Regression Obsession: Puff Paint
Posted at 4:00 PM Sep 17, 2008
By Sharon Steel
I often come across discarded puff-paint T-shirts at thrift stores. I hold them up, mourn their passing, and wonder whether they were lovingly created at a slumber party or camp craft session of yore. Because there was a time in most '80s girls' life when no piece of fabric could escape the radical bedazzle of a puff-paint set -- preferably the kind that came with glitter mixed into the paint. This was exactly as it should be.
You can still buy puff paint -- and yes, it comes in Purple Glitz! -- which means, of course, that you can take that Tri-Blend V-neck T you got at American Apparel this past weekend and whip it into something Dov Charney (gag me with a spoon) will either be incredibly impressed with or utterly horrified by. It doesn't actually matter either way, because you will probably be the coolest person at that Hipster Costume party whether or not he approves.
