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I have a friend who was a fashion designer for BCBG and is currently an instructor at Otis Parsons, and he follows trends the way actors follow L. Ron Hubbard. He and I both concur: now is the most wonderful time in recent fashion history because ANYTHING GOES. Conservative Banana Republic can walk alongside 70s glam and slacker khaki Gap and no one bats an eyelash.
I, for one, am secretly pleased that I am theoretically back in fashion, even if only by accident. (I basically look and dress the same as I did in the 70s, and now appear as some sort of lost Flying Dutchman ghost warning sign to ne'er do well teens, who after seeing me reevaluate their lives and immediately enroll in summer school.)
Still, it all comes down to this: people are funny looking creatures and will spend any amount of money to overcompensate for this sad and inescapable fact.
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