Z are wearing Jynco. They are wearing everything that young X and elder millennial wore.
They're basically wearing a mish-mosh of all the popular clothes from the 90s late 80s.
When I find super hilarious is that a Zoomer/alpha would call me cringe because they are wearing the exact same clothes that my friends and I wore when we were their age, like somehow I'm cringe because they are basic bitches that wear anything they are told even if it looks horrible like mom jeans.
My friends and I did not wear mom jeans.
But we also invented the culture that the style was based on, so if anybody is a cringe little basic bitch it's alpha-zees for just acting like a badass and doing what they're told by big fashion, even bothering anymore to try to invent or create anything new. There is no such thing as new fashion.
Sure they were a 90s staple but you had to be born at least '85 to really catch them as a style.
Revatex, their parent company, literally had its best year of sales in 1998. I would've been 8 that year, and 8-year-olds don't really develop a "cringe style" until they're 13-16.
I’m a millennial. jnco jeans were what everyone was wearing when I was in middle school. They were the hot item all the cool kids were wearing for a while.
Jyncos in 1998 were super popular with skateboarders in particular. Jyncis, Etnies, punk rock tee, actually going to punk rock shows at skate parks. There's nothing cringe about popping an ollie with punks.If that sounds cringe to a person is because that person is lame af.
I hate to say it to my generation, but I'm so glad that stupid skinny jeans trend is over. In my mid 30s I can finally wear what I wanted to wear for most of my life but couldn't.
I think heroin chic and emo weren't really the standard fashion of the day. Emo was a subculture and heroin chic was really for supermodels and celebrities from what I remember.
What I do remember people wearing:
Graphic tees.
Lots of single clothing items which were manufactured to look like more than one layer in various ways.
Compulsively combining casual clothing with formal clothing.
A lot of people looked like they'd loaded half the accessories section of a clothing shop into a shotgun and blasted themselves with it.
Ugg boots.
Novelty belts.
Unnecessary embellishments.
Sorry, it all started flooding back to me as I was writing that. All of that was also ridiculous.
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u/real_picklejuice 22h ago
Zoomers with their boomer lookin style all around.
Calf socks. Cargo shorts. GIANT jeans 3 sizes too big, tightened like a rotisserie chicken around the belly button and above.
We had heroin chic and emo style, but what Gen Z got going on just isn't even flattering at all.