Fashion choices (was SUV's)

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 09:54 AM 5/23/01 -0700, joanna wrote:
>to explain the adolescent tendency to wear the uniform of the oppressed in 
>every era: ethnic wear and army jackets in the sixties and early seventies, 
>bag lady clothes in the eighties, ghetto huge dragging pants in the nineties?
>

Again, I think you are giving the brats too much credit.  Most what they do
fits one of the follwoing two categories:

1. trying to be popular among peers
2. trying to piss off everyone else, especially parents & teachers.

The popularity of the attributes you describe  can be satisfactorily
explained by these two factors - no subconscious is needed (remember
Ockkam's razor?)

wojtek