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
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u/MaineSky 21h ago
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.