Weirdly, I just had this conversation with a girlfriend in RL less than 48 hours ago and WONDERED while it was happening what the forum girls would have thought about the discussion lol.
We were out at a loungey-pub-type establishment that recently opened and she was getting practically frothy at the mouth with (what I perceived as) irrationally,
viciously judging every other woman who happened to come within 20 feet of us. The conversation originally started when a girl (probably 19 or 20) walked by with the
most horrific, misguided snooki bump I've ever seen. She obviously had the back-coming/flat ironing part of the project sorted out but either forgot to smooth over the bump or had been having a good time that night and her smoothed-out part just disappeared and left her with this crazy evil looking tangled mess of bad-times at the top of her cranium.
She looked UTTERLY ridiculous, I mean - I wanted to take a picture of it and upload it to FailBlog with the caption,
"Back combing gone wrong, horribly, horribly wrong". That's what I
wanted to do, but I would never
actually do that- it's just a funny thing to contemplate. I wasn't even going to
mention how ridiculous she looked to my girlfriend because I knew from the instant I had the "funny thought" that it was actually
kind of mean and at the end of the day the greater tragedy was that none of Misguided-Snooki-Bump's friends or family apparently loved her enough to tell her how stupid she looked.
I went from, "ZOMG LOOK AT THAT DUMB BITCH" to
"zomg, I would fucking hope someone who cared about me would tell me if I ever looked like that." and in less than 3 seconds I resolved to just not-fuckin-mention-it-outloud.
But my girlfriend had the opposite reaction, she immediately launched into what a SLUT that girl was. She just blurted out, "What a fucking slut" and I was all like,
"what? where! show me! I love sluts!" and she started going on-and-on-and-on about what a WHORE this girl was.
My friends reasons for why this girl was "trashy" were:
a.) she has tragically unfortunate hair, ergo must be trashy
b.) she's wearing knee high boots with such a high heel that she can't quite walk right, and a mini skirt, ergo must be trashy
c.) she's wearing too much makeup, ergo must be trashy
d.) she's wearing a low cut top, ergo must be trashy
But I saw something
completely different, I saw a girl who looked TERRIFIED. Snooki-bump was funny looking from the back but
utterly tragic from the front when you saw her eyes and how she held herself and how she didn't even know where to put her hands. YES, I suppose she was dressed kind of slutty but this chick was SO UNCOMFORTABLE in her own skin that she couldn't pull off "trashy" if she tried.
She was literally frozen, eyes darting around, pretending to be part of conversations with people around her while she looked utterly freaked out. She didn't have the kind of
confidence necessary to even begin to be trashy. She couldn't deal with her own self, she probably spent hours perfecting that "slutty look" but you could tell she wanted to shoot herself in the face because her inner confidence was shite and she looked like she was going to throw up from stress at any minute. I felt AWFUL for her, I just wanted to go up and give her a hug (and a sweater perhaps)
So yeah, I don't think
the outfit defines the trashiness level at all - trashiness is a state of mind, if this girl had been stumbling around being loud and irritating and obnoxious I might have thought, "probably kind of trashy" but she was... "victim-ey"
If she had been wearing a bulky turtleneck and sweatpants and clogs but was still stumbling around being loud and obnoxious I would have thought, "probably kind of trashy." I wouldn't necessary suggest I perceived this broken little bird to be "classy" but despite her outfit I would definitely not say TRASHY,
tragic would be more appropriate.