I was at a restaurant tonight (UK), and one of the waitresses (F, maybe 25, 26) had braces.
I was up at the bar and mentioned that I thought it was pretty cool that she had the guts to get braces at her age, as I was thinking of getting them myself. She laughed and said "well, I don't care about them, but the money is killing me!"
Noticed that she had the "Begg" style brackets, but wasn't going to get that far into it in case she thought I was weird. I haven't seen those type of brackets in years! She told me about elastics and how sore they were, but she never wears them for work. She has 6 all together when she wears them.
Nice girl, nice chat. I didn't think they used the Begg brackets anymore!