There's no denying it, whether
we admit it or not, we are all to different degrees fashion conscious.
Or outright victims of fashion. If there were no fashion, We'd still be
getting around in Roman tunics or, short of that, elaborate regional
costumes. Think of all those hats and bonnets, the aprons, ribbons,
sashes and woollen stockings! It's all very well for carnival and the
Amish.
The extent of it is, even nuns have modernised their habits and abandoned those outlandish veils. Most priests, like sailors, circulate in mufti. Neckties are on their last legs. Underwear, especially women's, has become so visible, soon requires a more appropriate name.
There was a time when Hollywood stars and singers set trends. Now fans look to the world of sport for inspiration. How many kids are just dying to slip into a sharkskin swimsuit like Michael Phelps's? Leaving to one side soccer and all those garish tattoos, tennis player's are pretty much the trend-setters these days. Rafael Nadal was literally mobbed in Beijing by fans.
Everything tennis champions wear or touch has a logo jumping out to meet the world. Talking about Nadal, it's hard not to remember Bjorn Borg with his long hair and sweaty headbands. Wasn't he the boyo who invented the look? Agassi started his career like Borg and ended it like Kojak.
Then there was Ivan Lendl, the guy who plucked the strings of his racket - there are still players around doing it. Wasn't Monica Seles the inventor of those sexually explicit exhalations - aghhh-uuhhaa every time she whacked the ball? And who was the 1st player to hold 3 balls in his hand, looked at them, reject one for no apparent reason, place another in his pocket, and serve with the 3rd? Now they all do it.
Nadal, on completing his ritual, bounced the ball an incredible number of times and, just before serving, pulls his shorts out from between his buttocks. Maybe this will catch on? Let's hope not!!
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