If bows are right, then baby I don't want to be.

Turning 25 wasn't so bad, but there's nothing like spending two days a week on a college campus to make a girl feel O.L.D. These 18-year-olds prance around in panda-bear-printed galoshes and gym shorts (when it's not raining), uber-trendy True Religion ensembles, and football jerseys that have been custom tailored into super cute summer dresses, and I find myself thinking like a 76-year-old granny...What's with kids these days and their new-fangled fashion trend nonsense, anyway?!? I probably looked that young and silly as a freshman too, although I will proudly say I NEVER allowed myself to cave in to the UGGs-and-miniskirt-when-it's-95-degrees abomination. Apparently 3 years out of college transports you to a weird place between the college world and adult world in which I thought I was still in my "just out of college" days, but now I'm questioning the fashion proceedings of today's youth like a crotchety old lady. I'm in my mid-twenties. Yikes.

But the point of all of this is to talk about the bows. What. is. with. BOWS? Not cheerleader-style ribbon bows in ponytails. Bows like you'd buy to plaster on the head of an infant to demonstrate to all curious passers-by that, yes, this child is in fact a girl. Or the kind you'd get for a two year old to put on top of her cute little top-knot half ponytail thing. These girls get out of bed in the morning, slap on their verging-on-obscenely-short gym shorts, use their Chis and curling irons to their hearts' content, and then proceed to put BABY BOWS on the side of their head. Just sitting there, sticking out, clipped to their head. SUPER CUTE! I get that this is in some way related to the Gossip Girl ginormous flower headband idea, which I will admit can be pulled off in certain contexts, but this takes it to a whole new level of weird. You see cute, young college girl on the bottom, then get to the head and it's like a toddler. Sorry, it's just strange. Someone please explain to me - at 25, have I become THAT removed from the young people??? Or is it just a random strange trend? While not obsessed with trendiness, I like to think of myself as a somewhat-fashionable, semi-up-to-date person when it comes to trends. My monthly Glamour has not informed me that bows are the next big thing, so I don't feel too badly about this. 

I just don't get the bows. So I will resign myself to feeling old, and I will continue to proudly strut myself in my scarves. Thank you.