Trust me to arrive at Dazed the year they decide to hold an X Mas party with a fairly difficult theme to convey. The Dazed and Confused Xmas party came and went last night and the theme was recession. *Groan* As if we all need another reminder. Last year, the theme was mag covers of Dazed & Confused of 2007… what fun that would have been…
I had done zero outfit prep at all and went for a look so makeshift and pisspoor that I may as well not have dressed up at all (a lot of people didn’t given the nature of the theme…). In the spirit of poverty I had on my 1p dress that I won on eBay ignoring the fact it cost a fiver to ship it over here and a parcel tag necklace and a brown envelope headpiece clearly stating ‘This cost 1p on eBay’ and my holey moley black tights and shoes by Office (I think some of you were wondering…). I stopped at writing a cardboard sign to hang around my neck saying Recessionista and in any case the word sends shudders down my spine…. particularly because I was asked to contribute to a Sunday Times article on the matter of ‘being a Recessionista’ a while back and I kept on balking at the thought of this word actually coming into common usage, as if fashionista wasn’t awful enough. An apt enough outfit that is a little on the repetitive side, considering yesterday (just got paid today) my bank balance was quite unhealthy…
Just to reel off some examples of costumes seen….someone made a dress out of two Iceland bags (the shop that sells scuzzy sausage rolls for 50p, not the country…), someone dressed up as a five pound note, there was a walking 2-for-2 voucher cleverly made out of canvas, a cash coat jacket with fake twenty pound notes stuck on all over, Wall Street highflyers and a Financial Times giant bow tie.