Side partings are ageing?

[Thirtyrock39]

According to an article I've just read apparently side partings are totally ageing and out of fashion and flicking through Instagram there is a definite age divide in partings. Most under 30s all have a poker straight middle parting.
I had a middle parting myself till I was about 30 and then changed to side which I think suits my face -oval, big nose-better than a middle parting but I've just tried a middle parting and honestly think it knocks a good five years off me...possibly as I look more like myself in my 20s though....also the lawyer woman in the undoing who is Nicole Kidman's friend looks younger than the other rich mums and I was thinking it was her middle parting- is this a general hair rule that I've missed ?!

@TonightMatthew

I've seen this mentioned a few times on social media. According to the yoof of today, signs of being incredibly old and uncool (maybe even like, over 30? Gross) are middle partings, skinny jeans and overuse of the crying face laugh emoji.

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I am over 30 though, which is WELL disgusting 🤢. Do the yoof still say well in that context?

Omg and I'm a millennial too!!! Eeeeep!

Mine (mid 40s, long face, very long hair) is usually on the side. Sometimes in the middle, but then it gets greasy in a matter of hours. No such problem with a side parting. It's baffling. Anyone else?

I was born in 1977 and I remember reading an article that said we fall between generations. A smidge too young to be Gen X.

I like side partings as it makes my hair look voluminous but I hate skinny jeans and think they just look so tired and dated now.

[quote BigWindow]Haha!@that Guardian article

‘ What I find fascinating about the generational wars is how Gen X, the Switzerland of generations, has managed not to get involved in all this nastiness. While boomers, zoomers and millennials are at each other’s throats, Gen X just stands in the background, smoking cigarettes and wryly observing the strife’

Yes! I’m Gen X and I couldn’t give a monkeys.[/quote]
But you see, that is Gen X all over! The irrelevant generation. It's a smaller generation and is considered a sandwich generation between the larger and more dominant traits of Boomers and Millennials. I love being Gen X!

@Wedlock

I was born in 1977 and I remember reading an article that said we fall between generations. A smidge too young to be Gen X.

I like side partings as it makes my hair look voluminous but I hate skinny jeans and think they just look so tired and dated now.

1977 places you clearly in Gen X

I'm actually thrilled to have reached an age where I DGAF what teenagers think is fashionable. Let them have their centre partings and weird jeans

Okay I'm happy to be Gen X in that case.

(v tired of all the generation chat of the last 5 years or so though. Will be happy to never see an article about millenials again.

@withmycoffee

I think these women all look much better with their centre parting. They look younger even though the pictures with their side partings are in some cases, taken years earlier! But then, as mentioned, it may because it is more fashionable to have a centre parting right now so that makes them look younger. In any case, right now, they look younger with their parting in the middle - and interestingly, they all have very different face shapes

Eh, I don't see it. I cover the big, side-swept wavy hair of the early 90s and I no longer care who knows it (if only my hair would co-operate).

@Wedlock

I was born in 1977 and I remember reading an article that said we fall between generations. A smidge too young to be Gen X.

I like side partings as it makes my hair look voluminous but I hate skinny jeans and think they just look so tired and dated now.

So called skinny jeans are hugely unflattering even in very thin people - both male and female. It makes all legs look like parsnips. A side parting is much more classy than a middle one, especially if your hair is one length and tucked behind your ears.

*covet.
I don't cover my hair at all.

...even on

I blame all this intergenerational blurring. Its impossible for the young to have a style of their own without older people catching on to it too. They have to scrape the barrel with side partings and emojis to dissociate from the aged ones, bless em.
Bring back the days when hitting 30 called for a short perm and an elasticated waist, and old people knew their place! (hits random keyboard letters to denote laughing face)

Middle partings are very Mary Beard.

I’m a 77 baby and thought I was def Gen X (not that I ever really think about it until I hear ‘millennial’ and ‘boomer’ bandied about).

Look, the way I see it is that in my forties it would be ducking tragic if I cared what an 18 yr old thought about my level of coolness.

(Fwiw, I change my parting according to how I feel, and I wear skinnies AND other styles of jeans!)

Or even fucking tragic

I might go for a comb over. It’s time they came back.

Oh god who cares? I’m 26, my hair is in a side parting and I wear skinny jeans sometimes.. I couldn’t care less what some 20 year old said on tiktok and it makes me feel a bit sad that anyone cares. Surely the goal here isn’t to try to emulate every single identikit kid on Instagram? And I’m not even much older myself 😂
Wear what makes you happy and what you think looks nice. Wear your hair in a way that suits you.

I've just checked and I'm a Millennial. That makes me feel young.

Zig Zag partings for the win! They were the best.

As a teen I spent some time trying to train my hair to part in the middle. Then I realised that I looked like Olive from On the Buses so stopped trying.

This started in TikTok and has spread across social media and into the press.

As a pp said It’s a gen z vs millennial thing - a gen z-er made a TikTok calling out millennials for their side parts, skinny jeans and various other identifiers that make you ‘old’ (centre partings and mom jeans are the gen z signifiers apparently).

Cue loads of millennials ‘hitting back’ with their own videos about how gen z don’t even know they’re born etc and now it’s being dubbed as an all out war

Mom jeans - so called - are truly dreadful.

@5128gap

I blame all this intergenerational blurring. Its impossible for the young to have a style of their own without older people catching on to it too. They have to scrape the barrel with side partings and emojis to dissociate from the aged ones, bless em. Bring back the days when hitting 30 called for a short perm and an elasticated waist, and old people knew their place! (hits random keyboard letters to denote laughing face)

This is true. It's kind of gone back to the way it was prior to the age of the teenager. In the 1940s 20 year old girls dressed much like their 45 year old mothers, and that's come full circle to some extent, except mothers are copying their daughters.

Thick hair and lots of it here, my hair looks like a mushroom in a centre parting.

I have very fine, very straight hair. If I have a centre parting my hair looks like droopy curtains - think Neil out of The Young Ones. A side parting looks much better on me!