In fact, I even viewed the dressing up as a sign of [the Village People’s] sincerity. When I was in infants school, the last day of term was always looked forward to partly because it was the one day we could dress how we wanted to, and this became a kind of ritual in which every kid would bring an outfit, so the classroom was invariably full of cowboys, spacemen and medieval knights in plastic armour. One of the great suspicions I had about adults was that these were people who could dress how they liked, and yet they all somehow conspired to dress as boringly as possible. And here were the Village People showing that it could be done - all you needed was the chutzpah to get on and do it.
Just think about this for a minute or two. Right now, you could be wearing a silver construction worker’s helmet. Why aren’t you?
” Phil Knight, “You Can’t Stop the Music”.
