It seems these days that a trip to Target invariably means running into numerous college girls wearing leggings as pants (usually with short tops). I was in college the first time this "fashion" was popular. So, apparently we're up to the 90's in retro fashion, which makes sense as styles cycle about every twenty years or so. I always find it interesting that young women seem to want to wear clothes so similar to the ones their mothers wore when they were young women (in order to assert their individual styles of course). Styles which their mothers were wearing around the time they were born. Styles which would have made a huge imprint on their minds during their formative years.
And the hilarious part is that they never understand the connection they are so unwittingly making. I remember being very in love with hip-hugging wide leg jeans, with peasant blouses, with scarves and leather necklaces and general hippie-chick chic. I also remember my Mom laughing at me and asking if I wanted any of her old clothes. I wonder if the mothers of these young women are digging in the backs of their closets for their old leggings, off-the-shoulder sweaters, leg warmers, and neon anything; thinking about how cool we used to think we were and how since then, we have come to see those styles as utterly ridiculous.
But I don't have any daughters, so I am just left shaking my head and giggling to myself in Target, exerting every ounce of energy I have to restrain myself from walking up to these girls, so proudly wearing their non-pants, and telling them that in a few years they will wonder what on earth they were thinking.
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