A Random Sweatshirt?

Thursday 15th of December 2011 03:18:22 AM

A Random Sweatshirt?

Have you noticed that teens today are wearing sweatshirts but sometimes they are barely recognizable as such. By the time the designer brands add the holes and tears, the sweatshirt looks like the same one worn while camping in the forest for a week after first catching it on a nail while loading the truck with camping equipment.

Of course, when the sweatshirt could be most useful the teen won’t wear it. It could be below freezing outside, and you tell your teen to put on some warm clothes and he wears a t-shirt. All those warm hoodies hanging in the closer are still looking brand new. Will he at least put on one of the designer sweatshirts while the snow is blowing? Probably not but only because it’s not cool to look like you’re cold!

The designer sweatshirts, of course, are ‘cool’ or are they ‘random”? Random used to mean it happened by chance but now it means ‘that was odd but kind of cool.’ So if a sweatshirt is random does it mean it’s odd or cool?

Are you keeping up with this? If not, don’t feel bad because millions of parents are just as confused. But here is one clue to unravel the mystery – teens want to decide for themselves what they want to wear. So if you tell a teenager to put on a sweatshirt, he is going to wear a t-shirt. If you tell a teen to put on one of Aunt Mary’s gift sweaters, she is going to put on one of the tees that fill her drawers and closet. No teen wants to look like a practical worrying parent had anything to do with helping him or her dress that day.

You do have to wonder about one thing though. Do you think a teenager peeks out the window to secretly see what the weather is doing before getting dressed? Or does the teen boldly go out into the unknown wearing the hole filled designer sweatshirt or no sweatshirt? We will probably never know because the teen mind is simply a mystery - or is it random?