April 14, 2009

• These past months I’ve noticed a very recurring theme in what the kids nowadays have been wearing, plaid. When I say “kids,” I specifically mean teens and maybe college kids. I haven’t really noticed people older than that age group wearing plaid patterns for their clothes, so it seems isolated to a particular generation. Ironically, the last time plaid was in fashion (with an emphasis on flannel clothes) was in the grunge music era of the early to mid 1990s; which was the generation that I grew up with. That wasn’t a pretty time period for fashion, as people looked very… grungy. However, I don’t know if it’s because it isn’t really about flannel clothes and baggy pants nowadays, but the plaid look actually works quite well with the kids today.

  Trying to think back, but I believe the first time I noticed the use of plaid coming back, goes as far back as the September of 2006, when a particular lead singer of a band called “Meg & Dia,” was wearing a green plaid long sleeves shirt. In several concerts after that, I’ve started noticing some of their fans wearing plain as well. Then I started seeing that fashion trend with other band’s concerts, until I finally see it in shopping malls and starbucks. I’m not saying that Dia re-started that trend, but I’m guessing the whole plaid thing is in tune with indie/non-mainstream music and it’s fans of today. Wasn’t Ellen Page’s character in “Juno” wearing plaid as well? hhmm

  In other but somewhat related news, Meg & Dia’s latest music video “Black Wedding” is now available to watch. Check it out.

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