This is not a harrumph about the way a ‘perfectly good word’ was ‘hijacked’, it just seems the mot juste.
Bright. Fun. Highly coloured. They just don’t fit my meaning.
I hope the wellies do, for the subject is wellington boots which, in a demonstration of how quickly markets can respond are suddenly being sported by young women who would not have been seen dead in them two weeks ago.
Spots, swirls, stripes, multicoloured.
Fashion provides a fruitful laboratory for studying everything from memes to global capitalism.
And gay is fun, lightens the mood, shows the resilience of the human spirit & a refusal to be cowed, bowed down or confined to barracks.
