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 ?!

@Sootybear

Well I'm going centre parting today and I cut a long blended fringe in so it doesn't look too witchy. I really need to get my hair cut properly, I'm desperate, but it will do for now. As for the skinny jeans thing, I've heard low waisted slightly flared are in. Don't think I'll be following that trend any time soon.

Low waisted anything is not in

@Floisme

I think it all goes back to young people having no recognisable style of their own. Previous generations broke away and found their own way of dressing - it was a rites of passage - but this one doesn't seem interested in doing so. Instead they complain about their parents dressing like them - when it's really the other way round - and they resort to increasingly obscure clues: the brand of your trainers, the position of a parting, a phone cover.

Huh? No adult dresses like the young people I see.

For the sake of science I tried it again today. Still looked fecking awful. It doesn't look at all fashionable on me.

I'll just stick to my side parting and wait for it to come back around again

I'm impressed at those of you who notice trends in hair partings, actually! I've just tried to recall how other women I know part their hair, and I'm coming up blank. Even colleagues I see on Zoom all the time!

Whatever happened to being an individual? Fighting stereotypes and shocking everyone else ie punk, romantics, grunge, god awful 2000's? What happened to finding your own style?8

These lot today are just apathetic and expect everyone else not to wear normal clothes so we don't copy them 😂. Because of course they invented everything 🙄

I'm not walking about in an oversized sloppy tracksuit with a centre parting to look 'current' for anyone, I'll stick to what suits me rather than become one of the sheeple.

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow

Withmycoffee, I really disagree!!!

It depends on who is your reference! Different marketeers use different generalisations

FWIW I was born right at the end of 63. I never fitted with the Boomers. I hated all the hippy peace love thing. It left me cold. I had nothing in common with the free love generation.

I distrusted the government as a young adult (Conservative) and was really cynical about the free love generation, MTV defined my generation, not the Beatles. Boomers had cheap properties that rose hugely in price and the ‘gold plated pensions’ . We missed all that.

So lt does exist. Barack Obama was one, and so is Kamal Harris.

I was born in 1970 but I feel like a millenial.

All of the articles about their struggles to get on the ladder, I empathise. I didn't meet 'The One' in the 90s and buy a house before prices went crazy. Nope, I met the wrong one, ended up single and looking for a place to live 2007-2014, so I may have been a decade older than the millennials doing the same thing but I went through all of it!

Also I think, being single long after the age when most of your contemporaries have settled down keeps you aware of what's going on with the dating world, apps, etc..

My hair falls in to a middle parting and I've been trying to persuade it to fall in to a side parting for decades it's not having it!

I'll give up now!

@Standrewsschool

Had my haircut before Christmas and did some research beforehand. I concluded that ‘curtain fringes’ were ‘in’. Mentioned it to my hairdresser but he concluded side-parting would suit my face best (gen x).

Never heard of gen-alpha either.

yeh, i think curtain bangs with a middle parting would be very flattering. I'm gen x. My hair has got way too long in the last 8 months. I may be on trend with my long hair parted in the middle but i'm 50! I need a 'style'. Curtain bangs, I can't wait. Brad Mondo pops up in my feed sometimes loved what he did on Mannie Quinn

@Sophoclesthefox

Me with centre parting. To be fair, if you’re of an age to know who’s in the picture, then you’re probably gen X anyway, in which case the debate is n/a

Great picture.

Huh? No adult dresses like the young people I see.
Really? Young people round here have dressed pretty much their parents for years. This is in a university town so a big youthful population but very little street style to be seen. I'm hoping the end of lockdown will shake things up cos I like watching what people wear and I'm bored.

This is interesting

Obviously it depends on your face shape and hair type as to whether a side parting or centre parting suits you

@TeaAddict235

Side partings are far more flattering on most faces. Centre partings are very unflattering as they are so blunt and rigid, they do not allow for facial features to be ascenuated, e.g. cheeks, eyes, lips; but rather emphasise how unsymmetrical a face really is. Side partings can also reduce the forehead size and prominence.

👍 I can not stand the Kim Kardashian middle part of pisses me off 😂

if I let my hair dry naturally in curls, middle parting always makes me look like I live alone with multiple cats.

wait, you mean there's something wrong with this? sounds like a great life to me!

Alison there's a weight loss topic and you will find lots of info about keto in there

That person has been spamming this whole board all evening.

SupercaliscammylisticpluggyandatrocioUs

As a teenager, the idea of mom jeans coming back into fashion would have been laughable to me... But I can't lie, I just looked at some and they look so comfy, I think I will have to get some! Women like me wanting comfy trousers that aren't sweatpants to ferry kids about in are probably the reason they became a faux pas back in the 90s, so I sense we are in a cycle and they won't last long.

I've had a very boring day today, and have spent some time looking at celebrities with different partings. They all look somehow better with centre partings. I think there may be some blow drying techniques involved, and effort required.
Epic fail for me then

@DuchenneParent

As a teenager, the idea of mom jeans coming back into fashion would have been laughable to me... But I can't lie, I just looked at some and they look so comfy, I think I will have to get some! Women like me wanting comfy trousers that aren't sweatpants to ferry kids about in are probably the reason they became a faux pas back in the 90s, so I sense we are in a cycle and they won't last long.

Er... they haven't come back in because of actual moms. They came back in for young people. You don't actually think we oldies are the trend setters do you???

@Floisme

Huh? No adult dresses like the young people I see. Really? Young people round here have dressed pretty much their parents for years. This is in a university town so a big youthful population but very little street style to be seen. I'm hoping the end of lockdown will shake things up cos I like watching what people wear and I'm bored.

The young around me all dress in 90s style baggy track pants but high waisted, slightly cropped tops, massive homeless person cardigans and bulky trainers. Or high waisted carrot leg jeans, ugly charity shop looking knitwear and chunky boots. No adult I know dresses like that.

Side partings have always looked awful and unflattering on me!

The cocker spaniel look gave me a good laugh. And here’s a guess my age emoji 😂😂😂

What I want to know is this : if they're not wearing skinny jeans, what are they wearing ? I've not seen any other jeans in shops except skinny jeans. And mom jeans.
If it's mom jeans they're wearing then that's just funny 😂 (yes that is a crying laughing emoji, I'm 36)

I like mom jeans. Im 50. My 17 year old dd does dress how i used to in my 20s.

I wantva pair of mom jeans but being older i want a darker pair than the pale wash mom jeans i see.

The young around me all dress in 90s style baggy track pants but high waisted, slightly cropped tops, massive homeless person cardigans and bulky trainers. Or high waisted carrot leg jeans, ugly charity shop looking knitwear and chunky boots. No adult I know dresses like that.
Well I'll give you crop tops, but aside from them I can't see anything on that list that adults round here don't wear every single day. I love a massive cardigan and chunky boots, Not so keen on track pants or trainers but I think I'm in a minority there. I'd say the differences between the generations are in the detail and that those details are getting ever smaller all the time, which for me is what this thread is about.