Charlie's Angels was the first television show to watch where you could now choose to look as close to one of 3 distinct fashion idols. Farrah Fawcett my favorite for here tomboy style mixed with ultra confidence and the most amazing smile. Her hair style was the most requested style and each girl in high school had her curling iron out at 5 AM to try and look like her or at least just have her hair in tight sideways curls down each side of her face. Jaclyn Smith was your classic, quiet beauty, and Kate Jackson, like her name was your beautiful brains and classic, no cleavage, dare the have short hair, smart girl. Each one had their own space. In looking at this photo, they were the first in the same dress different cut, different expressions. Each of us wanting to be one of them and would watch "our girl" every week to see what she wore, her hair and how well her clothes fit. Plot? What was that? We didn't care id they caught the villain we were getting clues on how to dress, style our hair, and be a Charlie's Angel wannabe if only in high school.
Are you confused as to which angel you are trying to model yourself after? Then here's a clue. This fashion photo has no coordination of color or style of clothes. This is not your typical fashion, get together, rather a testimony as to which personality that went with which angel.
Notice that none of them are wearing super high heels and they are confident enough to wear sneakers. Nowadays, one or all of them would be wearing super high heels whether it was appropriate or not.
Yes, Farrah, was the tomboy who didn't have to try hard. Here she depicts, sports and then there is the ever famous skateboard photo of her in jeans. Don't be fooled however, because whenever she wore a gown, or a blouse she had the most plunging neckline of the three and she almost always went braless.... successfully.
Jaclyn was the little classic bikini girl here. You would think Farrah would be such the girl but no. Jaclyn has a little hussy side to her when you least expect it.
Kate, well, what can I say. I never wanted to be her and she was kind of like the androgynous, conservative girlfriend willing to put sexual allure aside. She stood next to the other ones had so they looked better in comparison. She wasn't ugly but that bowl haircut compared to the shiny bouncy curls. This outfit alone says: "Don't even think about it." Really...her hands are even covered and the outfit couldn't be more butch, the pants always fit her terribly. Today, they would find a pair of jeans to push her flesh into some curves but in this time, for the show, it was OK to let her flatten out. The girls in high school who wanted to be "Sabrina" had frizzy uncontrollable hair and were simply hoping for some fine limp shiny hair to wear and style. I mean every other picture had her in a turtleneck.
Overall, though you couldn't go wrong. Which angel you liked did say something about how you were trying to come across. Confident and flirty? (Farrah); Trying to be more grown up than you really were? (Jaclyn); Look but don't touch, I'm trying to have a career (Kate) All of them were polished and fit. We all were fit in those days and we could go around in waist high jeans with no muffin tops because we didn't try to squeeze into jeans two sizes too small. Some bag to a pair of jeans was not a mortal sin. We put on a pair we liked. And we also looked great without having to wear super high heel shoes every time we dressed up. Sorry high heel wearer, with bunion feet too soon, but these chunky super high heels DO NOT make your legs look longer. It looks like you stepped into wet cement. It also shortens your stride now wary instead of confident.
We didn't have to read about what Farrah Fawcett ate to keep trim. And look at Jaclyn! No bubbles of fat anywhere, and here in this photo, there is no room for error. She's not too muscular either, just fit. This made all of their various coordinating outfits look like they had ease in their style. The clothes fit their fit bodies so well without having to grab too tight on anything. There was a proportion to their outfits that had nothing to do with expensive name brands, overpriced purses, and too tight silhouettes showing off their 8 hour days in the gym. It's refreshing. Now we have to only show certain name brands, and its confining. Now we have to buy exactly this or exactly that instead of trying out a version of a style we like and making it our own.
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