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?

I think that's a good point Sock. If you were young and into clothes in the 70s or 80s then DIY was the only way.

Also the industry's become so corporate in the last 10 or 20 years. When there's so much money hanging on every collection of course the temptation is to play safe.

I'm not suggesting young people today are any less creative by the way. I just think they've found other outlets for their creativity.

There is also just too much stuff. I remember walking round pretty much every clothes shop in a small city centre in half a day when I was younger, to make sure I'd seen everything to choose between. It would take that long just to look through all the dresses on ASOS these days. You can't look at everything. So it's easier if you start with narrow search parameters of a particular colour / fabric /style that you've seen somewhere else first.

Heavy make up, ridiculous eyebrows and lips.

I think I’m 10 years we’ll all be laughing at the angry birds eyesbrows that everyone under 30 seems to have now.

Otherwise, cold shoulder tops (wish this would die - hate them), grey hair on young people or mermaid hair, that weird greyish pink colour and rose gold everything.

So, I'm off to a big family wedding in a few weeks, and I want to be the 2018 equivalent of that woman in the 80s wedding pic with a big back-combed hairdo and metallic shoulder pads, looking amazing and dating the pic.
I've got a wide legged jumpsuit with a wrap
Front and a big bold floral pattern. What should I be doing with my hair and accessories to look very very twenty teens???

Totally agree that the silhouette that dates things. I disagree it's all about the long straight hair- there is a slightly straggly/wavy, "dull" shoulder length thing going on too, in a mid brown colour sometimes with honey highlights. Not on teens though! And that bun-on-the-top-of-the-head...

I think that we’re just recycling old styles now (bar the insane make up and brows...they look barking, but are at least new).

The hipster look for men is a reworking of the early 20th century look. Which was adopted by some men in the late 1960s/early 1970s, actually, and has now come back again.

The crop top look on girls is the 1980s revisited. I saw a friend’s teenaged daughter wearing leggings and a cropped t shirt a couple of years ago and thought, hang on, I had that exact outfit in 1987!

The rolled up jeans thing has come full circle, too. I remember consciously abandoning rolled up jeans circa 1989 because it was cooler to have your jeans resting on your shoes instead. It was inevitable that the look would come back, and so it did with boyfriend/girlfriend jeans. I can’t remember the last time I wore jeans that were not rolled up. At some point I will need to make the same choice as 18 yr old me...when to abandon the ankle roll because it’s not cool any more!

Breton tops - so ubiquitous it's like people have forgotten they weren't always.

I'm sure young people didn't all look so much the same in the past.

I was born in the 80s so a teen in the 90s & there was definite sub groups but was this to do with music? I wouldn’t be seen dead in a tartan shirt or Reeboks as I didn’t find in those groups.

Floisme Totally agree with you. I used to work in fashion & one thing we noticed that a 14 year old & 40 year old would wear the same outfit whereas there were definite tween & teen trends that adults did not embrace. I was an early adopter of instagram & loved the diversity vs magazines, now everyone’s the same. Also Topshop vs Oasis vs Miss Selfridge had very definite styling now all the shops sell the same looks.

Miss I'm heartened that younger people notice it too as it reassures me I'm not just off an a nostalgia for its own sake kick. I think music and fashion were aligned for much or most of the 20th century. Certainly a lot of my style crushes were in music - Siouxsie Sioux, Sade, Prince etc. And Vivienne Westwood famously had a foot in both camps.

I've not listened much to current music for at least 10 years - got bored with it - so I'm not up on the trends but I don't get the sense that anything wow is happening there either? Or in any of the arts really. It feels like most of the excitement and creativity right now is in technology.

Good point re the tech industry.

I just think it’s sad that everything is so homogenised now. I went on a few visits with work to other cities to look at the trends & all the boys looked identical, v neck tee, skinny jeans & muscles.

Didn’t it used to be cool to be individual (albeit not too alternative). I remember having a meltdown at a Yr 9 disco that a friend had bought the same skirt as me & wore it when she knew I was wearing it first!

Scouse brows and lip fillers.

Clothing wise? I'm not sure tbh.

Bloody awful eyebrows.

I remember having a meltdown at a Yr 9 disco that a friend had bought the same skirt as me & wore it when she knew I was wearing it first!

Yes we used to worry about turning up in the same outfit as someone else. Now it seems to be the other way round.