Fashion items that have been popular but you just have not understood why?

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in 2024!

Lighthearted!

Loafers with everything from jeans to dresses with ankle socks.

The leggings and socks combo.

Someone 20 years younger than me informed me that fleeces are now fashionable... something to do with TikTok. She was rocking the beigest fleece I ever saw. Looked awful!

Still, DH will finally be fashionable if this is true 🤣

And a male poster using it as a way to dig at women's appearances, whilst also ignoring the actual point of the question. 😏

Also adding bad officewear as fashion. Do not get that at all.

Shorts so short you can see them pockets from underneath. Underneath!

At the moment it’s the sportswear trend. It all oversized, too.

People look like they’ve been rummaging through the lost property box from PE.

It’s nice that they’re comfortable though.

Dresses and tops with three large ornamental bows on the front.

Showing top of tights and sometimes thongs if travelling up stairs/escalator behind.

They’re not good enough for me, because I think they are ugly. Particularly those around now, rather than decades ago.

I agree on the oversized thing.
I mean its nice if its just a size or two bigger but I see people wearing things insanely large, it just looks like you lost tons of weight and havent replaced your wardrobe yet. (Im a 10 and my work cardie is a size 24...its because I CBA getting a new one, not coz I think I look fashionable!).

Barrel legged jeans. Do we want to look like we have rickets?

Scarf coats. These feel like a flash in the pan to me. Surely at some point you are going to wish you had both items seperately?

Lol at the barrel leg jeans comment!!

I really don’t understand this trend - I feel like barely anyone is pulling it off as well…!!

Not a clothing item but the big huge duck lips! I think they look so cheap and silly.

The inexplicable continuing popularity of frilly, ruffly, voluminous, too long, statement sleeved horror frocks.

Trainers except for exercise.

All the beige.

I agree. So unflattering on a grown woman. So pretty on a little girl.

Except, as a running joke in my house goes, General Eisenhower. (Who, if you didn’t know, had the tails cut off his uniform jacket to make getting in and out of vehicles easier, inventing the box jacket.)

Also, loafers and even boat shoes are fine, both preferably with socks. Nice argyle or stripey ones if you can find them. The whole Ivy look deserves to be protected as literally the only coherent women’s style of dress that is comfy and practical. (No surprise it’s basically menswear co-opted by the first generation of women to attend university.)

I prefer the headbands especially if I’m on a night out. My ears get really cold, so much so that it aches and the band keeps them warm but my hair stays bouncy and doesn’t get flat.

Leggings with short tops. Far too revealing.

High waisted jeans. In fact, anything high waisted.

The wide leg leopard print jeans, mostly worn by fellow middle aged women. That’s one trend I’m never succumbing too as I just don’t get the appeal.

Leggings in general. Why do people say they are comfortable? To me they're just as constrictive as tights.
Men in suits with ankle swinging trousers, that hoik up close enough to the knees when seated. See Rishi Sunak. I guess he ruined Adidas trainers as well.
The french crop. Just why?
Heels on fat feet. With buckles that look like they're squeezing the foot in half. It just looks so uncomfortable!
Leather or pleather trousers on either sex or any age.

Oh, and judging by my younger relatives, matching hoodies and sweatpants have come back when I’d rather they had stayed buried in the 1990s.

Burgundy. Just nope.

It was the worst part of my school uniform in 1984 (gym skirt, leotard, jumper; the rest was navy). I hated it then and have never worn it since.

Or worse the all in one flesh coloured lycra outfit. I saw a young woman at work wearing one and genuinely did a double take as it looked like she was naked.

It didn't leave much to the imagination so she almost may as well have been

Floral dresses, especially those polyester tiered monstrosities.
Every woman in my neighborhood seems to wear one, with a denim jacket, white trainers and a cross body bag. It's like a uniform. So ugly.

I have yet to see anyone walking around in 2024 in a pencil skirt and stilettos. Although there's still a week left. I didn't even know they were a current fashion item

Genuine question - why are they any better or different to wearing a coat?
(Obviously I realise their advantages on the beach!)