Tell me I didn't just see that

I love a nice hoodie. They have a hood, they're comfortable, you can wear them in mild weather on their own, or team them up with a jacket in cooler weather and still look good. You can even sometimes have a choice between zipped and unzipped.

But, excuse me for a moment. When the hell did almost anything with a hood and maybe a zip, turn so frakin' ugly?

Look, I get it. I'm getting older, and the kids are wearing all sorts of stuff these days. But the rise of the fluoro geometric wallpaper vomit that are the styles and patterns on most hoodies these days is inexplicable.

Since when did "stylish" and "trendy" become so diametrically opposite? This look might be trendy, but it sure fails the stylish test. It doesn't even pass the "vaguely socially acceptable" and "doesn't actually burn my retinas with ugliness" tests either. And yet the guys (and girls) who wear this stuff prance and preen around the streets like they don't actually realise they look like they arer wearing the contents of dumpster from behind a fashion house of the 1980's that have fallen from the sky, detoured via a paintball game, got stuck in traffic and then played a game of pin-the-ugliness-on-the-twit-who-thinks-they-don't-look-like-East-17. My god, did that sentence even make sense?

Match your favourite hoodie with a pair of narrow black jeans, a luminous pink cap turned sideways and a pair of dirty Cons for a look that just screams "I have no sense, no taste, no style, no clue, can I borrow the latest trend from General Pants and copy every single one of my friends to prove how hip and unique I truly am? Now please misspell something on my Myspace, thanks".

I would try and slap sense into these sheep, but it ain't worth the effort.


Note: this post is brought to you by the guy who wore a black toga (happily coined a "Melbourne cliche toga") and sandals on Friday night.

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100th post.

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