"YOUNGSTERS TODAY, NO SENSE OF STYLE"

(you know you are getting old when....No. 3000624.)
I am beginning to believe that we really have seen it all, as far as fashion goes anyway.
I have not seen anything very original on 'the street' for ages, people are even wearing flares again which is always a sign of desperation.
Gone are the days when the yoot of the day  would of sat about thinking about  ways to dress that showed some flair or personal style, they now revel in the cheap sweat shop, high street clothing that would of once been considered too 'trampy', too unoriginal, and not selective enough to be stylistic or fashionable.
Ask a 'fashionable yoot' to go into a second hand shop selling old clothes from the sisties/twenties etc. and you will be met with "uh uh, ain't wearin old clothes clothes guy". Such is their desire for new, off the counter nylon clothes, from the isle next to the milk.
Wearing togs from the equivalents of the 'Primark's' of the time, such as Greenfields' were once akin to committing social suicide. But even that paled into insignificance to when getting caught wearing the clothes, or infamous trainers from the Tesco clothing range, it was such a sin that we even had a chant to ward off wearers, "lets all go to Tesco's, where your mum buys your best clothes (la, la, la-la)" -I'm sure you yourself knew a similar chant.
Yet now there is nothing wrong with kids getting their clothes from supermarkets, they all want the same thing, they like the styles and "want what 'Alapesia's' mum got for her from 'Tescburysland ya'knaa'".
The only attempt I have seen at a new 'fashion' look in the past couple of years is just kids walking around with the 'big up' builders crack, hanging trousers look, the "I've spent time in an American prison" image (in the same cell as Gary Glitter), despite the kids obviously only being old enough to earn themselves ASBO's  still.
The only other look of note I've noticed being jeans partly bleached above the knee, that make the wearer look like they have just been sitting on a freshly disinfected work surface, or a very recently painted park bench.-Lame.
I really do think fashion has almost reached the end of the road (finally), to look original nowadays involves dressing yourself up ludicrously like Lady Ga-Ga which is not "popping out for some fags and a paper" friendly.
  But, wearing silly hats in a daft manner is, like my new favourite fashionista berk does, I speak of the mighty 'Dappy', he of N-Dubs (watch out Nick Begg, you have a challenger). Maybe there is light.
So if you have a child who is at that age then may I suggest that you get them off those bloody W-II'S (or 'piss boxes' as I call them, because they are as necessary or useful as a string tied, brown paper made, box full of... and the games are rubbish).
Street fashion is dead, defeated by the same high street togs that were once laughed at. woe.