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Kathleen Mead Fashion 4.6: Kathleen Kicker

DH FASHION
DH S1E6: Nobody’s Perfect
Aired: 1989

Welp, this is a Kathleen episode so here we have a bunch. I really liked this episode and its subject matter. (If you don’t remember, this is the episode that demonstrates domestic abuse between Kathleen and her boyfriend Scott). I know Kathleen spouts off all the cliche victim-reasonings we’ve grown up hearing. But I think this episode is a great opportunity to see the cliches in context, in action. It helps them make sense a little more.

Kathleen’s style hasn’t changed too much over the years. It’s kind of bland, sensible, proper, modest. She doesn’t get too crazy with colors. Her hair has always been beautiful and we wears it clipped half-back these days. We still see remnants of summertime in many outfits of this episode. The final top we see here, in the dark brown, is unusual for Kathleen. Maybe it symbolizes her downtrodden state after Scott’s attack.

Kathleen Mead Fashion 4.4: Kathleen Kicker

DH FASHION
DH S1E4: Dream On
Aired: 1989

Look, I love Kathleen, but all I can say about her outfits is PLAIN FREAKIN JANE – that, and TOTAL SQUARE. Her button downs and her pleated shorts and her slacks – well, at least she is adding in more color these days. And on the DL, I have to say I would totally wear that yellow plaid dress actually…

Kathleen Mead Fashion 4.1: Kathleen Kicker

DH FASHION
DH S1E1: A New Start
Aired: 1989

So it appears the new trend is wearing your underwear outside your clothes — oh yeah, I forgot. The niners are just getting hardcore hazed. Where are all the teachers at anyway? Degrassi is like historically known for teachers NEVER being around. Except when there’s a fight, especially a fight that we really want to see. Anyway. This is the first sight of Kathleen in high school – completely dehumanized with white granny panties and what I might call a granny bra – tied to a pole. Nice. I mean, honestly, if this happened to me, I’d think it was kind of funny.

Kathleen Mead Fashion 3.15: Kathleen Kicker

DJH FASHION
DJH S3E15: Pa-arty!
Aired: 1989

Remember when Kathleen pressures Melanie to get Kathleen invited to that grade 9 party? Awkward! And then she doesn’t even have fun! So first, Kathleen is in a blue top, sorry about the horrible usual backlighting, and then thanks to a kind streetlight, we see what Kathleen wears to the party – more blue, and some jacket that looks like her dad’s.

Kathleen Mead Fashion 3.16: Kathleen Kicker

DJH FASHION
DJH S3E16: Bye-Bye, Junior High!
Aired: 1989

 

First, Kathleen roams the hall on an average school day in a blue plaid shirt. Then, she turns up for the dance. She wears a blue dress under a pink cardigan which she has buttoned up halfway and pulled down off her shoulders. And it wouldn’t be a dance without panty hose of course.

Kathleen Mead Fashion 3.14: Kathleen Kicker

DJH FASHION
DJH S3E14: Black and White
Aired: 1989

LOL, of course she’s a total frowny face for this yearbook picture. Wearing her DJH school sweater and a half pony. I gotta say though, Kathleen has gorgeous hair. And she did throughout her whole run on the show.

Kathleen Mead Fashion 3.13: Kathleen Kicker

DJH FASHION
DJH S3E13: Making Whoopee
Aired: 1989

I hope you’re ready for a big old ray of sunshine – the nicest girl at Degrassi, Kathleen Mead herself, is gracing the pages of broomheadz once again. Always smiling.

So as usual, she’s wearing an array of unshapely, drab-colored clothes of blues, greys, and burnt orange.