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Why are their clothes too big?


They all look like they are wearing their fat parents old clothes. They have nice apartments, good jobs so why do they drape themselves in yards of thrift store cast offs?

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They're children wearing adult clothes. Badly.

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Having grown up in the 50s and lived through the 80s, I saw fads and fashions come and go. It was just a fashion back then.
If you want to see some out of this world fashion ideas, Google "Zoot suits"

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LOL. That was the thing back then.

I had a trench coat with ridiculously oversized shoulders that I bought for a stupid amount of money.

It looked bad ass for the time. Now I'd just get laughed at.

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