How did Tunisian crochet turn silly fashion ?

Have you seen how the teens and "fashion conscious" dress - at least in this country??? I could mail you some pictures after an day at the mall....

Some of it is down right silly

Yes, I noticed a woman of at least 50 the other day with belly button on display - at a distance I could see old stretch marks - why ??? That's a fashion specifically for teens, if anyone.

A lot of those wild fashion trends come directly from Israel. They are very fashion forward, have fabulous designers and fashion is an important industry there.

I'm not a historian or a fashionista but I've got to say that 'silly' is a good word to describe some fashion trends and the people who adopt them.

I won't be around to see it but in 50 years the retirement communities will be filled with old geezers of both sexes who pull off their clothes to show off their tattoos or the scars left by tattoo removal.

The one that drives me NUTS, COMPLETELY NUTS is the exposed boxer shorts between jean and shirt. Sometimes with shirt tucked into said boxers.

Yuck, yuck yuck

Will comment to Lucille and Sheena off list....

Cheryl

Yeah, I see my daughter's friends (20-somethings both men and women) with big graphic tattoos and it kinda breaks my heart! What will their skin/tattoos look like in twenty years? Hideous stuff. These are normal people with jobs for crying out loud. Maybe I am too old to understand this trend. Just looks baaaaad to me.

Remember the trend of wearing boxers on the OUTSIDE?

I had to try to explain to the little old lady next to me on the bus that (a) I was pretty sure this was a girl, (b) she had not forgotten to put on her outer garment, she was wearing it under the undergarments, (c) this is the "in thing" and I don't like it either.

I don't want to think about it

I'll make a date with you to be fly's on the wall, screeching with laughter lol

Uh oh ! She said it, not me !

My beloved DSD rompoed home to show us her latest: a walloping great line-drawing rendition of Betty Grable that stretches from her elbow to her shoulder! Not only that, but she's had an enormous red rose, imperfectly drawn by her girlfriend, tattoed immediately to the left of Betty on her *inner* arm! It's about four inches in diameter and looks like nothing more than a major skin lesion!

My DSD has beautiful creamy fair skin, blonde hair and gorgeous china blue eyes. And big, black tatts.

Why????????

"anne" wrote

That'll be me!!!!!! (once I get up the nerve to have the tattoo). Dawne

What did YOUR parents or Grandparents Say or How did they react to Your Clothes etc,,,,,, mirjam

Why not share with ALL of us , your comments and /or reactions ? This is a FACINATING subject and very NEEDLEWORK =3Dtextile related !!! mirjam

The LOW CUT belt Jeans and Belly button showing , came from the Big Jeans makers who were looking for some New way to sell Jeans to a world that had enough jeans. By lowering the cut of the belt, millions of people felt their older jeans were `out of style`, and HAD to Buy NEW jeans. This lowering of the belt, + the many people who travelled to the east [where shorter blouses are worn under Sarries and Sarongs] + world warming, made it easy for people from all over the world to adopt this new trends. I thank you for having such a trust in our fashion industry. But we make mostly swimwear and underwear, this are the 2 big Israeli textile industries. Low belt cut Jeans are mostly `invented` by American designers and sewn in some `low salary` country.

mirjam

If they didn't like it, I couldn't wear it.

I do the same with my kids - no grinning skulls, no nearly obscene or disrespectful sayings, no holes in jeans (especially the ones that come that way).

Cheryll

i> > What did YOUR parents or Grandparents Say or How did they react to

I disagreed with the term silly , esp in connection with Teens clothes , because This is their age of `trying out things`, And dressing up in ways that look `strange` to grown ups , is the least probelematic in teenagers` behaviours. And as you write ,, You draw lines to the what they can or can not wear. Maybe other parents draw other lines. I would and do use the term Beautiful and or Ugly about fashion , but Silly ,,, NO NEVER .

I am an observer, i try to learn the Why behind some fashions. mirjam

Because it was a comment about certain Israeli beach fashions and less than nice.