On his way to explaining why anyone would buy their 10-year-old kid a Halloween costume with fishnet stockings, James Lileks nails our entire infantile "youth" culture to the wall:
the people who buy them are overgrown kids themselves who think that
there’s one culture, one set of standards, one worldview that fits all,
from zygotes to duffers: the view of a single person in their 20s who
can’t look forwards or backwards, only side to side to see who’s
looking at them.
The Random Texan 
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