Fabulous

I'm the kind of person that reads like it's her job to read. I will read almost anything that I could get my little hands on, that is IF I think its worth reading. But last year, when the semester started I kind of just stopped reading (most likely because I was busy with school related stuff). And honestly, that bothered me a lot. So I promised myself that for Christmas I would ask for a bunch of books and start reading as many of them as I could.

The first I chose to read was a book that I picked out on a whim. It was called "Fabulous Nobodies" by Lee Tulloch. I never heard of the book before, and I had absolutely no clue as to what it was really about, because the synopsis did not offer a whole lot.

So, what was it about? Basicallyit was about this girl, Reality Nirvana Tuttle, who was a nobody who thought she was a somebody. Well, she thought she was on her way to be a somebody. Her world revolved around her "frocks" and the door she worked at the hippest fashion based night club Less is More. At first you're thinking that this character is a real flake of a person because she only cares about her clothes and her job, if you could consider it a job (which her clothes eventually get stolen and she eventually loses her job for not letting Jackie O into the club).

I know it sounds like I'm bashing this book, I totally not! In fact I L-O-V-E-D it. I loved it because I realized sometimes a person needs not to care but to be carefree. And that sometimes a person does not need to be bogged down by all of the negative things that are happening in the world right now. For example, this current war the US is involved it. And the biggest thing about this book that I seemed to love is the fact that this book (even though it was written in the 80s) is that it proves on thing to be true and constant: fashion. No matter what anyone says fashion, how we look, how we dress, our own personal style is important. It's not just important to us as individuals, but it's important to 'us' as a whole because its those personal styles and our own unique sense of fashion that separates us and lets us be who we want to be, and not just mirrow images of everyone and everything we see.

At the end of the book Reality says something to the effect we are nothing without clothes and without fashion (whether you follow the latest trends or not) and I think she's right in saying that because the way we dress is an outward expression of who we are on the inside, as people.

So my advice is two things: 1) Always pick up a book on a whim and judge it by its cover. 2) remember that fashion is all around us, in us, even if you think you are the most unfashionable of all people.