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"    Q: What&amp;#039;s your take on the maxi dress trend sweeping the country? Hot or not? A: I had no idea what these things were, so I asked Karel. According to Karel, a maxi dress is the type of long patterned dress that she wears (and she is quick to point out that she&amp;#039;s been wearing them for several years\u2014I can back up that claim). I&amp;#039;ve been calling them Mrs. Roper dresses. Actually, I love Karel&amp;#039;s Mrs. Roper dresses\u2014they&amp;#039;re casual and form fitting, and, along with gas prices, crumbling infrastructure and high unemployment, they make me feel like I&amp;#039;m back in the &amp;#039;70s, which I firmly believe is the decade I was supposed to live in.  So my take on &amp;quot;maxi dresses&amp;quot; is a positive one (fine: hot). Karel can slip one on and sashay around the house while I wear my throwback Eagles t-shirt, questionably tight Levis and drink Yuengling from a can while we listen to Grand Funk Railroad on vinyl and worry about the looming energy crisis, blissfully pretending we live in a world free of the Real Housewives of Anything, a 24-hour news cycle and Facebook.  Q: What about rompers (little shorts jumpsuits that grown women are wearing this summer)? A: Yeah, I&amp;#039;ve seen a lot of these things this summer. I feel like this is the type of look that you&amp;#039;re going to see in a photo about two years from now and say, &amp;quot;What the hell was I thinking?&amp;quot;  One in 50 women can pull these bizarre contraptions off, so the odds are not in your favor when you make this purchase.   I know, I know, these things are supposed to be a wistful and slightly ironic nod to &amp;#039;70s fashion (like the Mrs. Roper dresses), but unlike the Mrs. Roper dress, they don&amp;#039;t transport me back to the magical time before emoticons (speaking of which, can we all at least agree to not use the frowny-face emoticon when it comes to the passing of a loved one? I feel like that&amp;#039;s a good starting point we can all get behind). Instead, rompers remind me of my grandfather&amp;#039;s potato farm in Maine and the burlap sacks he used to transport his potatoes in.   Also, I don&amp;#039;t know how to put this delicately, but I&amp;#039;ve noticed these things lend themselves to a whole wide world of camel toe. Just because it&amp;#039;s in fashion doesn&amp;#039;t mean you should wear it. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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