There is this phenomenon that in fashion world they have come to call "millenial pink." The sophiscadoes are of course very dismissive of it. Whoever plotted this girly girl thing among millenials (and again, it's allover the world, look at pix from early aughts of like children's clothing and backpacks in other countries) I don't know, but it's clear that the parents just let em go with it, gave in, let em be girly girls if they want.

But what I am sure is coming is backlash against the pink of their youth, as surely as many of their elders gag at orange and avocado of the Brady Bunch interior. One highly suspicious indicator that that is going to happen was when I went to a Parsons School of Design BFA exhibition last year and nearly everyone under 30 in the packed room was wearing unisex beatnik black.

After thought not on the sex roles meme but the Brady Bunch decor: what I don't get is that "mid-century modern" has been popular since the 1980's. Not going away. I knew it 10 yrs. ago when I had a 8-yr. old relative of the spouse as a house guest and she was sooo into clothes with peace symbols and tie-dye. There is something about the taste of boomer's young years that has become universal. As surely as their elders admired fine wood furniture of the British empire (including 18th C "Americana"), that seems to represent the new "empire". (The old wood stuff is mostly selling for firewood prices these days! As many collectors of it remain as for dirty old paintings by "old masters", a few, but if is far from "valued" by mass culture.)