{"id":640,"date":"2008-05-08T23:02:40","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T21:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2008\/05\/08\/this_summers_uniform\/"},"modified":"2008-05-08T23:03:22","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T21:03:22","slug":"this_summers_uniform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2008\/05\/08\/this_summers_uniform\/","title":{"rendered":"This summer&#8217;s uniform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nA fashion wave has flooded Sweden, and half of the girls and women in this country, or in Stockholm at least, wear almost identical outfits. This spring&rsquo;s &ldquo;must have clothes&rdquo; and &ldquo;essential look&rdquo; consists of 1 pair black leggings, 1 pair canvas shoes, 1 tight micro mini skirt (preferably black, and just long enough to hide the crotch) and some sort of fitted jacket. They are everywhere. Last weekend while I was out with Ingrid I ran across a group of five teenage girls, all wearing &ldquo;the look&rdquo; &ndash; although one had a white mini skirt instead of black &ndash; plus identical half-long blonde hair. Attack of the clones!\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat makes these people want to look just like everybody else? I can agree that leggings are practical and comfortable, and I could imagine myself looking reasonably good in them, but not now! There is no way I would, of my own free will, buy clothes that I would see mirrored on every other woman I meet in the street. My instinctive reaction to seeing all these uniformed women is to resist, pull back, find something different.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs an unfortunate side effect, all shops are full of chunky leggings (especially black, but also bold bright colours) and there are hardly any nice tights to be had anywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fashion wave has flooded Sweden, and half of the girls and women in this country, or in Stockholm at least, wear almost identical outfits. This spring&rsquo;s &ldquo;must have clothes&rdquo; and &ldquo;essential look&rdquo; consists of 1 pair black leggings, 1 pair canvas shoes, 1 tight micro mini skirt (preferably black, and just long enough to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything_else"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}