The White Shoes
Manolo says, the end of the summer it is fast approaching, and once again the Manolo he will be soon be required, as he always is, to opine upon the issue of the white shoes after the Day of Labor.
However, in the meantime, let the Manolo say that there is one moment when the white shoes they are always appropriate…
P.S. Ayyyyy! The YouTube it is now not working.
Can’t breathe. Laughing too hard.
I am going to SF on Thursday.
Do you think I will be lucky enough to find Steve Perry singing down by the docks? Perhaps if I find some Easy Spirits circa 1985 to wear I might…
One day, a mullet will find you…
OMG, I used to wear my hair just like the chick in the video. Had a similar outfit too, but I always wore black. :)
So let’s get our White Shoe etiquette straight… after Memorial Day, yes. After Labor Day, no. In a Journey video, it’s of no consequence. White shoes are the least of the fashion offences.
Pack up Journey with the white shoes and please, please do not let them out next Memorial Day weekend.
The Deja, she is having the bad 80′s flashbacks of the white pumps with the toe cleavage, and the Mary Kay Superhold hairspray….
I would just like to know how Mr. Perry got into those jeans without hurting himself.
Obviously, the woman has also used up all of the available hair product in the city, leaving none for the poor musicians.
Dearest Manolo, I have never worshipped you more than at this moment. Good taste is always in season – bad taste is, well, occasionally magnificent. Bravo!
The Steve Perry makes my head hurt. However, the white shoes do distract me from his singing, which is a major feat.
It’s all so overwhelming – the playing of air instruments, the over acting/singing, the 80′s styles that I thought I had successfully repressed…
What I’d like to know is why Steve Perry keeps crossing and uncrossing his arms.
Oh Manolo, you just really get it, don’t you! Thanks for the trip down memory lane…since I’m sure I’m much older than your average reader, I’ll just gently remind that all the places that we’ve been is all part of who we are now…
Ah the good old days!
Only the Manolo could convince me to spend a full four minutes and 31 seconds examining the sartorial splendor of decades past whilst enduring the complete shite music of the same historical moment. MY GAWD, I loved that girl’s hair. I think I even HAD that girl’s hair for about ten minutes in 1984, but it was a lot of work.
Also, who knew Harry Shearer used to drum for Journey? I guess that’s where he picked up his rock-star moves before becoming the lukewarm, cucumber-enhanced member of Spinal Tap.
Toe cleavage, nothing. How about that male cameltoe? I was reminded of Nigel Tufnel and David St. Hubbins waxing poetic about their Trouser Armadillos.
I also had that same outfit, down to the white pumps, in 1982. As a side note, I saw Journey in 2002 with Steve Augeri as Steve Perry’s replacement, and he was phenomenal!!!!
Oh, the good old days of THE JOURNEY! Love them and not afraid to admit it!
Of course the outfits (male and female) are the cheesiest – but the Manalo is correct, white pumps with a black leather jacket – the stuff that Memorial Day nightmares are made of!
Love the Journey – and the new Steve isn’t bad either – except for his Axel Rose dance moves (which is another post entirely)
We used to call a certain style of musician “Good Face for Radio”…Perry has a heckuva voice, but he’s not much of a hottie in any era.
Oh, to be fair, today’s trends are cheesy too. Steve Perry is not bad looking, and anyone born before 1970 had that hairdo once. I loved the 80′s, Journey and big hair, and I would do it all again.
OMG The Steve Perry, his voice…I also am not afraid to admit that I love it – then again, all of us musicians did.
I used to babysit a girl who looked just like that girl. We used to do her hair for her… I don’t know that I’d do the big hair again (the teasing, the brush out, ouch…)
Any chance anyone knows the name of the woman in the Separate Ways video?