Sweatpants, Socks, and Crocs: Why Does My Daughter Dress Like She’s Homeless?

The other day, I read an article about Candace Cameron Bure and her daughter, Natasha. The article talked about a recent Instagram post from the 45-year-old Fuller House star where she filmed her daughter and asked her, "Why do you dress like this when you go out with me?"

In the video posted to her Instagram account (which seems to have now been taken down), you see her daughter wearing a mismatched top and shorts, an oversized jacket, bright red socks, and white crocs.

I immediately felt validated and laughed out loud at the same time.

This is exactly how my daughter dresses!! And I ask her the same question every day.

In fact this morning, I dropped her off at the bus stop wearing too-big sweatpants, an oversized Napoleon Dynamite hoodie, black socks, and white crocs.

"People might think you're homeless," I joked as she got out of the car. "Don't accept food, but you can accept money . Maybe then we can buy you some different clothes."

She was not amused.

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Seriously, though. What is going on with our daughters' clothes these days?

It's only been a few years since we went through whole VSCO girl epidemic.

If you're not familiar with VSCO girls  - pronounced "visco" -  it's a trend that apparently started on TikTok and included:

Big baggy t-shirts

Scrunchies for hair (plus several more worn around the wrist)

Birkenstock shoes (with socks)

messy buns

those little shell chokers that I must have had 20 of growing up…

"Wait a minute," I told my daughter, "that's how I dressed when I was in high school."

The worst part is that girls either wanted to be a VSCO girl or were whole-heartedly offended by the very idea of being labeled one.

My own daughter was of the latter group.

I squinted my eyes at her when I found this out. "I feel judged," I told her.

And then we both laughed.

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However, this "I might be homeless trend" that has emerged might be worse.

And look  -  I have NOTHING against homeless people. In fact, I was a case manager for the homeless and I still have 5 or 6 I'm sideline case managing for and keep in constant contact with. I love the homeless.

My beef with this trend is that I'm paying a lot of money for clothes that I should be able to just go get from Goodwill if this is the new manner of dress.

However, when I suggested this to my daughter  -  she rolled her eyes so hard at me that I thought they might pop out of her face. Like, I seriously lunged to catch them just in case they did.

I don't get it. But I have a feeling if Candace Cameron Bure feels my pain, a lot of the rest of you do, too.

Were we this bad in the '80s and '90s? I didn't think the VSCO girl trend was so bad - except that it was a reenactment of my high school manner of dress and my daughter thoroughly hated it.

By the way, after an extensive and expansive search of the internet, I NEVER figured out what VSCO was supposed to stand for or mean in the first place. (If you know, seriously - let me know because it's been driving me nuts.)

Anyway  -  I suppose this is just the next trend of many, many more to come. I just hope the next one doesn't leave me worried about my daughter getting carted off to a homeless shelter every time I leave her at the bus stop.

Kidding. Mostly.

Does anyone else out there feel my pain?