Michael
Dec 9th 2009, 07:53 PM
No, we're not talking about moderators! :lol:
Watching a friend being interviewed on television recently, I noticed that beneath his urbane exterior—58-year-old advertising executive—lay an early 1960s-era, west-London mod. His hair (worn over the collar), his suit (linen) and his shirt (candy-striped pink) gave the game away. In his youth, my friend roamed Carnaby Street and the King’s Road looking for designer clobber; these days his wardrobe includes Nicole Farhi and Karl Lagerfeld, and he still regrets not buying a drastically reduced, goldfish-print Yohji Yamamoto shirt he saw in the sales last year. Once a mod, always a modern dresser.
Join a style tribe in your teens, and it may well influence you for the rest of your life, though some styles seem to suit the ageing body better than others. The octogenarian trendsetter will probably once have worn a zoot suit. The hippie for whom dressing sloppily was a revolt against bourgeois convention will now be in M&S jeans and T-shirt. The mods—now approaching retirement age—are still shopping for clothes; they will be the best-dressed OAPS in history.
Source (http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/content/linda-grant/when-mods-grow)
I've heard this theory before - that one's music and clothing tastes tend to 'lock-in' during the teen years and stay there forever.
In my experience, this is so true. 90% of the people I know listen only to the exact same music that they loved when they were in their teens and early 20s. That's the best stuff and everything else sucks by definition.
We have two 30ish male employees who are incapable of functioning without a backwards baseball hat upon their heads.
I'm worried about those 20ish males now who have been wearing their pants down around their knees. That might be amusingly odd for skinny young teens, but on some fat balding dude in his 40's (twenty years from now) that's not going to be pretty at all.
(Full disclosure: I'm guity of the clothing thing - I think jeans and black leather is the coolest type of clothing. But I'm definitely an exception to the music thing since most of the music I listen to now, I didn't listen to in my teens - and the music of my teen years, I don't listen to at all any more)
Watching a friend being interviewed on television recently, I noticed that beneath his urbane exterior—58-year-old advertising executive—lay an early 1960s-era, west-London mod. His hair (worn over the collar), his suit (linen) and his shirt (candy-striped pink) gave the game away. In his youth, my friend roamed Carnaby Street and the King’s Road looking for designer clobber; these days his wardrobe includes Nicole Farhi and Karl Lagerfeld, and he still regrets not buying a drastically reduced, goldfish-print Yohji Yamamoto shirt he saw in the sales last year. Once a mod, always a modern dresser.
Join a style tribe in your teens, and it may well influence you for the rest of your life, though some styles seem to suit the ageing body better than others. The octogenarian trendsetter will probably once have worn a zoot suit. The hippie for whom dressing sloppily was a revolt against bourgeois convention will now be in M&S jeans and T-shirt. The mods—now approaching retirement age—are still shopping for clothes; they will be the best-dressed OAPS in history.
Source (http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/content/linda-grant/when-mods-grow)
I've heard this theory before - that one's music and clothing tastes tend to 'lock-in' during the teen years and stay there forever.
In my experience, this is so true. 90% of the people I know listen only to the exact same music that they loved when they were in their teens and early 20s. That's the best stuff and everything else sucks by definition.
We have two 30ish male employees who are incapable of functioning without a backwards baseball hat upon their heads.
I'm worried about those 20ish males now who have been wearing their pants down around their knees. That might be amusingly odd for skinny young teens, but on some fat balding dude in his 40's (twenty years from now) that's not going to be pretty at all.
(Full disclosure: I'm guity of the clothing thing - I think jeans and black leather is the coolest type of clothing. But I'm definitely an exception to the music thing since most of the music I listen to now, I didn't listen to in my teens - and the music of my teen years, I don't listen to at all any more)