"If you dare, wear short shorts"
Flipping through People StyleWatch while waiting for my daughter at the orthodontist last week sent me reeling into a psychedelic teenage flashback. Some of the stuff Nicole, Lindsay and their gal pals are wearing is right out of my ‘70s dresser drawers. Like a vintage tune, these "must have" summer trends sparked memories that haven’t come out of the closet for years. We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun… Mocking me from the pages of StyleWatch were starlets in fashions eerily similar to some I’m embarrassed to admit I owned--and actually wore: Britney’s sister in an orange version of the lime green, plaid, smock top I made in Home Ec, and Nicole (again) in a romper reminiscent of the blue terry number I once sported in a July 4th Fashion Show. What the fashion rags are calling "short shorts," we called "hot pants." (And the girls we called Martha and Laura and Mary are now called Ashley and Fergie and Paris.) Badfads.com says, "Hot ...