5 Trends I Just Made Up Looking Around The Office
Good news! There's a new trend, everyone: Man-Girls. Or Lady-Boys. (Oops. Not those kind of Lady-Boys. This trend has nothing whatsoever to do with sex tourism in Thailand.) Apparently, gals these days don't dress like Donna Reed. They're casual sometimes and, yet, they're women! They're called "Urbane Tomboys," but what they really should be called is "Pretty Much Everyone."
From the NY Observer:
It was just a few years ago that everyone was nattering about the metrosexual, the New York man who, though straight, loved his Kiehl's and Thomas Pink tattersall shirts and is addicted to Grey's Anatomy. Less discussed has been his female counterpart: gals who, while not lesbians, dress like guys (young guys), well into their 30's; who leap into games of pickup basketball with male friends while the rest of us watch wanly from the sidelines; who affect a wry detachment from their sex's conventional concerns of shoe-shopping, man-hunting and family. Think of the comedienne Sarah Silverman, mugging and shrugging and strumming her way through an "I'm F*cking Matt Damon" video, a birthday gift to her boyfriend, ABC talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel. Or matter-of-fact Juno actress Ellen Page. Or surly pop star Avril Lavigne.
I didn't know that not being a lesbian while not wearing a dress is a trend, but that's why I read: to learn. Apparently, though, sometimes these Urbane Tomboys (UTs) wear dresses. So what defines them? Um, basically everything. And at the same time nothing. This is a trend I can get behind: basic human existence.
You're an UT if you sometimes wear make-up, but also if you sometimes leave the house bare-faced; if you wear sneakers, but sometimes dress up. In short: if you're alive.
(These women are NOT UTs. Also, they're probably deceased.)
Then there's this: