”I don`t usually dress this way,” said Kathy Hoban, self-consciously trying to hide her rakish but certainly not raunchy black-and-white patterned pants, all the while keeping her eyes glued on a prancing quartet of 12-year- old Mt. Prospect Madonna-wannabes-including her daughter, Katie.
Obviously, going to watch, hear, adore one of the world`s most popular entertainers brings out the urge-no matter the age-to get into the mood, to play the part, to mimic the mole of their favorite ”material girl.”
That`s what happened the other night when Madonna hit the Rosemont Horizon on her ”Blond Ambition” world tour.
The star herself strutted in her new wardrobe by Parisian designer Jean-Paul Gaultier (a golden corset with pointy-bra cups and flying garters;
black bras with bicycle shorts or girdle pants, one time topped with a fuchsia marabou-trimmed boudoir-type affair, once by a black ”cage” vest). Meanwhile, her fans paraded a retrospective of Madonna gear (lace tights and lace-up bustiers, crosses on chains), their versions of hot stuff (tight, short, bosomy, bare) and more black than you`d ever see at a funeral or fashion show.
Far-and-away favorites: flat black ankle-high shoes and boots with black socks and fishnet hose (yes, even on 12-year-olds); second-skin black stretch dresses (strapless versions preferred by the voluptuous); black leather jackets, bras, skirts (sometimes all together); decorated black jackets
(studded with silver; covered with gold patches, pins, stripes); enormous hoop earrings; straggly, kinky, permed, teased, tortured hair (jet-black or wannabe-blond).
Attention-getters: a tank-topped black dress with pastel, leopard-patterned side panels; back-seamed fishnets with very high heels.
Next time? Probably foot-long ponytails and pink marabou bras. –
