Atticus Mockingbird

Atticus uses the dead mockingbird as a symbol in their clothing. The mockingbird represents the innocent in To Kill a Mockingbird. It is considered sinful to kill one as written in the story. In this illustration I use the mockingbird to symbolize us. We very innocently follow trends and styles within our popular culture and are also victims of it. At times the trends we follow make us appear god-awful in a style sense. Just dig through past photo albums and try not to gag. All clothing lines follow trends. As much as they like to be trend-setters, it just isn’t possible. Every twenty years we re-hash the same era, over and over and over and over…

The hot pink here represents one particular horrific trend that will never go away and will continue to come back every twenty to thirty years: the trend of 80s glam. In this illustration, the mocking bird just got a glance of itself in this trend and passed out at the site of itself. I have not sinned, for I have not killed the mockingbird, but it may have wished for it.