Great New York Times article on current trends.

[QuaterMiss]

I do rather love this, so thought I’d share:

New York Times on Gen Z / Millennial dressing.

Sorry, I don’t have a question.

Headline:

The Gen Zs I see (live near a big college in London) dress exactly the same as I did in the late 90s when I was at school.

Except for socks! Definitely ankle/trainer socks are out. When I was younger a hint of sock
was a sin 😆

Thanks for sharing @QuaterMiss!
‘Showing ankles is pretty polarising’ 😂.

Thank you from a boomer.

I'm not going back to a tote bag though, they wrecked my back - step away young people.

I was slightly perturbed to see that ankle boots are apparently ‘out’. Half my favourite shoe shops will have to close.

Though I have just thrown away an epic pair of square toed Chelsea boots that just weren’t working with any of my clothes any more. I’m slightly more focussed on skirts and dresses at the moment - they’re completely revitalised by knee high boots.

Gosh it's hard work being young these days isn't it? I know Gen Z looks upon Gen X / Millennials as feckless and decadent, but christ at least we had fun in our youth instead of spending all day online telling everyone what to do and how to think.

That said, I do think fashion is really fun and interesting at the moment, and I love the wide leg jeans because they're comfortable and suit me.

I'm not going to lose sleep about supposedly missing all these "cycles", though. If they're churning over that fast, realistically these trends only exist online, and I don't do social media, so who's to know how tragic I am?

It all seems absurd anyway, when Gen Z are wearing the same things we wore in the 90s and telling us we're dated. The trendiest things I currently have in my wardrobe are a fabulous big shearling coat and a bright scarlet wool scarf, which are apparently the things to wear this winter. They're both inherited from my mum - the coat was given to her on her 18th birthday in 1970.

I'm in the "whatever the fuck they like" camp and always find these ideas of dressing by age/generation rather odd and slightly depressing.

“Try adding some feathers to your look”

Oh … my father had a sheepskin coat I would kill to possess right now. I lost or abandoned it at the start of the 80s.

I too have a ruined back from heavy tote and shoulder bags, @Floisme! But I Don’t Care. Nothing will make me wear a cross body or rucksack in normal life.

Aren't there those cool little Danish rucksacks to sport though?

I moved back to tote bags, always been a fan of carrying the kitchen sink 😁

I dug out my Herve Chapelier one recently!

Nah, I've got too used to having my hands free to go back to any kind of bag that needs a hand hold. But knee high boots are great although I don't wear them often as I'm more jeans or trousers.

I’m 47, and 22yo DD is somehow wearing an identical wardrobe to the one I wore in the 90s.

Suede adidas sambas. Bootcut/ flared jeans that drag along the ground a bit (😱) tiny skinny rib tops, some cropped. Oversized jackets. Docs.

And your 90s wardrobe was pretty much the same as mine was in the 70s - just swop the Adidas for desert boots

What they're hoping - incorrectly in my case - is that by the time we've worked out that nothing is new we'll be past caring.

That killed me. No elaboration at all 😂

Indeed, I'm more interested in fashion now than I was ten or twenty years ago.

What I find amusing is the patronising tone of these articles and the influencers, as they discover the world for the first time: Um, older people, have you heard about flares?

It's like when my 18 year old nephew tries to lecture me about feminism. I just laugh, because I was a pillock at that age, too.

One thing I remember in the 90s & the 80s was that myself & my peers dressed very differently to our parents/other adults. Then at some point it switched & 14 yr olds to 50 yr olds would wear the same outfit.

One of the "authorities" the writer is gushing over described a certain way of dressing in the video linked to as "being a Karen in the making" - so no thanks.

Whilst I don't dress in the way which so offended this person, I'm certainly not taking style advice from anyone who throws out the"Karen" insult

My 16 year old is obsessed with the look from the early 2000s, low rise jeans, juicy couture sparkly track suit, boho tops. She looks great!

I’n personally delighted to see that hideous French tuck thing is going, always thought it made people look ridiculous.

You shouldn't have thrown them away. The revelation that knee high boots look good with skirts and dresses first came to me in the 1970s. I have 3 pairs of flat over the knee boots and 1 flat pair of knee high boots which are so old I can't remember when I bought them. Oddly they look good with skirts and dresses.

1981 baby here (so technically a Millennial) and snorting that a bunch of 25 year olds think I care about what they think about my wardrobe. Benefit of aging: DNGAF.

I have my late Father's sheepskin coat from that era. People would point and laughed if I wore it 😀

Wide leg jeans in wet weather is just not happening.

It's like when my 18 year old nephew tries to lecture me about feminism. I just laugh, because I was a pillock at that age, too.

Mine tried to tell me about David Bowie …