# What will we be embarrassed about in 20 years? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 24, 2009, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860 "2009-06-24T18:34:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![phreesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@phreesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phreesh)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2009, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860/101 "2009-06-30T20:11:09Z")
Gas-guzzling SUVs. Look at the fate of Hummer. What is up with hair? More and more women are getting ‘Brazilians’ and dudes are shaving both their heads and their pubes now. I think we’re getting more and more germ-phobic and I don’t think things are coming back. I say we’ll be looking back in 20 years and saying, “You had hair? Under your armpits? You had pubes? Gross!” I don’t support it, but that’s the way its going. Emo/Goth - I think everybody who isn’t in this group knows they’re going to look like retards in about 10 years. Thank God I don’t have kids old enough to do that yet. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2009, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860/102 "2009-06-30T20:49:44Z")
Accent walls capri pants spinners ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2009, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860/103 "2009-06-30T21:08:13Z")
I just thought of another one. The current fashion where women wear a dress over their jeans. What the hell is with this trend? The first time I saw it I think was in a Glamour or People magazine, and I thought that the model had forgotten to take her pants off when she was changing clothes. Oh, and I have to agree with the Uggs. I can’t decide what looks stupider - Uggs with short skirts/shorts or Uggs with workout pants. ---
**Author:** ![jsmooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c89c15/32.png) [@jsmooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsmooth)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2009, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860/104 "2009-07-01T00:49:58Z")
Embarrassed? Forgot PC stuff. This is the crap everyone thinks we should be doing causes it’s cool now. My bet: The current fade of facial hair: Sideburns, goatees. Most of the tattoos & piercings. Definitely the Crocs. Technology: MySpace, Facebook, twitter, etc. Mind you they may be cool today but whatever comes tomorrow will blow them out of the water and we will look back and cringe (How many of you had an AOL account?) -Joe ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2009, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860/105 "2009-07-01T01:14:40Z")
Hey, I STILL have an AOL account ☹ (though I use something else, its still active) I have in the last week worn baggy capris ☹ (though it was only because I had nothing else clean to wear; someone said I looked I had pirate pants on!) In the last couple years, I had Jennifer Anniston hair ☹ (though its been cut since). … Those oddball square/rectangular cars - Scions and such - are they going to look silly (sillier) in the future? And fruits with magical properties: blueberries, acai fruits, pomegranates - in 20 years will they be a diet staple because they’re so healthy? ---
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2009, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860/106 "2009-07-01T01:17:21Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > Goatees and soul patches…as soon as our business executives started wearing them, I knew the trend was dead. > [@jsmooth](#): > > My bet: The current fade of facial hair: Sideburns, goatees. I’m guessing that if prominent figures have been doing goatees since the [19th century](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatee), the trend probably isn’t going anywhere soon. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2009, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860/107 "2009-07-01T14:38:29Z")
Off topic, but every loser who shoplifts, steals purses, uses stolen credit cards - the ones who are "captured " on security cameras, caught in the act, and shown on the nightly local news - all seem to be bald with some ugly facial hair here and there. I don’t know what this means. I look forward to a more photogenic petty criminal in the future. ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2009, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860/108 "2009-07-01T18:33:46Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > Those oddball square/rectangular cars - Scions and such - are they going to look silly (sillier) in the future? I don’t think there’s any reason to worry about those poor vehicles–I think they’ll have a great future as mail delivery trucks. ---
**Author:** ![Khan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3ab097/32.png) [@Khan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khan)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2009, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860/109 "2009-07-01T18:58:09Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > These drive me insane. **They don’t look good!** How can someone look at themselves in the mirror and think that’s something they want to go out in public in? > > My manager is an exceptionally attractive person who is really easy on the eyes…except when she wears an empire waist. Agh. > > \ Straight guy here. Maybe I’m developing a bun-in-the-oven fetish, but I think empire waists are sexy. [This looks pretty hot](http://www.coutureinthecity.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/pabmidkfanaeglgpj.jpg). Of course, [this looks weird.](http://z.about.com/d/prom/1/0/b/-/-/-/empirewaist.jpg) I’ve seen women wearing tops that bulge out and look like they’re wearing a tutu around their rib cage. It doesn’t help when it also looks like they wrapped an ace wrap around their bust as tightly as they possibly could. Incidentally, [this look](http://www.stylescoop.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/leggings-4.jpg) doesn’t do a whole lot for me either. Short dresses and skirts are good! Why hide your legs under spandex? I also think guys with bed head haircuts look like douchebags. Additionally, I’m having trouble articulating my thoroughly negative feelings about guys gelling their hair down to the point where they look like Trinity in The Matrix or a 19th century file clerk. Is that look emo? Whatever the case, I have faith that, in 20 years, those guys will look at pictures of themselves from now with the same level of contempt that I do. ---
**Author:** ![ianjohnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a3d4f5/32.png) [@ianjohnson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianjohnson)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860/110 "2009-07-02T02:48:10Z")
I’ve watched a lot of “What Not to Wear” due to working for TLC, and they pushed empire waists a lot. They are good for women with pear shaped figures because it emphasizes the most narrow part of the body which is the ribcage rather than the hips. On a slender woman it isn’t as necessary, and could easily look like maternity wear. When I hear empire waist, [this](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://psyc.queensu.ca/~psyc382/vearn.jpg&imgrefurl=http://psyc.queensu.ca/~psyc382/vaneyckimage.html&h=479&w=346&sz=61&tbnid=5qqZL5FRJQDK1M:&tbnh=129&tbnw=93&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dthe%2Bbetrothal%2Bof%2Bthe%2Barnolfini&hl=en&usg=__eNOy6n7Wcnn5Hb0RKq1ER02h5pE=&ei=TR1MSq-SGpGKMsW4xMMB&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=4&ct=image) is what I always think of. I think the Scion box is going to be this decade’s gremlin. It seems like it is hip and cool and funky only because it is different from everything else. It is attractive for its non-comformity and not the inherent quality of its deisgn. ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860/111 "2009-07-02T19:01:46Z")
> [@ianjohnson](#): > > I’ve watched a lot of “What Not to Wear” due to working for TLC, and they pushed empire waists a lot. They are good for women with pear shaped figures because it emphasizes the most narrow part of the body which is the ribcage rather than the hips. > > On a slender woman it isn’t as necessary, and could easily look like maternity wear. When I hear empire waist, [this](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://psyc.queensu.ca/~psyc382/vearn.jpg&imgrefurl=http://psyc.queensu.ca/~psyc382/vaneyckimage.html&h=479&w=346&sz=61&tbnid=5qqZL5FRJQDK1M:&tbnh=129&tbnw=93&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dthe%2Bbetrothal%2Bof%2Bthe%2Barnolfini&hl=en&usg=__eNOy6n7Wcnn5Hb0RKq1ER02h5pE=&ei=TR1MSq-SGpGKMsW4xMMB&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=4&ct=image) is what I always think of. > > I think the Scion box is going to be this decade’s gremlin. It seems like it is hip and cool and funky only because it is different from everything else. It is attractive for its non-comformity and not the inherent quality of its deisgn. The problem is that they _can_ be flattering for a pear shaped woman _if they’re cut right_ (which they do mention). You can’t wear one of the empire waist shirts that has the bottom part gathered at the empire waist. That bunches and flares and most _definitely_ looks like you’re pregnant, pear shaped or not. You need to find an empire-waist that is cut narrowly underneath the waist so it still goes down straight on your body. You _also_ need to find one that’s cut correctly so the waist is actually below your boobs, not cutting across them, which, unfortunately, is what a great many of them do. If you can find that combination, they can look nice. Unfortunately, about 90% of the empire waist shirts/dresses are not made like this. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2009, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860/112 "2009-07-03T20:52:12Z")
people with wires attached to their ears. As in music player headsets… Whenever I see one I think self-absorbed ignoramus. That won’t age well. ---
**Author:** ![RachelChristine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ab992/32.png) [@RachelChristine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RachelChristine)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2009, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860/113 "2009-07-03T21:27:26Z")
Slightly off-topic, but I’m in the process of making a prairie/frontier style dress (with apron and bonnet!) for my three year old, since we are going to South Dakota next week. My 17 year old comes down the stairs and looks at some of the pictures and tells me how stupid people that wear those clothes looked. I very simply said that 100 years ago it was the style and what everyone wore. Of course, 17 year old voice of knowledge says “Well then everyone looked stupid.” I said, just wait 100 years to when people will look at how stupid you look. And her response was that they won’t think she looks stupid because she knows she looks good! (And she does – one of those teens that make you sick – tall, skinny, long legs, flat stomach, great hair, blah blah, blah. \) ---
**Author:** ![RachelChristine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ab992/32.png) [@RachelChristine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RachelChristine)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2009, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860/114 "2009-07-04T00:37:31Z")
Just saw something that made me HOPE this will be embarrassing soon. All those pictures teens take of themselves by holding the camera straight up in the air! They are looking up at the camera, and the picture pans down to their feet. I hate those things. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2009, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860/115 "2009-07-04T01:31:13Z")
> [@Chopper9760](#): > > I caught an episode of Magnum P.I. the other day and there was Tom Selleck sporting a Hawaiian shirt and [way too much hairy man leg for my comfort.](http://www.chimpsahoy.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/images//2007/09/selleck_shorts.jpg) You’ll like yourself better if you just 'fess up and embrace your Gay. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-we-be-embarrassed-about-in-20-years/500860.md?page=5)