Word: plaids
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contents of my closet haven't changed much in the last four years. I still own a wide assortment of plaid button-down shirts, and I still wear them on a regular basis...
They are the kids who chill in carpenter jeans. They never owned jams or velcro sneakers. They've probably never even heard of Gotcha T-shirts or Zubaz pants. They may have worn plaid in elementary school, but that was when mom was doing the shopping. Now that they're becoming fashion conscious, it's all about the stripe...
...stripes are employed they tend to stick near enough to each other so that they can be read as a single stripe. Thus, striped clothing creates a minimalist dichotomy that suggests action and movement. Such a statement is a sharp departure from the complicated unity and static nature of plaid...
While the younger breed wears striped clothing effortlessly, those of us who have been sporting plaid fashions since the early '90s may find the switch to stripes a tough transition to make. We're used to the earnest complexity of the tartan and the understated intricacy of black-watch. It's not easy to leave behind the gridded blues, greens, reds and yellows for the linear turquoise and black...
While I never want to get so out of style that I come back into style, I understand that I can only keep up with the Benjamins to a certain extent. In a few years striped clothing will become as passe as plaid clothing is now. Nevertheless, we must slowly begin to push our plaid to the back of the closet, earning our stripes slowly, so that we can prepare for the next shift in the winds of fashion...