Reply #20: "WTF is going on here" is diversity. "Pastel pioneer outfits" Why should they be any weirder than:

[Poll_Blind]

  I see these people like this in my town (Eugene, Oregon) just about every day and especially in the summer when it stops raining. Maybe the reporters just understand that, well, they're just clothes.

  I don't feel any need to approach any of these people and ask them why they're wearing the clothes they are- as though it was important in some way or to imply that I'm judging them for being nonconformist from my anglo-european middle-class point of view?

  You might be reading this and taking it as more pointed than I mean it. But, really, it's just clothes.

  Every day is a pageant in America.

PB