Am I the only one who struggle to keep up with all new titles and descriptions of today’s fashion & celeb-world? The ‘chav-phase’ came and went and I still don’t know for sure what exactly chav stands for and the exact look required to fall into this category. I obviously have a vision of Coleen McLoughlin in front of me, bling designer-bags and candy-coloured velour tracksuit but that is as far as it goes.
The latest thing seems to be ‘geek chic’ which has apparently “become an underground phenomenon among the internet generation for its ‘ironic’ statement that being a geek is now cool”, reports The Mail on Sunday… and then it must of course be true. And if your style and your clothes don’t make it obvious you can even buy a ‘GEEK’-badge, by Luella Bartley, as sported on Peaches Geldof last week. I can’t quite relate to a 17-year old, but as she is of celeb-status I am sure she will have many followers. Another ‘geek chic’ individual is apparently Betty, or Ugly Betty. Something tells me that Ugly Betty is actually the one responsible for this new craze.
Thinking about it, whoever is responsible this might actually not be such a bad status after all. Could it possibly be a term to describe yourself as on a bad hairday? I don’t think I would aim to look like a geek on a permanent basis. However, on a day when things are not quite working in your favour, e.g. the kids are playing up, hubby had to rush off early to work leaving you with no time to sort yourself out; hair needs washing but no time, turns out the dress you were planning on wearing have sick-stains on the shoulders from youngest daughter’s daily burp-emission, there is a ladder on your leggings and the only knickers clean are the ones from the ‘spare pile’ which normally only comes out once/month. Normally nobody will of course be able to know what knickers I am wearing but today I am stuck with big knickers & jeans which equals… yes, visible knicker-line. ‘Not a good look’, as my friend would say.� So, need to get ‘geek’-badge for days as described. Can’t just rely on my surroundings understanding that my wrecked-and-stressed-out-mumsy-look could potentially be very chic. Therefore, don’t despair. Should we worry about the daily effort involved at trying to reach yummy-mummyhood when we could just be comfy, be merry and be geeks? Chic geeks, of course, which one would assume require no effort. Or does it?� One would still need to get the geeky look right to actually qualify for the chic category. Perhaps equally as much work? Oh, what to do? The joy of womanhood… motherhood… geekhood. What will be next?

Written by Malin Hosie