What fashion trends do you think this decade will be remembered for?

[SapphireSeptember]

I was thinking about this the other night.
My ideas were rose gold and holographic stuff everywhere, highlighter, interesting nail polishes (matte, magnetic, crackle, etc,) nude lipstick, especially that peculiar greige shade, and neons.
Anything else?

Oh yes, how could we have forgotten about bum implants 🤢

The eyebrows will be this generation’s 80s mullet.

Also likely to date:

those bright yellow Joules jackets.

Extreme skinny jeans.

Eyeliner flicks.

Contouring
Microblading
Hi lighter

It's hard to see it when you're in it. Also the things that will look distinctly 2010s are the looks that go very out of fashion. That's hard to predict. It's also mainly the silhouette that changes rather than particular items. The 90s was about loose bottoms and tight tops. The waist didn't exist. It was all about the hips. The 2000s were all about the skinny jeans and baggy tops. 2010s are kind of loose all over. Wide legs and oversized blazers. The waist is back big time.

"The waist is back big time." -- yes, this. Also bottoms are the major erogenous zone (see: high waist skinny jeans and cropped tops) - fashion following porn I reckon.

@Niminy - but if you look at what people are actually wearing, skinny jeans have still been the main shape of jeans last winter/spring (it's too hot to wear jeans now!), lots of teens walking about shopping centres in high waisted, ankle showing skinny jeans with cropped tops.

It doesn't really matter what fashion mags and catwalks do for the trends we think of for an age, more what people actually buy and wear. (Young people particularly)

Skinny jeans have been around in one form or another for decades (1950s drainpipes anyone?) and will always remain a staple I think. Likewise eyeliner flicks. Which is annoying as I don't have the eye shape for it, dammit.

The hipster look for blokes amuses me because they all look exactly the same - no individuality about it.

But yes. All the eyebrows.

It's often the case that what's on the catwalks takes a while to become 'what people actually buy and wear'. That was the case with skinny jeans in the first few years they were in. Trouser shapes change much more slowly than other garments and they're less susceptible to seasonal trends such as the cold-shoulder look, which is why people think skinnies are beyond fashion and have always been around. Actually they weren't in the 90s - or rather, the late 90s is when fashion people started to wear them but most of us weren't at all.

It's interestingly older women who are the early adopters of fashion trends nowadays. Teenagers all wear the uniform - sausage-leg jeans (with or without knee slashes), cropped tops (with or without turtle neck), eyebrows, long straight hair (with or without French plaits), smoky eyes, beige lips, contours. It's very rare that you see a teenage girl with short hair, for instance. I'm sure young people didn't all look so much the same in the past. Instagram/porn probably the answer.

Can't believe I forgot this before, but glasses with heavy black frames. Like the skinny jeans, these were starting to come in from around 2008 but seriously took off and became mainstream in the early 2010s. They are so ubiquitous and normal now they are easy to forget. Other decades haven't been quite so dominated by a single shape of glasses.

Bubble bum seems to be a popular look.

HD brows.
Over the top makeup - contouring and highlighter
High waisted jeans, big bums
Beards

@pennycarbonara - yes, you're right, in the way those frameless glasses make me think of late 90s/early 00s, the thick black ones are just "normal" now, but going out of fashion, so will look dated in a couple of years.

@DontCallMeCharlotte - skinny jeans come in and out, and have been around to be seen as "normal" for a while, but through the late 90s to early 00s, it was various combinations of straight leg, then bootcut jeans, starting with the thighs getting tighter and then it was late 00s before skinny jeans became "mainstream /mums wore them".

Adding to that, jeans tucked into knee high boots will look dated as soon as jean shape changes.

Oh and Ugg boots will probably feature when they are doing "period dramas" about the 2010's in 30 years time!

Slug brows, highlighter, pink hair, platform sneakers and vintage everything.

THe tunic with skinny jeans silhouette worn with rolled up ankles and dip fronted ankle boots.

Ankle boots worn with everything.

Niminy, I was waiting to pick my daughter up from college a couple of years ago, and I was looking at the girls. Only one had short hair - stunning pixie crop - the rest all had long hair. This was out of over 500 girls!

I may still be too close to have any real perspective but from where I'm sitting, I can't see fashion historians being too kind about this decade. If I had to sum it up in one word, it would be 'uniformity', as evidenced by:

A dearth of street style / youth culture. Young people dressing like their parents.
Rise of stealth PR via blogging / instagramming. Death by Gleam.
Continued decline of independent shops as online shopping takes hold.

Ironically there was a time when I was excited by blogging and internet shopping and thought they would really shake things up. How wrong I was.

Sorry for being curmudgeonly - maybe I'm just in a bad mood. On a positive note, wide legs and ankles are back, and there are still 18 months for things to kick off.

It's interestingly older women who are the early adopters of fashion trends nowadays

I think this is returning to the historic norm. Teenagers dominated fashion from the 60s but before that children dressed like their parents.

I think the decline of music-based subcultures has contributed a lot to the uniformity.

And with younger people having worse incomes proportionally compared with earlier decades, it's not surprising they make safer choices and fashions seem to hang around for longer.

Check shirts are another thing that seem characteristic of the whole decade, whereas in the 90s they were definitely early 90s/grunge.

With a check shirt, skinny jeans, tattoos (the normalisation of tattoos has been another big thing in the last 15 years), a beard on a guy, long straight hair on a girl and you've got visual shorthand for typical 2010s millenials.

I don't think it's just about lack of money / opportunities. Lots of us were unemployed and skint in the 80s - it can make you more creative. But I get the sense that young people aren't that interested in fashion - they've found other ways of making us feel out of touch.

Sports casual
Thick rimmed glasses
Beards
Leg tattoos

I think that if you were young in the 70s and 80s, you grew accustomed to a very fast moving style frame, and you thought (consciously) about where to take your look next. Because most people had to beg, borrow or steal, or recycle garments, there was more kudos attached to imaginative re-workings. Now that fast fashion is so all-pervasive and cheap, there doesn't seem to be as much scope for the individual. Which may be why older consumers are more restless than younger ones. These days, it mostly seems to be about buying style. Then, it wasn't an option.

Just remembered. Beards.

Go away now beards. Bored of looking at them

Culottes. Crop tops. High waists. Cold shoulders. Hair buns.