I accidentally went into a trendy shop today...

[Mrsemcgregor]

.... and it was so trendy I didn’t even recognise it as trendy. I got confused and assumed I had temporarily time travelled 25 years in the past when the site of this particular Urban Outfitters was in fact a Banardos.

I was brought back to present time by the helpful 17 yr old who could clearly see I was lost in time and asked me if he could help (escort me to the nearest M&S where I clearly belong).

I hope the photos work.

That is clearly the vintage section. If you had those clothes when they were new then you are now old. Sorry.

Looks like Burtons in the 80s.

Maybe you participated in a live action version of Mr Benn.

@EmilySpinach

That is clearly the vintage section. If you had those clothes when they were new then you are now old. Sorry.

We know that! We just kind of hoped the next generations would have learned from our mistakes . . .

@Rapunzathepenguin

The love for the 1980s a la Stranger Things is making me laugh at the minute as well. I was there. They definitely weren't as much fun as it makes them out to be. At least not in the UK.

And 80s music.

Or, as I prefer to call it, the soundtrack to multiple kickings at school.

"It’s not just the naff clothes, it’s the merchandising of them. It honestly looks like a jumble sale rack!"

It's thrift shop chic. It's been super trendy for at least 10 years now, so I expect it will be over soon enough!

@Bambooshoot

"I used to be 'with it'. Then they changed what 'it' was. Now what I'm with isn't 'it' and what's 'it' seems weird and scary. It'll happen to you!"

@TwistAndTout

"It’s not just the naff clothes, it’s the merchandising of them. It honestly looks like a jumble sale rack!"

It's thrift shop chic. It's been super trendy for at least 10 years now, so I expect it will be over soon enough!

I totally missed this trend! I blame giving birth in 2009.

Thank fuck I'm not trendy. I lived through the eighties, I don't want to go back there.

Haha I’m 45 and I bloody love urban outfitters. Like having a day trip back to my youth. Dd and both ds’s love it too so all good. Can’t believe some of you don’t even know this stuff is trendy again?? Back in the 90s, it was cool to wear 70s stuff so why not

I've seen some photos of my mum in the 70s/early 80s and I've got to say some of the fashion wasn't too bad! Or my mum had style, I mean she was a skinny-mino brunette with legs to die for so a lot of her in trendy mini skirts/dresses and platforms!

It always comes around again. Isnt Diana fashion from the 80s coming back, courtesy of the Crown?

I watched the Little Mix search - the girls search. I was shocked by some of the clothes the girls had! I mean seriously ?!!

@TheOrchidKiller

"I can’t imagine a trendy young thing would ever want to wear these clothes?"

You haven't met my 19 year old.
Currently sporting baggy cords (deliberately too big) tied round the waist with a shoe lace, & a heavily-patterned jumper last seen making an appearance in a 1980s branch of Burtons. She does actually look good in them.

We went to a trendy shop yesterday. Full of similar jumpers. They wanted 50 quid a pop! She drew the line there. Said she'd just raid DH's wardrobe again.

just like my dd and her friends

crazy

what i want to know is where these vintage shops get their clothes from ?? the mark up is extortionate, do they get them from house clearances?

I decided a few years ago that I have absolutely no idea how to tell the difference between trendy and utterly unfashionable.

This was illustrated perfectly when I was clearing out some suitcases in the loft last year and came across some stuff that I must have put away (probably in the hopes that I would lose weight) in the 90s. I was debating whether it was worth sending to a charity shop or just binning since it was clearly too dated to sell, other than perhaps as fancy dress. DD took the lot wears it regularly (mainly 90s jeans and tight tops/body suits). It's actually quite frightening to walk around with what appears to be a time travelling version of myself in tow.

the moral of this story is, dont throw your clothes away,
keep them for 30 years, and then sell them!

It seems you have to keep the worst of your clothes though!

brilliant OP ... fair cheered me up this thread 🤣

One of the scariest couple of hours of my life was in the 80s at a primary school Christingle service with real candles. Almost 200 children with their families, almost everyone (including me) in a shell suit. Just a breath away from a conflagration throughout.

@Mrsemcgregor

I now sympathise with my mother, who undoubtedly cringed hard when I would go out wearing olive coloured bell bottom flares, huge platform boots and sheepskin coats in 1997.

But those clothes looked cool in the 70s and again in the 90s. The clothes in the pics always looked shit, I am not sure why they'd "come back round" as they were terrible the first time.

the students round here seem to go in for that look. crappy bumfluff 'tache, one of those jumpers tucked into some baggy jeans that stop 2 inches above the ankle, white manky sports socks and massive hideous chunky trainers. When me and dh walk past one we take it in turns to mumble:

tit

Thank you so much everyone! After a shit day this thread has given me such a laugh! Love you all x

I saw the photo before I read the post and knew it would be Urban Outfitters!!! It's my dd15s favourite shop, it just feels like a step back in to my teenage years in the 90s whenever I go in there. I never thought those 90s fashions would ever make it back around!!

Ah shell suits. I went on holiday to via in about 1990 and everyone on the plane was wearing one. Including he. Mine was jade green and white.

DS is currently sporting baggy burgundy cords about 3 inches too short and an acrylic fake Fair Isle cardi with brown fake leather buttons that once belonged to DH. And a mullett. He looks ridiculous (to me).

Aha, its funny seeing stuff like kappa and rebook being sold for ridiculous prices, perhaps an irony in hipsters wearing it when at school you were subject to being called a chav for daring to! We all did though.