The rebel look
For God's sake, Joseph, if you insist on wearing pink you're going to blow my cover.
Back in March, as our television screens were over-run with handsome young rebels (and plenty more dodgy ones) in keffiyahs, combat fatigues, T-shirts and boots, I told you that it was only a matter of time before fashion took up the look.
Too many people’s – elves, mainly – Che Guevara fantasies seem to have come alive.
Too bad the clothes don’t come packaged with a nice set of family jewels, because now we find ourselves looking at an anomalous situation where people wearing keffiyahs and decorating their bedroom walls with Hasta La Revolucion Siempre posters are sitting about talking mincingly of prudence and caution.
And the Benghazi Rebel Look has apparently joined the policeman, the fireman and the US Marine in the pantheon of fantasy get-ups because why, even Robert-O Francalanza has dressed up his ‘In a Relationship’ Joseph Mifsud to fit the bill.
But not quite.
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Your analysis is way off the mark here. Keffiyahs have been considered fashionable among Maltese teenagers and ‘trendy’ young adults for quite a while now, preceding the Arab Spring by a couple of years.
[Daphne – Somebody never fails to pop in to remind me that Maltese people think and read things literally. I had and wore a keffiyah when I was 16, ‘sweet’. That was 31 years ago, even before Super One Byon Jo Zammit’s mother began to turn tricks with her legs splayed open for the Labour Macina propaganda camera. Before, too, Saviour Balzan’s Julia Farrugia (and I’m beginning to reinterpret the use of that possessive judging by how ferociously and passionately he defends the short and bouncy minx) had a daddy who drove Karmenu Vella around with something fascinating in the glove compartment. Keffiyahs did not come into use by Western students and the like ‘preceding the Arab Spring by a couple of years’, but in the Jimi Hendrix era. That’s a l-o-n-g time ago. Ask the Libyans how long 42 years is.]
“Back in March, as our television screens were over-run with handsome young rebels (and plenty more dodgy ones) in keffiyahs, combat fatigues, T-shirts and boots, I told you that it was only a matter of time before fashion took up the look.”
Not much of a prediction then.
[Daphne – The look is more than a keffiyah, ‘sweet’.]
Why is Julia Farrugia’s father called il-Botom? Is it because he played the part in Midsummer Night’s Dream? Is it because he is a bottom feeder? Possibly. Or is it because like his daughter, he’s full of sh*t?
The keffiyeh is as trendy as the Burberry check.
What next, the Peruvian cap? Pink Doctor Martens? Dreadlocks and Indian wrap skirts?
How I miss rock chicks…..
You forgot to mention “rainbow ties”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcATvu5f9vE
The year is 1985.
Shadow, trid ticcajta jew? They’d think it’s some Super One comedy.