something i shouldn't care about at all but somehow do

My high school's marching band recently got new uniforms. The old uniforms were, granted, getting old, probably in the range of 15 years or so.

But getting new uniforms doesn't mean you have to start looking like every other marching band in the country. I mean, come on... the diagonal sash, the silly hat, a preponderance of black? Penncrest's marching band has, for the time I've known it, always stood out in uniform, music selection, drill, choreography, etc. You name it, and Penncrest probably did it differently from the majority of other bands out there. Now, it seems as if Penncrest just wants to out-Strath Haven Strath Haven.

A big part of this, I'm sure, is just me being grumpy and nostalgic for the good ol' days. But whatever happened to the desire to be distinctive?