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You don’t need fashion
designers when you are young. Have faith in your own bad
taste. Buy the cheapest thing in your local thrift shop –
the clothes that are freshly out of style with even the
hippest people a few years older than you. Get on the fashion
nerves of your peers, not your parents – that is the key to
fashion leadership. Ill-fitting is always stylish. But be more
creative – wear your clothes inside out, backward, upside
down. Throw bleach in a load of colored laundry. Follow the
exact opposite of the dry cleaning instructions inside the
clothes that cost the most in your thrift shop. Don’t wear
jewelry – stick Band-Aids on your wrists or make a necklace
out of them. Wear Scotch tape on the side of your face like a
bad face-lift attempt. Mismatch your shoes. Best yet, do as
Mink Stole used to do: go to the thrift store the day after
Halloween, when the children’s trick-or-treat costumes are
on sale, buy one, and wear it as your uniform of defiance.
-- John Waters, Role
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