Teen Fashion. After the Apocalypse...Mad Max Knits
by WorldKnit.com's teen fashion editor, Marisa

MPLS (Jul-00) - Knitting with pantyhose? Yeah, you got it, the latest, most innovative, fashion statement that looks like it is right out of Mad Max and Beyond Thunderdome. Move over grunge and meet the future of the Apocalyptic Generation.

This fabulous garment looks like it was made when future technology disaster survivors stumble upon a ruined pantyhose factory and put their new found treasure to practical use. Way cool. Hey, but you don't have to live in William Gibson's cyberspace world of console cowboys to get this look. Start saving all those tights and nylons...runs, holes and all! Get your mom, your aunt, or your grandma to give you those cast off's and knit, knit, knit! Sure to freak everyone out!

The deconstructionist trend extends to other designers including Christian Dior. Dior has chunky knits with long runs of dropped stitches and fringe that looks like frayed edges. Arms that attach at the sleeve with knots, sweaters that look like they have been patched with any available yarn...the types of sweaters your mom would make you throw out! Now you can keep those grunged out sweaters, reinvent them and call them deconstructionist fashion...get with it!

I could see some cool, deconstructionist stuff made from WorldKnit.com yarns like K2 (Boston) , Gusto 10 (Cleckheaton) and D.D.G. (Cleckheaton).

Revolution!

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