Ohmigosh, the movie *Valley Girl*! I can't tell you how many times I've seen that movie. My friends' older sisters had *Valley Girl* watching slumber parties. We had dedicated *Valley Girl* watching slumber parties. A very educational movie! Hehe.
There's a lot of distinctive style in the Valley (we have our own mini-me Valley up here in the Bay Area). No question. And also true, that things don't read the same way in and out of the Valley(s). However, the aesthetic principles are developed and strict, and I do always admire that.
Ok, so what would I say about the nightmare part? The principle "pretty, serviceable, and safe" can be wielded with a heavy hand. There isn't necessarily room for beauty.
For example, where I went to high school, pick-up trucks could not be parked on the street after 5 p.m. (ugly, and also the immigrant labor becomes unsafe after dark, like werewolves at the full moon). Conditions on owning a home involved plastic light-up Santas (mandatory, $$$$, and no irony). There were a lot of people self-medicating on dope to live like that, because essentially it was a combination of suffocating tepidness and stir-crazy malice.
As an aside: If anybody ever told you your blouse was *nice,* it meant you were a plague-carrying chipmunk.
Anyways, the floral moto would be a natural piece for the Valley. Because it reads chalky blue (safe), has flowers (pretty), and would allow people to pretend they don't live there a little bit (haha, I guess that would be the serviceable part). If it were mine, I'd have to be on guard against fashion flashback.
Ya.
