What looks current now?

[LaRevolution]

I'm not really one for yearly trends - most of my stuff is ancient/well-loved and fairly timeless - but I've just got my big bag of summer stuff out and it's weird how some of it is starting to look a bit off, somehow.

My denim jacket needs retiring for a while, I think - I put it on and it looked weirdly early 2000s, which has never bothered me before! I think a much wider silhouette for trousers is common now, but you'll have to pry my tapered linen cigarette pants from my cold dead hands. I also love simple mid-thigh shorts with pockets, and I still like how those look, but I'm a bit lost skirts and dresses-wise - don't really know what I want to wear this year in that regard. I could also do with a new casual jacket - maybe a sort of cropped chore jacket style with two front pockets. I'll have a look on Vinted.

What are you buying for spring/summer and what are you still wearing after 10/15 years?

https://www.marksandspencer.com/kitten-heel-toe-thong-sandals/p/clp60722603?extid=osshoppinggWWUKKBAU&srsltid=AfmBOop-Ld4BazpTmszAh2Ilav0FFhO4D56YyyG_iwBk7LXkqjhvifQ3avw

I still have a pair from the 00s!

God, those look awfullly uncomfortable @polkaloca

I'll give those a miss.

Just like any thong really, it depends on the thong bit!

I won't be wearing yellow or wide leg trousers anytime soon. I have totally the wrong shape for them. I always wear what suits my shape and the colours I look good in.
My three pet hates are flowery dresses with white trainers, absolutely hideous and very dated.
Skinny jeans on people who are not skinny, which is why I don't wear them. I'm a size 14. My sister looks great in them, I don't.
Barrel leg trousers.

I bought this last yr in Aug but am still wearing them.

www.office.co.uk/view/product/office_catalog/7,2033/5278400000

I too have the Tu denim dress and it’s one thing I wear very often.

I also bought a really lovely denim chambray dress from Primark (shoot me!) Edit collection. Can’t wait to wear it. It’s really nicely pleated at the waist. It’s not been warm enough yet. I don’t know about you lot but even though it says 18°on the weather forecast it’s been decidedly parky in the mornings on my walk to work

I like them …. I wouldn’t have worn them when I was heavier ( because I would have felt too heavy ) but I could see them with some of my outfits. I’ve applied for a new job and if I get it I’m going to be smarter than I currently am. I suspect my trainers won’t be office appropriate.

I struggle with stylish clothes that are also weather appropriate.

All the sandals, cropped trousers and ankle grazers I see in Style and Beauty hardly ever get worn by me because it is usually too cold and wet where I live.

It needs to be over 21 degrees before I lose my socks.

I remember talking with a friend when Gok Wan's How to Look Good Naked was on TV. She said he needed to do a How to Look Good Naked in Yorkshire as hardly any of his outfits included jumpers, cardigans or jackets.

That's funny @RampantIvy , I grew up in the north of Scotland and my Mum always complained when we went shopping in the summer that they were full of clothes for 'summer holidays in hot places' and she needed jumpers and jackets not sleeveless tops. I now live in the NE of England and my colleagues always laugh at my ability to wear summery clothes for 6 months of the year. As far as I'm concerned, if it's over 16C it's time for bare legs.

@owlexpress , this is my new dress from Bon Marche, I'm going to wear it with my Hotter sandals - that's the snobbery again. The assumption that anything from certain retailers will not be stylish or beautiful.
New Arrivals | New in Women's Clothes | Bonmarché
Women's New In Shoes | Hotter UK
They have some pretty things. A lot of their styles are practicalor sensible, and not the latest trend, but I'd gladly wear some things.

Someone can have an interest in fashion and pick'n'mix clothes and shoes that suit their needs. Not everyone on here wants to wear fast fashion.

I have seen @owlexpress on many S&B threads ticking people off for various things. Just when you think there’s a thread about clothes where everyone is having a nice time.

I’ve got a few pairs of wide leg trousers that don’t make me look huge, but they do need to be a bit more fitted/tailored around the tum/bum and then go wide at the thighs down.

im in the market for some tan/brown flats to wear with them, but I need said flats to be something I can walk in (ideally a mile or so), perhaps I should start another thread of spring summer shoes.

@SaladSandwichesForTea , well done! I suspect your teenage years were a bit more recent than mine.
I braved the scales the other day, and my weight was up a few lbs but still within a range that I am happy with. I think I weigh the same as when about 15, but that was decades ago, so my shape will have changed.

I have clothes from the 1990s but the sizes were smaller then. There's no way my waist would fit into the tiny waistbands.

I wear a lot of 'rompers' - so easy to wear, and I get asked by young women where I get them from.

@BitOutOfPractice , I originally came to MN to join a certain thread, and over the years it has become increasingly unpleasant. There are a handful of posters on it who post frequently in the same negative and argumentative tone. I've stopped watching the threads and feel much better for it. The thread has put me off a 'hobby' I love, because of the dripping toxicity.

One of the posters seems domineering and posts regularly on S&B where she seems to rub people up the wrong way. I don't mind her so much because I guess that's just the way she is. I think she has a rigid mindset but isn't toxic.

I remember the SATC 'scrunchie' episode that made me determined to wear them, and that is how I feel when reprimanded about my fashion choices.
Primark has some great stuff (and a lot of tat).

@UpMyself that's the snobbery again. The assumption that anything from certain retailers will not be stylish or beautiful.

It's not snobbery, but this thread is about looking current and I'm sorry, but your links just proved my point that Zara is more trend-led than Bon Marche (which I can't believe anyone would even dispute).

Everyone was having a nice time until a PP came on a thread about looking current and said she doesn't care about looking current, so I'm not sure why I'm the one getting grief.

@LaRevolution I liked the black and white striped jacket too, but is it too Beetlejuice?

Yes I came into this nice thread that was discussing denim and deliberately let a bomb off in the middle of it by saying I like my Zara denim dress and adding that I don’t care or know if it’s on trend or not as that’s not why I bought it. I’m so sorry everyone for derailing the discussion with such toxicity! I had no idea I’d spoiled the entire thread.

@owlexpressget over yourself and stop policing people. No one is interested in your pronouncements and corrections or your suburban snobbery about other people’s choices. You are the negative note in an otherwise interesting and positive thread. Read the room.

I agree with you.

This is Style and Beauty, not fashion and beauty. I like to look stylish and reasonably current, yet feel comfortable and not like a fashion victim.

I tend to wear old favourites and buy something new to wear with them to look current. I never bought into the white trainer look as I already had a perfectly good pair of trainers (not white), and I don't view trainers as a fashion item, but something comfortable to wear on my feet when doing lots of walking.

TBH, until I joined mumsnet I never knew that fashionistas took trainers so seriously. I do view other shoes more as a fashion item though.

I don't buy highly fashionable clothes that I know will date very quickly as I make my clothes last for many years, and have never shopped in Zara, because I have never found anything I liked in there (and don't understand why it is so popular)

@owlexpress , you are comparing fast fashion with a more traditional retailer. You can dress in a way that looks current from both.
OP was asking What are you buying for spring/summer and what are you still wearing after 10/15 years?

@RampantIvy , I've seen some trainers on here that look neither stylish nor beautiful, and some looked like they were from 2005 not 2025.

I know the Primark dress you mean and it was amazing, sadly they didn’t have it in my size but the quality seemed lovely and very stylish. I’m envious that you have it! 😁

I've taken part in far too many style v fashion arguments to take the high ground but, when I'm feeling more temperate, I think the two are pretty closely intertwined and that, if we shop on the high street, then we're absorbing fashion whether we acknowledge it or not.

Anyway I don't believe I ever answered your original questions op so, for what it's worth, my summer clothes will be broadly similar to what I've worn for the last few years: mainly wide leg trousers / jeans but sometimes flares, sometimes barrel leg and sometimes straight.

One change is that, although I do like a boxy jacket, I've lately dug out a couple of more fitted ones in linen or wool that I hadn't worn for several years. Make of that what you will. I rarely wear dresses so can't really help with that but, at the moment, I'm very drawn to straight, ankle length skirts, similar to what I wore in the 90s. So far I've mostly given the boho revival a swerve but that might change - we'll see. Never wear trainers and no plans to start.

And I wear things from previous decades all the time because, when I get bored with my clothes (which I'm guilty of), I put them away rather than discard them. In the last year or so, I've revived a long denim skirt, Gap Long n' Lean flares, linen wrap tops (White Stuff - quite sobering how good they were in the early noughties), several waistcoats plus the more fitted jackets I've already mentioned.

You'll never hear me saying I don't care about fashion. I enjoy it and I find the history fascinating. I'm also quite capable of deciding what bits of it I like and leaving the rest.

Why's everyone having a barney? Show us what you've bought/ want that's current, as the OP asked, and move on with your day people! It's clothes, it's not that deep.

I do hate it when someone asks what to wear that's in fashion, and people tell them to stop following a trend, wear what suits them. For one, it's possible to do both. Barrel shapes don't suit me, so I avoid them, wide legs do, great, I can be a bit more current in something that suits me.
For another, while you may be happy to look what you consider as 'classic', another may view that as old fashioned and think it looks awful. We're all different people, we can embrace trends as and when we desire them. It doesn't make someone inherently better if you know what you like and continue wearing it, or a worse person if you change your style every year.

@Floisme I've also moved to a longer skirt, I feel much more like me when it hits my ankle or below. It's not something I've been drawn to before, I've never been a skrt lover, and I hate tiered skirts with a passion so that normally writes out about 90% of the high street offering.

I've taken part in far too many style v fashion arguments to take the high ground but, when I'm feeling more temperate, I think the two are pretty closely intertwined and that, if we shop on the high street, then we're absorbing fashion whether we acknowledge it or not.

Agree

Thank you! It only took 20 years and two bouts of covid! So I expect it will be short lived so I'm just enjoying it for the moment :)

Where do you get your rompers 👀 Love a comfy romper :)