I agree completely. I don't particularly care for "the baggy look" myself but nobody is forcing me to wear it so I don't complain. My parents didn't like it when I wore bell-bottoms, tie-dyed t-shirts and a thick belt with a "peace-sign" belt buckle. I don't care for hip hop, but my parents weren't all that thrilled with rock and roll, and their parents didn't care for jazz and swing music. Adolescence is a time of newfound self-awareness and rebellion. Each generation has "their thing" and as long as it is not harmful, I say let them be.
Because the trends that adults come up with are far worse. What is the "comb-over" haircut, if not the adult male version of the muffin top -- a futile exercise in denial?
Comb-overs, midlife-crisis-mobiles, and nostalgia for The Police are far more sickening than any youth trends.
Kids do dumb things because they don't know any better. What excuse do adults have?
The trend I would like to see put to a grinding hault is one where the media tells kids they have to look older then they really are. This was set off by the alarming sight of thong underwear in a tween clothing store. I'm sorry, but young girls have no business wearing thongs under teeny tiny ruffled skirts. SHAME ON YOU LIMITED TOO for catering to such a thing.
Kids should be kids, not little hoochie adults. I'm all for kids dressing the way they like, but there is a point where I am not about to let them walk out of the house looking like a street hustler.
I tried to find a pic of some middle-aged bar skank sportin' a muffin top caused by wearing her 20 year old POLICE tube-top, riding bitch on a "Hawg" (5 year old Harley with 525 miles on the odometer) behind her boyfriend whos rockin' a combover (or even better... bald + ponytail). So far GOOGLE has failed me. :frowning:
The idea that a 12 y/o worries that about is definitely beyond my comfort zone.
Thanks to whoever brought up those bikes. They are orders of magnitude louder and more obnoxious than those subwoofers on wheels folks tend to complain about here. And just as common.
I saw a kid recently with a basketball jersey down to his knees, baggy pants that looked like he must have been wearing his belt just above his knees and a baseball cap that was so crooked, he was actually wearing it on the side of his head. I have no idea how he kept the thing on. And yes it had stickers on it.
And I do think kids need stricter/better parenting. I hear teenagers talking to adults in ways I never would have talked to a adult at their age. With so many just aching to interferre into the lives of parents now adays - kids get away with too much bad behavior.