Someone should tell them

I once heard that if you live long enough you will see the same fashion trend three times. I wasn't real happy about the paisley, tie-dye et al. a while back, as that gives me one more 60s rehash before I shuffle off to Buffalo (or this mortal coil, for the more literate). Of course, disco might rear its ugly head and make many of us beat a path to Kevorkian's door.

However, today's rant is about a current fashion that borrows from what came before but has its own wrinkle. Unfortunately, that wrinkle is more like a roll, as I'm talking about the seemingly ubiquitous co-ed fashion fad of the short shirt that doesn't quite make it down to the pants. Now midriff-baring has of course been a style that comes and goes, and the current iteration has been fashionable for some time. What's a little different is to see college-educated women wearing the short top with hip-hugging pants. The result is invariably "the roll." Even flat bellies look "poochy," and the love-handles are inevitable. If this is true for 21 year olds, imagine what others look like. Add that "skank mark" (the tattoo peeking out at the lower back, a.k.a., "tramp stamp"), and you've got the distaff equivalent of the male beer belly and hairy back eye candy. So somebody please tell these fashion-deranged females to pay a couple of extra bucks and buy the rest of the shirt.

Now don't get me started on tube tops...