So...what are you wearing?

I have a long history of showing the baby "the first bird" - it goes back to Caleb being a fussy waker and me wanting to ween him from nursing first thing in the morning.  I told him we would go and see the first bird!  And how fun that would be!  So I started doing that younger and younger and now I take Irene out to see "the first bird" first thing in the morning.

So that stage is set:  we were out seeing the first bird and my neighbor's son - 6th grade or 7th grade - was walking to the bus stop.   He was wearing a black hoodie with the hood up.  I didn't think much of it because people often wear jackets indoor here because the a/c can get really cold.  I did think about it later though because he is very trendy - he wears obnoxiously loud knee socks.  Is this a trend all over or just South Florida?

Later in the day I was out and saw two boys (not together and not on the same street) wearing black hoodies with the hood up - only now it was after 2pm and 86 degrees by my van thermometer.  The knee socks I will dismiss - teenagers think strange things are attractive (I used to think grunge looked fashionable!), and I don't want to class this with the sort of thing as wearing pants low enough to show your underwear.  The low pants may be defiant, but they don't increase your body temperature!  The only conclusion I can come to is that wearing a black hoodie with the hood up must be so essential to personal coolness that you will wear them regardless of temperature.  I am considering asking my neighbor's son...I did ask him about the socks, but that was back when I thought he was trying to stand out.  He had some friends over to skateboard and they all had obnoxiously loud knee socks.  Peer pressure is strange and strong!