To ask if all millennials look similar to the older generation

[Flyingfish2019]

I noticed women who have been young in the 1950s often look similar in style to me. Do all of us young women look similar to the older generation too?

There's definitely a certain look. The think I most notice is hair - when I was young, there was a huge variety in acceptable lengths and styles, from pixies to long and everything in between. Now it all seems to be long and straight with massive eyebrows.

Yep!

Long straight hair, same style and colours used in make up, similar clothes styles and colours - goths are the only ones I notice as different.

I've had this discussion with dd. I think it's so sad that younger women don't seem to have much individuality, or even separate group identities.

I was a teen in the 80's and 90's and in my early 20's. There was much more variation in hair, make up and clothing styles then. Such that even without knowing someone you knew if you had certain things in common. (Taste in music, fashion, possibly even politics).

Do all young women look the same? Obviously not...!

This is interesting - has the same discussion with an old school friend last week - we are both mid forties. Her mum is 70, she agreed.

I think the current ‘look’ is a version of what men want women to look like. They even stand the same in photos! It’s like the Ri err Palmer video ‘addicted to love’

My gran died at 55, I was 10. I recall her wearing her hair in rollers, knitting, frumpy clothes and slippers. She was an old woman at 55. My own mum is now 64 and dmil 74 and both dress in a stylish way, no frumpiness at all.

Has social media eradicated the variations? Could be! 😱

I remarked on this the other day driving past the comprehensive kids waking to school. The girls in particular all look identical! In my school days there were many groups and factions of fashion and styles. There’s one girl with cropped punky hair and big boots - I always think good on her!

I am an oldie and I do find that once women have grey hair they can look alike, at a glance I mean, so you think you recognise someone in the high st and it's not them.
Whats sad imv about young people is that the amazing make up, hair colour and big black eyebrows means they don't actually look like themselves. When they look back they won't know how amazing they actually look at that age.

Millenials are people aged 22 to 37 right now. Seems liks most of you are describing women in the younger end of that and women below 22.

@fadehead I work in a comp sevondary and while girls who are friends dress in a similar way (hasn't this always been the case?), seems to me there's quite a lot of variation.

@Meesh77 I actually think a lot of men hate the current "look" (big brows, heavy contour, lots of eyeshadow and big hair). I've heard it described as "drag-queeny".

All I can say is, the trends of our own youth probably felt a lot more exciting and varied to us than they looked to older folks.

I find that ageist stereotypes are wrong, as well as inaccurate.

We were all bad perms and 80's jumpers at my school. In every generation there is a 'look' that predominates.

In the 90s every girl I knew wore tracksuits and a bun with about 30 scrunchies around it. Coin rings optional.

I think with every generation there is a predominant 'look', but on a whole if people are willing to be more observant, they will find more individualness(??) out there.
Heck I look at older generations to myself now and feel there's a certain predominant look and dress style to them too, but people don't tend to see it much amongst their own peers.

@Morgan12

I’d forgotten about my scrunchie bun. I had a navy and cream striped one that was a particular favourite until a boy I fancied flicked it high into a tree and it got stuck on a branch!

I think younger people are moving away from the Kardashian look now. There's a nineties dungarees and docs look going on.

Yep. Not all of them but ALOT of them look fake to me. Huge eyebrows,fake lips, stick on eyelashes, clip in hair, contoured face. They all morph into each other. Sons both bought expensive white tops for xmas and im fed up trying to get actual face prints off the chest shoulder areas where girls are running up and cuddling them to say hello. One of them has yet to manage a night out without coming home with an eyebrow attached to his rhs chest area. Thank god for oxyaction

Took me ages to understand you meant similar to EACH OTHER not all going round in twinsets and pearls ..

I think there is so much more hegemony which is a shame and fewer distinct tribes.

I was a bit of a NED for a while in my shell suit, sovereign rings and pony tail and Troop trainers. Then I went all indie kid with vintage hippie dresses, dreaded hair, nose ring. Then at uni I went all clubby/smart.
The evolution of style is a big part of growing up I think and I wonder if the Khardashian look is so prominent that it’s held as the ideal?

I think today's youngsters look amazing TBH.

There definitely are still distinct tribes, just perhaps more hegemony within the middle classes specifically.

I agree about there being a certain look amongst young people of every generation.
There is though much more uniformity around hair than there was when I was young. When I was young girls and young women had very short, medium or long hair. Now nearly all girls and young women have long hair. It is very noticeable.
I also grew up during punk and the "rude boys" so the different tribal fashions were much more obvious then.

I think the current ‘look’ is a version of what men want women to look like

I think men actually like difference and variety - not just as a collective, but as individuals we like to see different things. My past partners have all been very different to one another, and I don't really believe that having a 'type' means you seek only the closest match to said type.
I would say the look is derived almost entirely from what women's magazines think women should look like - mostly derived some a sycophantic pawing at some on-trend celeb and the need to sell advertising space to the cosmetics and fashion industries.

Dh has two dds aged about 30 and I have a dd aged 25. All three have dark, straightened hair reaching half way down their back with a side parting (no fringe). All wear similar boots/ skinny jeans/ jumpers, so yes, not much variation. Ds' girlfriend has a pixie cut and is blonde and that is quite unusual now I think about it. None of them wear much make up at all though, and definitely no contouring or big eyebrows.

I think the current ‘look’ is a version of what men want women to look like

Also what men "want women to look like" changes too, so I don't think this is fair to say. What men wanted women to look like in the '50s was different from the '70s is different from today. And often it has a symbiotic relationship with how women themselves want to look, not least because 99% of young women are heterosexual and a large proportion of them will want to both find themselves attractive and to be attractive to potential partners. Even goths/punks/rockers (me in my younger days) consider what goth/punk/rocker men "want" them to look like.

@Teagoanngoanngoann

It's the pumped up lips and the huge black caterpillar eyebrows. No wonder they all look the same!