[Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation

this happens every generation. trends and styles change and people who came before it find it harder and harder to relate to them. in reality you just dont want to bother keeping up with modern trends that young people are into now or are too insecure to, so you're projecting it as distaste to trends of the younger generation.

personally, I think young women got it right these days. clothing for women seem less restrictive and young women seem to value comfort over the rigidness of previous generations' high glam styles.

Nah I like it, I always hated tight clothes. I am all for a fashion era of comfort and room to breath.

A lot of it is still "pandemic chic" when we all lived in PJs for two years with an occasional smart top for on camera zoom calls. People will get sick of it soon enough (I sure have. If I never see another peasant/little house on the prairie dress again it'll be too soon). I'm really happy with the boom in bras without underwire, though, I'm never going back to underwire.

I kinda like it actually. Disclaimer to go with that though is that I knit and crochet and sew my own clothes so if there's something I can't find in a shop I can make it, and I can also do basic alterations.

High-waisted is life for us big-hipped ladies. Wide-necked boxy-cut layering pieces speak to my casual goth heart. Baggy jeans take me back to my teens and are a welcome relief from the skinny jean tyranny that lasted up until a few years ago. Of all the cool things I've learned how to sew, my absolute favourite is a "potato sack" dress that I cinch in at the waist with a matching belt and go about my day in being comfy af.

Now if we could just get the pocket situation sorted out.

I really like some aspects of it. The loose billowy pants are nice for summer heat, and you can make an interesting silhouette with them. But i absolutely can't stand the boxy cut tops. I see more and more zoomers rebelling against these trends and wearing flattering cuts. The thing with fashion in $current_year is that you can wear whatever you want. Shopping is annoying but still possible.

My suspicion is that these trends were driven by manufacturers reducing inventory during covid.

I read your post to my wife.

How are you other non-Gen Z women adapting to current fashion?

Dress like it's 1950

She's into vintage fashion :)

Man, taste really is subjective because I have no idea how you can trash today's fashion while being totally ok with the cultural blunder that is early 2000s fashion.

I was looking at red carpet photos from some awards show in 2002, and everyone looked like they dressed themselves by stumbling blindly through the discount rack at Gap Kids. Probably the worst era in fashion history imo.

Can't speak on the rest, but I am so glad skinny jeans are finally going out of fashion. That couldn't happen soon enough.

I'm 40 and I love it, I've been doing pandemic-chic for a decade now and I'm glad I'm now finally considered trendy instead of sloppy.

I'll never give up my skinny jeans tho.

I like some of it. What I really like is that there isn't a specific trend that's most popular. There seems to be a broad variety of styles that are popular and everyone can just do their own thing.

I just can't get on board with wide leg pants but I'm happy to ditch the skinnies for a boot cut or flare.

I'm a man, so I'm only talking about aesthetics here, but I like the over the shoulder neck and loose shirts. They're casual.

@ClarissaXDarjeeling 40 something woman here.

IMO, as we get older, we either seem to pay more attention to silhouettes, shapes and flattering clothes, or we just stop caring all together, and go with the leggings and moomoos (nothing wrong with either, I occasionally wear both). Trends are always going to change, and "fast fashion" will do so constantly. As far as I can tell we are heading back to the 90s (ugh) with a weird mix of 70s thrown in. I'm excited for the death of high rise jeans again, and those god awful mesh tops/dresses, but I digress.

Personally, I've been building my closet on higher quality staple pieces, with some fast fashion thrown in. If you get a cute, high quality skirt, and a
trendy, fitted crop top, you can mix both those items with other items in your closet. Same with a nice pair of jeans, dress, or a jacket.

All of that said, either learn to tailor your own clothes (this is the route I chose) or make friends with a local tailor. Clothes rarely fit well off the rack. Buying a piece of clothing and wearing it will look ok, but having it tailored for YOU will make it look GREAT. I also make my own clothes, when I can't find what I want.

Oh, and as someone who is rather ....."chesty" yeah, boxy tops/dressed make me look TERRIBLE. I absolutely love the way those little boho shift dresses look on smaller chested women, but they look like a circus tent on me. I feel your pain

I feel like it varies within groups of people. But other times, I swear people dress like in a Limp Bizkit video.

It’s weird because I remember the older kids dressing like that younger people today and by the time I got to high school it was peak mid-2000s, with bell bottoms, crop-tops, graphic tees with long sleeves underneath.

It’s mostly cyclical.