wait, plaid shirts are out?!?!

@junkmail:

Yeah, sorry you missed the memo.
Might want to check in the baggy jeans and hi-tops, too.

Denim jeans are still chichi though, right?

Back in 1991 I remember wearing a faded t-shirt and a pair of ancient, baggy cut-offs that I found in the dorm laundry room and thinking I was way stylish.

@tadiera: Hi-top Converse are back, though.

Hey, I remember when this happened! Just in time for me to go off to college. Too bad it came back...more insidiously. Now it won't do to be ostentatious (unless you do it in the right way), but it won't do to not care at all, since if you don't, you end up bereft of health insurance. But it also won't do to talk about what will and won't do, so you have to guess, but not look as if you're guessing.

It's too much. I think I'm going to go and live in my shed.

I think it's true, that there is/was a sophistication or evolution of wealth since then. It's true that lots of wealthy folks don't flaunt it. They have million+ dollar homes, other assets, etc, but they might drive an older car and wear sensible clothes. In fact, a lot of the people next to you in line at the store are worth a lot but they still get into that old subaru. They live comfortable lives, take frequent vacations, etc.

Or maybe it's just the Bay Area...

Can somebody tell my wife?!?!

next time materialism dies, can we keep the romaine lettuce?

*shudder* iceberg *shudder*

Just please don't let stonewash denim come back in style. Yick.

Oh, how I hope and wish for this to be true...