First: I'm sooo glad I wasn't the only one who was thinking that the preview of Ronnie and Anita was like reading some acid-laced, badly-spelled version of Thirteen. The girls in my middle school were the bitchy unholy terrors of which parental and societal nightmares are made. And Ronnie and Anita were acting exactly like them.
As a midwest kid myself, nothing but nothing explains Anita's out-of-touch attitudes and fashions. St Louis is not anywhere near as passe as LKH-land would make it seem.
On the other hand, the whole issue of fashion-not-keeping-up-with-the-times is an issue with other longer running series. The Stephanie Plum books? The clothes, lack of technology, etc, are somewhere perpetually around 1995. 1999 in the more recent ones. The author only seemed to notice the issue when some fans started commenting on it.
Maybe Laurell just hasn't noticed. There's a lot in the books she hasn't noticed recently though, so I guess the fashion throwbacks are something we shouldn't be surprised by.
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As a midwest kid myself, nothing but nothing explains Anita's out-of-touch attitudes and fashions. St Louis is not anywhere near as passe as LKH-land would make it seem.
On the other hand, the whole issue of fashion-not-keeping-up-with-the-times is an issue with other longer running series. The Stephanie Plum books? The clothes, lack of technology, etc, are somewhere perpetually around 1995. 1999 in the more recent ones. The author only seemed to notice the issue when some fans started commenting on it.
Maybe Laurell just hasn't noticed. There's a lot in the books she hasn't noticed recently though, so I guess the fashion throwbacks are something we shouldn't be surprised by.