11/21/07

FASHION IDOL: PEGGY BUNDY

Peggy Bundy is my role model. Images of glamor and images of the working-class were pretty absent from the television I watched so much of growing up. The beauty of the banal, the un-fashion, the house wife, the stay-at-home, totally turned me out. Peggy made it clear that even those without extraordinary talent, inclination or (especially) means could still affect a glamorous lifestyle. Fuck Paris Hilton. Peggy's style is not only possible, but mandatory. She indulges her own basic physical desires (sex, rest, bonbons cigarettes), at the detriment of... nothing. She's a "bad mom" sure but causes no real harm. And to top it all off she does everything in leggings and heels with a bouffant hairdo. This, the aesthetic of bravery and ease, is inspiring.





2 comments:

M. said...

Dude, I could not agree with you more. P. Bundy always gave me a huge woody. I think because she's a mom but also depraved and kind of owned her sexuality in a way that is unusual for network television in the early nineties.

M.

OTTAWABILL said...

Oh Damn I love Peg...I would have been fired staying home banging her morning noon and night....

Why ever all didn't want some of that is beyond me..

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/peggysohot/