Blog #6: On Wearing Clothes Backwards
If you were a teen during the early periods of the 90s, or the 90s, you would know what I mean. This was a fad started by the rap band named Kris Kross, to wear your clothes backwards, usually baseball jerseys and baggy pants. Even though this trend has ended and people don't wear clothes backwards anymore, there are still a lot of people wearing small things backwards like their hats or watches after this trend.
Asking my friends who spent their teenager days during the 90s about this trend, most of them find this dumb. People were selling clothes which were meant to be worn backwards. People wore their necklace backwards too (This is actually weird, personally speaking). It was supposed to be cool, to wear clothes the way they weren't meant to be. Imagine a zipper on your butt, that thing is just amazing.
However, asking a few people who were over their teen days during the 90s gives me a different answer to the trend. They found it disrespectful, like people would go in a restaurant with their hats backwards. It's already disrespectful to wear their hats inside, not to mention even wearing it backwards. People got used to this trend after awhile and started to accept it though (well, some of them). The amount of people who thought it was weird/uncool/lame is surprisingly (surprisingly) much higher than the people who thought it was.
Their are different opinions about this trend, however, I personally would want to stay with a normal look and not having zipper rubbing my back or my butt. I believe though, that most people nowadays, when they look back at their photos during that time would be saying "WTF was I thinking?"
I never gave this trend a try (I like wearing pants the way they were meant to fit, thank you very much), but I do remember Kriss Kross and the backwards phase. There were even guys who tried to wear their shoes the wrong way! This was one of those passing fads that was not only weird, but seemed downright inconvenient. I liked your post - very humorous - and would've liked to hear even more about the ridiculousness of wearing clothes backwards, and what the fashion statement could be trying to say (seriously or facetiously) about society.
ReplyDeleteInteresting fad. I don't remember this at all, but it could be because it never reached my small town in time before it was no longer popular. I found your post fun to read and entertaining. I felt like I was talking to you about weird fads that died out. You didn't make it overly complex, which was nice, because (well) the topic isn't exactly complex. You also brought in the history of the topic without being to boring with it. This is something that I struggle with so it was a good example for me.
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