The look of kids nowadays

I can see what you are saying. However, our son worked and went to school from the time he was 15. He kept up his grades and graduated with honors, so we must have done something right, although, I still think we were just plain lucky. He had his own savings account and always put aside most his pay into that. He never felt entitled. He knew that we have to work for what we get in life. He bought his own clothes with his own money.
Had he just sat around the house and expected us to pay for everything he wanted, that really would have been a different story, so I guess that is one thing I do "understand"!

Footnote... He did change his hair back to his natural color for his senior pictures with no prompting from us. He said he wasn't about to look back at them years later, and cringe.

Kids have been wearing changes in fashion and dressing how they choose with their parents' hard-earned money for eons. How else would they have clothes to wear? Too young for jobs, so no money, parents clothe their kids.

As MissMargo said, each generation is a little different than the others, because times and culture changes. Each older generation complains about the younger ones, including about a lack of manners.

Hot pants were considered pretty risque back then, but compared to what we see today, they're pretty tame.

I'll never live down my banana yellow pants confession, will I? I must have been drinking that night. Yeah, let's say that. I was drinking. 😌