was 16 I appeared on Pop Stars; The rivals. I wore double denim flares in light blue with lace inserst and suede lace up on the thighs. It had a matching jacket. I wore that too. In front of Geri Halliwell, and on TV, the thought of it now makes me nauseous…
2. In the 2000’s a had a brief episode where I desperately wanted to dress like Gwen Stefani. I still love her now, but I was not her, and going out in low slung jeans with your thong over the top and a white string vest was not a vibe.
1. They say save the best for last and I think I have, you see, we had a large market where we lived, it sold designer dupes and fake everything, and as soon as I earned my own money this is where I went, that and a shop next door that was called “New Touch” I am cringing as I recall this outfit, but on my first day in sixth form, after not being in mainstream school for 3 years, I decided to turn up wearing my trusty low slung jeans, a pink nylon V neck, a pink puffa jacket , pink fake Burberry scarf and knee high stiletto timberland looking boots (Jennifer Lopez wore these in her “Get Right” video) To say I made an impression was an understatement and I think, this is when the word Chav was born.
