Monday, August 20, 2007

Mid-Life Crisis Indicators

Remember when tattoos were sort of radical? I was watching What Not to Wear yesterday (because it was cold and rainy, and that's what I do on cold, rainy days) and nearly every woman they put in an empire-waisted, A-line dress sported a tattoo flower on her ankle, or tattoo barbed wire etched into her upper arm.

Like the goatee, in 2007 the tattoo either really dates you, or it says, "I'm a slave to fashion -- from fifteen years ago." Nothing screams mid-life crisis quite like the following items:

Visible tattoos
Striped Hair
Goatees
Abercrombie & Fitch
Spandex
Lattes
Dave Miller Band
Lollapalooza
Belly shirts
Toe rings

Please, America, stop. Just stop.

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