Return of the 80's

I am not a huge fan of decades gone by...I am perfectly happy to be living now...and I really think that we should not re-live our fashion mistakes of the past...

Carole and I have had extensive conversations about fashion at different points in time. She points out to me that fashions repeat themselvs and that we are currently re-living the 80's...

Now that I teach at a high school I have plenty of opporutity to observe the youth of today. For a rural school there is alot to see.

First we have the Goths...for those of you not familiar with Goths...these tend to be people who wear all black and look odd in general. The ones at our school love to have wild colored hair. I have seen shaggy blue hair...purple hair...a white girl in dreads with the tips died pink...a boy with oily looking highlighter pink hair...and the best of all was a girl who had half of her hair died highlighter yellow and the other half highlight pink. It is hard to get used to seeing such things...I think the boy with the foot and a half tall hair spikes takes the cakes though...I can only imagine how he got his hair to do that.

Then...there are the kids who dress like it is 1984...girls in super tight jeans with hightop shoes...and today there was a boy wearing SLOUCH SOCKS!!! I can hardly believe it. It is hard not to gawk at these kids...I know they think they look good...I wonder what they will think when the look back in 10 or 15 years...I was a normal kid in high school and I still think I look goofy back...but these kids will have even more to be baffled by...

I guess this is just one of the many things that makes my day more humorous!