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With Labor Day fully come and gone and the various Fashion Weeks looming like the ghost of decades past, there is one old saw everyone can parrot: Don’t wear white (alternately, white shoes) after Labor day. It’s a lie, like any hard and fast fashion rule—but it has totally got to be even more of a lie right now. Three reasons:
- With the advent of, like, washing technology, you don’t need dark colours in the winter to cover mud stains and city soot.
- Neons are (still) hot stuff and white pops ‘em like crazy town.
- Miami Vice
So, you are all like, “Wait a damn minute on the third point there” and people who know me are shaking their heads. However, I can back that shit up and the whole point of this anyway is to talk a little about Miami Vice under the cover of Labor day and whites.
Despite the candles I’ve lit and wishes I’ve made, the influences of the 80′s and 90′s are still with us. Yes, those familiar pastels (and may I note that Miami Vice wasn’t all pastel, there were just no earth tones), though but one facet of those wild and crazy times, are still a legit chunk of our social genetic memory. Therefore: applicable.
There is, of course, a level of personal joy in thinking of those jewel tones and beach dress whites glowing a little bit of Florida sun through the inevitable grey and rain of fall.
Sniggering is inevitable when discussing Miami Vice, though the sea change in fashion it brought still resounds today—
Yes. Even after the first Monday in September.
