TSIZ
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Not to toot my own horn, but I am usually spot on when it comes to predicting fashion trends. The '90's started off pretty f-ing bad, launching into the "GenX" era and grunge and all that crap (hey, I'm one of them, so I can talk $#!T step offff). And I officially said it out loud over Memorial Day Weekend (LAST year), that this decade (how do you call it? the '00's?) has hit an all time low.
Every decade is in: the '40's, '50's, '60's, 70's, and UGH...the '80's. It's cool that it's a hodge-podge mix out there so everyone can do whatever they want. It's a fashion free-for-all, and that's fine for the people.
I'm upset that "haute couture" coming down the runways is, for the most part, lacking ingenuity. I look at that stuff and think, "hey, I can get away with that!" When haute couture becomes something "the people" can wear, then it's not that interesting anymore. I know many complain about runway fashion and how nobody can wear that stuff IRL. DUH. It's a "show". It's a stylistic expression of ideas; an "exaggeration", an "Alice In Wonderland"-esque explanation of what the designer house's pret-a-porter/off-the-rack theme for the season's new collection.
Wait, what was the original question? Oh GAWD. I don't usually toot my own horn...yadayadayada...When I saw Skinny Jeans and Leggings, I said, "no. way." THIS is NOT going to last. The '80's is still something to be made fun of, not "ready" to be brought back as couture (again, these were my formative years, I wore my fair share of shoulder pads and Flock O' Seagulls hair so back off).
And O.M.G. 4? years later...the leggings and skinny jeans are still going strong. WTF? How wrong was I? Just when jean companies finally made jeans "wearable" for all (high rises that act as corsets and lengthen the legs, wide legged pants to balance out the hips, etc.), they revert back to that which only the thin can wear. Shut up, I'm one of them, so I can talk S#!T, but it doesn't make this fashion trend "right".
Let's keep the leggings in yoga class and skinny jeans for the '80's-themed parties. My li'l sister's friends have had an "It's A Cosby-Christmas" every year for the last...decade. It used to be fun to get her all dressed up in my old cheezy clothes. Now it's like NOT a costume party. It's "in". Except for the "dad sweaters". A prize goes to the guy that has the wackiest sweater (a la Cliff Huxtable/Bill Cosby), so that part is fun. But other than that, the last Cosby Christmas looked like nobody gave a rat's ass. NOT cool people, not cool.
Let's just stash those things away for another decade or two, when everybody will be thin b/c we will have drained all of our natural resources including food.
Every decade is in: the '40's, '50's, '60's, 70's, and UGH...the '80's. It's cool that it's a hodge-podge mix out there so everyone can do whatever they want. It's a fashion free-for-all, and that's fine for the people.
I'm upset that "haute couture" coming down the runways is, for the most part, lacking ingenuity. I look at that stuff and think, "hey, I can get away with that!" When haute couture becomes something "the people" can wear, then it's not that interesting anymore. I know many complain about runway fashion and how nobody can wear that stuff IRL. DUH. It's a "show". It's a stylistic expression of ideas; an "exaggeration", an "Alice In Wonderland"-esque explanation of what the designer house's pret-a-porter/off-the-rack theme for the season's new collection.
Wait, what was the original question? Oh GAWD. I don't usually toot my own horn...yadayadayada...When I saw Skinny Jeans and Leggings, I said, "no. way." THIS is NOT going to last. The '80's is still something to be made fun of, not "ready" to be brought back as couture (again, these were my formative years, I wore my fair share of shoulder pads and Flock O' Seagulls hair so back off).
And O.M.G. 4? years later...the leggings and skinny jeans are still going strong. WTF? How wrong was I? Just when jean companies finally made jeans "wearable" for all (high rises that act as corsets and lengthen the legs, wide legged pants to balance out the hips, etc.), they revert back to that which only the thin can wear. Shut up, I'm one of them, so I can talk S#!T, but it doesn't make this fashion trend "right".
Let's keep the leggings in yoga class and skinny jeans for the '80's-themed parties. My li'l sister's friends have had an "It's A Cosby-Christmas" every year for the last...decade. It used to be fun to get her all dressed up in my old cheezy clothes. Now it's like NOT a costume party. It's "in". Except for the "dad sweaters". A prize goes to the guy that has the wackiest sweater (a la Cliff Huxtable/Bill Cosby), so that part is fun. But other than that, the last Cosby Christmas looked like nobody gave a rat's ass. NOT cool people, not cool.
Let's just stash those things away for another decade or two, when everybody will be thin b/c we will have drained all of our natural resources including food.
