petronia.livejournal.com ([identity profile] petronia.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] koganbot 2010-03-12 05:36 am (UTC)

I am made to feel old by the personal style of the kids who I think listen to 3OH!3 and Brokencyde (by which I mean kids in the metro that look like the kids in their videos). All the neon sneakers and plastic belts and brightly-coloured patterned skinny hoodies and razored hair. I was never a fashionable teen, but when I was a teen it was inconceivable that anyone would want to wear stuff like day-glo checkered hoodies at any age; it was an era of spaghetti-string tops, khakis and Doc Martins. Then the later cohort favoured retro 70s/80s looks, which came with their own benchmark. I can imagine being in high school and looking at cool kids in skinny jeans and leather jackets. But for the life of me I can't imagine being in high school and looking at cool kids in neon plastic belts.

...The real irony is that I dress more like the 3OH!3 kids now than anyone from the 90s, comparatively speaking.

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