Miami Vice 5

WONDERFUL FASHIONS!!!! Forget the terrific pulsating pop and rock music, forget the cool, slick and excessively handsome (my one-and-only lifetime hero and idol) Don Johnson's too-quickly-over 1985 sex-symbol status, forget the flashy MTVideographic camera work--the ONLY reason I REALLY tuned into the show in the 1980's was because of Don Johnson's tropical-chic, casually elegant designer menswear ensembles--unconstructed sportjackets thrown over t-shirts and multipleated pants in pastel shades of pink, peach, aqua, lavender, fuschia and white. The show triggered a MAJOR fashion craze in menswear especially around 1985-86, and I was wowed over by the flocks of pastel sportjackets, short-sleeved button down campshirts and multipleated trousers in the department stores. I am a 40-year-old man who has always enjoyed wearing these styles, so when they fell out of fashion circa 1990, I went into a deep depression--solved only by teaching myself to sew my own pastel men's campshirts starting in 1993. I've since acquired (from exclusive menswear boutiques and from mail-order sources) some 60-plus pair of white triple-pleated pants just like the ones Don Johnson wore on Miami Vice, 11 fuschia wet-look velcro-closure sportshirts, 9 turquoise wet-look velcro-closure sportshirts; 22 pairs of pastel bubblegum-pink linen-blend triple-pleated pants, 30 hot-pink single-button lightweight big-shoulder-padded unlined and unconstructed sportcoats; 19 additional unconstructed Vice-like men's sportcoats in various shades of fuschia and pink and in fabrics other than linen; 26 unconstructed men's sportcoats in other hues--shades of white, pastel yellow, peach, teal, gold, plum and more; and over 30 printed woven short-sleeved pajama-collared shirts in bright and pastel splashy prints that I purchased one by one and that I DIDN'T create and sew up myself; and nowadays, in 2007, my typical daily ensemble consists of white triple-pleated pants, sockless white slip-on deck shoes, and pastel short-sleeved button-down straight-hemmed and spread-collared campshirts sewn myself--campshirts with printed paint-splashes, brushstrokes and splatters of vivid pastel Miami Vice color. I love the look, to me it will never go out of style. So what if no one else dresses like me anymore? I love being original, I love being an individual, and I love the self-confidence that Don Johnson's tropical-pastel Miami Vice look has always given me. I also love keeping alive what I consider a gorgeously stylish look, even if I'm the only one wearing it. To me the Miami Vice Look will always live!!!