WHEN EVERYTHING SEEMS TO BE GOING AWRY…
(…women’s fashions tend to swing towards sassy exhibitionism)

Much of the world seems to be going to hell in a hand basket these days. Nothing but toil and trouble everywhere…folks facing starvation in South Sudan…they’re still brawling about how to define “democracy” in most of the Middle East…and now Russia’s screwing around in the Ukraine…Malaysia still hasn’t found its airliner…South Korea sank a ferry load of teenagers…half a mountain turned into a mudslide in Washington State…they’re rioting in Brazil and Venezuela…and California…still needs rain, and so on.

Turbulent times appear to come and go in cycles, and women’s fashions always react to them. That is, when everything seems to be going awry…women’s fashions tend to swing towards sassy exhibitionism. Perhaps it’s our imagination but it looks like it’s all coming round again, just as it did back in the turbulence of the ’60s.

Don’t know if anyone else has noticed, but there seems to be an increase in higher hemlines with women’s skirts, even to what were called –mini-skirts – back then, for displays of leggy limbs and flashing thighs. In today’s environment, however, there is a new version of all that, namely…form fitting tights and blue jeans (like that old song put it…lord have mercy… Baby’s got her blue jeans on!), barely draped over with what might pass for a skirt.

Well, we may be antique, but we’re not archeological…yet…so all such eye-candy trends no doubt are most gratifying to the male community… and appreciated… as being a natural and proper compensating balance of hedonistic impulses…in the face of a world seemingly turning itself upside down.

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