The return of boho?! How do you feel?

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Hadley Freeman writes in today’s Times that boho is back. She advises those of us who have been there before to keep it to a minimum. Given that we’ve all been told of late that a capsule wardrobe of elegantly toning neutrals is what we should all be aspiring to, are we ready to go boho?!

As for me, I’ll be giving boho a big swerve. I think you need to be young and wrinkle-free. I’d just look like a crazy old lady I think!

So - who will be ditching their blazer/tshirt jeans and embracing flowing skirts, chandelier earrings, faux fur etc? Anyone?!

I love a bit of boho. Don't think it's just aimed at the young

I can do boho-lite but mostly in summer months that lend themselves to a bit of waftiness.

I’ll be doing it. I’ve got a nice blouse from River Island that will fit the bill that I have had for a few years.

I hate blazers at the best of times and would never ever wear one casually.
Floaty skirts or ruffly blouses with jeans are a go to for me.

Either way this is hardly recent, the peasant tops/ dresses and long tiered skirts were peaking during 2020 lockdown.

I hadn’t realised it had gone away, looking at what some of the kids at Reading were wearing this summer

I’ve never worn blazer and jeans. I’d love it if flowing skirts without tiers/flounces and in natural materials were easy to find (recent shopping trips haven’t supplied them) and the rest, depends on the exact items and style.

I feel more comfortable and myself in boho garb, always have. I don't care if I come across as mad old lady; it isn't too far from the truth.

I have worn boho for years I am 59 and all my skirts, dresses and tops are all boho.

Boho never left. I'll just carry on wearing what I've always worn. Anything I like.

Absolutely - everyone should wear what brings them pleasure and makes them feel good. My post was intending to highlight how daft the fashion industry is - that a whistle is blown and it’s ‘all change!’. It’s mad that some people will ditch perfectly good clothes and start again in a complete style-180 in order to stay ‘current’.

As if it ever left being a style 😂

Taylor Swift was wearing a multi-rufffled long, wafting dress (Chloe?) for one of her songs recently. It looked ok on a stage and from a distance.

I can’t wear it. The bits would get caught in the chair’s wheels at work, in the gear stick in the car etc.

Though I’ll be looking for a pared-down version that’s suitable for me.

I love seeing boho teens - so beautiful. I think I would just look like a strange person at 40+ but ymmv

I did it last time around. Long purple skirts, loads of tiny bracelets, ankle chains, wind chimes in our bedrooms, being driven around in my besties VW Beatle with quirky cushions and blankets in the back, shopping at witchy stores for incense and crystals.. (I miss my teens so much!)

Boho is ageless, but not my style at all. Trends, once they trickle down to the affordable shops, may be at times loosely based on something creative, fresh and new, but mostly I think of them as a rehash of what the youth have recently found in their parents wardrobes. This sounds like it's the latter, to me.

Having said that, I’ve also got this in my basket and keep thinking “too much?” It would address both the boho and the pussy now, neck extravaganza latest fashion.

Sorry, I see pussy bow and I think Margaret Thatcher, not boho at all.

It's one thing boho on a young white woman as fashion but if you're brown like me and you wear boho it makes you look 'foreign' as if it's my cultural clothing and this ramps up the racism and xenophobia so even though I adore boho, I notice attitudes are different and more suspicious of me when I dress boho (security following me, being asked if I'm Romanian (not my background), speaking to me in Urdu (also not my background) or speaking to me louder and slower in English then surprise to hear my accent)
I get treated better when I dress more 'European' so what I feel about boho returning is 'great, something else that I won't be wearing this fashion season' 🙄

Same here, my style icon is Stevie Nicks and she is older than me.

I’m so sorry to hear that. How ignorant people are.

This.

A lot better than some other fashions. The one a few years ago of having jeans or other trousers three inches too short, or frilly edged socks. The person or people who thought of those deserve to be exiled to a desert island for life.

I agree some people are horrible. What a shame it stops you from wearing whatever you like.

How many adults want to do this though? Young adults, sure. That’s been how it works for a long time. But most people over, say, 30 would be far happier to carry on wearing things that suit them and make efforts to find things that let them do this.

My personal irritation is how difficult it now is to find stuff in mid-price decent quality ranges that doesn’t reflect high fashion. Seas of ruffled ditsy sister wife dresses across John Lewis!

free79 I'm so sorry to hear that. It is something I have never thought about, to my shame.

I'm always a bit boho over the summer, less so over winter. I'm another one who didn't realise it had ever gone 'out' 😁