Nobody's paying attention to Miss Manners anymore.
One fifty-ish mother told me that her daughter got nipple rings and for a minute she thought she would too --that was one way she thought she wouldn't lose her car keys!
She's from California.
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Certainly ughs by me. That style only flatters rail-thin girls. Everyone else just looks like a barge.
My wife complains that these teenager clothes are all taht's available in stores now. She has been looking like crazy for a pair of jeans that aren't low rise, but isn't having any luck. So her choice is to dress like a tramp or wear old, worn out clothes.
Seems to be another reflection of the perpetual adolescence of baby boomers. It's been on the inside for 30 years. Now it's showing on the outside.
Well I have to admit that I still own and wear a pair of Levi's that I bought when I was 16.....back in 1976. I also wear fairly tight, fairly short shorts.........when I'm gardening.....I dont' wear them out in public.
I'm 45 years old, not 16 and I know it....I may fit in those clothes, but I'm not going to be seen in public wearing them..........and neither will my now 7yo daughter if she knows what's good for her.
OH MY GOD!!!!!
Are you serious? People trying to look younger than they are. This is unprecedented in the history of this country. Never before has anything like this ever gone on. We're DOOOOMED! Must be the Clinton legacy.
Shocked, I say.
My wife uses an irish expression:
"Mutton dressed like lamb"
I have a 21 year old son. Every so often I'll say to him some particular girl seems nice, and he'll say "Mom, I'm not going out with any girl who has 'spoiled rotten' written across her chest".
I'm embarrassed when I go shopping, to see some of the things written on girls shirts.
This is the key for both men and women - no one seems to get that dressing young makes your age obvious (40+ "surf bum" men in nightclubs look just as stupid) , while dressing in a timeless, classic style makes your age very hard to determine. You won't look 18, but you can stay "30-ish" for a very long time. ;)
No, it's more that parents are dressing their little girls like street walkers.
LA/OC "progressive" writers are the generally boring writers like this and boringly talk about their superficial hatreds like this.
I never understood the rationale for paying $220 for a pair of denim work pants.
I do tend to hate how slobbish way people dress nowadays. I'm probably somewhat acclimatized (unfortunately) to the trashy/slutty, tattooed-freak 'look' that the youth find so spiffy, but it sure is dismaying seeing older folks looking like unkempt slobs. Out shopping, I'm seeing seniors in tacky t-shirts, sweats, etc., often with their guts hanging out. Twenty years ago or so, I always found a bit of solace in the dignity and decorum that the older generations presented in public, but in the past few years all that has been coming to an end. Slobby dressing just does not command respect.
I'm not saying that many of the comments in the article aren't right on, but geez, this writer must be a total dog--or if a guy, a real geek--to have to knock other women so badly! (and that goes for some of the respondents in the thread too!)
I dig MILF's, sorry. Have dated a lot of them, and most of them have made a very good living for themselves and their family, are very intelligent, funny, and some are even conservative.
But damn, if they got it, why not FLAUNT IT!
Here here. Or is it hear hear?
Actually, in the '90s people were dressing like they were 15. The '90s still won't leave. I hate the "style" (lack of) that started there and keeps hanging around.
"guys have a long history of resembling the homeless"
No, they have a long history of GETTING A PASS for looking like homeless.
Men, like women, regularly looked good until (drumroll.....as usual....) the '60s. Once the hippies took over EVERYTHING went downhill. It's all about "comfort". Which I think is BS because the only thing that looks nice but doesn't feel good (usually) to me is shoes.