here we go

so, i live in this city where fashion isn't exactly a second thought.

mind you, i'm still a tshirt and jeans kinda fella, but the dr has me wearing nicer clothes that i used to, she made me give up most of my PSL softball tshirts that i had stockpiled up.

i was out recently at one of my neighborhood bars and i see a flannel shirt. i suppose since i had just seen this play, which is about early/mid 90's angsty teenagers at Berkeley High, it was on my mind, but i got to thinking.
The process of fashion becoming popular, then fading for some years and then resurging some years later:
the 50's styles were popular in the late 1980's
for the very early 1990's the late 60's/early 70's styles.
now, it seems like the process is going faster and faster.
1985 minus 1955 is 30 years,
early 90's to late 60's is 25 years,
we are all aware of the current early to mid 80's trends now being displayed in bars near you - which is roughly 20 years past.
We are in ought-8, and the mid nineties are about to be here in this fashion resurgence thing. that means we are about 14 years behind.

ready? here comes the point -
if this current rate continues, the fashion resurgence trend will pass itself in about 2020. does this mean we'll start wearing the fashion of the future instead of the past? or will the cycle loop again? what will happen?

i love it.

p.s. - i tried to make a graph of this, but failed miserably. i enlisted the dr. but she said she does this crap all day long, so we are sans graph. if you can make a graph that breaks it's own back, lemme know.

p.p.s. - wtf am i doin talking about fashion? Is this what is happening to me?

doppelganger

the dr and I know this couple (our associates cornelius and davinci*) who were travelling home recently on their motorcycle. they saw someone who fit the physical description of the dr., and when they called out to her by first name, the person turned and said hello. then cornelius and davinci proceeded to have a small (2 or so minutes) conversation with this person who answered to the dr's name, and looked enough like her to confuse our associates.

it wasn't until after they bade each other good night that they realized that it was not, in fact, the doctor. "sure, it sorta looked like her, but not really...and what the fook was she talking about?" they mused to each other. our associates then contacted us, and relayed said story.

so i googled the contents of the conversation to figure out who this person might be. and wrote her an email. i hope she doesn't freak out.

updates as they happen.


update 1 - the woman i emailed is NOT the person cornelius and davinci bumped into. but we're inviting this person out to a beer, as she is as intrigued as we all are about this.






* - i wish these were their names