Poly Styrene and Dayglow: Energy turned to Screaming Color

Hope and Jackie are back at it again, returning with some ear hole goodness. This time we discuss fashion icon, punk musician, and writer Poly Styrene. She wore a highlighter color scheme that interlaced with her sound, poetry, and art. Her fashion shouted out to the world how scrupulous her frenemy relationship to Dayglo could be. So we dove into the world of Dayglo and asked the important questions, like wtf is Dayglo anyway?

Well we get into it and it isn't what you think it is. Tune in to find out!

 

Some resources for this episode:

Punk Legend Poly Styrene’s Untold Fashion Influence by Scarlett Newman

Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliche Documentary

Poly Styrene wikipedia

https://rbkclibraries.wordpress.com/2013/11/20/fade-to-grey-fashion-and-music-from-the-1980s/

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/82792/brief-history-day-glo

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-09-03/la-me-col1-day-glo-art-fading-lacma-saturn-yellow

 

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