Thursday, January 22, 2026

No Advice for the Exhausted

For some reason, the Star Tribune has started running a fashion-advice column once a week in its Variety section. I don't expect to be the audience for such a column, but it's hard to believe the triviality of the concerns described by the letter-writers.

This is my favorite so far: 

I am exhausted following all the fashion micro trends that keep coming up: angel core, whimsigoth, mob wife, tomato girl, etc. Is this going to continue in 2026, and do I actually have to pay attention?

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry after I read that. Well, that's not true, I laughed. But in a different sense it made me want to cry because the this country is so unfair: this person thinks she has nothing to worry about except fashion trends with names like mob wife and tomato girl (what?!) while her civilization is being destroyed all around her. 

Yes, I can bring the dumbest things back to hell in a handbasket.

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