Pffft, depending on your vintage, your elders were making similar derogatory remarks about your choices, when young.
Stovepipes, flares, wide belts with buckles so big they had to be worn on the hip, hipsters, lower than the hips waistband, long hair, short hair, mullets, earrings for blokes, body piercings, pointed shoes, Doc Martins and dozens of other fads. At least, unlike tats, they're reversible when one eventually grows up.

