Confession time. I’m a big, huge, MASSIVE B&V fan. When I was young, I was this chubby little girl with braces and a lisp and I would skip into second hand comic book stores with a pocket full of coins and spend all the money I had in the world on those glorious fashion chronicles. I really only read them for the fashion. It’s all you have when you’re eight years old and too innocent for the likes of Dolly and Girlfriend. I never bought them brand new because it would have cost me a full months pocket money so I was confined to buying the pre-loved yellowing copies which suited me fine as I have always loved second hand books more than new ones anyway. I admit that I occasionally buy a brand new Betty and Veronica Double Digest now that I’m a grown up. I figure that I’m earning money, paying bills and doing all kinds of adult things and if I want to spend $10 on a comic book then I will. I’ve recently been reading some of my old comics as well (not all of them because I lent almost my whole collection to this bitch in year 9 who then got my best friend kicked out of school and never returned my comics – I hope she has really ugly children now) and they are seriously awesome. Although I have to say that reading the comics in retrospect, having had a few relationships and flings, the weird threesome thing between Betty and Veronica and the way they share Archie is really strange. The fact that Betty and Veronica are best friends is even stranger. When I was in high school it was considered bad form to date a guy that your bestie even had a crush on, let alone dated. Two girls dating the same guy at the same time and WILLINGLY is just bizarre.
The point though my dears is that Betty and Veronica were in fact my very first fashion idols. I now recognise that their head to toe colour syncronisation was more an asthetic comic book feature than a conscious styling choice but it’s the monochrome with a complimentary colour combination that has moulded the foundation of my style. Here are a few Polvore pages of B&V inspired fashion…
Betty is trying to drum up votes for Archie for school president while looking fabulous in a red swing skirt with shiny black accessories.
Veronica decides that although she doesn’t need them, glasses look fantastic on her so she buys lots of frames with no glass. Then the dorky Milton comes along and sprays her in the eye with glasses cleaner. She effortlessly pairs her round frames with a yellow scarf and funky red dress.
Betty, wearing a casual trench coat with a pencil skirt and sneakers proves how easy it is to manipulate Archie by telling him what she know he wants to hear.
I just wish I could achieve that level of flawless hair and skirt volume on a daily basis…
I’m trying….
Here, here and here…
I need more petticoats and hairspray.
Love Lady Smaggle
xxx