One mistake can have you sent to the bottom of the food chain with the girls who have imaginary boyfriends and wear polyester unironically.

I know this is not at all what I should be focusing on, and idk if it’s the fashion degree or just my natural stubbornness, but I cannot let it go, so…

Assuming, by people who “wear polyester unironically”, Chiamaka means people who can only afford the cheapest of clothes, thereby end up wearing a lot of polyester by means of necessity… but who the fuck wears polyester ironically? I mean, there are high-end designers who use polyester too, and while I def think they often charge too much for that, I can also promise you that it is not the same quality or type of polyester that you find at fast fashion stores or supercenters. It is usually chosen for what it can be manipulated to do, not due to cost. The people who buy that usually don’t look at the tag and go “hell yea, let me pay thousands for polyester, that’ll be soooo funny”.

Anyway, all that to say, that it sounds to me that Chiamaka is implying that she knows people who chooses to wear cheap polyester just for the bit. Which… just doesn’t make sense to me, but maybe I’m missing something? As I’ve understood it, you usually wear something ironically to make fun of a certain style or stereotype, but the whole thing about polyester is that it can imitate. If these kids are really that rich, they could get items that look “lower class” in high quality. That has pretty much always been a thing, the rich imitating the poor. Cheap polyester is not comfortable. If these kids are that rich, why would the choose to be unnecessarily uncomfortable, just for a bit?

"damn nina zenik" "bless nina zenik" PEAK COMEDY (also... bless nina. she's amazing)

Trying to squeeze this in as my third book finished in June and don’t know what to expect, a cat on the cover is a good way to start tho imo.