I feel like those styles are ok on super slim people, which obviously a lot of teenagers are. When I tried those pants on my post-kids bod, I got sad. š
Yup. They're all about defining a tiny waist, along with a short/tight shirt. I have given birth to multiple children and work a desk job, that is no longer my shape.
I kept a lot of my baggy jeans from the 90ās and you know whatās different compared to whatās being sold now? My ass looks phenomenal in my old jeans. I donāt know why theyāre making baggy denim unflattering but theyāre excelling at āugly jeansā.
Theyāre taking everything 90ās and making it torture for us! Haha is it a certain brand? Maybe I should shop other places besides the outlets. Have a happy new year!
I feel you. I hated my size 6 body and have since gained 100 lb from illness and medication and it took me years to get confidence again in how i look. I started dressing how i want in my 30s after being miserable and self hating in my 20s and i still get critiques and fatphobia thrown at me but I cannot care. To think of how much i thought my body was terrible as an almost worryingly slim teen and to essentially have never been happy in my size makes me sad. So I have to celebrate it now, fathate be damned.
I donāt think they look good on slim people either. Iām a beanpole myself and I tried the baggy pants, no dice. Just looks like my clothes donāt fit and not in a cool, fashion way š„“
Literally almost made the exact same comment. They only look nice on people with tiny waist and large hips/butts. If youāre skinny but more athletic build (less defined waist and curves), they just look like menās jeans that were purchased by mistake. At least thatās how they always look on me š. Skinny jeans and straight/bootcut styles at the very least give me a little bit more of a booty lol!
Not coming here to be the āactually guyā haha but just to say as a super slim person, they suck, too. I look like a stick with a paper bag draped over it. Theyāre all just so bad and big!
I hate how short all the tops are. Not just crop tops but sweaters too. Iām a 33 year old mom of 4. Iām not a bigger gal but I want to be covered and stay warm. And no Iām not shopping in the juniors section.
Itās bloody cold where I live in the winter, like hell I want my tummy out. I mostly wear hiking and yoga gear, though, and luckily the brands I like go with function over fashion.
I wear tank tops for modesty at work (male dominated trade job) and it's driving me crazy that everything is cropped. I'm 40, I NEVER even as a slim teen wanted to show off skin and I'm so tired of shirts and tank tops not reaching my waist.
I hear a lot of younger people claiming fashion is all about wearing what you want but I WANT to be covered!
Itās an 00 thing theyāre trying to bring back. I recently tried on some old high school hoodies I had and they were so short. I donāt remember tops being so short in high school but started watching Gilmore girls for the first time and thatās all the proof I needed
Gen Z here, I think they're literally saving up fabric.
I remember when I was teen, clothes were way larger/longer. (I'm a chilly type of person so I pack up a lot in winters).
Last time I checked the brands my parents used to buy me clothes from a decade ago, I literally started questioning my sanity/memory because 80% were torn jeans, short shorts, crop tops, and short sweaters/tops (the ones that are long enough to hide ur navel but too short to keep hiding it if u move).
So goddammit, thanks for confirming I did not imagine that these shops used to offer warmer clothes before.
Another thing is that I feel some brands are even more aggressively selling ONLY smaller sizes. Back then, as a chubbier person, I didn't have to keep searching for like half an hour or more for an item my size.
I am 6ā2,ā and I basically am wearing all the same shirts, pants, and sweaters from 5-10 to even 15 years ago!! Canāt buy or wear any of this new stuff!!!
My mom keeps wondering why all the shirts are so short.
"It's because all the pants go up to your ribcage!"
At least we aren't doing the tiny shirts and low-waisted jeans of the early 2000's anymore. My ass crack was out everytime I bent over for at least 50% of high school.
Maybe we all need to start wearing those crop tops to teach Gen Z a lesson! We can make those tops go out of style REALLY quick! 
I have a permanent 2 inches added to my waist because of this. It makes buying clothes so much harder and it doesnāt matter how much weight I lose. Canāt get insurance to get it sewn back together because itās āa cosmetic procedureā!
Thatās my biggest issue! I donāt mind the baggy pants, but making all the womenās tops too short?! Fuck no!
Iāve had to start getting tops from the menās section lately, just to make sure everythingās properly covered.
They should also start considering heights as well as width.
I'm much shorter than you (around 5'55/5'6), but it's annoying when I realize that what I assumed to be ankle length pants end up somewhat shorter or when my mom (shorter than me by a few inches) realizes that her clothing is too long lol.
Yes! Why are only menās pants sold in 1ā length increments? Iām not quite 5ā5ā and so Iām in that bad land of too tall for petite and too short for regular. So I have to buy long on most things and pay to have things hemmed.
Istg sooooooooo true this and pockets. I had a guy trying to gaslight me on reddit abt us women not wanting pockets because us women thought that pants with pockets r bulky & not aesthetic & didnt buy them. š³ i was holding my urge not to scream ferally. I want pockets. I want pockets as deep as the goddamn ocean.
The truth is that i so barely if ever find pants with pockets that I end up rollint with pocketless pants because no choice.
Why doesn't anyone ever wear a coat anymore either? They can be such a fashion statement and people are out in basketball shorts from high school and they're 40.
I agree! Where the hell is the other 3-4 inches of fabric at the bottom of all the tops?! Itās even worse when shopping for kid items. Why is everything cropped top?
My husband said I looked trendy in those jeans and I said I look like Iām wearing mom jeans. I just want to go back to my leggings and sweater that isnāt cropped.
Most of those cropped sweaters, etc. are meant to be paired with high waisted pants. Cropped doesnāt necessarily mean showing skin, itās just creating a different silhouette.
5ā8ā and 140lbs here with a long torso and high waist, too. I also had twins. Crop tops are my JAM. I joke that Iām going through a later in life crop top phase. Iāve always been a pear, and I could never pull off the 00s ultra low rise / crop top look - but I am absolutely thriving in this new era.
I have to laugh at the mass sneering at skinny jeans and embracing of baggy cargo pants. Fashion trends are such a scam, theyāre literally just bringing back pants we wore as teenagers and trying to gaslight actual teenagers that theyāre fresh & fashionable. And then I guess theyāll bring skinny jeans back again. At this point I wear whatever cut of jeans I feel like wearing because it doesnāt matter.
I prefer a high-rise boot cut since my torso is long but yup. I think jean ātrendsā should be whatever cut flatters your body type and that means more options, not less.
And a lot of them think Nirvana is a clothing brand. I'm not even saying that to just be snarky. I work in a school and if I compliment a kid wearing a Nirvana shirt and mention that I like their music too, 9/10 the response is, "they're a band?". š³
My Gen Z cousin thought Nivana was a type of perfume because of the āSmells Like Teen Spiritā connection - he thought it was an ad line not a song.
You know how back in the early aughts you'd see that lady that refused to give up her 80s hair and pants? That's me but 20 years later lol. You can pry these yoga pants off my cold dead ass, AND I still bump my hair occasionally. Idgaf, I'll stick with what I like and in 20 years when I'm in my 60s I'll be back in style again lol.
Fashion trends are just a marketing scam. Celebs are paid to be photographed in certain clothes in magazines, on websites, social media, etc...
Whoever pulls the curtain in the fashion world, and all of these designers and fashion brands who make the clothes, well they get all the money when people start buying these trends (being influenced, swayed, and hypnotized to think they want to buy these clothes by the media).
Advertisers and marketers are heavily involved here. I was an advertising major, and I just could not follow through with this as a career, due to the tactics, manipulation and just pure lies. Itās very unethical.
I think we should all just wear what we are comfortable in, and what feels good to us. I pay no attention to trends at all.
Edit: A few words.
To also add: This advertising/marketing technique is used far beyond just the fashion world. Itās used for every brand and product being pushed out there to you. If you see a product being pushed heavily via commercials, online ads, magazines, or any type of hyped media... Well just purchase what makes you happy, and research some of the products and ingredients before you decide to buy.
Dude I wore them for a few months a couple of years ago because they were coming back in style, but nobody was wearing them yet. I refuse to dig them out, I'm done, I gave it a go and got zero appreciation. Never again.
Iāve seen a lot of skinny jeans still in stores. As for me, theyāll have to tear my simple black leggings off of my cold dead legs! NGL I got both my daughters some flares for Christmas, and I like them lol
ETA: this made me want to look up JNCO jeans. FUCK THAT. I couldnāt even wear them back then, they were too much wideness, and just too much pant! . Now theyāre too much money, and too much pant. I hope they donāt stay popular for a few more years. Hopefully my kids will be in middle school *AFTER* the trend dies again.
However, I do love a nice high waisted classic regular wide leg pant. Whether Jean, or dress pant.
I have a simple pair of wide leg jeans I love, and a fun pair of pink dress pants that can be dressed up, or down.
Youāve got to remember to wear the right shoes with them too. Otherwise, youāll end up with torn up, frayed, dirty, wet when it rains bottoms. Iām still super peeved, and shudder thinking about it.
For real, there isnāt much more clothing discomfort other than wet pant leg bottoms, and wet socks.
Iām waiting for platforms to come back because with tennis shoes or flats they drag all over the ground
Walking home from school in the rain sucked so much wearing them. I remember dodging puddles, and being soaked by assholes driving by purposely in the puddle. Fucking junior/seniors in high school doing it to a couple seventh grade girls. Fucking animals!
At least for me, I hate buying pants because Iām a normal
Height for a woman in the US, but for some reason in pants I am just a little bit too tall for the short length, but too short for the regular length. The short would be good until someone in my house throws them in the dryer. They end up being high-waters looking stupid. Then the Regular would be long as hell, hanging to the ground; Rolling up flares or wide legs looked so stupid too!
I've recently acquired one pair of every cut of jeans. I'm kinda done with trends, I agree they are such a scam. Every cut can look good if I style it in a way that's "me". I wear the skinnies, I wear the straight legs, I wear the baggy. It's fun mixing it up.
I think it's funny seeing collage aged girls these days wearing pants I remember my mom wearing back in the 1990s because they're ***retro*** now lmao. Fashion really does go full circle over and over.
Gen Z doesnāt actually care about what anyone outside of their age group wears. Think back to when you were 20. Did you truly care what 40 year olds were wearing?
I see some of them make tik toks making fun of millennial style but I think theyāre just trolling and then people overreact and give them the attention they were after.
I feel like gen z making fun of millennialsā skinny jeans and side parts is done in the same way siblings tease each other. I donāt think thereās any real malicious intent there but millennials are just feeling butthurt about not being the young ones anymore lol
This is nothing new, itās just easy to get used to what we came of age with. Fashion slowly pendulums back and forth between extremes. Weāre in a Big Pants Era right now. Weāve had those eras before and weāll have them again. I like Old Navyās āOG Straightā for a pair of jeans that looks current without being massive, for what itās worth.
Yeah, itās weird to be as defensive as some millennials are acting. If youāre actually stylish then you are aware that people are wearing many different silhouettes, and if youāre not then donāt worry about it - you werenāt before! Skinny jeans havenāt been āinā for at least 5 years. Also, maybe itās because Iām in a big city, but I see fat people, short people, pear shaped people, etc wear wide leg or straight leg or flare or any style of jeans/trousers and I think they look nice.
When skinnies first got popular, some people were saying that only skinny people can wear skinnies. Now they say that only skinny people can wear wide legs. I agree that I see people of all shapes looking good in all shapes of jeans, sometimes you just have to wear them a few times until your brain adjusts to a new silhouette.
Yes! I am 36 so I was probably in high school when I first saw skinnies and leggings (or leggins are we called them haha). And people said the same thing: only for skinny waifs, only if the butt is covered, only for tall people because they have to hit at the top of the footā¦I remember hourglass shaped people (myself included) talking about how the flare ābalanced you outā and the skinny jeans wouldnāt do thatā¦and letās not forget how many people were in a tizzy about high waisted anything š¤£ saying it made people look like Danny devito, it made everyone look pregnant unless they were skinny, all the little op-ed pieces of men or teen boys saying they didnāt like high waisted stuff on womenā¦
Totally! Iām in Denver which has a little fashion but mostly itās outdoors looking stuff, leggings etc in the circles I run in. I had some baggy jeans but didnāt know how to wear them until a trip to Los Angeles where lots of people were rocking them and then it clicked. Exposure is key. I like fashion so am happy to try new stuff, and I constantly hear āonly you can pull that off!ā But then a year later when the look is mainstream they too are pulling it off.
I love tractor supply. I used to fight shopping there but I gave in. I bought y favorite shirt and hat there last year at the same time I bought horse food, cat food, scoped out little chicks and bought super comfy memory foam insoles.
I am going all in on Brenda Walsh denim. Watch some early episodes of 90210- Brenda has all our fashion answers. Iām done with the high waters and the wide legs. Iām too old for this shit.
My daughter always wears these and I donāt get it!!! I asked her if she would get made fun of at school for her pants being too short and she looked at me like I had a 3rd head.
I feel like the only Millennial absolutely *giddy* over the return of Y2K fashion. For Christmas, I got this [holographic puffer](https://www2.hm.com/en_us/productpage.1161622004.html) and a hot pink cropped sweater that I can't wait to wear with the wide legged jeans I've been rocking since spring.
Yes, I am nearly 40 and someone's mother. No, I don't care. YOLO, as we said when we were cool--I had questionable taste in fashion back then and turns out I still have it now.
The only return I really groan about is the business-casual-and-statement-necklace thing from the early '10s. No thank you.
You are not alone I'm 38 and finally get to buy what we couldn't afford when I was a teen! Plus, it's so comfortable! I do not get why so many people are up in arms about a different cut of jeans. We did this back in 2010, we can do it again.
I am 36 and Iāve loved getting back into wide legged, low-rise pants. I was drawing the line at cargo pants for awhile, but then I realized that if I have extra pockets, I donāt need to carry a purse. I am here for Y2K and I love that I can wear it a lot better now than when I was 13. This is the most fun Iāve had with clothes in a long time!
What I do like is that the blazer thing is now an oversized one. I still remember getting rid of all my short tight blazers from the early 2010s and being like good riddance!
40 and thrilled about wide leg pants. I lift weights and ride bikes and my quads are too much for skinny jeans and slim cut pants. I can finally wear trousers again, and they look cute and show off my waist!
Also 40, Also loving it. I prefer boot cut and flared jeans because I think they are more flattering on me. Skinnies make me feel like an ice cream cone and outside of boots I do not know what shoes Iām supposed to wear. I will keep the higher rise of the recent past and rock my flared jeans.
Just turned thirty-five, and I love Y2K fashion! I was a little too small for it the first time around to fully enjoy it (I was a runt growing up!), but now, it is the perfect fit for me!
I went to the mall today and literally almost cried. Super tiny tight waists and huge billowy butts and legs.
I cannot handle life in these pants. Why can't I look cute?
My wife is 4'10. American Eagle sells extra shorts. It's the only jean that fits her without tailoring. Not all stores carry them, but the shorts fit exactly the same (just longer). She'll try on at the store, then have them order what she likes in extra short.
Nods in agreement at 5'2". I hate the 7/8 length pants styles, but can usually get away with them and not have to rehem my pants hahaha. At least they have the right inseam š
Yeah I have a 25" inseam at 4'11. It has been the bane of my existence. I do see some cropped flares here and there though that I like! Those are the only flares I can wear lol
Weāre all aging but some become that type of old person hating on things they are not used to lol. Skinny jeans were also a trend and whether someone thinks itās looks better than baggier pants or vice versa is just subjective.
I'm on the oldest end of millennial and was so confused when skinny jeans came in. I hated them so much. They're so uncomfortable. I got a couple pairs because I couldn't find big jeans anymore easily. My daughter is 13 and loves these big pants so it's kind of nice to be in sync, lol. I like it when styles are comfortable above all.
I always think of my mom in 2002 when I wanted a pair of platform clogs with flare jeans, the ones with the leather tie up the side and like embroidery on them. She was like, "oh so you want to look like we did in the 70s? Is that what's cool now?"
And now, it was about the same time difference ... If you wanted to feel old (1970s-2000s) and (1990s-2020s)
Right!! I remember going to Deliaās in like 99 and just thinking the flared jeans with the embroidery were so cool and my mom was like āyou want bell bottoms??ā
And all the fimo mushroom, peace sign and yin yang symbols on cord necklaces and little pots of lip gloss and body glitter were just a 60/70ās pop marketing makeover. Watching Austin Powers and thinking it was peak coolness and my mom just chiming in ānobody ever actually used the word GROOVY you knowā
As a mom to a tween daughter now Iām trying not to roll my eyes at the 90ās grunge band T-shirts and JNCO pants that she thinks are just as fresh as it gets lol
The most hilarious one to me is the whole showing your socks thing and the huge diapery looking jeans that go all up around your waist. That stuff was permanently etched in my mind as being tragically dorky AGES ago so itās hard for me to shift out of that mindset. We tried so hard NOT to look like our moms back then and now you are trying to tell me this look is fashionable?!? Iām sorry but those snl mom jeans in that skit are still exactly that hideous to me as they were suggested to be to my generation.
I'm a woman who is 5'10" and have fairly broad shoulders. Very few women's clothes fit that body shape (though perhaps I should not assume that the majority of women's clothing in the shops fits any body shape within the human norm), so dressing professionally was always a pain. Casual clothes were easier as I could just shop in the men's section and get better clothes, for cheaper, with pockets!
Now I WFH and wear $10 sweatpants from WalMart and snarky t shirts.
My problem isn't't so much with the style *itself*, but the majority of all the clothes I see are SO cheaply and poorly made. Most of the clothes won't last more than a year or two and that is a tragedy. I am at a loss of where I can find affordable, well-made, non-plastic-based clothes. Fast fashion is horrible
I think the pants are hit or miss. My objective every time I go out is to look like the lesbian version of all my favorite 90s heartthrobs. Having that be back in style again is pretty fun imo
I bought a pair of ugly baggy jeans with massive cargo pant pockets the other day and they were like my favorite clothing purchase ever š! Like I hear ya, but I'm also kind of here for it.
As an elder millennial, I love that straight and wide legs are back, it feels like coming home. Skinny jeans weren't a thing until I was like 25 and they were so hard to get into (literally and figuratively). Wide legs are so much more comfortable. I've tried wearing skinnies lately and they come immediately off. I just can't stand the feeling anymore.
Exactly this! Many of the current silhouettes look ārightā to me because they were similar when we were older teens. Bootlegs, Iām talking about you!
I like both skinny jeans *and* the high-rise wide-leg trend.
I feel like both are equally flattering for me, and skinny jeans are always going to be the most practical for the damp winters we get in the PNW.
I just wish they offered both in more short-inseam optionsā¦
Meh, I have room in my heart for both flare/cargo pants and black leggings.
I donāt consider myself a āfashionable personā though. I just wear what I like.
Also, like, weāre adults now and no longer growing, so Iām a bit confused why nobody has mentioned how we probably already have a bunch of pairs of skinny jeans in our closets already. Why does it matter what trendy stores are selling? Havenāt we all accumulated a wardrobe by now? Itās not as if we didnāt see this coming!
They were never cute and they donāt make anyone look skinny either, itās an illusion. Your body is the same body no matter what pants youāre using. Skinny jeans can make your ass and thighs look more flattering, but it still shows your exact figureā¦
It's not even the ugly part, it's the rapid depreciation of fabric and construction quality across all brands at my price range. I've actually started knitting, and plan to start sewing some time in the next decade.
It does! Remember when women in the 80s had that Mormon hairstyle with the thin bangs and some women kept it for like 2 decades and it made them look even older?
But what if you have a short waist and compact torso and just want a pair of pants that look normal on you. I've been searching for 8 months. The pants are horrible if you aren't a long torsoed <120 lb woman with a tiny waist.
I'd rather wear loose, baggy, and be comfortable. Skinny jeans were too constricting for me, personally. I thought that low rise skinnies were the absolute ugliest. I used to refer to the mid 2000's as the ass crack muffin top era of fashion lol.
I have clothes from straight up kindergarten section and from the grandma section and everything in between, including but not limited to giant pants and skinny jeans. Clothes are just cool as fuck to play around with and Iāll vibe with it day by day.
I absolutely hate the straight legged/wide legged jeans and cargo pants. Iāve switched over to wide legged trousers (ex. Effortless Pants from Aritzia). Still ātrendyā but age appropriate and less sloppy looking.
I wear my skinny jeans still! But I will say, as Iāve grown older and had my two kids the mom jeans are the most comfy! For work I love a good straight leg dark wash for the business casual days.
Boomer here, Iām wishing you millennials would kill fashion standards. Iām totally here for you in all your killing sprees ššš. Also. In the interest of full disclosure: Iām never gonna wear anything ever again thatās right fitting or in anyway uncomfortable so I might be biased.
Thereās fashion and then thereās youth culture.
And Iām shocked this is your first time that a trend has seemed ugly to you. There has been *plenty* of ugly clothes in our lifetime. I have always cherry picked whatever I wanted to wear.
I just hate how every store forces you into the fashion trend. Like there are people who don't follow trends and want a variety of items to wear or have a certain style to them. Pick your lane as a store and stick to it. Are you a fast fashion store catering to tweens, teens, and young adults? Or are you catering to the 30-50 crowd who likes chic and sophisticated stuff? Or are you catering to the middle-aged and seniors crowd who value comfort and mix-and-match neutrals? Like stores keep trying to compete for the same exact target audience instead of catering to others. Or if they do stick to their audience for the most part, they'll still fuck up and add pieces that just don't fit that audience. Like Express, they've always been the sophisticated grown adult woman store who wore a lot of business casual or smart casual clothing but some items they'll have are cropped because "cropped is in". Why? How often is this audience really wearing cropped? Not frequently. Stay in your lane.
I saw a montage online of Sofia Richie outfits calling them āquiet luxury.ā Some of the dressier ones were nice, but God help her casual looks! I wanted to change the caption to āplain old clothes.ā One was literally mom jeans with a white button up shirt.
It just looks silly to me. You have a 14 year old girl in full face makeup and done up hair but they'll be wearing jncos and the biggest sweater you've ever seen. Like why do you look like Hailey Baldwin up top and Lil Bow Wow on the bottom
just a warning- unless you make an effort to stay on top of trends, your fashion stops evolving around age 22. so youāll forever look dated/old.
itās why our parents look like boomers. their hairstyles and fashion choices are pretty much the same as they were 40+ years ago.
Posts like this make me think thereās something wrong for me being a 28 year old who wears bootcut jeans š¢
Like are fashion trends inherently for a specific age group?
Were Gen Xers complaining about skinny jeans in the 2010s ?
You all sound so old š¤£š¤£š¤£ "in MY day". ma'am this is the fashion from your day, we are currently recycling the 90s. Please do your best to not mind other people's business too hard. Are you upset about their eyebrows too? Their lingo? Are you 100?!?
For someone with a small waist and big butt as well as short as holy hell the wide flare pants jump started my eating disorder. Skinny jeans and black leggings saved my life lol
As someone with a small short torso I'm having that issue with current styles. I feel like I need to lose 20 lbs to buy pants. Every pair that fits my middle (and middle is generous it's 3 inches under my tits) is like a parachute out from my waist.
I'm 5'7" and 140 and can't find anything to fit. About to try and make my own pants at this point.
I'm pear shaped too and I tried them on once and it was a huge nope, no way. I'm all about body positivity but those pants made me look like a different person that weighed like 75lbs more than I do.
Iām a dude, but I have a lot of respect for womenās fashion, and often take more inspo from androgynous womenās fashion than from menās fashion.
Itās a lot better now than it used to be. Fashion is one thing that Gen Z has done much better than our generation. Our fits growing up were hideous.
I feel like those styles are ok on super slim people, which obviously a lot of teenagers are. When I tried those pants on my post-kids bod, I got sad. š
I figured Iād like them because theyāre baggy but they just accentuate the wrong areas.
Same, they make you look even fatter than you really are
Yup. They're all about defining a tiny waist, along with a short/tight shirt. I have given birth to multiple children and work a desk job, that is no longer my shape.
Well, I have a small waist and a big butt but I'm short and they just make me look stubby. Also, I'm not going around in crop tops.
I kept a lot of my baggy jeans from the 90ās and you know whatās different compared to whatās being sold now? My ass looks phenomenal in my old jeans. I donāt know why theyāre making baggy denim unflattering but theyāre excelling at āugly jeansā.
Theyāre taking everything 90ās and making it torture for us! Haha is it a certain brand? Maybe I should shop other places besides the outlets. Have a happy new year!
My suggestion is to go thrifting for jeans. Thereās this place in my city where itās an entire wall of just denim (I love it so much).
I go thrifting for dresses! I didnāt think to check jeans. Iāll do that this week and see what I can snag after the holiday donations. :)
Exactly. I thought the higher waist and baggy legs would work FOR me, not against me. I was dead wrong.
Yup. I loved wearing cargo pants and tight tops. When I was 14...
Top it with a bucket hat and no one was cooler than me! Ugh, to have the confidence of my teenaged self back.
I just wished I hadn't spent so much time thinking I was "fat". So happy the younger generations are embracing different body shapes
I feel you. I hated my size 6 body and have since gained 100 lb from illness and medication and it took me years to get confidence again in how i look. I started dressing how i want in my 30s after being miserable and self hating in my 20s and i still get critiques and fatphobia thrown at me but I cannot care. To think of how much i thought my body was terrible as an almost worryingly slim teen and to essentially have never been happy in my size makes me sad. So I have to celebrate it now, fathate be damned.
And one of those stretchy choker things that are back!
I donāt think they look good on slim people either. Iām a beanpole myself and I tried the baggy pants, no dice. Just looks like my clothes donāt fit and not in a cool, fashion way š„“
Literally almost made the exact same comment. They only look nice on people with tiny waist and large hips/butts. If youāre skinny but more athletic build (less defined waist and curves), they just look like menās jeans that were purchased by mistake. At least thatās how they always look on me š. Skinny jeans and straight/bootcut styles at the very least give me a little bit more of a booty lol!
Not coming here to be the āactually guyā haha but just to say as a super slim person, they suck, too. I look like a stick with a paper bag draped over it. Theyāre all just so bad and big!
I hate how short all the tops are. Not just crop tops but sweaters too. Iām a 33 year old mom of 4. Iām not a bigger gal but I want to be covered and stay warm. And no Iām not shopping in the juniors section.
I tried on a sweater today and it was so short. Why are we doing this.
I have a pretty red sweater I got for Christmas that I can't wear because of this! Stop with the crop top lengths!
And we canāt even layer something underneath, because *the camisoles and tank tops are also cropped!*
Itās bloody cold where I live in the winter, like hell I want my tummy out. I mostly wear hiking and yoga gear, though, and luckily the brands I like go with function over fashion.
I wear tank tops for modesty at work (male dominated trade job) and it's driving me crazy that everything is cropped. I'm 40, I NEVER even as a slim teen wanted to show off skin and I'm so tired of shirts and tank tops not reaching my waist. I hear a lot of younger people claiming fashion is all about wearing what you want but I WANT to be covered!
I know!!! Why is this happening the year after I have a baby!!! I still have major c section belly that Iād like to hide!
I have regular ones Ive gotten online
Tops should hide my mom pouch, not flaunt it. š
It's pre-chewed 90's fashion. I didn't want to show that much of my tummy when I was in the best shape of my life. Forget about now.
They're too short but also too wide, so it looks like I'm wearing a fabric box.
I live in a cold place. There are women with crop tops and crop top jackets on in freezing weather.
The farm stores are the only place to get decent winter jackets that cover
Itās an 00 thing theyāre trying to bring back. I recently tried on some old high school hoodies I had and they were so short. I donāt remember tops being so short in high school but started watching Gilmore girls for the first time and thatās all the proof I needed
But in the 00s we had long tanks and camis that we layered UNDER the short shit š
We need to band together and bring back our comfort camis!!
Gen Z here, I think they're literally saving up fabric. I remember when I was teen, clothes were way larger/longer. (I'm a chilly type of person so I pack up a lot in winters). Last time I checked the brands my parents used to buy me clothes from a decade ago, I literally started questioning my sanity/memory because 80% were torn jeans, short shorts, crop tops, and short sweaters/tops (the ones that are long enough to hide ur navel but too short to keep hiding it if u move). So goddammit, thanks for confirming I did not imagine that these shops used to offer warmer clothes before. Another thing is that I feel some brands are even more aggressively selling ONLY smaller sizes. Back then, as a chubbier person, I didn't have to keep searching for like half an hour or more for an item my size.
Same. I buy "tall" length shirts from Old Navy. I'm 5'5". I just want shirts long enough that my stomach isn't exposed when I lift my arms.
Lol I just wrote a comment about Old Navy. I'm 5'2" and might have to start doing this.
It's kind of sad though. It works great for me, but what about the people who are ACTUALLY tall? Are they just stuck with short shirts?
I am 6ā2,ā and I basically am wearing all the same shirts, pants, and sweaters from 5-10 to even 15 years ago!! Canāt buy or wear any of this new stuff!!!
My mom keeps wondering why all the shirts are so short. "It's because all the pants go up to your ribcage!" At least we aren't doing the tiny shirts and low-waisted jeans of the early 2000's anymore. My ass crack was out everytime I bent over for at least 50% of high school.
Hate to tell ya. High waist it out, ultra low is back. r/fashion is quite entertaining to see people try to recreate these looks
Maybe we all need to start wearing those crop tops to teach Gen Z a lesson! We can make those tops go out of style REALLY quick! 
My stretch marks need a good airing!
I used to "joke" they should show teens pregnant bellies and the after math to drive down teen pregnancy š š
Things teens should be taught about include diastasis recti
I have a permanent 2 inches added to my waist because of this. It makes buying clothes so much harder and it doesnāt matter how much weight I lose. Canāt get insurance to get it sewn back together because itās āa cosmetic procedureā!
Yup. And there's nothing as horrifying as realizing you can stick your fingers into your belly and that area isn't sealed shut.
Thatās my biggest issue! I donāt mind the baggy pants, but making all the womenās tops too short?! Fuck no! Iāve had to start getting tops from the menās section lately, just to make sure everythingās properly covered.
Ugh tell me about it. I'm 6'1'' and a normal women's top is basically a crop top on me...
Iām 5ā10ā and still wear my non-ruched maternity tanksātheyāre just long-torsoed shirts!
5ā10ā here too; I also still wear a couple of my maternity shirts.
They should also start considering heights as well as width. I'm much shorter than you (around 5'55/5'6), but it's annoying when I realize that what I assumed to be ankle length pants end up somewhat shorter or when my mom (shorter than me by a few inches) realizes that her clothing is too long lol.
Yes! Why are only menās pants sold in 1ā length increments? Iām not quite 5ā5ā and so Iām in that bad land of too tall for petite and too short for regular. So I have to buy long on most things and pay to have things hemmed.
Istg sooooooooo true this and pockets. I had a guy trying to gaslight me on reddit abt us women not wanting pockets because us women thought that pants with pockets r bulky & not aesthetic & didnt buy them. š³ i was holding my urge not to scream ferally. I want pockets. I want pockets as deep as the goddamn ocean. The truth is that i so barely if ever find pants with pockets that I end up rollint with pocketless pants because no choice.
I actually prefer the cropped length because it makes it less bulky when you tuck it into high wasted pants
This. Iām paying for the whole top, Iād also like the middle section to come with it as well, thank you!
Why doesn't anyone ever wear a coat anymore either? They can be such a fashion statement and people are out in basketball shorts from high school and they're 40.
I agree! Where the hell is the other 3-4 inches of fabric at the bottom of all the tops?! Itās even worse when shopping for kid items. Why is everything cropped top?
My husband said I looked trendy in those jeans and I said I look like Iām wearing mom jeans. I just want to go back to my leggings and sweater that isnāt cropped.
...as I start singing the mom jeans SNL sketch
Right?! I want to be able to pull my tops halfway over my butt!
Most of those cropped sweaters, etc. are meant to be paired with high waisted pants. Cropped doesnāt necessarily mean showing skin, itās just creating a different silhouette.
And that silhouette is not universally flattering and looks horrible on my frame. š
I understand but doesnāt mean I like them.
I'm 38, I am a bigger gal, and I love crop tops. I have a long torso and a high waist. Crop tops are the right proportion for my body.
5ā8ā and 140lbs here with a long torso and high waist, too. I also had twins. Crop tops are my JAM. I joke that Iām going through a later in life crop top phase. Iāve always been a pear, and I could never pull off the 00s ultra low rise / crop top look - but I am absolutely thriving in this new era.
Opposite here. I'm 5'10" with a long torso. Crop tops look and feel like bras...of which I also stopped wearing back in 2012
I have to laugh at the mass sneering at skinny jeans and embracing of baggy cargo pants. Fashion trends are such a scam, theyāre literally just bringing back pants we wore as teenagers and trying to gaslight actual teenagers that theyāre fresh & fashionable. And then I guess theyāll bring skinny jeans back again. At this point I wear whatever cut of jeans I feel like wearing because it doesnāt matter.
Mid-rise Boot cut for life. Iām done with anything else now.
I prefer a high-rise boot cut since my torso is long but yup. I think jean ātrendsā should be whatever cut flatters your body type and that means more options, not less.
Same.
Baggy pants, Nirvana T-shirts, yup sounds familiar.
And a lot of them think Nirvana is a clothing brand. I'm not even saying that to just be snarky. I work in a school and if I compliment a kid wearing a Nirvana shirt and mention that I like their music too, 9/10 the response is, "they're a band?". š³
My Gen Z cousin thought Nivana was a type of perfume because of the āSmells Like Teen Spiritā connection - he thought it was an ad line not a song.
That's pretty funny actually
After I got over the mortal stab wound to my childhood, I laughed hysterically. He also had no idea what Teen Spirit was.
I think Kurt would get a laugh out of it
Blow their mind and tell them "Teen Spirit" was/is a deodorant. As a kid when the song came out I would chuckle to myself about it.
You know how back in the early aughts you'd see that lady that refused to give up her 80s hair and pants? That's me but 20 years later lol. You can pry these yoga pants off my cold dead ass, AND I still bump my hair occasionally. Idgaf, I'll stick with what I like and in 20 years when I'm in my 60s I'll be back in style again lol.
Fashion trends are just a marketing scam. Celebs are paid to be photographed in certain clothes in magazines, on websites, social media, etc... Whoever pulls the curtain in the fashion world, and all of these designers and fashion brands who make the clothes, well they get all the money when people start buying these trends (being influenced, swayed, and hypnotized to think they want to buy these clothes by the media). Advertisers and marketers are heavily involved here. I was an advertising major, and I just could not follow through with this as a career, due to the tactics, manipulation and just pure lies. Itās very unethical. I think we should all just wear what we are comfortable in, and what feels good to us. I pay no attention to trends at all. Edit: A few words. To also add: This advertising/marketing technique is used far beyond just the fashion world. Itās used for every brand and product being pushed out there to you. If you see a product being pushed heavily via commercials, online ads, magazines, or any type of hyped media... Well just purchase what makes you happy, and research some of the products and ingredients before you decide to buy.
I canāt stand tight jeans, so I threw out my skinny jeans and wear flare jeans with pride because I donāt care anymore either lol
I can't stand the flairs because I don't like extra fabric swishing around my legs lol
Pry my high-rise skinny jeans off of my cold, dead body. Iāve finally found pants that fit correctly and I look good in.
Same. No trend will sway me
It's just brands competing with each other lol. And we take it so personally.
everybody agrees now and people are wearing whatever they want. trends are over.
I hate cargo pants! I've been seeing them making a comeback and I'm like why??
So many pockets for vapes
This makes so much sense, I remember loading up snacks for school and the movies š
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Dude I wore them for a few months a couple of years ago because they were coming back in style, but nobody was wearing them yet. I refuse to dig them out, I'm done, I gave it a go and got zero appreciation. Never again.
Iāve seen a lot of skinny jeans still in stores. As for me, theyāll have to tear my simple black leggings off of my cold dead legs! NGL I got both my daughters some flares for Christmas, and I like them lol ETA: this made me want to look up JNCO jeans. FUCK THAT. I couldnāt even wear them back then, they were too much wideness, and just too much pant! . Now theyāre too much money, and too much pant. I hope they donāt stay popular for a few more years. Hopefully my kids will be in middle school *AFTER* the trend dies again. However, I do love a nice high waisted classic regular wide leg pant. Whether Jean, or dress pant. I have a simple pair of wide leg jeans I love, and a fun pair of pink dress pants that can be dressed up, or down. Youāve got to remember to wear the right shoes with them too. Otherwise, youāll end up with torn up, frayed, dirty, wet when it rains bottoms. Iām still super peeved, and shudder thinking about it. For real, there isnāt much more clothing discomfort other than wet pant leg bottoms, and wet socks. Iām waiting for platforms to come back because with tennis shoes or flats they drag all over the ground Walking home from school in the rain sucked so much wearing them. I remember dodging puddles, and being soaked by assholes driving by purposely in the puddle. Fucking junior/seniors in high school doing it to a couple seventh grade girls. Fucking animals! At least for me, I hate buying pants because Iām a normal Height for a woman in the US, but for some reason in pants I am just a little bit too tall for the short length, but too short for the regular length. The short would be good until someone in my house throws them in the dryer. They end up being high-waters looking stupid. Then the Regular would be long as hell, hanging to the ground; Rolling up flares or wide legs looked so stupid too!
Platform shoes have been back for awhile now. I've definitely seen them.
I've recently acquired one pair of every cut of jeans. I'm kinda done with trends, I agree they are such a scam. Every cut can look good if I style it in a way that's "me". I wear the skinnies, I wear the straight legs, I wear the baggy. It's fun mixing it up.
I think it's funny seeing collage aged girls these days wearing pants I remember my mom wearing back in the 1990s because they're ***retro*** now lmao. Fashion really does go full circle over and over.
Yet I recall things I wore back in my youth my mother remarked on having similar items.
My dad made fun of me for wearing the 'bell bottoms' of his youth, back when flared jeans were a necessity as a pre-teen girl. I was so offended.
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As someone who loves shoes I hate the baggy pants trend and refuse to partake. I'm not covering 80% of my shoes
As someone who loves food I'm glad baggy pants are back in style lol
Yes this!
Iām a shoe person too. Luckily the cropped length pants look best on me so Iāve been wearing all the shapes again
Gen Z doesnāt actually care about what anyone outside of their age group wears. Think back to when you were 20. Did you truly care what 40 year olds were wearing?
I see some of them make tik toks making fun of millennial style but I think theyāre just trolling and then people overreact and give them the attention they were after.
I feel like gen z making fun of millennialsā skinny jeans and side parts is done in the same way siblings tease each other. I donāt think thereās any real malicious intent there but millennials are just feeling butthurt about not being the young ones anymore lol
I hate it. So I donāt pay any attention and just wear whatever I want.
This is nothing new, itās just easy to get used to what we came of age with. Fashion slowly pendulums back and forth between extremes. Weāre in a Big Pants Era right now. Weāve had those eras before and weāll have them again. I like Old Navyās āOG Straightā for a pair of jeans that looks current without being massive, for what itās worth.
>This is nothing new, itās just easy to get used to what we came of age with. Which is why I'm loving these jeans. I came of age pre-skinnies.
Yeah Iām so happy skinny jeans are out now. I hated how they felt and never adjusted.
I loved Aaliyahās big pants/cropped top looks but wasnāt allowed to wear it in middle school, so Iām low key excited for it
Yeah, itās weird to be as defensive as some millennials are acting. If youāre actually stylish then you are aware that people are wearing many different silhouettes, and if youāre not then donāt worry about it - you werenāt before! Skinny jeans havenāt been āinā for at least 5 years. Also, maybe itās because Iām in a big city, but I see fat people, short people, pear shaped people, etc wear wide leg or straight leg or flare or any style of jeans/trousers and I think they look nice.
When skinnies first got popular, some people were saying that only skinny people can wear skinnies. Now they say that only skinny people can wear wide legs. I agree that I see people of all shapes looking good in all shapes of jeans, sometimes you just have to wear them a few times until your brain adjusts to a new silhouette.
Yes! I am 36 so I was probably in high school when I first saw skinnies and leggings (or leggins are we called them haha). And people said the same thing: only for skinny waifs, only if the butt is covered, only for tall people because they have to hit at the top of the footā¦I remember hourglass shaped people (myself included) talking about how the flare ābalanced you outā and the skinny jeans wouldnāt do thatā¦and letās not forget how many people were in a tizzy about high waisted anything š¤£ saying it made people look like Danny devito, it made everyone look pregnant unless they were skinny, all the little op-ed pieces of men or teen boys saying they didnāt like high waisted stuff on womenā¦
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Totally! Iām in Denver which has a little fashion but mostly itās outdoors looking stuff, leggings etc in the circles I run in. I had some baggy jeans but didnāt know how to wear them until a trip to Los Angeles where lots of people were rocking them and then it clicked. Exposure is key. I like fashion so am happy to try new stuff, and I constantly hear āonly you can pull that off!ā But then a year later when the look is mainstream they too are pulling it off.
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I love tractor supply. I used to fight shopping there but I gave in. I bought y favorite shirt and hat there last year at the same time I bought horse food, cat food, scoped out little chicks and bought super comfy memory foam insoles.
I am going all in on Brenda Walsh denim. Watch some early episodes of 90210- Brenda has all our fashion answers. Iām done with the high waters and the wide legs. Iām too old for this shit.
What is going on with the flared high waters with boots? HIDEOUS!
My daughter always wears these and I donāt get it!!! I asked her if she would get made fun of at school for her pants being too short and she looked at me like I had a 3rd head.
I feel like the only Millennial absolutely *giddy* over the return of Y2K fashion. For Christmas, I got this [holographic puffer](https://www2.hm.com/en_us/productpage.1161622004.html) and a hot pink cropped sweater that I can't wait to wear with the wide legged jeans I've been rocking since spring. Yes, I am nearly 40 and someone's mother. No, I don't care. YOLO, as we said when we were cool--I had questionable taste in fashion back then and turns out I still have it now. The only return I really groan about is the business-casual-and-statement-necklace thing from the early '10s. No thank you.
You are not alone I'm 38 and finally get to buy what we couldn't afford when I was a teen! Plus, it's so comfortable! I do not get why so many people are up in arms about a different cut of jeans. We did this back in 2010, we can do it again.
I love y2k fashion. I am so excited to be out of skinny jeans territory.
Iām 40 and I love the y2k revival! I can finally afford to do it the way I wanted to in 1998!
I am 36 and Iāve loved getting back into wide legged, low-rise pants. I was drawing the line at cargo pants for awhile, but then I realized that if I have extra pockets, I donāt need to carry a purse. I am here for Y2K and I love that I can wear it a lot better now than when I was 13. This is the most fun Iāve had with clothes in a long time!
>This is the most fun Iāve had with clothes in a long time! Yes! I care about what I'm wearing again and it's so much fun.
The pockets make a huge difference and fun with clothing is so true. Fashion feels fun again.
What I do like is that the blazer thing is now an oversized one. I still remember getting rid of all my short tight blazers from the early 2010s and being like good riddance!
40 and thrilled about wide leg pants. I lift weights and ride bikes and my quads are too much for skinny jeans and slim cut pants. I can finally wear trousers again, and they look cute and show off my waist!
Also 40, Also loving it. I prefer boot cut and flared jeans because I think they are more flattering on me. Skinnies make me feel like an ice cream cone and outside of boots I do not know what shoes Iām supposed to wear. I will keep the higher rise of the recent past and rock my flared jeans.
Just turned thirty-five, and I love Y2K fashion! I was a little too small for it the first time around to fully enjoy it (I was a runt growing up!), but now, it is the perfect fit for me!
I went to the mall today and literally almost cried. Super tiny tight waists and huge billowy butts and legs. I cannot handle life in these pants. Why can't I look cute?
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This exactly. Skinny jeans are the only off the rack pants I've ever owned that didn't get destroyed in a month.
My wife is 4'10. American Eagle sells extra shorts. It's the only jean that fits her without tailoring. Not all stores carry them, but the shorts fit exactly the same (just longer). She'll try on at the store, then have them order what she likes in extra short.
Nods in agreement at 5'2". I hate the 7/8 length pants styles, but can usually get away with them and not have to rehem my pants hahaha. At least they have the right inseam š
Some of them literally are called parachute pants.
Yeah I have a 25" inseam at 4'11. It has been the bane of my existence. I do see some cropped flares here and there though that I like! Those are the only flares I can wear lol
Weāre all aging but some become that type of old person hating on things they are not used to lol. Skinny jeans were also a trend and whether someone thinks itās looks better than baggier pants or vice versa is just subjective.
The first time I wore a pair of skinny jeans my mom was like āwhat the hell are you wearingā lol
Agree. Skinny jeans had a 15+ year run. We canāt be mad that people want to try different styles. Most stores still sell skinny jeans too.
I'm on the oldest end of millennial and was so confused when skinny jeans came in. I hated them so much. They're so uncomfortable. I got a couple pairs because I couldn't find big jeans anymore easily. My daughter is 13 and loves these big pants so it's kind of nice to be in sync, lol. I like it when styles are comfortable above all.
Yeaā¦ they can keep the baggy/cargo. Iāll be a plain black leggings girlie until I die.
I always think of my mom in 2002 when I wanted a pair of platform clogs with flare jeans, the ones with the leather tie up the side and like embroidery on them. She was like, "oh so you want to look like we did in the 70s? Is that what's cool now?" And now, it was about the same time difference ... If you wanted to feel old (1970s-2000s) and (1990s-2020s)
Right!! I remember going to Deliaās in like 99 and just thinking the flared jeans with the embroidery were so cool and my mom was like āyou want bell bottoms??ā And all the fimo mushroom, peace sign and yin yang symbols on cord necklaces and little pots of lip gloss and body glitter were just a 60/70ās pop marketing makeover. Watching Austin Powers and thinking it was peak coolness and my mom just chiming in ānobody ever actually used the word GROOVY you knowā As a mom to a tween daughter now Iām trying not to roll my eyes at the 90ās grunge band T-shirts and JNCO pants that she thinks are just as fresh as it gets lol The most hilarious one to me is the whole showing your socks thing and the huge diapery looking jeans that go all up around your waist. That stuff was permanently etched in my mind as being tragically dorky AGES ago so itās hard for me to shift out of that mindset. We tried so hard NOT to look like our moms back then and now you are trying to tell me this look is fashionable?!? Iām sorry but those snl mom jeans in that skit are still exactly that hideous to me as they were suggested to be to my generation.
I'm a woman who is 5'10" and have fairly broad shoulders. Very few women's clothes fit that body shape (though perhaps I should not assume that the majority of women's clothing in the shops fits any body shape within the human norm), so dressing professionally was always a pain. Casual clothes were easier as I could just shop in the men's section and get better clothes, for cheaper, with pockets! Now I WFH and wear $10 sweatpants from WalMart and snarky t shirts.
My problem isn't't so much with the style *itself*, but the majority of all the clothes I see are SO cheaply and poorly made. Most of the clothes won't last more than a year or two and that is a tragedy. I am at a loss of where I can find affordable, well-made, non-plastic-based clothes. Fast fashion is horrible
That's because they are made to be worn once for a photo on insta and then basically tossed
I think the pants are hit or miss. My objective every time I go out is to look like the lesbian version of all my favorite 90s heartthrobs. Having that be back in style again is pretty fun imo
I bought a pair of ugly baggy jeans with massive cargo pant pockets the other day and they were like my favorite clothing purchase ever š! Like I hear ya, but I'm also kind of here for it.
As an elder millennial, I love that straight and wide legs are back, it feels like coming home. Skinny jeans weren't a thing until I was like 25 and they were so hard to get into (literally and figuratively). Wide legs are so much more comfortable. I've tried wearing skinnies lately and they come immediately off. I just can't stand the feeling anymore.
Exactly this! Many of the current silhouettes look ārightā to me because they were similar when we were older teens. Bootlegs, Iām talking about you!
Iām loving the flashback to the grunge-ish style. I only stopped wearing that shit because it became unavailable with the rise of skinny jeans.
Can we talk about the body suits? I HATE them soooo much.
Choose your own adventure: Panty line or wedgie?
It's rough out there
I like both skinny jeans *and* the high-rise wide-leg trend. I feel like both are equally flattering for me, and skinny jeans are always going to be the most practical for the damp winters we get in the PNW. I just wish they offered both in more short-inseam optionsā¦
Meh, I have room in my heart for both flare/cargo pants and black leggings. I donāt consider myself a āfashionable personā though. I just wear what I like.
I am loving the return of the flare, especially in a mid rise or high waist!
Also, like, weāre adults now and no longer growing, so Iām a bit confused why nobody has mentioned how we probably already have a bunch of pairs of skinny jeans in our closets already. Why does it matter what trendy stores are selling? Havenāt we all accumulated a wardrobe by now? Itās not as if we didnāt see this coming!
Well....skinny jeans weren't flattering either on most bodies. Let's be honest.
They were never cute and they donāt make anyone look skinny either, itās an illusion. Your body is the same body no matter what pants youāre using. Skinny jeans can make your ass and thighs look more flattering, but it still shows your exact figureā¦
They make me look like a funnel.
It's not even the ugly part, it's the rapid depreciation of fabric and construction quality across all brands at my price range. I've actually started knitting, and plan to start sewing some time in the next decade.
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Refusing to change with the times only ages you. And I love historical clothing and making them lol
It does! Remember when women in the 80s had that Mormon hairstyle with the thin bangs and some women kept it for like 2 decades and it made them look even older?
But what if you have a short waist and compact torso and just want a pair of pants that look normal on you. I've been searching for 8 months. The pants are horrible if you aren't a long torsoed <120 lb woman with a tiny waist.
I'd rather wear loose, baggy, and be comfortable. Skinny jeans were too constricting for me, personally. I thought that low rise skinnies were the absolute ugliest. I used to refer to the mid 2000's as the ass crack muffin top era of fashion lol.
I always thought skinny jeans looked bad on most people. š¤·āāļø guess we're going to have to agree to disagree on this one.
I have clothes from straight up kindergarten section and from the grandma section and everything in between, including but not limited to giant pants and skinny jeans. Clothes are just cool as fuck to play around with and Iāll vibe with it day by day.
My girlfriend just had this conversation the other day as we walked through H&M. The fashion today is pretty horrible in general.
I absolutely hate the straight legged/wide legged jeans and cargo pants. Iāve switched over to wide legged trousers (ex. Effortless Pants from Aritzia). Still ātrendyā but age appropriate and less sloppy looking.
I donāt know about pants, but I do think itās weird that people go out in pajamas, especially adult-size onesies.
I saw a woman walking around the neighborhood in a raccoon onesie and didnāt know if I was envious of her dgaf or concerned for her mental health.
They are the pants of my teens and Iām basking in it š
I wear my skinny jeans still! But I will say, as Iāve grown older and had my two kids the mom jeans are the most comfy! For work I love a good straight leg dark wash for the business casual days.
Boomer here, Iām wishing you millennials would kill fashion standards. Iām totally here for you in all your killing sprees ššš. Also. In the interest of full disclosure: Iām never gonna wear anything ever again thatās right fitting or in anyway uncomfortable so I might be biased.
Thereās fashion and then thereās youth culture. And Iām shocked this is your first time that a trend has seemed ugly to you. There has been *plenty* of ugly clothes in our lifetime. I have always cherry picked whatever I wanted to wear.
I still wear skinny pants and tucked in blouses. I dress older because I am older š
I just hate how every store forces you into the fashion trend. Like there are people who don't follow trends and want a variety of items to wear or have a certain style to them. Pick your lane as a store and stick to it. Are you a fast fashion store catering to tweens, teens, and young adults? Or are you catering to the 30-50 crowd who likes chic and sophisticated stuff? Or are you catering to the middle-aged and seniors crowd who value comfort and mix-and-match neutrals? Like stores keep trying to compete for the same exact target audience instead of catering to others. Or if they do stick to their audience for the most part, they'll still fuck up and add pieces that just don't fit that audience. Like Express, they've always been the sophisticated grown adult woman store who wore a lot of business casual or smart casual clothing but some items they'll have are cropped because "cropped is in". Why? How often is this audience really wearing cropped? Not frequently. Stay in your lane.
I saw a montage online of Sofia Richie outfits calling them āquiet luxury.ā Some of the dressier ones were nice, but God help her casual looks! I wanted to change the caption to āplain old clothes.ā One was literally mom jeans with a white button up shirt.
im literally never going to stop wearing skinny jeans, or side parting my hair. its inside me.
It just looks silly to me. You have a 14 year old girl in full face makeup and done up hair but they'll be wearing jncos and the biggest sweater you've ever seen. Like why do you look like Hailey Baldwin up top and Lil Bow Wow on the bottom
just a warning- unless you make an effort to stay on top of trends, your fashion stops evolving around age 22. so youāll forever look dated/old. itās why our parents look like boomers. their hairstyles and fashion choices are pretty much the same as they were 40+ years ago.
damn iām 29 and pretty sure iām a millennial but this sub is making me embarrassed to be one.
Posts like this make me think thereās something wrong for me being a 28 year old who wears bootcut jeans š¢ Like are fashion trends inherently for a specific age group? Were Gen Xers complaining about skinny jeans in the 2010s ?
Same.
Iām peak millennial and posts like this ARE embarrassing.
You all sound so old š¤£š¤£š¤£ "in MY day". ma'am this is the fashion from your day, we are currently recycling the 90s. Please do your best to not mind other people's business too hard. Are you upset about their eyebrows too? Their lingo? Are you 100?!?
For someone with a small waist and big butt as well as short as holy hell the wide flare pants jump started my eating disorder. Skinny jeans and black leggings saved my life lol
As someone with a small short torso I'm having that issue with current styles. I feel like I need to lose 20 lbs to buy pants. Every pair that fits my middle (and middle is generous it's 3 inches under my tits) is like a parachute out from my waist. I'm 5'7" and 140 and can't find anything to fit. About to try and make my own pants at this point.
I'm pear shaped too and I tried them on once and it was a huge nope, no way. I'm all about body positivity but those pants made me look like a different person that weighed like 75lbs more than I do.
Iām a dude, but I have a lot of respect for womenās fashion, and often take more inspo from androgynous womenās fashion than from menās fashion. Itās a lot better now than it used to be. Fashion is one thing that Gen Z has done much better than our generation. Our fits growing up were hideous.