I must be getting old!

While I was waiting at the bus stop this afternoon, I indulged in a bit of people watching, which got me thinking. Then I got side tracked by taking a picture of my shadow and it wasn't until I was watching a 'youth' get of the bus a short while later, that I returned to my thoughts of earlier.


Fashion is a funny thing. Each generation reckons that theirs is the best and often derides the fashions of the following generations. And then there are those fashions that repeat themselves. But there are two fashions at the moment that make me chuckle to myself, well okay, one makes me chuckle, the other I just don't get.


Firstly, the one that makes me chuckle, is this prevalence amongst teenage and young adult males to wear their jeans half way down their arse. Some of them have their jeans so low that they have to hold them up to walk. It always makes me smile as I see them waddling (for they can't do anything else) down the street, showing their underpants - usually boxers or Calvin Kleins. Now this 'fashion' has it origins in gang culture, and gangs are the 'in thing'. Not the type of gangs when I was school, getting up to a bit of gentile mischief, these have a more vicious overtone, but we are getting away from fashion. So you see these lads struggling to walk down the street with their jeans half way down their arse.


The fashion I just don't get is teenage girls wearing what to my generation are thick tights, but wearing them as leggings, and it looks most odd. Just to clarify, both leggings and tights are very figure hugging and roughly about the same thickness, but the difference is the leggings retain their thickness as they stretch, where as tights don't. and you can see flesh through them. It therefore makes it obvious that these girls are wearing tights and it looks like they have forgotten to put their skirts on before they go out.


I am sure that my mother would say that I'm getting old.