While searching for something completely unrelated, I came across this bit of social anthropology from a different era—an NYT story about a “Sweet 16″ party in 1999:

The guys gaped at Nicky Hilton, a tall size 0 blonde, whose waist and shoulders also played peekaboo in a black tube top, as she tugged on her Patricia Field cowboy hat, pretending to care less.

When the music ended, she signaled to her friend, Olympia Scarry, who was dressed every bit as stylishly — and as skimpily — and both teen-age girls grabbed unsuspecting boys from the crowd to kiss them. Three minutes later, they ended the make-out sessions and pushed the boys away, then returned to dancing with each other….

Those were simpler days, weren’t they?