Trondheim Guide

Passed Out

Wednesday, June 15, around 4:00 in the afternoon. Bus stop near Hamilton on Robson. You: Female, 17 to 19 years, shoulder-length hair dark brown, wearing low-cut T Canucks Fan. Me: Tall, skinny, 20, dressed in jeans and jersey Luongo Rebellion Rock. D & G white runners, untied, and gold chain sick. I took off the bench after falling bus stop. I waited with you until your friends come back from the liquor store. You have been impressive. Unable to get a photo of your whale tail out of my head. Need to see you again.I will be at the bus stop the same every Saturday at 4:00 until you show me or look at the Roxy.

Throughout the decades, teenagers have attempted to prove their coolness by wearing questionable accessories, hairstyles and items of clothing. Hindsight Fashion is a section about those trends that, in Hindsight, we probably wish we hadn’t worn.

This week’s Hindsight Fashion is: Tear-Away Pants.

Tear-Away Pants were a fashion trend borne out of the utilitarian world of athletics. The pants were most often made out of slippery or shiny “windbreaker” fabric, and had snaps vertically spanning the side seams of the legs, allowing the wearer to rip the pants off at a moment’s notice. Presumably, the pants were invented so that athletic type people could remove layers of their outfits as they progressively got warmer throughout their workouts.

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