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I was in High School in the late 1980s, so yeah we had some pretty narrow ankle pants for sure, but what's funny about today is the comical pairing of super tig

I was in High School in the late 1980s, so yeah we had some pretty narrow ankle pants for sure, but what's funny about today is the comical pairing of super tight up top too, along with a massive phone jammed into a front pocket that looks like you'd need crow bar to get it out. The obvious solution is a fanny pack, but the kids are trapped by circumstance because fanny packs are out. lol. Perfect Storm of fashion comedy.

eesmith 2y ago
You think kids now care don't use fanny packs because "someone in Hollywood declared Fanny Packs to be out of style" back when you were in high school in the 1980s? How amazingly influential this mysterious someone was, to influence things some 35 years later! Certainly more then how the beatnik and hipster styles of the 1950s influenced your generation of HS students. Since purses are another obvious solution, I place no faith in your interpretation.
- bluGill 2y ago
  Fashion trends come and go and come back again. So that fanny packs are out of style again doesn't surprise me.
  - quantadev 2y ago
    They've only come back in the form of shoulder slings. The "Waist Wear Phobia" is still very real.
- quantadev 2y ago
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  - eesmith 2y ago
    That's because you haven't clarified what the "time-frame was that someone in Hollywood declared Fanny Packs to be out of style right when tight jeans came into being". https://archive.org/details/clarion_yb_1945/page/n27/mode/2up?q=%22tight+jeans%22 https://archive.org/details/clarion_yb_1945/page/n27/mode/2u... shows that "tight jeans" were a thing in the 1940s (that links to a 1945 yearbook entry listing a pet peeve of "girls who wear tight jeans and sweaters"). I assume the "someone in Hollywood" refers to Yankovic's 2006 song "White & Nerdy", which characterizes the fanny pack as part "white and nerdy" fashion, indicating how it was no longer part of pop culture fashion by then. He lives in Hollywood Hills, I believe. That was 18 years ago. It's amazing that Yankovic has that much influence on modern clothing styles.
    - quantadev 2y ago
      You accused me of putting the time-frame for Fanny Packs back into the 1980s, but when you went back and read my post again you realized I didn't. lol. So now you're having to falsely claim my writing was unclear, because there's no other way to save face.

eesmith 2y ago

You think kids now care don't use fanny packs because "someone in Hollywood declared Fanny Packs to be out of style" back when you were in high school in the 1980s? How amazingly influential this mysterious someone was, to influence things some 35 years later! Certainly more then how the beatnik and hipster styles of the 1950s influenced your generation of HS students. Since purses are another obvious solution, I place no faith in your interpretation.

bluGill 2y ago
Fashion trends come and go and come back again. So that fanny packs are out of style again doesn't surprise me.
- quantadev 2y ago
  They've only come back in the form of shoulder slings. The "Waist Wear Phobia" is still very real.
quantadev 2y ago
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- eesmith 2y ago
  That's because you haven't clarified what the "time-frame was that someone in Hollywood declared Fanny Packs to be out of style right when tight jeans came into being". https://archive.org/details/clarion_yb_1945/page/n27/mode/2up?q=%22tight+jeans%22 https://archive.org/details/clarion_yb_1945/page/n27/mode/2u... shows that "tight jeans" were a thing in the 1940s (that links to a 1945 yearbook entry listing a pet peeve of "girls who wear tight jeans and sweaters"). I assume the "someone in Hollywood" refers to Yankovic's 2006 song "White & Nerdy", which characterizes the fanny pack as part "white and nerdy" fashion, indicating how it was no longer part of pop culture fashion by then. He lives in Hollywood Hills, I believe. That was 18 years ago. It's amazing that Yankovic has that much influence on modern clothing styles.
  - quantadev 2y ago
    You accused me of putting the time-frame for Fanny Packs back into the 1980s, but when you went back and read my post again you realized I didn't. lol. So now you're having to falsely claim my writing was unclear, because there's no other way to save face.