Why Outdoor Gear from the 1990s Is Coming Back into Style

Today, I’m a 42-year-old dad with four kids. I work a 9-5 job, ski on the weekends, camp in the summer, drive a Tacoma…you get the picture. I’m essentially a cliched version of the middle-class outdoorsy American who’s floating along with the bunch. But I promise I was much cooler when I was in my teens in the 1990s. I was a skater kid at school, a fearless ski bum on the weekends, knew about and listened to all the “best” music (hip hop, punk, techno), and thought of myself as someone who hadn’t bought in but instead was helping to drive culture forward. Read more at Outside.