06 Aug 2005
Dress Style in the Two Millennia

A middle aged mom, who happens to be a lecturer in Old English [at Oxford?], ventures into a Goth clothing and accessories emporium in the UK ... fascinating stuff!

I sat in Affleck's Palace pretending to be invisible. What, you may ask, was a middle-aged lecturer in Old English doing in Manchester's High Temple of Youth Culture? The answer lies in motherhood. My son had long desired a Goth accessory known as finger armour, and with his thirteenth birthday money had purchased the item from Affleck's. In the joy of possession, he had thrown away the packaging containing the receipt. After he had worn the finger armour for the rest of the day and all evening, he appeared woefully to report that it had broken. Faced with a despairing son and an apoplectic father ('You never spent all that', he said, but what he was thinking was 'On jewellery - for a boy!') it was time for me to step in.

(link) [Dragons in the Sky]

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