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Brutally Honest Monday: The Return Of The Long Sweater (or is it?)
I’m famous in my circle for loving 1998. Look, 1998? It was good. There was Dave Mathews Band. There was grunge. There was boots and hiking and being fresh out of college.
I love me some 1998.
So, today when I donned on my long sweater/robe the mister glanced up in his usually uninterested-in-my-wardrobe way, I was suprised to see him eyeing me. “Hot, aren’t I? Still got it!” I said as I slapped my ass.
“Uh, no, thkat’s not it. That sweater? Isn’t it a wee bit 1998?”
Gasp.
“No, it was more like 2000, thankyouverymuch. Jeeze.”
Tells you what he knows.
So, Internet? Brutally Honest: Is this the revival of a fantastic ass-loving trend? Or am I abusing 8 years of fashion forward?
*Sorry about the lighting, why YES, I did take the photo in the starbucks bathroom. And for the record I have jeans (boot cut, tsk tsk) with ballet flats. I know. I know.
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I saw a sweater in a similar style in the mall just last week. It’s so 2008.
Fashion comes around full cycle every 10 years so no surprise that it is very much in style right now. I saw a few that look very, very similar in the stores this weekend.
Oh dear. Hm. The thing is I LIKE the sweater, I own one myself from way back when The Salingers were still orphans. Those sweaters are comfy, forgiving, versatile. But yes, it is a tad bit 1998 in the cut.
Then again, I have been known to wear clogs. Not Crocs, mind you, which are their own version of “no,” but clogs. Wooden-soled, leather uppers, slip your feet and tromp back a decade.
Just so long as nobody wears a tiny black backpack over a babydoll dress, I think we’re okay.
I just saw a BUNCH of these at the mall yesterday. And I squeed cuz I love long sweaters.
Oh, and I also totally loved me some 1998 too. That was the BEST year!
Wait, what?! Clogs are not IN?
Crap.
I tend to love the look of the long sweaters, even though with my shortness, I will never be able to carry it off. Of course, I, too, tend to live in 1998: a time when fashion was simple, baggy, and required little thought. Just the way I like it!
Because EVERYONE knows that Target has its metaphorical finger on the pulse of current fashion wonderfulness, here is a link from them that proves you are probably right in line with today’s fashion: http://tinyurl.com/68taf7
Viva La Long Sweatera!
I have a long sweater like that too. We’re in this together.
Shit, so I have to get rid of my ballet flats…I thought they were cool! And…I just bought a long sweater last week…they are sooo back in! Keep it!
But, that’s coming from a gal who loves her ballet shoes!
I love the long sweater. Sigh. Don’t tell me it’s out. I’m begging you. My long sweater cover all the oversized parts that have appeared since 1998.
I just posted a picture of my from 2001 wearing a long sweater, so I say no. Sorry…
Dood, I think you are cute as HELL.
1998 rocked! It was one of the best years of my life.
And may I add, I love the sweater.
BTW: today I wore boot cut jeans with slippers (a.k.a. flip flops, but this is Hawaii so no one cared or even noticed. I did change back to heals when we went out for dinner this evening though!).
I too was a fan of 1998. I say yes to the sweater because I just saw my SIL wearing one and since she is a model for Ford she must know more about fashion they I do. I can’t seem to wear those types of sweaters - maybe because I am tall with man shoulders? They always look goofy on me!
In 2008, we call them “dusters”. I wore a black one yesterday and am wearing a brown one to work today. So shoot me. I had no idea I was THAT much of a walking fashion disaster. Really, no idea. Are these long sweaters really not OK to wear?
Apparently, we’re all ok. Fashion, it’s all about your peers, no? So, here’s the gig, let’s all walk around in our long sweaters and clogs and say out loud “I’m ok. I’m ok. I’m ok” and know that in other parts of the country, someone else is being stared at because they are muttering to themselves. Nobody will ever even notice the sweater.
It’s not Monday anymore (thank God) but I rock the long sweater whenever it’s cold enough to not look crazy wearing a sweater in New Orleans. Which is not nearly often enough.
Totally in style.
Pretty sure that’s “in” right now. Not that I’d know… I wore a long belted sweater when I was in 7th grade (1977). Guess I should have held on to that puppy!
I like it…but I’m DYING for my jeans to come back from seven years ago…I have a closet-full of Tommy Hilfigers that are just tad away from being cool…but at least they fit my huge ass!
I say WEAR THE DAMN SWEATER IF YOU LIKE IT. What do boys know, anyway?
And I thought I was keeping the long sweater in style all by myself.
Awesome.