Re:The Unlikely Return of Birkenstock
by chrisseaton on Friday August 24, 2018 @05:09AM
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'Return' in this case means 'comes back into style', not that they literally went away. And as you said yourself in the very next sentence, 'they’ve been going in and out of style about every twenty years since the Sixties'. So yes they 'go' and 'return' every twenty years, and they have now reached the 'return' in this cycle again. Make sense?
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>So yes they 'go' and 'return' every twenty years, and they have now reached the 'return' in this cycle again. Make sense?
Not in the context of the TFA's title, which is about an "unlikely return".
Going in and out of style describes a totally likely (and even expected) return.