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  • FASHION GONE BONKERS

    Oh! Ehat has happened
    to fashions?
    They're certainly not
    bespoke.
    They get sillier by the
    season
    Surely someone's having
    a joke!

    What with hems up to
    the armpits
    And boobs all on display,
    And tattered jeans with
    holes in,
    What more is there to 
    say?

    The models are so stick
    thin
    With faces looking glum,
    They look so under-
    nourished
    Like they dare not eat
    a crumb.

    Just to be in photoshoots
    They look so pale and
    sallow,
    They have to stand in 
    one place twice
    Just to make a shadow.

    What with false hair,
    nails and lashes,
    Perhaps we shouldn't be
    so scorning,
    But it makes you wonder,
    really,
    What they look like in
    the morning.

    And what on Earth is 
    on their feet?
    Be it bovver boots or
    sandals,
    Were they designed in
    playschool?
    Or maybe the work of
    vandals?

    Fashion's been replaced
    by trashion,
    Clothes were once worn
    with delight.
    A real joy to be dressed
    in
    Now they mostly look
    a fright!

    So it's time designers
    got together
    And never mind the price
    'Cos all the ladies really
    want
    Are clothes that are
    just - nice.

    THE END

    BY
    DARRYL ASHTON

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