Remember that one time,
when you bought a candy choker necklace,
and then proceeded to slobber all over it's candy-coatedness until your neck, shirt, hands, face, entire being was covered in sugar-filled fluid of the most unsanitary sort?
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Good times.
And then remember winning one (read: 15) of these at the school carnival?
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Or trying to apply one of these wonders with the longest constructed wet paper towel on the face of the planet?
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Hello wet t-shirt contest.
Above reasons are only the beginning to a potential 10-page rant about why I've grown to hate choker necklaces.
Memories of terrible childhood disposable camera images filled with bumpy-bottom buck teeth and gratuitous neck chub (you know exactly what I'm talking about) have deterred me from the dreadful accessory's application ...




Until now.
I don't know what it is that swayed me.
It could be the recent uptick in the number of chocker sightings via fashion week, celebs, runways, etc, etc...
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though it's likely just the desperate nostalgia that accompanies my premature quarter life crisis.
Either way,
I think I'm fully ready to reclaim the choker from the grips of ...
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that.
We need to reassess it's origins, though, if we're going to refuel an age-old neck fauna frenzy.
The choker is not a free school fair gadget to be gnawed,
NO
it is an indicator of STATUS -
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of class,
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or, at the very least,
of sex appeal.
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With that out of the way,
I think we can forgive the one (really) bad decade of choker errs in favor of the hundreds of good, and rewrite the choker as a respectable marker of sophistication, rather than the teeny bopper faux pas that it's become.
Sort of like how learning about Brad Pitt reignited the passion for a name (bradley) that had been sworn off years before in response to an unfortunately immature childhood enemy.
Or how A-line pleated skirts sorta seemed a little bit cool after no longer being associated with that weird rich kid school down the street.
so choke on, kids,
choke on.
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choker: Urban (similar & amazing one & another), dress: American Apparel, skirt: Anthropologie (similar & one on whitehouseblackmarket.com) |
Cheers.
i too have very bad memories of chokers....but dang cuz bring it back girl!!!!!
ReplyDeletebrooke @ what2wear
We have to include all those goth kids that rocked the chokers haaaaaard. It's looking good lady. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. With the exception of the Paris and Nicole pic. That was horrifying.
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ash
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some great pics of chokers in years past. i remember rocking the goth version when i was in college. good times. i love yours. wear it again, soon!
ReplyDeletei had such a love affair with chokers around the time clueless came out. they were a symbol of maturity in my prepubescent days and by that i mean like all the cool high school girls were wearing them so if i didn't get my hands on one i would like never be cool. i wish i could say it's worn off but the only difference is that now i'm just trying to look like taylor tomasi hill instead of tai. love the choker with the black and white look and really love your rings!
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