Stick with it Ruthie - dare to be yourself and, as long as it doesn't hurt you, put up with the earache from the fasion slaves. Coz that's all it is.

Just remember the story of the broken watch and the one that goes slow. The slow one is rarely right. The broken one is right twice a day. The fasion concious will eventualy go slow and never catch up again. I like to stand still nowadays and every now and again, when the wheel turns once more, I am bang up to date;-)

BTW I have twin daughters, now 16. When they were 13/14 they got into goth style rock which got them into all sorts of scrapes and arguments with their school peers. They lived through it pretty much in tact. If they can get away with black lipstick and Grunge I'm sure wooley jumpers and Eliza Carthy will be a piece of cake *BG*

Cheers

Dave the Gnome