[iconoclast]

someone's going to want to ban trenchcoats next.

They're not about to be banned, but I'll tell you this ....if one of my grandsons starts sporting a black trench coat he's gonna get some damn close surveillance.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Oh yes, the trench coats.

They hit Kingman about 20 years ago, along with the spiked hair.

I didn't like them then, but will admit that after I watched a gang be macho in them, was laughing too hard to worry.

For some reason, I was downtown, on a side street, waiting in a car for someone.

Here comes about 15 of them, black trench coats, bare chested and spiked hair, maybe 5 males the rest females, who were just as sad.

In my working class world, when a man takes off his shirt, I expect to see a man's arms and muscles.

These boys did not have a muscle or a hair on their chests.

They were kinda moving around, enmasse, looking for someone to admire them.

I lost it, when I discovered that the coats were decorated with hundreds of Diaper Pins.............

Not the plastic headed ones, but rather the old fashioned safety pins, I would guess they were to shine like medals, but the skinny boys and diaper pins with spiked hair, was more than I could deal with.

At my age, I still think long hair on a man, means he is a hippy.........