The Center Part. Feelings?

[MamaBee]

No top sheet!?! I didn’t get the memo! You keep your blankets and comforters cleaner! I don’t want to wrestle with my duvet cover every week!

That inspired me to look it up..People haven’t been using top sheets since 2018! How come I didn’t know this! The reasoning is the sheet winds up at the bottom of the bed. I sleep with it folded over the blankets and comforter. When I turn over I grab it like a bunch neatly folded over..I’m a very restless sleeper. My husband sleeps with an IPAP so he sleeps in his office in his recliner. He can’t sleep lying down. So he’s out of the equation. My son sleeps without one because he can’t keep them straight. I do use an extra blanket under the comforter like a top sheet for him because I make it pretty cool at night. I wash everything every week for him including the comforter and blanket. Sorry I veered off topic but this threw me for a loop!

 

[lulu_ma]

I don’t see one gray hair! You have beautiful hair @lulu_ma !

Thanks @MamaBee . Trust me the greys are there, they are just interspersed

 

[Mreader]

No top sheet!?! I didn’t get the memo! You keep your blankets and comforters cleaner! I don’t want to wrestle with my duvet cover every week!

That inspired me to look it up..People haven’t been using top sheets since 2018! How come I didn’t know this! The reasoning is the sheet winds up at the bottom if the bed. I sleep with it folded over the blankets and comforter. When I turn over I grab it like a bunch neatly folded over..I’m a very restless sleeper. My husband sleeps with an IPAP so he sleeps in his office in his recliner. He can’t sleep lying down. So he’s out of the equation. My son sleeps without one because he can’t keep them straight. I do use an extra blanket under the comforter like a top sheet for him because I make it pretty cool at night. I wash everything every week for him including the comforter and blanket. Sorry I veered off topic but this threw me for a loop!

Yes I was shocked when I heard this a couple of years back. My friend’s college age daughter would get new sheets sets and toss the flat one in the closet. Madness I tell you!! Madness! If this trend continues they will start selling sheet sets sans top sheet - if that happens we are done for. Hahahaha!

 

[winetime12]

A side part is way more flattering to my face than a middle part. And also, there's no way my hair would naturally part in the middle without a weird cowlick thing.

 

[yssie]

I use two flat sheets One between the humans and the duvet and one on top of the duvet to keep kitty litter off it

 

[icy_jade]

I always thought it was about what suits us as individuals too. I thought my preference for the feathered luxuriant Dallas/Dynasty styles with lots of root lift was simply what I liked. But with the generation below me having such different styles to my own generation, it's made me realize how influenced we are by our eras.

Seriously, the center part/side part debate is a thing! Lol!

TikTok Teens Have Spoken: The Side Part Is Dead

The #MiddlePartChallenge is here to inform us olds that swooping your hair over to one side is very 2013.

www.glamour.com

https://gothammag.com/gen-z-millennials-side-middle-part-debate-tiktok

https://www.thecut.com/2021/02/gen-z-middle-part-tiktok.html

I tried centre part today and apparently I look fine?? And a colleague said I look better (she is a millennial). Shocking but yeah apparently looks fine.

 

[Tonks]

My teenagers tell me that side parts make you look older. As do skinny jeans. However, a center part makes me look ridiculous so I wear my hair with its natural parting, which is a side part.

Tried moving from skinny jeans to not skinny jeans and it was a horrible experience. I looked 50 lbs heavier. My daughter tried it as well and even though she acknowledges the trend is for non-skinny jeans, she loves her skinnies. So this remains a skinny jeans household.

 

[lulu_ma]

My teenagers tell me that side parts make you look older. As do skinny jeans. However, a center part makes me look ridiculous so I wear my hair with its natural parting, which is a side part.

Tried moving from skinny jeans to not skinny jeans and it was a horrible experience. I looked 50 lbs heavier. My daughter tried it as well and even though she acknowledges the trend is for non-skinny jeans, she loves her skinnies. So this remains a skinny jeans household.

Not to derail but +1 for skinny jeans!

 

[Gussie]

My daughters give me a hard time about skinny jeans too! I also have a short torso/long legs. The high rise jeans come up to my chest! Lol, who wants a waistband meeting a bra band?!? I did get a pair of slim fit straight leg and slim fit baby bootleg jeans. The girls said it was a good compromise but I'm still not with it!

I told my girls that Kate Middleton still wore skinny jeans and one of them said, "yeah but she's old."

 

[stracci2000]

When I was a kid in the 70s, this was all I wanted. To grow out those infernal bangs and have THIS HAIR.
By the time I was a senior in high school, I finally had it. (But with the off center part)
By then it was the early eighties, and everyone was doing perms, but I didn't care. I was hopelessly out of style, even then!!

 

[Mreader]

When I was a kid in the 70s, this was all I wanted. To grow out those infernal bangs and have THIS HAIR.
By the time I was a senior in high school, I finally had it. By then it was the early eighties, and everyone was doing perms, but I didn't care. I was hopelessly out of style, even then!!

I have naturally curly hair and I remember before the perm craze I always wanted nice straight hair. Then the perm craze hit in the 80s and everybody would always ask me with admiration “wow is your hair natural?!”. Those were the days!

 

[MamaBee]

Yes I was shocked when I heard this a couple of years back. My friend’s college age daughter would get new sheets sets and toss the flat one in the closet. Madness I tell you!! Madness! If this trend continues they will start selling sheet sets sans top sheet - if that happens we are done for. Hahahaha!

I’ll be using tablecloths!

 

[Jambalaya]

This is my absolute dream hair. I'm dark and blonde doesn't suit me, but LOOK at the feathering and the layers and the curves and the sheer swishiness! And the root lift! I'm growing my hair out and I hope to achieve a full-on Eighties Texas blow-dry like this! (Dark version)

 

[Gussie]

This is my absolute dream hair. I'm dark and blonde doesn't suit me, but LOOK at the feathering and the layers and the curves and the sheer swishiness! And the root lift! I'm growing my hair out and I hope to achieve a full-on Eighties Texas blow-dry like this! (Dark version)

You rock! Every girl in my entire HS yearbook looked like this. Small town Texas in the 80s - no better place/time!

 

[Calliecake]

This was every young woman’s dream hair in late seventies, early eighties. Jumbo hot rollers were a girls best friend!

 

[MamaBee]

This was every young woman’s dream hair in late seventies, early eighties. Jumbo hot rollers were a girls best friend!

I used empty frozen orange juice cans! My hair was really long so I needed bigger rollers than the jumbo rollers!

 

[Calliecake]

This is my absolute dream hair. I'm dark and blonde doesn't suit me, but LOOK at the feathering and the layers and the curves and the sheer swishiness! And the root lift! I'm growing my hair out and I hope to achieve a full-on Eighties Texas blow-dry like this! (Dark version)

I used empty frozen orange juice cans! My hair was really long so I needed bigger rollers than the jumbo rollers!

We must be about 5 years apart in age @MamaBee. I remember my friend’s older sisters using the orange juice cans as rollers when were in 6th grade.

I always had fine thin hair that had no body. The hours I spent getting
my hair to look like this were endless. I kept those hot rollers in for over an hour.

 

[Jambalaya]

You rock! Every girl in my entire HS yearbook looked like this. Small town Texas in the 80s - no better place/time!

Yeah, baby! I've decided enough of all this flatness! I'm going back to the Eighties and I don't care if it's the opposite of the "in" center part, no bangs, flat-as-a-pancake look! I like everything that's currently out - bangs, root lift, large bouncy curls. I feel the need to rebel, because everywhere I look, people have this same style. I want the opposite. I want volume! I actually bought a hair tool named the Voloom. It's great!

Voloom Irons

VOLOOM is THE FIRST HAIR VOLUMIZING IRON, and it was designed specifically to add huge volume to hair.

voloom.com

 

[Jambalaya]

I bet the next hair trend will be huge voluminous curls again, just like the Eighties followed the Seventies. I never thought flat center-parts would be here again after the Seventies - but here we are! There'll probably be a huge correction. I think Eighties hair was so big because Seventies hair was so flat.

 

[Jambalaya]

Remember feathered layers? Those were the days...how's this for a prime example? I'm so getting feathered layers when my hair's long enough.

 

[Tonks]

My daughters give me a hard time about skinny jeans too! I also have a short torso/long legs. The high rise jeans come up to my chest! Lol, who wants a waistband meeting a bra band?!? I did get a pair of slim fit straight leg and slim fit baby bootleg jeans. The girls said it was a good compromise but I'm still not with it!

I told my girls that Kate Middleton still wore skinny jeans and one of them said, "yeah but she's old."

Good grief if Kate Middleton is old just sign me up for the AARP already.

 

[Jambalaya]

When I see a pancake-flat center part (they're everywhere, including my two teenage nieces!) all I want to do it fluff it up! I want to run my fingers through it from front to back, just to get some air under the flatness. I remember when I was younger and my hair was finer, and I hated how it would go flat like that. I always associate the plastered-down flatness with greasy hair, even if it doesn't actually look greasy.

Like this, from upthread:



I had a horror of my hair looking like this when I was young, and now most young girls and women seem to have this do. It's made me realize that we are much more influenced by our eras than we like to admit. My preference for big Texas Eighties hair feels totally innate, but common sense dictates that it's due to growing up in the Eighties!

 

[Jambalaya]

The style above also reminds me of the 19th century. In the Eighties, we all thought that severe flat center parts were a granny hairdo or something out of the ark - like this.

Louisa May Alcott and her mother:

 

[Jambalaya]

Proving that there is nothing new when it comes to style! (I love how my teenage nieces think they're the first generation to wear ripped jeans.)

 

[Jambalaya]

I've never liked top sheets. They're just an excuse not to wash your duvet cover. But they never stay in place, so your duvet cover gets dirty anyway!

As for skinny jeans being out, to me they're still a new trend that I haven't gotten around to yet! Plus, the tight ankles seem guaranteed to make your butt look big, unless you're really thin. But again, in the Eighties we had drainpipe pants, were the same thing. Very tightfitting pants and jeans.

Nothing new!

 

[Jambalaya]

Apparently, young people are also not into leaving voice messages!!

 

[Jambalaya]

God, I sound like my grandparents, but I really don't understand today's young! No voice mail, no watches, jeans that look like denim pantyhose, flat hair, terrible "music" - I tried to listen to some and it was like having my head bashed in - and they don't even talk on the phone! What kind of teenagers don't talk on the phone, I ask you??

 

[Demon]

It’s hip to be square? Yes, I part my hair the same way my 13 yo does.

The big permed hair I had in the 80’s would not fly now!

A little less dark, a little more red, and that could have been me in the 60's/70's.


And my hair is still, and always has been, parted in the middle. My hair does what it wants and there's no point in fighting it. It doesn't help that the only thing I can stand to have in my hair is humectress, once in a while. No mousse, no gel, no hair spray - nothing.

 

[jaysonsmom]

I part my hair the way it naturally falls, kind of left center….I have been told to part my hair in the middle (from my 19 and 17 year old teens) but old habits die hard. I also have a mix of skinny jeans and wide legged jeans (not baggy fit) so basically I wear my hair and jeans the way I like, and don’t follow trends. As for the top sheet….i answered that in the top sheet thread

 

[Tonks]

God, I sound like my grandparents, but I really don't understand today's young! No voice mail, no watches, jeans that look like denim pantyhose, flat hair, terrible "music" - I tried to listen to some and it was like having my head bashed in - and they don't even talk on the phone! What kind of teenagers don't talk on the phone, I ask you??

The no talking on the phone thing is genuinely odd. I have two teenagers and can honestly say that never once, truly, has anyone called our home to speak with them.

They text. They FaceTime. But they don’t talk on the phone unless circumstances really leave them no other option.

My kids actually wear analog watches (trying to pass along my love of a good timepiece) and they say they are the only ones in school to do so. So many kids wear smartwatches that before an exam the teachers take up phones and watches. My teens have asked to keep their watches and teachers have looked them over very carefully to make sure they don’t do anything other than tell the time.