A Story of Revival

There remains a general notion in the retelling of history that it's true purpose in its perpetual oral existence lies in the hope that society will deny repitition of it's past faults ( i.e. dense petticoats,limited enfranchisement etc.). In reality, if we lived in the utopian society that seems only to exist in the vague presence of our filtered cerebral lenses, the torn boyfriend jeans upon my waist would not reside, nor the age old varsity jacket humble the small of my back, nor the Chuck Taylor's on my feet.

 
In today's story, in the defiance of history and the short lived lived reference of "trend", I present to you an analysis of the basics we love to hate procured by the champion of the essentials that transcend time(see: American Apparel): the scrunchie.

You may often find this specific accoutrement gracing my wrist on any given day, lately in the velvet variety and in multiples. In a previous statement I made public my inability to stylize the likes of my wrist on the daily, UNLESS,the juxtaposition of a multiplicity of exhausted hair ties account for this defect... In order to appease this deficit a miracle appeared upon this dilemma while on errand to the fancy of a Beauty Supply Plus. For an entirety of $1.49 I could achieve a fraction of beauty upon my extremities yet attain a high level of functionality in its purpose, in the similar effect. A whirlwind of emotions attended to my psyche in the act of subtracting a two dollar bills from my wallet.I questioned the instinct in my purpose, then followed that thought with an appropriate "why the hell not".

 

 















The scrunchie stands as a defiant symbol to our youth and indifference in insubordination to the message history has proposed. While we want to believe that everything it stands for and the memories that retain mistakes of the past (one in fact era that I did not have the innate ability of being conceived in)it also displays an insensibility to those malicious qualities. In sum, the scrunchie stimulates the simplicity of its elastic contents in their necessary appraisal of the oversights of yesterday yet remain applicable as we venture into our future.

It is also kinda cute, soooo, that helps too...  

Scruchies via American Apparel.