Byzantium's Shores: chronicling the misadventures of an overalls-clad hippie

Michael of 2Blowhards has some thoughts on current feminine youth fashion. I have to admit that I am probably moving into "fuddy-duddyism", because I am increasingly tiring of sex as the overriding theme in fashion, advertising, storytelling, and just about everything else these days. Instead, I am finding myself more and more drawn to things like elegance, charm and wit. Our society seems to be strongly gravitating toward titillation in place of emotion, but I find titillation without emotion hollow and useless. We've come to see "passion" as a physical thing, a function of hormonal activity, and maybe in some part it is. But passion is also an emotion, and I think that in a lot of ways we either are forgetting that or have already done so.