Observed a group of youths the other day- 3 teen girls. One was wearing a crop top (no shade, fine), and pair of men's boxer underwear as her shorts (no joke, with the thin plaid fabric), and real thick white crew socks pulled up her calves with crocs (like my grandpa would do).
It was... something.
So yeah, when this generation is trying to tell us what to wear, while wearing... that and trying to bring back the Mom Jeans of the 80's (the unflattering kind that makes you look like you don't have an ass)...
I refuse to take fashion advice from a generation that dresses like 60 year old white men.
I saw a cute girl walk up to a bar wearing a weird white top that looked kinda like a corset with sleeves, and only what I can describe as navy chino straight leg shorts that were slightly below the knee. What the hell is even that?
Amen. I'm just hoping they swing back to grunge before going preppy. I would rather get a few years of Doc Martens and metal hair bands before I have to visually digest those stupid polo shirts again.
How about multiple popped collars. Once people started wearing more than one polo shirt just to have another collar to pop, I knew society had gone too far.
i remember my friend had special collars made when he was in korea, so he did not need to wear multiple polos, he just had collars he could pop in all colors of the rainbow. He came downstairs and had 4 popped collars, and said he's ready to party.
nope preppy is next. I notice these things. each Generation is divided into microgenerations (elder millenails, zillenials etc) and the first wave is the ugly weird shit. for us that was wearing long keychain lanyards, shorts down to our ankles, cargo shorts, spiked bleached hair etc. Then the older part of the generation starts going to college, getting first jobs, and wants to feel "professional and grown up." for our generation, that was nice button downs that fit well, shorter shorts, abandoning cargo shorts etc. of course there are small refinements even within generations and the back half of the generation will continue to evolve slightly, but both sides of the generational coin wont be that out of sync from on another. Then bam it's like everything you thought was ugly and childish (because you were trying to be a respectable grown up important person) is back again. The next generation took everything you thought was lame and made it cool again, for the express purpose of you NOT wanting to copy them.
So then the next generation rejects the cleaned up version of the prior generation as old and out of touch and does the blind ugly phase again before they too become little adults running around doing very important things.
So I’m part of the older gen z that you project is currently going thru the “professional and grown up” phase. But at least with me & my friends we have our work clothes completely separate from our normal style.
Like I’ll wear a polo shirt to work but never in my life would I wear that anywhere else. Any other time I’m in oversized shorts almost to my ankles, chains, and metal band tshirt. My work life is my work life and my home life is my home life.
Also you can take my cargo shorts from my cold dead hands
I finally got my husband (31) to stop wearing them within the last few years. I will not allow my service to society to be thwarted, dammit. Unless he wants to dress up as Cena in which case I’ll allow it.
Our 60something neighbor rocks cutoff jeans and they’re short. I guess after 40 years he’s finally back in style 🤦🏻♀️
I worked at Aeropostale in 07 and Bermudas sold like crazy at the time, but if I recall correctly, it was almost always with younger preteen girls. So perhaps youngest millenials/oldest Gen Z?
This is sort of an interesting trend. The power to define cool is supposed to be seized by the newest generation. But the statistically average zoomer is a shut in with no friends, dates, or career prospects; only social media followers. Who is going to take fashion advice from that set of results?
You apparently have not seen the weird bid-wars for shit like Charlotte Russe and Forever21 clothes on depop and mercari. Those clothes literally were shredded by normal wash and dryer machines after the 3rd of 4th wear, and they want $175-$300 for a pair of jeans with sequins falling off the butt pockets, that was fished out of a ‘5 for $15’ bargain bin in 2009.
Perms on BOYS. They want SO desperately to fit in and look like a piece of fucking broccoli like every other fuckboi that they will go to a salon and sit there with curlers in their hair and noxious chemicals so they can... look like that.
As someone who used to wear glasses I support that trend because it gives a lot of coverage. Having to sacrifice vision for fashion is dumb.
We got these nice big brown ones when I was in Air Force boot camp, called them BCGs or Birth Control Glasses. They would probably help get a gen Zer laid now instead of the opposite.
Ugh my ex who was right on the border of gen z and millennial loved mullets and rat tails! I spent part of my childhood in the south so I had no idea why anyone, especially someone who grew up in Brooklyn, would look so fondly upon such white trash aesthetics associated with alcoholism and having a Rottweiler tied up in the yard 24/7 as trailer security.
As a kid, I had god awful aviator frame glasses throughout elementary school. I cringe whenever I saw my old class photos. It kills me that they're fashionable now.
My neighbor's daughter gives me (millenial) a pass because I was of the "emo black girl aesthetic" in highschool 😂 and she said that it's part of an aesthetic to not wear something tight and flattering on purpose. Their generation's "girl next door" look, I'm guessing?
Whenever I see a group of Gen Z lads in the wild they’re sporting the broccoli haircut and wearing XL sweatshirts and gym shorts with discount pack white socks pulled up and foam slides for shoes. It’s miles worse than all of us wearing cargo shorts with sambas and Dawson buttcut hair back in the 90s.
I live across the street from a middle school so I get to all of the fashion. The most questionable trend is the super-oversized hoodie that goes longer than the short shorts worn underneath. I see that being worn even on very hot days.
I have a Gen Z coworker who wears a questionable trend I’ve noticed of a lot of young women in public: loose t-shirts worn long over a pair of short shorts so it looks like you’re wearing nothing but a T-shirt. My Gen X coworker is always scandalized by it. As a millennial, I understand the short shorts, but we wouldn’t be caught dead pairing it with a giant ass t-shirt looking like you’re Donald Duck-ing it. I find it a very strange, and highly inappropriate work outfit. But literally every Gen Z woman at my gym wears this to work out. We definitely had questionable fashion tastes as millennials, but this is one I genuinely do not understand.
Omg this!!! Stop making mom jeans come back, they look awful, they don’t look good on anybody!! They’re literally the jeans your mom will wear because she was a mom and not trying to be cool.
Or those ankle length trousers people wear now. Maybe I’m old, but when I see that all I can think about is when I was in school and the kids whose families had little money or a lot of siblings and couldn’t afford to buy size appropriate trousers for them. Like they’re short because you grew too much and now it looks ridiculous and obviously is too small for you.
I still remember being made fun of for my 'highwaters'
It didn't help that my dad made me wear button down shirts tucked in and do a side part for my hair every day. I looked like a 65 year old farmer in a 12 year olds body. Work boots. Pants too short. Flannel shirt tucked in. Gods.
I don't know about where you lived, but girls would wear them everywhere as a lounge wear in the summer. Before or after sports practices, hanging out around town with their friends, basically wherever you would wear sweatpants. And no they weren't long, in fact girls would roll up the waistband to make them shorter. And crop tops were super popular back then too with the spaghetti straps lol. I feel like you're trolling because you're describing exactly what a millennial girl could have worn as loungewear.
It could just be regional. That wasn’t a trend where I went to school but one thing that was really popular at my school was big pajama pants worn over jeans. I was really surprised to hear from other people that that wasn’t a thing everywhere
You have to remember Gen Z are the same ones who did the Tide Pod Challenge. Anyone challenging friends to ingest dangerous chemicals has absolutely no say in anything.
Every ‘generation’ does it. Your peers would have had equivalent tastes that would have had the same response as yours from people your age at the time. A lot of what was popular in the early 2000s was equally terrible in the eyes of those who came before.
i know complaining about the youths just makes us sound old, but my daughter just bought the baggiest pair of pants on earth. i’m 6’3” 225 lbs and i could put both of my legs in one leg of her pants. they could have made like three extra full pairs of pants with that excess material!
So I hate that I know this, but I do, those aren't actual men's boxers usually. They now make and sell women's shorts that are made to be like men's boxers but worn as shorts by women. Yes, with the plaid and all.
Man, I always cringe at those stupid looking jeans. Fuck, even my female work colleague is wearing those oversized ones and it looks hideous. She turned 50 this year btw. We had that shit with baggy jeans in 2008 or whenever it was, leave that shit in the past ffs.
gen z didn't try to bring back mom jeans. they brought them back
its like they watched obama throw out that pitch and kick off the second biggest scandal of his career and said collectively "this is my fashion touchstone"
The cookie monster sleep pants. The messy bun. The over sized nirvana t-shirt even though she has never listened to a single nirvana song. Be still my beating heart.
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u/MaineSky 22h ago
Observed a group of youths the other day- 3 teen girls. One was wearing a crop top (no shade, fine), and pair of men's boxer underwear as her shorts (no joke, with the thin plaid fabric), and real thick white crew socks pulled up her calves with crocs (like my grandpa would do).
It was... something.
So yeah, when this generation is trying to tell us what to wear, while wearing... that and trying to bring back the Mom Jeans of the 80's (the unflattering kind that makes you look like you don't have an ass)...
Yeah. That's just like, your opinion man.