This proven ideal is that people living in the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia are two or more years behind in
society, but live only one half mile from two adjoining states. If a certain line of clothing and/or jewelry is popular now in those two adjoining states, rest assured it will not catch on until 2011 in the WV panhandle. Additionally to that, all teenage boys seem to have red hair and the traditional bowl
cut from the
mid to late 1990'
s and wear black tennis shoes to all occassions.
Women in this epidemic seem to have a fetish for Looney Tunes T's and/or other cartoons.
"Hey
man, isn't this Aeropostale shirt sweet?"
reply: "yeah
man, if it was 2001"
"why is he wearing black tennis shoes to the homecoming?"
reply: "because he's a card carrying member of the West
Virginia Panhandle Epidemic"