The Tapered Effect

Dear Mom,

I thought you would be interested to see the effect that Brazil has had on your daughter.

I bet you never expected this!

After all these years, seeing your daughter wearing tapered jeans for the first time in her life. And not just tapered, but not blue either. Of course they're not that tapered in the grand scheme of things, but you know your daughter. Wearing pants like these is practically revolutionary for her. Can you imagine? No, she's not being forced to wear them. And they're not borrowed from someone else after spilling something on clothes she was originally wearing.

It's simply that she was in a store not so long ago and a sales guy convinced her to try them on because they were on sale. She laughed at him and said, "I don't wear pants like that." He raised his eyebrows and said, "Why?" so she humored him. Besides they were better than some of the other options, such as harem jeans, which she doubts will ever, ever look good on her, especially because she will feel as though she is wearing an over-sized diaper.

And then she thought upon trying them on, "These don't look so bad..I do need new pants..."

She actually bought them, if you can believe it. Of course, the whole time she was thinking, "What has shifted in my brain that has caused me to actually like these pants...Is something wrong with me?" So Mom, what do you think your daughter, age 10, would have to say to her 28-year-old self? I mean you know what it was like in the 80s and 90s to even find pants that weren't tapered. Yet, your daughter held her ground. She steadfastly refused to wear clothes that she didn't like, such as shirts that would have to be tucked in and of course, pants that weren't bootcut. I hoped she wouldn't be too disappointed to learn that her future self, under some sort of spell in Brazil, threw all that steadfastness away and -- paying money for it -- walked over to the dark side of tapered pants.

Sincerely,
Libélula Azul