Strange & Beautiful

Right now, I see myself at an Attractive Age. I'm 17, by the way, for those of you who don't know me. Seventeen, legal enough to sleep around and drive but not old enough to be drunk while doing it.


Let me expand more on this "Attractive Age", shall I? I was looking around at the poeple in my year of school, all the different groups at their selected lunch tables. By the way, I still need to write about Lunch Tables, they say alot more than just "eat on me!". As I was saying, I saw that some of the S6 pupils are really pretty, good looking and 'fit'. Is it only because we're at this age, an age that makes you think of school as a Cat Walk and shopping is a sport? I've not hit the point, yet, where I start to really worry about how I look. But that's probably just in my nature.

I think it's the age groups, to be honest. In primary school, you never had the option, your parents picked your clothes (as they did with everything else, your friends, your food habits ect ect), weither it was those aweful trousers that hooped around your feet... what was their purpose? The picture at the top of the post must have been the day I stopped my mum choosing what I wear and decided I'd go shopping with her.

I remember coming to Hermitage Academy, aged 11, and suddenly feeling the need to buy a Kookai and Jane Norman bag. Jane Norman isn't a real person by the way, just a name the company decided to use. I also wanted a big white coat with a fluffy hood, and a rediculous amount of different coloured head bands. I was never good with keeping up with different trends, I spent about three years trying to look "nice" until I realised that nobody cares!


When you come to 13-15, anything can happen, but it will most likely be a fashion that's extreme. Exaggerrated fashion, trying to emphasise how much you like it but only succeeding to look like a tool. When I was at this age, I couldn't have been... there's no way of saying this without sounding vain, big headed or jus silly; I didn't look half as good then as I do now. That's mainly because I made myself look silly for the attention, to make people question me and to break the mould. It's also because between the age of 13 and 15, you are still kind of chubby from being all young, aren't allowed to branch out your shopping destinations as much as you can when you become 16 or older.

16; no longer a half. Earning your own money and staying at school by choice. Dressed to impress; mainly the opposite sex. I never got to be in a clique or anything like that, never had a specific lunch table or a hang out spot. Now, once I hit 16, I had a specific group of friends, there are seating arrangements and other important things. Clothing isn't a problem with my "clique", but I could imagine it is very important with the other tables. The majority of them are all in the new rave indie gear that I've never been a big fan off.

To conclude, I hate trends. I feel like the age I am at right now is the most stressful when it comes to fashion. I've never been one to think of others though so really... count me out on your little cat walk rubbish.