I don’t care if people mock me - they are comfortable, and frankly that’s all I care about. (Admittedly the pair I have are a style that was manufactured for about 5 minutes, in smooth black leather, and to me they don’t look dorkier than any other pair of fleece-lined winter boots.) When you live where I do, it’s all about practicality in the winter, especially when your left fibula is held together by a metal plate and a bunch of screws. I plan to wear those boots until they fall apart, and then I plan to look for something very much like them.
It’s a “trend” which has lasted since the printing press became popular.
Three hundred years ago, the papers were full of the latest scandal involving the D_____ss of D_______e* or the Queen’s ladies in waiting. There were “Scandal Sheets” which were essentially the same as tabloid newspapers of today, containing slanderous poems about prominent individuals, cartoons and glowing descriptions of what So-and-So wore to the ball last night. (In modern times, the celebrity has taken the spot of the nobility.)
American newspapers weren’t much better. They paid rapt attention to the latest murder trials (Lizzie Borden), sex scandals involving politicians (Rachel Jackson) and printed serial novels which took up enormous chunks of the print space. Every paper had a big “Society” column which reported the doings of local rich folks. In short, they devoted about as much space to “real news” as modern papers.
- Duchess of Devonshire. To avoid libel, they would block out most of the name, though everyone knew to whom they referred.
I used to think Uggs were the most hideous shoes ever until Coros came out. Now I actually think Uggs don’t look that bad by comparison and I am apprehensively awaiting the next shoe fad so horrendously fug that it’ll make me start to think Crocs weren’t half-bad after all. :eek:
No doubt there has always been a lowest common denomenator, but in recent years the steady decline of our culture has left little else beyond the raunch. The trashiness and vapidity has seeped into all corners of American life in a way it had not before. A firewall has eroded and trash culture has lost a lot of the stigma that kept it in its place.
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I love skinny jeans! I’m tallish with a short torso and my legs are on the thin side so they look better on me than fuller jeans. I just have trouble finding shoes that look good with them. I don’t like them super tight though.
I also love my Uggs! Granted I only wear them around the house or to walk my dog in the winter, but they’re so comfy! So I’m not trying to make a fashion statement, just keep warm.
Not crazy about the trend of really light lipstick that’s darker than your skin.
This annoys me too, but I’ll expand it to the Bluetooth headsets that now seem to be worn as jewelry. I was at a professional seminar this week where the main presenter had hers on all day long. Was she expecting to take a call in the middle of her presentation? Or were we supposed to be impressed by her $50 cell phone earpiece?
I can’t wait for the Bratz doll / Libby Lu / dress-every-preteen-girl-like-a-slut trend to go away. Preferably before my 3-month-old daughter gets to that age. Why does anyone think it’s a good idea to make little girls think the pinnacle of beauty is to dress like a dead whore extra on Law and Order?
do you mean lighter than your skin? I’ve notice this with several celebs lately. They die their hair to match their (too-tanned) skin and then they put on beige lipstick.
It makes even the prettiest girls look all washed out and flat
I cannot stand the three-days-since-I-shaved look that some guys sport. Either commit to a real beard or shave. I don’t know if it qualifies as a fad or trend, but I don’t like it.
Don’t much care for facial piercings, either. Or celebutants. Or a whole lot of other things, but I don’t want to come across as bitchy.
Every time I walk through Target or Walmart, I am amazed at the kinds of garments that are available for little girls. The fall/winter stuff isn’t too bad–just little versions of trendy jeans and sweaters. But the spring/summer stuff is horrible. Teeny-tiny halter tops. Way-too-short skirts. Itty-bitty-teeny-weeny bikinis. There’s nothing good about sexualizing a little girl before she’s even aware of her own sexuality.
I’m so glad I have boys. I still have my challenges, but they amount to nothing more than “turn your hat around to the front, please” (instead of off to the side) and “if your pants fall to below your hips, put a belt on”.
These days, keeping my boys from looking like gang-bangers is far less challenging than keeping a little girl from looking like a mini-whore.
I intentionally fake calls when I’m at the bank.
There is one clerk-Nazi that is always the one I get. She has catty, dismissive, and totally irrelevant remarks every time I make a deposit. “I hope you added this right, it’a a lot of checks.” “I hope you remembered to stamp the backs.” “You have blood dripping from your fangs.” Then she’ll make a show of wiping my DNA off her precious counter.
So I pretend I’m on the phone so I can go into a whisper and step back for privacy, and not look at her during the transaction.
Yes, thats exactly what I mean. Kelly Ripa is a perfect example of this. Her skin, hair and lipstick are all the same color. She looks like a lollypop with arched eyebrows.
On the one hand, you have a point. It is pretty sloppy. On the other, it’s real convenient for days when you’re lazy or have class at 8:15.
Good call on the pointed shoes, FRDE. It’s disturbing how footbinding is coming back into fashion like that.
My main issue is with singing voices lately; it seems cool to not be able to sing.
You guys have recommended several bands which I’ve checked out, but virtually
none of them has a singer with even decent pipes.
Fashion trends lately really make me laugh. It’s funny to see stuff that, <obligatory valley girl accent> I would, like totally <ovga> have worn in the 80’s on the racks, at triple the prices I paid back then. I’ll tell my nieces, who are in their late teens “Hey, I had an outfit just like that back when I was in high school!” Of course I’ll get the :rolleyes: “Yeah, right!” from them, but it’s the truth.
Even Crocs are kind of an offshoot of the og-awful “Jellies” shoes from back then. So these trends don’t just go away…they hibernate.
I do agree about the pointy-toed high-heeled shoes that everyone “must” have. I have never understood why someone would want their feet to look bigger!!! I’m always trying to find shoes that make my foot look small, and here are all these shoes that are like boats.
The trend I would like to see disappear forever: “REALITY” TV
AMEN! Along with your excellent ones, the trend to only like “earth tones” which I call “body fluid colors”. They look like diarhea, bile and baby poop. Along with the 92,678 shades of Brown. (you can call it all the delicious sounding food names you want, it’s still ugly blah brown).
Then, the baggy pants, which have gone from merely baggy to too laughable for words. I saw a young man on the street who had pants so baggy, that where the sag hangs to the knees? There was a swag of material that actually sagged over the existing sag.
I have come to hate those little Lisa Loeb glasses seen here that are EVERY freakin were. I went to many eye glass stores a short time ago to get new glasses and these ( or variations on these) were all they had. The walls were coverd in the same frame.
Thanks. I feel better now.
Jens Lekman.
This is who you need to be listening to.
Now that you mention it, that’s another trend I’m suspicious about: singing. All around too attention-grabbing for my likes, and have you seen the people who do it? In their fancy get-ups grabbing at their crotches, or some fat Italian man wailing away in a fancy building downtown. I think that “music” fad is contributing to all these people who feel the need to fancy up their conversation with trills and harmonies.
What else? The currency trend… looks like the devil’s work to me. I’ve got an entire car and you just want to give me a piece of paper for it? And I’m expected to believe other people will want that paper? But people look at me funny when I tell them I’d rather they just give me ten donkeys in exchange for my car.
Finally, what is it with labor laws? This fad for kids not to go into the workforce at 8 years old is cute, but it’s getting pretty darn tiresome. If we had children dragging nuclear waste around for 16 hours a day, I bet then they wouldn’t have time to be buying the outfits the people in this thread think they look sexy in.