batman is the new black

It's not news to many people who know me that I consider most of the fashions in big department stores are hideous, easily dated and skanky just to name a few choice adjectives. Hence, I pretty much wear whatever I want, which has resulted in a new style category being formed - the 'Jess' category. This means that I have friends coming up to me, saying, "I saw *insert apparel here* today, it was very Jess"

I kid you not, that's what I often hear.

But just when I wasn't hating department store fashion too much (I still wasn't at the stage where I would want to wear it. I would merely tolerate it), they had to stuff it all up. Big time.

I was walking into the big department store that I work in a few weeks ago. I have to walk through the fashion department and up a few set of escalators to get to my office, you see. On this particular morning, I had the misfortune to look right into a sea of mannequins wearing yellow, grey and black.


This would be traumatic for anyone. Yellow and grey just don't match. And black only highlights the sheer hideousness.

I know this better than most people. I spent five years as a yellow, grey (mostly grey) and black clad private school student.

So show me yellow, grey and black put together in a shameful attempt of fashion and in return I'll provide you with horrid flashbacks of being a gawky teenager in a yucky uniform.

The only other person who wore those colours as a uniform was batman and look where he ended up....