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?

@Takemediwntopotatocity: Yes, to each For example: many old ladies have perms.

*Yes, to each other

I hate the glamorous look worn so casually nowadays- makes me think of prostitutes for some reason.

Wish the grunge phase would come back.

I'm a millenial, i was a teen around the millennium and there was definitely more variation in style, with goths, moshers, townies and myself - hippy? - at school/college. I often work with 20yr olds atm and yes, the fashion is all the same, its almost difficult to tell them apart from a distance! Long, wavy hair and huge eyebrows with lashings of eye makeup

Lulu I’m a millennial and I think grunge is everywhere right now! Maybe depends on where you live.

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Also a millenial, I'm in London. May be I need to get out more.

Actually, I do see people in my age bracket (20-30) showing off their booty in gym leggings, face full of make up. That look is still around

Hypersexual looking make-up like war paint, artificial/plastic hair and ripped style clothes take away quite a bit of individualism. On a personal note - if you want a mask, wear a mask, it saves time and you in later life you will not regret treating your skin well, from both inside and out.

I've also noticed the tendency of that group to talk to each other in questionspeak and reality show style.

Not specifically millennials but it makes many people under mid twenties seem the same to me - perhaps as they get older they become more confident about themselves. My DM who was young in 1950s just seems baffled by how these younger people are portrayed in the media or on TV and tends to lose interest because they don't seem real to her.

My daughter is 15 of her close friendship group there are cropped hair, an undercut bob, a couple of mid length, one with shoulder length curls and my dd who has waist length hair, plenty of variation in clothes too.

As for me, I’m a millennial, just about. And my hair is dirty pink and I’ve never outgrown my love of sound garden T-shirt’s and dms

Young women now have a boring style and dress like their mothers (apart from the mad eyebrows). The style seems to be neat, tidy, good quality leather boots, expensive coats and nice leather bags etc.

When I was young the styles young people wore were often quite scruffy/ridiculous/impractical and not the sort of thing middle aged women would wear at all. Young people would never have had the money for the kind of things they seem to aspire to nowadays.

I don’t think any age group has more variety in personal style than any other. We all think our generation is diverse, but to anyone outside of that, there’s a distinct overarching look. Of course there are always exceptions but generally speaking there are trends in every age group.

Isn't it just that there are various 'fashions' which are generally aimed at, or taken up by various age groups.

You could identify fashions which teenagers are wearing, or younger adults or middle aged people or whatever.

If you want you can break those down more into those teenagers who are into one look or another, according to their tribe or taste in music or whatever. There are those Mums with small children who are into Boden/Joules type stuff and those into high fashion (not even sure if know it if I saw it!)

So yes, nothing new.....fashion is still a thing and there are different fashions for different groups. Especially when you're outside of a group, everyone in it can look the same, when in actual fact there are differences and those within the group would be very aware of those differences. Thinking everyone of a certain age looks the same is a bit like thinking everyone in a particular racial group looks the same - our eye is drawn to the similar features, rather than the differences.

Exactly. There are still tribes and signifiers. It's just that you're too old to read them.

I've known my best friend's daughters, now in their 20s, since birth. I can't tell which one is which unless I see them both together. They don't naturally look alike, but with that same make up, hair and false bits I find it almost impossible to distinguish between them. A bit embarrassing.

I notice this more with the lads. The current fashion for young men’s hair is clippered very short at the back & sides and but much longer on top, kept in place with copious quantities of glistening product, just like their grandads in the 50s & 60s.

Everything comes full circle if you wait long enough. One day we will be back to bell-bottom flares and long hair for men as in the 70s or, god forbid, men with bouffant hair wearing make-up like the 80s

I hate the glamorous look worn so casually nowadays

I agree with this, I work at a university and I always wonder at the students who turn up as if they are off to a club. I can't imagine wearing what they wear to sit in a lecture and then study in a library for hours,

They are in the minority, though.

It’s the men I can’t tell apart as so many sport a beard and heavy glasses.

I keep smiling and saying hi to random men in the street because they all look like my friend, while I look like a middle-aged woman hungry for young cock.

What I wonder about is the focus on bums.
At school, no-one appeared to have that exaggerated Kardashian figure. I do see a fair amount of girls with that figure now. It must be the clothes drawing attention to it?
When I was a teen (80s/90s), the rule was if you wore leggings you would cover your bum. At some point it became ok to wear leggings as you would trousers but not only that, some of them are very very see through.
That would’ve been a huge taboo in the past “you’re not going out like that”

I remarked about this to DH recently - I was reading an article in a management journal about a group of 'up and coming' young women who are working in various industries with potentially bright futures ahead of them. In the accompanying photograph every one of them had the same long hair style and make-up. Not exactly encouraging to other young women who may not happen to fit that image stereotype.