You know you're old when:
You cried because you had to wear certain clothes to school as a kid and now when you go shopping they're selling for $$$.00 a piece and the teen agers are in the store fighting to buy them.
---flared jeans (now cleverly called 'boot cut')
---ankle boots
---Earth Shoes (except now they're white and they call them tennis shoes)
---ripped, frayed jeans and white streaked ones that sell for a fortune.
(growing up these used to be nice jeans until they ripped or you spilt bleach on them by accident; then they became your 'play clothes')
--concert t-shirts
(You went to the concert. The 26year standing next to you in the store is the one asking, 'Who's Jim Morrison and what's a Led Zeppelin?")
---jean jackets with patches you put on them.
---iron on decals for t-shirts and decorated jeans with rhinestones.
---Maxi dresses.
---hip huggers (now called 'low rise' jeans)
---peasant blouses and prairie skirts
--tie-dyed anything.
---ethnic, tribal hair styles, and vintage 1950s pompadours for guys and 1960s bouffant-like hairstyles for girls (now mostly worn by people to which these styles are ill suited)
---green, purple, orange and red hair often shaved in the back or on the sides.
( also now adopted by people this look does not suit)
I dunno, when I was in college we called this 'punk' . We also got made fun of when we rode the public bus. Combat boots fall into this category too. Gives new meaning to the phrase, "Your mother wears combat boots."
--black eyeliner that made your eyes look like two burnt holes in a blanket complete with 9 coats of thick gooey mascara that made your lashes look like spider legs.
---Lip gloss. (LipSmackers and Bonne Bell) that were thick and gooey and came in weird flavors. Now they're made by every cosmetic company.
I am no longer donating my clothes to the Good Will.
They will be on EBay.
And if you really want to have some fun embarrassing these 'kids' let them buy all this stuff, put it on and strut around in it. Then say, "Wow! You look great! You remind me of someone I know!"
Pull out all the old photos of you when you were their age and then go, "Oh yeah. I know who you remind me of now. You look just like me! See...."
