Fashions

I suppose the fashion business is like a spinning top:  it's because it spins around so quickly that it manages to stay standing.

There are two fashion trends I personally dislike:  visible underwear and inappropriate religious accessories.  By "inappropriate" I mean something like wearing a cross around your neck along with a low-slung blouse, and especially wearing the cross on a loose string so that it's close to your cleavage! (It isn't that it offends against religion, but that it offends against fashion!) Both trends are about crossing a line for the sake of crossing the line, and that's tacky.

The "golden age" of fashion was from the 1920s to the 1950s.  There's an exquisite Youtube video of Leroy Anderson's instrumental "China Doll," illustrated with photographs of the '50s Paris fashion scene, and fashion icons of the time like Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn. (I can watch it over and over!) But the sexual revolution of the 1960s somehow had a cheapening effect on fashion, as they turned to obvious stuff like the miniskirt and the bikini.  Or at least that's what I think!

The quintessential 1970s fashion was the sleeveless pantsuit!