My philosophy: wear the same style jeans as I wore in high school. If I wait long enough, it will be fashionable again soon. 
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You know what they say:
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I’ve had two FB friends complain about the prevalence of crop tops just last week when shopping for their kids (one 10, on in HS). So I guess they are “in” right now?
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when i was still teaching i knew when things like crop tops and tube tops were becoming popular based on whether or not our dress code had a rule against wearing them.
strangely, there were never any rules against “excessively flared legs” on pants.
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How often did you get written up for wearing tube tops? Inquiring minds want to know.
Also, as someone with an abnormally long torso, I’ll say “crop tops” have always been a necessary evil. Basically anything mass produced is somewhat of a crop top for me and I hate it.
But to stay on topic, that’s another reason I loved those high waisted navy jeans!
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My dogs liked them, since it gave them something to pull me around with.
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it wasn’t that i ever wore them so much as i was required, as a teacher, to be on the lookout for them during those times they made it into the dress code and send girls, and it was always and only girls who ever seemed to wear them, to the office to either call home for a change of clothes or change into one of the nurse’s “ugly sweatshirt” collection for the rest of the day.
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But the polyester shirts could have almost anything printed on them. A particular favorite of mine was a forest of blue trees on a white background. You had to look really closely to notice that a blue Woody Woodpecker was running around in between some of them.
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See! I knew I was right to save them! Now if I could only lose 30 pounds I could wear them…
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Re: tube tops
I definitely remember my friends wearing them in service of fashion, but also remember them being a PITA for them because one size did not fit all, and added unwanted attention from the boys.
And yes, this is an issue that’s the boys’ fault, not the girls.
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Ain’t got the pants, ain’t got a chance.
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polyester, esp the shudder doubleknit variety, is The Work of the Devil.
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Recollection of my mom returning from a buying spree with one of her friends. “Look at what I got for yoouuuuu” she said to me: A shirt of palest pink with tiny delicately sewn in red flowers, and blood red corduroy slacks. Ask me if I ever even tried them on. Then there was my parochial school pal who showed up in Sunday mass sporting a Nehru jacket, matching tight slacks, and a peace medallion. Ask me if I ever saw him wearing those again.
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Going back about… 10 years?.. there seemed to be a very short revival of young girls’ fashion involving bell bottoms and long, long straight hair. Right out of Woodstock.
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Funny, was just thinking about how over the last week I noticed several examples of what could only be compared to early-90’s MC Hammer-style parachute pants. The week before spotted a youngster sporting honest-to-goodness JNCO’s.
Perhaps spaceship earth is finally entering into some kind of post-era-specific generalized-wacky-pants continuum.
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Gawd damn. Me too! And the same color!
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Here’s some pretty sexy 70’s fashion: Canned Heat Let's Work Together ft TotP Audience Feb 1970 HQ Audio - YouTube
This gives me a flashback to something a bit later… 
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Let’s go the whole hog:
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