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All the rage
Nov. 23rd, 2008 11:01 pmMy sister told me something yesterday that sounded depressingly plausible: apparently, the latest fashion among young teenage girls in Ireland (and quite possibly elsewhere) is to wear their knickers around their wrists.
Their knickers.
Around their wrists.
Yes, we agreed, generations of teenagers have done their best to shock their elders, and therefore this fits into a long and honourable tradition. But still. It's an unedifying little vignette in the endless, maddening performance of femininity, and I feel like a captive audience member.
Or am I wrong, and is this in fact a bold, sex-positive, ironic statement of twenty-first-century emancipation? What do you think?
Their knickers.
Around their wrists.
Yes, we agreed, generations of teenagers have done their best to shock their elders, and therefore this fits into a long and honourable tradition. But still. It's an unedifying little vignette in the endless, maddening performance of femininity, and I feel like a captive audience member.
Or am I wrong, and is this in fact a bold, sex-positive, ironic statement of twenty-first-century emancipation? What do you think?