As someone who has seen any number of incredulous comments and stares leveled at girls wearing miniskirts and boots in subzero weather, there's definitely a need among the hoi polloi to rag on everyone's fashion, no matter what that fashion (or lack of fashion) may be. Take pockets: women bitch that they don't get enough, then bitch at men when they have too many. Heisenberg's Uncertainty Fashion Principle: the ideal number of pockets is n plus or minus some number that as soon as it has been expressed will be either too many or two few, the error unknown until n has been expressed. My parents never gave the first fuck what I wore, other than making me feel bad for needing new clothing when I outgrew it. So it sure wasn't rebellion for me; I basically switched from jeans and boots to cutoffs and Tevas and vice versa at Memorial Day/Labor Day because then people leave you the fuck alone.