I always thought it was soo cool...

When I was a teenager and crazy things were in fashion - because let's face it, the 90's followed the ridiculous 80's.  The 80's...knit skirts, neon shoes, bright pants, etc.  Lots of bad clothing decisions were made in the 80's...and then came the 90's.  Big hair.  Loud prints.  MC Hammer pants that were anything but attractive.  Hoodies with everything.  EV-ERY-THING. 

In my teens, I thought it was cool that people in their 30's didn't wear those trendy clothes.  They seemed to make their own trends...i.e. anything but the stuff that was considered "in style."  I admired their ability to not go with the flow and to embrace their own style.  And now that I am 30-something, I realized that they had lived through other bad clothing decades and they weren't impressed with the fashion of the day, so they embraced a rebel-will-wear-what-is-me kind of attitude...which I've come to the conclusion is where I am in life.

I walked through Target the other day and do you know what I saw....obnoxious 80's + 90's clothing items.  There were 2 disturbing extremes.....bright neon colored skinny jeans (Bleh!) and huge, baggy MC Hammer-ish pants.  The baggy pants wouldn't have been so bad, I laugh, had they not been in an obnoxious print.  I felt as if my eyes had been blinded.  It was painful and totally headache-worthy. 

Maybe since they are combining the 80's and 90's --- maybe the next phase will be 2000 when people basically recovered from all the bad clothing of the previous 2 decades.  Not sure...but here's hoping.

I promise to not ever (as in ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever) embrace skinny jeans...especially bright neon colors.  Save the neon colors for the highway construction crews.  Let's free the world of neon colored skinny jeans.