Curtains in the 90s, Pogs, and the trend fallacy – yes, this is a stealth Hollow Knight: Silksong article, sorry
When I was at school, which is a disconcertingly long time ago, there was a period during which all the boys seemed to have a near-identical curtains haircut. I hated it. It was so common that it might as well have been part of the school dress code, and yet, I resisted. I’ve always been pretty good at doing my own thing, not falling into the trap of peer pressure and what I’ve just this second coined as “The trend fallacy”. Just because everyone is doing something, doesn’t mean it’s right for you.
As someone who had hair (let’s not focus too much on the current situation, thanks) and therefore had to make some decisions over what to do with it, I have had two hairstyles in my entire life: a side-parting comb over that I’m sure looked pretty suave on a seven-year-old in the tail end of the 80s, and what you could describe as basic short hair that just sort of sits on my head until there’s too much of it – this, incidentally, is my current chosen style.
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Note: I also wore a flat cap in the early 90s for reasons I’m not really clear on. I suspect I saw someone wearing one and thought it looked amazing, in the same way I expected to grow up and own a Vauxhall Calibra, simply because the manager at the Esso at the top of my road used to park his outside the petrol station shop, and to an eight-year-old it looked like the coolest car that would ever be built. I have never owned a Calibra, nor have I ever driven a car. Point being, I had my own ideas of what I wanted, regardless of what was actually popular, and I still do.
Hollow Knight: Silksong, then, arrived last week like a new wave of Pokémon Pogs in 1999 that were also promising to fix the Y2K bug. Hot stuff, and a game everyone should be falling over themselves to play, right? “Don’t miss it,” I’m sure someone will commit to print somewhere. And yet, I never cared for Pokémon, I favoured football stickers to Pogs, and why would I, a child, be interested in finding a solution to the Y2K date problem?
