Millennials fear a return to the ultra-low rise.
Earlier this week I wrote a humor piece about skinny jeans getting canceled by Gen Zer’s. I don’t write humor often but this one sort of flowed out. I suppose that’s what happens when you become internet irrelevant.
I stand by every word, too. This is not a piece in defense of skinny jeans or anything. It’s one to say that if you’re confused by the panic, there’s a deeper explanation here. Yeah sure, it sucks to admit that we are, ahh — um, I am, getting older and now watching my generation deteriorate one trend at a time. But that’s not the real reason for the panic here.
Memory Lane
Music videos were aired constantly on channels now reserved for terrible reality TV shows. I sneaked Eminem CDs past my parents who believed it was M&M. I exploited the hell out of that assumption. I am sort of sandwiched in the middle of the millennial years. It’s a strange place to be and have been — situated before the internet, through dial-up, those monstrosities of black…
