Polka dots are like roleplay. Sometimes, in my polka dot miniskirt, I’m saying I’m a cute little girl. show me how to tie my shoelaces! (I’m 5’10” and have a pointy face, so I love this foil). Sometimes the polka dots are ironic, suitable to wear to an interrogation at the police department, or to sip on a negroni with downtown Svengalis.
They’re an intellectually underrated pattern and something of a turducken—beneath their speckled childlike charm they have a long history baked in economics, American nationalism and social milieu. And yeah, I said turducken.