Nostalgia.

Is it the generation we're in or are we just a group of nostalgic youngsters here? On a recent stroll through Macy's I came across the Betsey Johnson section and began criticizing it with a friend. Why does BJ never change up her collection? She sticks the the cupcake dresses and rainbow prints that make everyone in them look like they live in a dollhouse. Why doesn't she do something more fashion forward, I asked. But then I see the photos of her most recent fashion show at this week's New York Fashion Week:

And I remember how and why Betsey introduced me to fashion and even the way I look at life. Both can be pure and happy and beautiful without being the least bit pretentious. Looking at these girls makes me happy and makes me seriously (almost) believe that if I was hanging out with them we would be having more fun. There's probably a lot wrong with that and should be deconstructed about why I feel this way and how she's totally heteronormative, but those were the things I could love being as a little girl and it makes me happy thinking about how things were when they were simple, without bubble skirts, ombre, empire waist praire-chic, le smoking suits, whatever.

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