I have two teenagers now. Some of the trends are interesting. High school girls are addicted to wearing short running shorts in as bright a color as possible, hopefully clashing with the rest of their clothes. Both boys and girls are wearing black athletic socks pulled up as high as possible, of course with shoes as bright as possible. Tan/Navy school uniform shorts with a white or blue shirt, black socks with fluorescent shoes?
To each his own I guess.
Your post has just reminded me of something that happened to me decades ago when i was about 8 or 9yrs old, (it's probably not that amusing but i'll share anyway).
(Apologies, it is slightly off-topic)
I was out shopping for school shoes (for the upcoming term) with my mom, in my local town. I happened to be wearing a pair of bright green fluorescent socks at the time (i thought they were trendy, a lot of people at school wore them.. it was an 80's thing), at school and amongst my peers, they were always known as 'Day-Glo socks'.
Anyway, had finished purchasing the shoes with my mom, and just as we exited the door of the shop, we could hear a really loud cacophony of bike engines and chanting... it was huge Convoy of Hells Angels/bikers riding through the town holding placards and demonstrating, (please bare in mind, that after watching films like 'Mad-Max' etc at far too early an age.. i was poop scared of them, even though my dad was a biker in his former years
).
Anyway, whilst standing on the pavement outside of the shop nervously watching the convoy of scary bikers pass through town, it suddenly dawned on me what was written on the placards and what they were chanting...
"SAY NO!!-TO DAY-GLO!!.. SAY NO!!-TO DAY-GLO!!"
Needless to say, fear got the best of me that day, as i ran quickly back inside the shoe shop and actually hid behind a shoe display...
My mom later explained to me they were demonstrating about some law that was being considered that would force riders to wear High-vis... they weren't demonstrating against me wearing my socks.
