regrettable mimicry

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This is simple: In your younger years (or last October), did you ever intentionally copy an artist's hair or clothing? I'm not talking about general rock style (i.e. torn "Seattle" jeans in '91), but straight up, thoroughly embarrassing aping of a very specific trademark (like the single M. Jackson glove, Living Color neon bodysuits, Jane Child's nosering to earring chain, etc.)... The more humiliating, the better... make us squirm.

― Andy, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Never. I should begin so that I'd have something amusing to say, though! I could get tiger stripe tattoos on my arms like Bjorn Gellotte. What do you say?

― Maria, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I freely admit in my high school days to wanting my hair grown out. When I got the opportunity to do so in college, my role model was Miles Hunt. Now Miles is bald. But I am not. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh yes.

It was 1983, I was in the middle of a long-running Bowie obsession, and I instructed my *hairdresser* to make my hair wavy in front like the "Let's Dance" style. Thus a mild perm. It turned out pretty accurate (I didn't have it bleached blond), but after only a few days I became quite embarassed and cut it all off.

I had a mohawk a year later, so I was obviously confused.

― Sean, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Forgive me, for I too unabashadly referenced Bowie (on too many occassions), but the dyed red ziggy hair quickly grew out into a hideous, greasy mullet. Since then, i hair hopped (crimping iron, anyone?) and stole shamelessly looks from (un)popular genre's and decades. My current source year is still up for debate (possibly it's an alternate history of 1989)...All i can say is - thank god for remote, cheap thrift stores in small towns.

― Jason, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I used to wear a bandana around my neck a la Joan Jett & the Blackhearts. I think I wrote about my flaming red Phil Oakey fringe on another thread. I wanted to emulate Bowie, but I thought I'd *never* be able to pull it off. Tried to look like Bryan Ferry on the cover of "These Foolish Things" in my twenties. Well, that's not embarrasing. How about this: I sometimes wear a caftan around the house cause I like how it looked on Allan Carr.

I once went out as Jeffrey Lee Pierce for Halloween-loud dinner jacket, platinum fright wig w/ sunglasses perched on the crown of my head, Debbie Harry button, a pillow under my shirt--and I only regret it cause it was kinda mean.

― Arthur, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A kaftan? Ouch... as long as it doesn't leave the house, it's okay. I got a plaid jacket when the Replacements' "Please To Meet Me" came out... and I think I actually wore it. Yes, I was a dipshit. I think I also got a super-dorky top-buttoned paisley shirt after The Three O'Clock... It might have been yellow & black!

― andy, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i used to have hair kind of like robert smith but only becasue robin guthrie and simon raymonde had it too.

― Mike Hanley, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You forgot Nick Cave and Rowland Howard.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And Ludwig Van Beethoven!

― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I took the cover of 'Aladdin Sane' to a hairstylist once and said, 'Like that'.

― dave q, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I still try to look like Buck Owens . I also pull it off.

― anthony, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have come to confess... I was a huge Housemartins fan in my yoof, and I found myself copying Paul Heaton's "Grandad chic" - complete with cardigan (actually strangely popular in the mid-late 80s). I was 15. I know that's no excuse but... I was 15!! Leave me alone!

― D*A*V*I*D*M, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

May have said this before, but Jason Donovan when I was nine.

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Since I could do it, I convinced a friend to have his hair cut like Brett from Suede. Thankfully, he'd never heard of Suede, so he'll never know quite how embarrassing that should have been.

― Nitsuh, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was into the cardigan sweater thing for a while, too. But that was because of Kurt Cobain, not Paul Heaton. ANd I was 21, too, so adolescence was no excuse :-0

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cardigans are loverly, both the group and the clothing. My freind had the Suede "super part" . It was silly. Why doesnt some brave soul start a thread called " Hairspray: Sculpting agent of the musical legends or antennea clotting anti rasta juice?"

― Mike Hanley, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

When I was in second grade, I made my mom let me have spiked hair like Billy Idol, my favorite artist at the time. Too bad my hair is extremely dark black...

― Clarke B., Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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