...when skinny jeans were trending and just hitting the mainstream, and almost ALL of us on the forum, including Angie, were thoroughly unimpressed? We had so many forum threads about skinny jeans! "They are unflattering, why are they in style, they only work on tall skinny people, the rest of us look like ice cream cones!" Those threads morphed into "How do I wear them, do they work with this or that item," and so on. Now skinnies are so mainstream that no one bats an eye. Almost all of us who've been around YLF since that time have found that our eyes adjusted, and we went on to at least try skinnies. We dipped our toes in with flop-proof combos of tall boots and tunics or dresses. Some decided it wasn't for them, some stayed happily in the flop-proof comfort zone, some became slowly more adventurous and experimental, and a few took a pass on the trend altogether (I assume--I can't think of who, but I bet Angie could!), sticking with dresses, trousers, or other denim styles. No approach was superior; all were fab!

My point is that all the threads we've been having recently about baggy, slouchy, and oversized clothes remind me of that particular YLF phase so much! I don't mean to imply that everyone who's side-eyeing the slouchy trend will eventually jump on board 100%. But I'd bet money that in 2 or 3 years' time, almost everyone will have adjusted to some extent, and most of us will have given the trend a bash in some way, shape or form.

I'm excited to see it all play out.

It's also fun to realize I've been on YLF long enough to see an entire, I don't know, style cycle? Sea change?

(I'm jumping on board much earlier, this time, and I think it's entirely because of YLF--I have a little more confidence in myself, a better understanding of how fashion and its trendy whims play out, a greater willingness to experiment and have fun, and less guilt about embracing fashion as something of a hobby.)