My keeping up with fashion trends finished when the era of wearing dresses over pants came to an end...
For those too young to remember this was somewhere before the start of the new millennium when Tony Braxton’s love songs were on all our cassette tapes. These were of course taped from the radio after spending many painstaking nights in front of my stereo waiting for my favourite songs to come on. I then had the tricky task of doing my own editing to try and erase the DJ's voice from the introduction and end of the song.
Fast forward to one decade later and I haven’t kept up with fashion trends since. When I finally realised that girls were wearing belts outside their tops it was too late. I was pregnant so couldn't find a belt big enough. And when minis came back into fashion I was horrified. Let's just say the only mini I want to be seen in is a Mini Cooper.
One fashion trend that I have found intriguing of late is the wearing of 'skins'. These little numbers that were at one time confined to the All Blacks camp have now found themselves into street wear. My husband tries to tell me that they're made from revolutionary fabric that helps to relax muscles after training, or keep ligaments warm or something like that. But let's face it guys - these are in fact tights. I'm sorry - they're tight, made of stretchy fabric, shiny and footless and this revolutionary material looks suspiciously to me like Lycra. And you can't tell me that guys have come straight from training at the late night session of I Am Legend.
Wearing tights also became popular with girls - this fitted me just fine as stretchy fabric feels so good. But alas, after wearing my tights for a while they seem to have shrunk - yes, it's the tights that have shrunk - ok. Now they more resemble bike pants. Does anyone remember when these were in fashion? I had a highlighter green pair with matching Lycra crop top. Picture the hulk in vibrant colour.
Scary mental images aside - there is another fashion trend emerging that is also pretty strange. Wearing tags outside of clothes. When I first saw it on one of the guys at church I thought he may have forgotten to cut it off, like when I forget to cut mine off and reveal that I've bought my top from The Warehouse. But after seeing more and more guys with their tags hanging from their clothes I realised that this was being done on purpose. I don't know why they do it, in fact I know of a few guys who got approached by a mall security guard as he suspected they had shop-lifted
