You can find cute, Mean Girl-esque clothing even at stores like Wal-Mart, Target, and - yes - even thrift shops!
For Japanese girls, the main fashion choice is between being kawaii, or cute — which means you wear girl- ish pastel-colored clothes that might have pictures of furry animals on them, and sometimes you actually carry a toy furry animal with you — and bodikon, or body-conscious — which means you dress like a cross between Lil' Kim and a manga character.
In the 1959 movie "Pillow Talk," which Universal has just reissued as a digitally enhanced Blu-ray as part of its studio's 100th anniversary home video promotion, Doris Day and Rock Hudson play prosperous Manhattanites — she's an interior decorator, he's a Broadway songwriter — who meet cute by means of a shared telephone line.
At its heart, "cute culture" means that all of us can do with an aww and a smile.
Was such a cute gesture meant to invoke multiplicity?
By cute I mean with well-made wooden items on display.
That Max nevertheless sticks around is troubling, but fortunately Mr. Plomgren and Ms. DiLellio manage to convey the image of a cute couple meant to be together.
Meanwhile, the media certainly hasn't help matters, insisting on dressing up our troubles with cute, inflammatory "mean girl", "cat-fight" and "frenemy" headlines that pit women against one another and perpetuate the very problem we're trying to abate.
After they meet, cute and mean and tipsy, over a video game at a bar, Garrett and Erin head back to his place for bong hits and a hookup that leads to something more, which in turn lands them at the airport.
R.R. Sadly, she probably means cute like a puppy, not like Bobby Sherman (circa 1972).
