its quite long, but you can read about it   This is an obituary for the generation gap. It is a story about 40-year-old men  ... 
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Henry Dorset Case
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PostPosted: Wed 12/Apr/06 1:17pm    Post subject: The Grup Phenomenon Reply with quote Report Abuse

its quite long, but you can read about it here



darn kids today, dont know they're alive. why back in my day blah blah and blah

that article wrote:

This is an obituary for the generation gap. It is a story about 40-year-old men and women who look, talk, act, and dress like people who are 22 years old. It’s not about a fad but about a phenomenon that looks to be permanent. It’s about the hedge-fund guy in Park Slope with the chunky square glasses, brown rock T-shirt, slight paunch, expensive jeans, Puma sneakers, and shoulder-slung messenger bag, with two kids squirming over his lap like itchy chimps at the Tea Lounge on Sunday morning.

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PostPosted: Wed 12/Apr/06 1:50pm    Post subject: Re: The Grup Phenomenon Reply with quote Report Abuse

Henry Dorset Case wrote:
its quite long, but you can read about it here



darn kids today, dont know they're alive. why back in my day blah blah and blah

that article wrote:

This is an obituary for the generation gap. It is a story about 40-year-old men and women who look, talk, act, and dress like people who are 22 years old. It’s not about a fad but about a phenomenon that looks to be permanent. It’s about the hedge-fund guy in Park Slope with the chunky square glasses, brown rock T-shirt, slight paunch, expensive jeans, Puma sneakers, and shoulder-slung messenger bag, with two kids squirming over his lap like itchy chimps at the Tea Lounge on Sunday morning.



Oh bugle....the're talking about you Big Grin
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PostPosted: Wed 12/Apr/06 1:56pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Report Abuse

I was thinking about this the other day. I bet all of my generation will spend the their twlight years trying to recapture their youth by playing GTA 2020… Not to mention hitting on the nursing home staff.
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PostPosted: Wed 12/Apr/06 1:58pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Report Abuse

it is most important to act/dress your age, I reckon. how you define that is up to you, but there is something real sad about the "I'm so young and trendy" thing, as if youth was something to aspire to Big Grin
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PostPosted: Wed 12/Apr/06 2:18pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Report Abuse

oh :
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Being a Grup isn’t, as it turns out, all about holding on to some misguided, well-marketed idea of youth—or, at least, isn’t just about that. It’s also about rejecting a hand-me-down model of adulthood that asks, or even necessitates, that you let go of everything you ever felt passionate about. It’s about reimagining adulthood as a period defined by promise, rather than compromise. And who can’t relate to that?
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PostPosted: Wed 12/Apr/06 2:41pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Report Abuse

Worse than Grup is 'Skate Dad'.

You still see old guys with Rock n Roll 'ted' hairstyles, so I don't think that people sticking to one look throughout their life is a new phenomenon.

Nor are fashion revivals. My girlfriend has a 1930s fashion magazine which proclaims that the fashions of the 1900s are back.
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