What never goes out of fashion?

[Sallygoround631]

Are there styles or items that you think never go out of fashion?
That are timeless? At least for the time being?

I see plenty threads decrying skinny jeans, that they’re dated, etc.

But then I still get catalogues in the post from various brands and skinnies seem to be the underlying basis of everything.

Is it just city trends that alter? Or do you think the entire silhouette has actually changed for good?

I don't agree with denim jackets. I had quite a loose-cut one in the 90s when I was a grunge/indie kid. I then threw it out in disgust in the mid-nineties when denim jackets were all short, tight and fitted.

Now that figure-hugging one looks really dated again and I'm wishing I still had the nineties one!

Lesson learned... I'm hanging on to the tight cropped one, much as I'm itching to donate it. It will come back round again. (Though in the meantime we might see new, subtly different iterations of the denim jacket...)

That’s interesting elodie I was at uni in Manchester in the 90’s and don’t remember anyone wearing leggings

Haha!! Manchester too! 90-95!
Leggings or Levi jeans! Were you there 94/5 onwards? I remember bootlegs later. Hated them!

If by biker jacket, pps are talking about the type you buy from a normal store, then I can see the fit/ style of them might change over time.

But to me, a biker jacket is an actual jacket for riding a motorbike, not one simply in that style. So the fit doesn't change with fashion.

93 onwards Elodie, and still there!

I agree the fit of denim jackets has changed. And trench coats - I'm wearing one from the 90s at the moment. It's midi length and a couple of years ago would have looked really dated but now it's spot on.

I think it's fascinating watching something go out of style and then come back in again. Watch 'When Harry Met Sally' - I first saw it in the 80s and wanted the whole of Meg Ryan's wardrobe. Then for 15 or 20 years it all looked dated and now it looks right again, except for the party frocks - they've not worn so well.

Another uni from 93 onwards. It was leggings and checked shirts for a while with Timberland type boots and then the dreaded bootcut crept in. I wore a lot of denim skirts, tights and my DMs too and a night out was not a dressy affair- just popped a new "vintage" top on! A slick of Rommel black cherries and bingo, done!

Agree with @Idontneeditatall - no-one wore leggings in the 90s?!

Bottom half was loose - kick flare and bootcut, moving onto uber-baggy combats with fitted, often cropped tops.

No skinnies and no legging!

I wore leggings in the Mid 90s, with baggy jumpers

I have photographic evidence

Actually it was 92-93, from 1995-2005 I did not wear leggings

I was a student from 1989 to 1999 and I wore DMs and leggings with cheesecloth tops or baggy jumpers for pretty much all of it with the odd maxi skirt (also worn with DMs). But there was much more of a 'what tribe do you belong to' about how young people dressed so I dressed how someone who liked rock music dressed but e.g. a Britpop fan would have dressed very differently.

from 1995-2005 I did not wear leggings
Me neither.
Definitely early '90s and late '80s

"No skinnies and no legging!"

No skinnies in most shops. I had to buy straight legged a couple of times, because everything else was a type of flare.

Leggings were around, however.

I don't think anyine wouid disagree that flares had a bit of a stranglehold on fashion in the 1990s But that does not make them stylish. Narrower shapes are enduring because they are more timelessly stylish. And will remain available, thanks to only he shopping, even if they vanish from the High Street for a while.

Flares have been available throughout (they never disappeared like skinnies a la 90s) if you shop in places like Evans and Damart. As people haven't kept wearing them, I suspect the shape isn't that well regarded. Not wheel of fashion, but simple fact that legs are meant to taper, and adding fabric there makes everyone look fatter with sturdier thighs

My gran used to say if you hold on to anything long enough it comes back into fashion. I think of that when I look at the dresses that have recently appeared in M&S. They could have been worn in the forties or fifties tho the length would have been a little shorter until the New Look came in via Dior.

Re jackets -
I'm getting my black biker jacket out of the wardrobe for the colder weather. It's authentic and second hand, bought in the nineties.

I rotate it with my denim jacket, which I wear in the warmer months. I got that from Per Una in 2001.

I agree about trench coats, classic Chanel bag, cashmere jumpers. And black skinny jeans will never go out of fashion for me, until I don't have the legs and arse to show them off.