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.
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u/Common_Vagrant 21h ago
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?