Think about it...think really hard...Do you actually know anyone who doesn't recognize these lyrics?
"One pill makes you larger
One pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you don't do anything at all."
In an instant you know this song. A trippy 1960's classic sung with conviction in that echo-y, solid tone by the incomparable Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane. Chosen by one our shopgirls as their very favorite style icon, we wholeheartedly agree.
Slick was the definition of the San Francisco hippie bombshell, but certainly no earth mother. Despite (or perhaps in addition to) her status as one of the original Haight Ashbury icons, there was always something so fantastically punk rock about her. A touch of a foul mouth, the ever present cigarette; I always imagined one hand grasping a Jack Daniels bottle and the other, her waterproof mascara.
Grace Slick was all huge eyes, pristine features and that thick, wavy brown hair! So jealous. Unlike the float, airy, gamine flower children that were her contemporaries, Slick was all lady (as in woman)...confident and possessing a cheeky sexuality.
Cheers to Grace! She made the silk maxi dresses and loud, mix/match prints NOT the opposite of sexy.
Above is Grace with her mother. A very nice looking lady who we simply can not imagine giving a young Grace little white pills!
xoxo- Shopgirl A
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