and another thing

[threeplusfire]

Recently I've been out and about downtown, and I've noticed a terrifying resurgence of all that was ugly about the 1980s. The urge to scream "fucking hipster!" at every person in a white, wide leather belt over a striped shirt and leggings is almost unbearable. Really, leggings aren't so bad. They are useful and they can be comfortable. They are good for yoga.

HOWEVER - leggings are not pants. They. Are. Not. Pants. Wearing a fancy shirt and a jacket that just barely skims your hips does not magically transform your leggings into pants. WE ALL KNOW THEY ARE NOT PANTS! At the Erwin Center the other night I could only stare in numb bemusement at a girl dressed in such an outfit. I wanted to ask her if she left her skirt in the car, or perhaps on the bathroom floor.

Seriously, wtf?

I need to clean the floors, but the kitties are sleeping and it would be mean to wake them up. Perhaps laundry instead.

Comments

You have no frame of reference here, Donny!

[silentjack.livejournal.com]

Don't know if you've ever seen it, but http://tightsarenotpants.com/ has a fine manifesto against hipster-couture/culture and the weird leggings crap going on. It wouldn't be so bad if all the kiddies runnin' round in leotards and tights and such actually were alive when Cyndi Lauper was doing it first. The expropriation of trend without due credit has always bothered me, but that could be my academic side wanting to slap footnotes onto such people.