You’re Going to Regret Those Oversized Printed Hoodies
March 27th, 2008, 7 Comments »
I went away a year ago. I came back, and all of a sudden everybody under 25 seems to be wearing a big white hoodie with lots of black skulls or text printed on it. I associate this trend, for no particular reason, with the Solja Boy video from last summer. It features both oversized hoodies and busy prints, so maybe somebody just put two and two together.
I think they’re pretty unflattering, but I’m old enough to understand the fleeting yet powerful nature of trend.
I’m also old enough to look back and laugh at some fashion decisions of my youth. Decades later, nearly all trends are inherently laughable. However, some are more ridiculous than others. For example, I regret my decision to wear boat shoes less than I regret my choice to, I don’t know, wear those patent leather shoes with the little tassels. Man, they were slippery on the school linoleum. And don’t get me started on a certain silk, poofy shirt I owned in university.
I fear that printed hoodies will rank high on the fashion embarrassment meter of tomorrow’s adults.
First Placket of the New Millenium
Speaking (in a round-about way) of the eighties, I bought a new shirt last week. It’s the first shirt I’ve owned in twenty years with a placket covering the buttons all the way down the front. It has a gather/plackety kind of thing in the back that echoes the placket. Plus, it’s light grey. In short, it’s 1987 all over again.
I was wearing it on Tuesday night at the NetTuesday event. Rebecca kindly took this photo. I appear to have covered up the entire front of my shirt in shame. That was unintentional.
