Kids today

[The Fisher Account]

Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald

Since this thread is about generations and generation gaps, can someone please explain the fixation with the massive false eyelashes and the huge fake fingernail claws? Is that the new image of beauty? Asking for someone that can't stop laughing.

I'm sure people questioned your long hair and bellbottoms too, you old hippy

[you&me]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

Maybe people like to dress up for themselves and don't give a #### what randoms think?

There's definitely no shortage of people that clearly don't care about what others think of their appearance, but I think you're giving too much credit to the the 4" claws and obviously-fake lashes types.

Women/men
Eyelash and nails/man buns and beard grooming

[Matata]

Women don't dress for men, they dress for each other. It can get oddly competitive and manifests itself in bizarre fashion choices that push things to the extreme.

[EldrickOnIce]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

Maybe people like to dress up for themselves and don't give a #### what randoms think?

No one's here critiquing you for wearing sandals with socks or khaki cargo shorts grandpa.

All forms of self expression are fabulous.

[Matata]

Why do women wear make-up and perfume?



Because they're ugly and they stink.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Matata

Why do women wear make-up and perfume?



Because they're ugly and they stink.

Are you actually 12 years old?

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald

Since this thread is about generations and generation gaps, can someone please explain the fixation with the massive false eyelashes and the huge fake fingernail claws? Is that the new image of beauty? Asking for someone that can't stop laughing.

It's wild watching my 16-year-old daughter move through the styles. Seems like hyperspeed from my vantage point, but to her there have been different styles from grade eight, to nine, to 10 and now in grade 11, which is like 25% of her life.

She doesn't do the long lashes, but she does do the fingernails.

I'm just glad the style isn't dressing like a slob like it was a couple years ago. I always had to tell her she didn't have time to paint the fence before school and she'd better get dressed quick. har har DaD jOkE

Now she and her friends wear - I fataing swear - bras with open flannel shirts. It's weird. Like, put on a shirt you weirdos.

[RogerWilco]

Originally Posted by blankall

People who are 50 years old are squarely gen Xers. They caught the tail end of the good times the boomers had, but nothing like what the boomers actually received. Many of them also graduated directly into a major recession and a saturated work force.

In my dealings with many Gen Xers, I've found it's crazy how many still maintain that angsty edgy teenage attitude throughout their entire adulthood.

It's because we all watch "The Breakfast Club" on perpetual re-run.

[Winsor_Pilates]

Originally Posted by Sliver

It's wild watching my 16-year-old daughter move through the styles. Seems like hyperspeed from my vantage point, but to her there have been different styles from grade eight, to nine, to 10 and now in grade 11, which is like 25% of her life.

She doesn't do the long lashes, but she does do the fingernails.

I'm just glad the style isn't dressing like a slob like it was a couple years ago. I always had to tell her she didn't have time to paint the fence before school and she'd better get dressed quick. har har DaD jOkE

Now she and her friends wear - I fataing swear - bras with open flannel shirts. It's weird. Like, put on a shirt you weirdos.

I see a bunch of high school girls walking around my neighborhood each day and the bra & open shirt thing is certainly happening.
Always with sweatpants as well.

I don't know how you do it with a teenage daughter; I'd be locking mine up if she wore that little at that age.

[Lanny_McDonald]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

Maybe people like to dress up for themselves and don't give a #### what randoms think?

Well obviously they do "give a ####," otherwise they wouldn't invest hundreds of dollars in buying this stuff and maintaining their augmented self.

Was actually really curious about how this trend came about and why so many beautiful young women do this to themselves? And how many of the younger generation males actually find this look attractive? Please help grand pa out here.

No one's here critiquing you for wearing sandals with socks or khaki cargo shorts grandpa.

Yup, that's pretty cringe inducing too, and I don't condone it either. Cargo pants/shorts are also a generation or two after me and I don't understand that at all either. In fact, I don't understand the way people dress at all anymore. I come from the generation of wearing a suit and tie to work and dressing was a show of respect to your customer and trying to make a positive first impression. So, I find I'm over-dressed everywhere I go anymore which is probably just as cringe, even though I get plenty of compliments on my attire. There is some awfully interesting plumage out there which makes people watching so much fun these days.

BTW, I'm with EldrickonIce that most forms of expression are cool. I loved the punk and goth movements because of the expression of themselves and the counterculture they embraced. It was the general fashion trends that were always so strange to me (bell bottoms, leisure suits, parachute pants, etc.) but it was still cool in a way. Where I get lost is the body augmentation stuff, and it's not just this generation. I never understood the attraction of the plastic surgery boom, but that's probably because of my religious upbringing (the body is your temple).

[peter12]

I'm wearing a Japanese-made indigo chore coat and Birkenstock clogs to the office today. Kids! Bastard kids!

As far as dress codes go, yes, I used to be known as the local snob and in many ways, I still am (Vancouver real estate has really cut into my disposable funds), but you cannot deny the ongoing casual direction that society is headed in.

Yes, some days, it feels good to wear a suit to work. If I am meeting with colleagues or partners from conservative sectors of the economy or government, I'm wearing a suit, for sure. It's also fun to embrace the freedom of the current moment and play around with what works for you.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates

I see a bunch of high school girls walking around my neighborhood each day and the bra & open shirt thing is certainly happening.
Always with sweatpants as well.

I don't know how you do it with a teenage daughter; I'd be locking mine up if she wore that little at that age.

It surprisingly doesn't bother me. I let her do her thing whilst making fun of her.

IDK, once you have a 16-year-old girl and a bunch of other 16-year-old girls around your house, you quickly realize they're just basically little kids trapped in young ladies' bodies. There isn't a creep factor there, so I don't see them as dressing sexy or anything. They're just dorks to me.

I'm not very conservative in that way, though. There have been a couple of outfits I've had to ban, but honestly, more like loose stuff so you don't want people looking down their shirts or something. For the short skirts she wears "cartwheel shorts" underneath, so that's good.

It is weird when she gets looks from creeps out and about, though. She did get cat-called by a group of losers in a car when I was walking with her last summer and I had to yell "she's fataing 15" once, but what do you do.

[peter12]

Sliver, you sound like an excellent dad.

[Cali Panthers Fan]

Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald

Since this thread is about generations and generation gaps, can someone please explain the fixation with the massive false eyelashes and the huge fake fingernail claws? Is that the new image of beauty? Asking for someone that can't stop laughing.

I mean, it's an odd trend, but I have a colleague who wears the huge false eyelashes, and she's pushing 50. I'm not entirely sure it's a generational thing.

[EldrickOnIce]

Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan

I mean, it's an odd trend, but I have a colleague who wears the huge false eyelashes, and she's pushing 50. I'm not entirely sure it's a generational thing.

I'm thinking it might be drag culture hitting main stream. Over the top dramatization. I'm a fan

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Now she and her friends wear - I fataing swear - bras with open flannel shirts. It's weird. Like, put on a shirt you weirdos.

Is she the heiress to the a candy bar fortune?

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Sliver

It is weird when she gets looks from creeps out and about, though. She did get cat-called by a group of losers in a car when I was walking with her last summer and I had to yell "she's fataing 15" once, but what do you do.

I know a girl (my daughter played hockey with her) and she started working at the Dome at 16. Her favorite part was shaming all the drunk idiots that tried to pick her up.

She's a great kid.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by RogerWilco

It's because we all watch "The Breakfast Club" on perpetual re-run.

I always assumed it was Reality Bites.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald

Since this thread is about generations and generation gaps, can someone please explain the fixation with the massive false eyelashes and the huge fake fingernail claws? Is that the new image of beauty? Asking for someone that can't stop laughing.

Those are weird. The one I really don't get is the excessive lip injections. It seems like body mutilation to look like some kind of alien. I went to a bar and a friend brought a woman how had this done. I found it very distracting and just difficult to talk to her. The lips also physically impeded her ability to talk.