Sometimes the best part of a movie isn’t the dialogue, the acting or the story. It’s the fashion. It seems apropos that on my birthday, there are a smattering of stories about the 25th anniversary of Purple Rain . In the summer of 1984, I was obsessed with the movie, the soundtrack, and the fact that Prince and I are both Geminis. But what Christel Loar writes about on PopMatters is what Prince wore . Specifically: That shirt. Laor reminisces: I recall having an extended lingerie-as-daywear argument with a conservative Catholic grandmother during that year’s back-to-school shopping trip, and it had nothing to do with Madonna. Not that I was wishing to adopt Apollonia Kotero’s merry …
