I Was R I G H T !!!

Back in August of 2009, I wrote this post about how I wished swing could make a come-back. It finally seems that I'm getting my wish. Well, maybe not SWING, yet, but at least rockabilly is back; and it's close enough.

Last December - after an amazing in-studio performance by Miami City Ballet of Company B which is set to the music of the Andrews Sisters (yes I really do love the era) - I ended up going to Bardot and unexpectedly catching Hep Cat Boo Daddy's live performance. Then last month I was at Stage and saw Slip and the Spinouts. And as exciting as hearing these great bands was, seeing the great outfits was even better! Girls with thin, arched eyebrows, ruby-red lips and porcelain skin decked out with bandanas and crazy prints and the attitude to match. Boys with pompadours and two-tone shoes. Ah, heaven.

I'm too fickle to commit to one style, vacillating between hippie and pin-up and most days sticking with yoga clothes or jeans and a t-shirt, but it definitely makes me happy to see that this subculture is popping up in the mainstream again. If I could only remember how to roll my hair properly...