Fashion

[Justin]

In the book The Fourth Turning, authors Howe and Strauss mention that even fashion follows a generational cycle, with highs/recoveries seeking the widest difference between the sexes, with unravelings seeing the narrowest difference between the sexes, with awakenings seeking to narrow gender divisions and crises widening them again.

As an anecdote, my own mother has commented that today's fashion, while in her opinion often immodest in a lot of cases, is one of the in her words "less crazy" times in her memory (she was born at the beginning of Generation X), with hair particularly the blandest/tamest she can remember, comparing of course to the "big" hair days of the 80s, and the unconventional fashion trends of the 60s and 70s. With the 90s and especially the 00s, she has commented on a taming of fashion styles.

Any comments or rebuttals?