| Allright,
I give up. There is now more than one person posting in
my guestbook telling me to stop making fun of Setsuna's
clothing. Well, maybe I was a little mean. (Okay, peeps,
cool as she is, she ain't real, thus does not care what I
say about her clothing, got it?) Besides, as my
nitpicker friend Ian said, no where in the manga does it
say 'fashion designer'. It merely says designer.
So she doesn't really want to be a fashion designer,
that's just one of those stupid fan myths that he's
dedicated large amounts of time to debunking. I'm going
to keep this article up, just because I thought the title
was kinda witty myself. -_-;;; This doesn't mean I'm
changing my mind. I'll just alter it some. And just
because she doesn't want to be a fashion designer does
NOT excuse the hideous outfits, my friends. In the manga
Setsuna can definitely dress to impress. She has
several cute, classy outfits, and even a few revealing
ones. Unfortunately, the animators had less fashion sense
than Naoko (I'm not saying she didn't have any, the manga
outfits were awesome!) so the anime
wardrobes were much less attractive. There, am I being
nice enough now?
I
understand that the SMS season was done roughly around
'94-'95 and I agree, even I had bad taste in clothing
back then. One cannot hold her to blame, I suppose. But
there is a need to recognize fashion disasters before
they become life threatening, both to viewers and wearer.
In the words of Rogue Squadron pilot Hobbie Klivian,
"There are three types of dress clothing. The kind
that offends the wearer, the kind that offends the
viewers, and the kind that offends everybody." [Starfighters
of Adumar, Aaron Alliston] Setsuna must be going for
the third kind.
Don't
hold any of it against poor Setsuna. She's still cool and
her fans still love her, fashion sense or no! That's
true, too!
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