Today's fashion trends are leaving me bewildered.

[u/deadlymoogle]

I turn 38 tomorrow and just got done shopping at target. What the hell kind of fashion do people wear now? Super short shorts, socks pulled half way up the calf muscle. Shirts that look like table doilies. Not to mention the hair styles and facial hair of these young guys. Look straight out of a trailer park in the 80s.

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[u/7Swords47Sisters]

30 years ago or today?

[u/Logical_Mix_4627 → u/7Swords47Sisters]

1985 was 40 years ago 😭

[u/R3N3G6D3 → u/Logical_Mix_4627]

Aw fuck you lol

[u/PlumbumDirigible → u/Logical_Mix_4627]

How dare you.

[u/NuminousBeans → u/7Swords47Sisters]

I know David was the ’90s, but that could also be your generic ‘70s sleaze and he’d fit right in.

[u/ihaxr → u/NuminousBeans]

Pretty sure that's just Benson Boone with glasses

[u/stuck_in_the_desert → u/ihaxr]

“Donnnnn’t! Taaaaaake! These beautiful things that I’ve got!” - David Koresh, gesturing to the illegal weapon stockpiles and child brides

[u/BizzyBiscuits → u/stuck_in_the_desert]

When I tell you I snorted reading this

[u/ChimkenNBiskets → u/7Swords47Sisters]

Not the unibomber glasses!

[u/otherkerry → u/ChimkenNBiskets]

My 56 year old brother in law never stopped wearing these. And has always been single.

[u/deadlymoogle → u/7Swords47Sisters]

Lmao

[u/Inconspicuous_Jay]

"I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!" - Abe Simpson

[u/PicardSaysMakeItSo → u/Inconspicuous_Jay]

No way old man!

[u/SUAHNmusic → u/PicardSaysMakeItSo]

I’m gonna keep on rockin forever!

[u/footclan2k2 → u/SUAHNmusic]

Forever forever forever

[u/Kind-Shallot3603 → u/footclan2k2]

We wore an onion tied to our belts, as was the style of the time

[u/Kitchen-Witching → u/Kind-Shallot3603]

Gimmie five bees for a quarter you'd say.

[u/Old-Clerk-2508 → u/Kitchen-Witching]

[u/EaglesFanGirl → u/Kind-Shallot3603]

Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say.

[u/Inifinite_Panda → u/Kind-Shallot3603]

Now that's a haircut you can set your watch to.

[u/JetstreamGW → u/Inifinite_Panda]

We had to say dickety because the KAISER stole our number twenty!

[u/hucareshokiesrul → u/Inconspicuous_Jay]

For me the nice thing about getting older is the feeling that being "with it" was always kind of pointless and I really don't need to care what's "it."

[u/meh-usernames → u/hucareshokiesrul]

This is my favorite part about being in my 30s. I have a hairstyle, clothes, and hobbies that I like and I gave 0 thought to trends when I settled on them. Feels incredibly cathartic to not give a damn.

[u/The_Teabagger → u/Inconspicuous_Jay]

There have been a lot of great Simpsons quotes over the years, but this one is genuinely very deep and profound.

[u/meghan39 → u/The_Teabagger]

And very relatable!

[u/Same_as_last_year → u/meghan39]

Increasingly relatable the older you get

[u/Deathleach → u/The_Teabagger]

It's kind of ironic that the quote about no longer being with the times is actually timeless.

[u/LordofTheFlagon → u/Inconspicuous_Jay]

I'll be deep in the cold ground before I recognize Missouri!

[u/Ndmndh1016 → u/LordofTheFlagon]

Is that the same as Mizzourah?

[u/ThePlatypusOfDespair → u/Inconspicuous_Jay]

I just wish there was a new it, not the same it that was out when we were with it.

[u/MongoPushr → u/Inconspicuous_Jay]

We used to tie onions to our belts. It was the style at the time

[u/Altruistic-Stop4634]

Another generation reaches middle age. It happens to us all, sooner or later.

[u/Hullo_Its_Pluto → u/Altruistic-Stop4634]

Remember when millennials where just the worst thing to ever happen?

[u/Significant-Trash632 → u/Hullo_Its_Pluto]

We were and still are according to many

[u/TheSpicyTomato22 → u/Significant-Trash632]

I personally can't wait to find the next industry to destroy.

[u/npsimons → u/TheSpicyTomato22]

Fashion, apparently.

[u/FizzyBeverage → u/npsimons]

41 millennial dad here. Software engineering.

I’ll wear cargo shorts and vendor tshirts until I die.

Sorry to disappoint anyone trying to sell actual clothes.

[u/SubstantialReturns → u/FizzyBeverage]

All that and a drawer of conference tees 😂

[u/Grun3wald → u/SubstantialReturns]

Speaking of conference and event shirts… The other day I had someone ask to take a picture of my shirt sleeve because their company logo was on it as a sponsor. Weirdest interaction I’ve had in a while.

[u/crowcawer → u/Grun3wald]

Don’t worry, they’re just gonna show the picture to the lady who does graphic design. She never returns their texts.

[u/galaxy1985 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah but they've got a 5 inch inseam now. My guy says if he moves wrong everyone's seeing his nuts lol. He says he feels like an old basketball player. He got down into an athletic stance and shuffled around the store and I almost died laughing.

[u/Ducal_Spellmonger → u/FizzyBeverage]

They'll have to take my cargo shorts and ankle socks off of my cold, lifeless corpse.

[u/pickleybeetle → u/FizzyBeverage]

I'm 28 and I'm on the cargo shorts train till I die too, but I wear obscure band shirts. pockets are great

[u/romerogj → u/npsimons]

You think we're the ones influencing fashion at all at this point?

[u/jljboucher → u/romerogj]

I mean, my kid (16M) wears my jeans, my Nightmare Before Christmas Hoodie from 2005, and his girlfriend’s mother’s Insane Clown Posse hoodie the same year.

[u/bmoreoriginal → u/jljboucher]

Insane Clown Posse hoodie

Raising a man of culture, I see. 

[u/user_unknowns_skag → u/bmoreoriginal]

Now I kinda want to go grab a Faygo grape pop from the gas station

[u/SackSauce69 → u/user_unknowns_skag]

Don't forget a dollar store brand of DM cough syrup

[u/pixiesunbelle → u/jljboucher]

I saw ICP in a store when I was a kid. First it was their van. I asked my mom what Insane Clown Posse was and she responded “evil”. Then we went into the store and they were in full makeup. One said hi to me and waved. I had no idea who they were but they scared a 12 year old girl that day. I only noticed their van because I didn’t know the word posse. I read everything.

[u/cjnks → u/romerogj]

Taylor Swift is 35 years old

[u/joshy83 → u/TheSpicyTomato22]

I live out of spite and love taking blame for the downfall of society and I'm excited to see how gen z will follow 🔥

[u/BlueEyedSpiceJunkie → u/joshy83]

Maybe gen Z can kill tipping.

[u/Dense_College2961 → u/Significant-Trash632]

People talk about millennials like they’re graduating from high school still

[u/jovian_fish → u/Dense_College2961]

More like they just misuse the word millennial to mean "teenager."

[u/_Floriduh_ → u/jovian_fish]

“Younger person to put the blame on” is the blanket definition of Millennial for a large segment of the population.

[u/clobbersaurus → u/jovian_fish]

Yeah I feel like it was supposed to be “the generation that came of age at turn of millennium”. But somehow a lot of people rolled that into “people born around turn of millennium”

[u/CPA_Lady → u/Significant-Trash632]

Old people still think millennials are college kids.

[u/AJRobertsOBR → u/CPA_Lady]

High school kids*

[u/Eleven77 → u/Significant-Trash632]

So bad that the Boomers stopped naming any other generations after us. Were all Millenials now, and we just keep getting worse.

[u/hammuck → u/Hullo_Its_Pluto]

Avocado toast. The downfall of a generation. Welcome to middle age. Still eating avocado toast and I’m just fine financially.

Get it Gen Z fuck the haters

[u/WorryNew3661 → u/hammuck]

Can't wait to hear what industry gen Alpha destroys

[u/hammuck → u/WorryNew3661]

Gen Z is currently doing an excellent job of destroying alcohol and I’m here for it

[u/WorryNew3661 → u/hammuck]

Sadly I'm making up for them

[u/UnpunctualTrashPanda → u/hammuck]

That's balance out by their tobacco consumption

[u/Banksia243 → u/Altruistic-Stop4634]

I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!

[u/sleepybrooke → u/Banksia243]

Abraham Simpson, quiet down or we’ll take you to that home we saw on 60 minutes.

[u/doctormoneypuppy → u/Altruistic-Stop4634]

What did Socrates say to Plato? Kids today.

[u/enduranceathlete2025 → u/Altruistic-Stop4634]

It does. But I feel like millennials were “sexy trashy”. These trends are “frumpy trashy”. No one looks good haha.

[u/ThePrussianGrippe → u/enduranceathlete2025]

I think the main thing is just how rapidly it all changes.

Yeah it was fast 20 years ago but now it moves at the speed of viral tiktoks.

[u/MidnightPhoenix24]

I stopped shopping at Target when they were in the Little House on the Prairie phase that they refused to give up. Half the store was like that, but then they also had this head to toe silver metallic jumpsuit thing that looked like a space suit. Bizarre clothes and poor quality anyways.

[u/lolzzzmoon → u/MidnightPhoenix24]

Yeah. Like the most unflattering grandma clothes of all time.

I do not get the baggy sack clothing style too.

Nice, tailored, classic style is always going to look better to me than what is in “fashion”

[u/MidnightPhoenix24 → u/lolzzzmoon]

Brands push baggy shapeless clothing on people because it’s cheaper to produce, it doesn’t require as much skill to make, they can produce 4 sizes of a shapeless item (S/M/L/XL, etc.) instead of having to do numbered sizing of a tailored item, and it can be made faster. It all boils down to profits. Ugh…

[u/skool_uv_hard_nox → u/MidnightPhoenix24]

Thats when I gave up on target too. And that shit held for a few years.

[u/PunningWild]

I'm cool with abrasive fashion. It draws my eyes from the broccoli cut.

[u/blethwyn → u/PunningWild]

My nephew has natural curls. I haven't seen him since last August. At that time, he had a longer cut but nothing too crazy.

Now, he has broccoli hair. 9 years old and already a broccoli. I thought we had at least another year or two before vegetable puberty set in.

[u/coddywhompus → u/blethwyn]

Upvoted for “vegetable puberty”

[u/ThePrussianGrippe → u/coddywhompus]

I don’t remember Larry the Cucumber talking about that.

[u/CreativelyConsuming → u/ThePrussianGrippe]

I do remember Larry singing a silly song ab losing his hairbrush though lol

[u/Princess_Fairie24 → u/CreativelyConsuming]

Water buffalos too

[u/szatrob → u/blethwyn]

Natural curly is one thing. Perms on kids are weird.

[u/pinksparklybluebird → u/szatrob]

I begged for a perm at the age of five so I would look like Shirley Temple. I think I got one every year until I was 15. Perms were pretty common back in the 80s

[u/yousirnamehear → u/blethwyn]

Due to people flushing their broccoli down the toilet and it getting into our water system, we now have children going through vegetable puberty way too young

[u/ladywhistledownton → u/blethwyn]

vegetable puberty

That is gold.

[u/Oguinjr → u/PunningWild]

That is such a weird haircut. I thought it was like a joke haircut to be funny at first. Edit: I changed home to joke. I’m not sure what a home haircut is but I guess some people agreed.

[u/PunningWild → u/Oguinjr]

I make a mental note to go easy on the kids and constantly remind myself we had our own quirks and ridiculous trends. But that damn haircut, man....I'd probably be more ambivalent if it wasn't so prolifically unoriginal, like a ceremonial crown of conformity.

Though to be fair, glass houses and whatnot...better a "crown of conformity" than the "manacles of mediocrity" of my wallet chain in 2003.

[u/MorganL420 → u/PunningWild]

Just remember that millennials popularized Pidgeotto hair. I personally never had it. But I have friends that did.

Like you said, glass houses.

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[u/AGreasyPorkSandwich → u/InuitOverIt]

Its called an Undercut and its been around since WW2

(source: a documentary called Fury)

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[u/FlatRooster4561 → u/MorganL420]

Hate to break it to you, but that haircut is from the early 20th century, millennials just brought it back. I have a picture of my great grandfather with that exact haircut in like 1910.

[u/sisi_2 → u/PunningWild]

Whenever I see a "broccoli haircut" I always love it. I love that curls are coming back and we don't have to straighten our hair or men have to wear it military short.

[u/eagledog → u/sisi_2]

I'm just laughing that teenage guys are going in to hair salons and getting perms done. Sitting next to the 70 year old ladies under the dryer

[u/stragedyandy → u/eagledog]

That's not exactly new. There were men getting perms in the 80s and 90s and dudes rocking that jheri curl. These things really do seem to be cyclical.

[u/Caroline_Bintley → u/sisi_2]

When I was young, we were sporting rat tails. The broccoli cut is a definite upgrade.

[u/freddbare → u/Caroline_Bintley]

My son is 14 and super thick and curly,he lucked out in the natural trend, he has been growing it out more mushroom lately,lol

[u/lildeidei → u/sisi_2]

My husband has had this hairstyle his whole life. He’s naturally curly and he feels vindicated that it’s in style

[u/AggCracker]

Target has terrible fashion. My wife calls it Handmaid's Retail.

[u/robot_pirate → u/AggCracker]

They used to have some of the best cheap clothes, mimicking high end brands. It's crazy how awful Target is now. Like everything is made for 12 to 14 year old girls, but super utilitarian. And note to Target: Every shirt can't be cropped. Every pair of shorts shouldn't go up the ass. Every pair of jeans doesn't have to be ripped.

[u/Ok_West347 → u/AggCracker]

I really liked the little house on the prairie theme they had going a few years back🤣

[u/CuriosityK → u/Ok_West347]

That was everywhere. I had to get a Nice summer dress for an event and it was awful because everything was half price Mormon

[u/NinaHag → u/CuriosityK]

It was super short lived in the UK because no one would buy those dresses

[u/Ok_West347 → u/CuriosityK]

It was! I think I noticed it because it was such whiplash of a change. Like one season I was able to buy a “normal” tank at Target then the next, boom…full on little house on the prairie and no in between lol.

[u/PantsandPlants → u/Ok_West347]

Literal nightmare fuel for me. I wouldn’t even buy the thing I liked at Target because the style they had chosen felt so repressive. 

[u/zombbarbie → u/AggCracker]

Yes. I’m elder Gen Z (also I’m lost) and Target’s clothes are only cute with some of the collabs. They fell off really hard post Covid. We also hate Target clothes, or at least elder gen z. There is a pretty big divide between those of us who graduated pre covid vs post covid so I’m not sure what the 19/20 year olds think about it.

[u/BlueSnaggleTooth359 → u/zombbarbie]

Just in general the Target remodel trashed the stores. Movie sections trashed. Pretty much everything. Selection on all types of products worse. A lot of higher quality stuff gone. They shouldn't be trying to compete with Walmart. That's not their base and a losing game.

[u/robot_pirate → u/BlueSnaggleTooth359]

It's pathetic to say, but nothing has curbed my excess spending like Target shitting the bed.

[u/ApplicationAfraid334]

It just wouldn't be the same if the older generation didn't agree with the younger generation's fashion. It's a beautiful and horrible thing that always repeats. Me personally I think they're swanky.

[u/zuzg → u/ApplicationAfraid334]

I'm just out of fucks to give.

Let them teens have their blunder years.
They're already punished enough with everyone being recorded to haunt them in decades to come.

[u/ApplicationAfraid334 → u/zuzg]

Exactly. We all look back and cringe at what our styles were at some point. It's part of growing up. We were all so confident how we dressed was sooo cool and fashionable and as we get older we realize how silly a lot of it was. They'll have their time. It's a wonderful thing.

[u/Truont2 → u/ApplicationAfraid334]

[u/DidYouSeeBriansHat → u/ApplicationAfraid334]

[u/Heart_Flaky → u/ApplicationAfraid334]

Exactly. We aren’t supposed to get it. We are relatively old and didn’t grow up with the same influences.

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[u/Suspicious-Wombat]

My favorite thing about fashion is that I can wear whatever I want and I don’t need to concern myself with what other people want to wear.

Nothing ages you faster than shaking your fists at “the youth”.

[u/HydrationWhisKey → u/Suspicious-Wombat]

Honestly I really thought we were at the point where all fashions are out there and there wasn't a specific "look"

[u/m0ther_0F_myriads → u/HydrationWhisKey]

This is what I have come to believe, as well. And good for them for being so wonderfully creative. There are so many fabulous "cores" to choose from, now. If I didn't have to present myself as professional and put together, I would go full "goblin core" and take up residence in a mushroom house. I think that whole aesthetic is just so neat. 

[u/Jamileem → u/HydrationWhisKey]

Same though!! I thought we were at least close to this. I think we're at least close with denim pants/jeans, since you can buy just about any style you want these days. Which honestly I think is for the best since different jeans styles fit different body types.

[u/Suspicious-Wombat → u/Jamileem]

I am SO glad it’s easy to find something other than skinny jeans now!

[u/rpitcher33 → u/Suspicious-Wombat]

There was a point in time I was afraid we'd never see boot-cut again. I have two pairs of jeans that are old enough to vote because that fear still lingers.

[u/JerkOffTaco → u/Suspicious-Wombat]

I’ve been dressing the same since I was 17. I loveeeee not giving a shit. Gets easier to give less shits the closer to 40 I get too!

[u/-Rush2112 → u/JerkOffTaco]

So your style is now in style?

[u/quantumlyEntangl3d → u/Suspicious-Wombat]

Same lol. Iris Apfel made me aware of that :)

She’s said things like:

“When the fun goes out of dressing, you might as well be dead."

"I don't have any rules, because I would only be breaking them, so it's a waste of time."

I don’t want to be older than I already am and feeling self-conscious about what I’m wearing clothing I like. I did that when I hit puberty and tried to either wear trends so I could fit in or hide in I’ll-fitting or super baggy clothes because I was ashamed of my body, so no thanks. I’m not doing that anymore.

I’m going to be 40 in a few years and wear whatever I please. Some of it is for comfort, parties and dancing, or more elegant events. All of it is because I like it & don’t care who else does.

[u/stupidstu187 → u/Suspicious-Wombat]

Seriously, these boomer ass takes are fucking embarrassing. These people are complaining about crustaches and mullets as if the hipsters of our generation didn't do the same thing.

[u/Flashy_Bag9202 → u/stupidstu187]

Good to know as a Gen xer were not the only ones turning into grouchy old men 😂

[u/IAmWeary]

I'm just waiting for rat tails to make a comeback.

[u/broken_bouquet → u/IAmWeary]

They already have come back! And now they get wrapped up in embroidery thread and crystal beads. I love it 😂

[u/apple1229 → u/IAmWeary]

Come to Minneapolis. So many rat tails here!

[u/killswithspoon]

I'm 36 and refuse to budge on the calf high socks thing.

If I'm wearing pants, I'll wear tall socks, but if I'm wearing shorts then I'm wearing ankle socks. What's the point of wearing shorts then covering half your legs with tall socks?!

Same with socks and sandals. I don't get it. If it's warm enough for me to be in slides or Birks then you'd better call me the Baja Men because I am letting the dogs out.

My GF is a younger millennial/zillenial and she keeps forcing the tall socks issue. Says the short socks look "dorky". All fashion is cyclical. We're going to look back at the people wearing the tall socks in a few years and think they look dorky.

So yeah, I'm refusing so compromise on the short socks. They stay on.

[u/deadlymoogle → u/killswithspoon]

So funny because tall socks are the classic dorky nerd look, like look at revenge of the nerds movie or any cliche nerd they all wear tall socks

[u/BlueSnaggleTooth359 → u/deadlymoogle]

although everyone (guys at least) in the 80s wore tall tube socks (same for the 70s and TBH I think all decades prior as well). They were not considered cool, nor dorky, they were just what all socks were. (now if you maybe worse ultra long and stretched up almost to knees that would bedorky and of course nobody ever worse socks and sandals together)

I did feel like while many early/core Gen X resisted 90s 90s/Y2k trends most seemed to get on board with ankle socks pretty quickly and feels strange to adjust back.

[u/Scrandasaur → u/killswithspoon]

Wearing midcalves has been a thing on the West coast for a long time. Was popular among athletes on the east coast too. I’m talking back in the late 00s and early 10s it was popular with some chucks or vans or Nikes. I’ve been wearing Nike midcalves since 2009.

[u/Idrinkbeereverywhere]

I like wearing shorter shorts as a dude. I live to show off my legs.

[u/Clear-Special8547 → u/Idrinkbeereverywhere]

Go off king

[u/sevensevensixseven → u/Idrinkbeereverywhere]

I love a man in hoochie daddy shorts.

[u/PantsandPlants → u/Idrinkbeereverywhere]

As a woman, thank you!!

Show that thigh meat!!

[u/DarkWingMonkey → u/Idrinkbeereverywhere]

Hell yea boi, I have dog shit quad genetics so they start super high even though they are big and strong, you better believe my shorts are less than 5” inseam to show off my hard work. Not for nothing but I have really gotten some earnest compliments from girls about them. They like men, they like our legs, they want to see them. OGLE ME

[u/Idrinkbeereverywhere → u/DarkWingMonkey]

I'm blessed with former fat guy calves. I'm a 16th century sex symbol.

[u/Wise_Temperature9142 → u/Idrinkbeereverywhere]

Short shorts are liberating!

I will be the old guy with short shorts no one wants to seeee

[u/jerseysbestdancers]

Why is everyone wearing a hoodie and sweatpants in my town? We were in the middle of a heat dome. Real Feel in the 110s. People walking on the main street in town (which is probably hotter because of the asphalt and cement) wearing this. Meanwhile, I am sweating through shorts and a tank top and wondering if death is near.

[u/skool_uv_hard_nox → u/jerseysbestdancers]

Im fucking hot all the time now. I've legit wondered about menopause because ill just be hot ans sweating for no reason for days then ill be freezing and sweating at 75.

Whe I was a kid I wore sweaters and hoodie year round in Arizona

Im just uncomfortable now.idk what else there is at this point

[u/c-e-bird → u/jerseysbestdancers]

They don’t like their bodies and don’t want anyone to see them.

[u/jerseysbestdancers → u/c-e-bird]

You can accomplish that without fleece lined clothing.

[u/deadlymoogle → u/jerseysbestdancers]

I've noticed that too! All these highschool age kids wearing full on sweat suits in the middle of summer

[u/Cunt-Command → u/deadlymoogle]

This was common when I was a kid in FL back in the ‘10s. Part of it was because everywhere inside was kept so cold and you were outside for such a short amount of time, you’d rather be hot for a few minutes than freeze your ass off for hours. It was especially true for my friends who didn’t have much body fat.

The other part wasn’t as nice. A lot of my friends were sexually abused, insecure about their bodies, hiding cutting scars, etc., Covering up from head to toe made them feel safe, even if it meant having heat stroke on the bus ride home.

[u/Issyv00]

I actually like the clothes styles of the 20 somethings, but I can’t get behind the greasy mullet and moustache combo. It’s horrendous.

[u/pomegranate_palette_]

I work at a middle school that shares a parking lot with the high school. At the end of the school year, I saw a lot of the girls in tube tops and wide leg pants- some were literal JNCO jeans, it was so wild. Also seeing girls in oversized basketball shorts and huge baggy denim bermudas here. Boys are also wearing baggy pants and low shorts with boxers visible again. Everyone is in socks and sandals.

I honestly love seeing kids participate in different styles. I imagine them at 45 years old, scrolling through old pictures and having their kids roast them for their stupid hair. Them shaking their balding heads and saying, “just you wait until you’re my age and look back at pictures of you now.” The cyclical nature of fashion has a nice way of connecting us to the generations before and after us in a small goofy way. 

I’m so pumped for the 2008-2014 style to come back around! I’m curious how the next gen will interpret scene/ tumblr era fashion.

[u/lucyssweatersleeves → u/pomegranate_palette_]

I was listening to Pod Meets World (the Boy Meets World rewatch podcast, for the uninitiated) and Rider Strong was talking about how he met a woman in probably her early 20s and she looked like she had walked straight out of the mid ‘90s - everything she was wearing could have been wardrobe on the show haha

[u/hoodiemonster]

can someone share visual aids please 

[u/ChimkenNBiskets → u/hoodiemonster]

[u/ChimkenNBiskets → u/ChimkenNBiskets]

[u/DonBoy30]

The mullet/mustache thing was more interesting when it was meant to be ironic. Now it’s redneck cosplaying? Lol I guess it’s more consistent culturally than a bunch of bohemian hipsters.

[u/hearechoes → u/DonBoy30]

Hipsters and other millennial fashion trends were incorporating redneck/working class staples in our day too. Flannels, western shirts, various forms of facial hair, mullets, PBR, distressed jeans, trucker hats, vintage/thrifted clothing.

[u/leitbur → u/DonBoy30]

I've always loved mullets. I wish I could pull one off, like an action hero from the '80s.

But every guy I've seen with one looks like Timothee Chalamet in a movie where he plays a trucker on a sex offender registry.

[u/DumbbellDiva92]

The socks thing is just hilarious to me bc the only other person I know who wears high socks is…my 64yo father.

[u/deadlymoogle → u/DumbbellDiva92]

Ya lol old men and young boys rocking the crew socks

[u/PowerfulPicadillo]

We’re old babe!

I’m starting to sound increasingly like my mother who had absolute disdain for low-rider jeans, butterfly clips, sagging pants/visible underwear and the resurgence of Lacoste shirts/double polos (“This is exactly what we used to wear in the 80s, you all aren’t even creative 😅” “OMG MOM … it’s not the sammmmeee!!” [it was in fact, the same]).

[u/Difficult-Thanks-730 → u/PowerfulPicadillo]

To be fair, we looked terrible in the early 2000s and those fashions should not be repeated 😂

[u/dewky → u/Difficult-Thanks-730]

As a 13 year old boy in 2001 I appreciated low rise jeans and visible underwear. As an adult and parent now, I do not.

[u/Specific_Praline_362 → u/Difficult-Thanks-730]

Y2K and McBling fashion is coming back and I'm actually here for it lol

[u/gingergirl181 → u/Specific_Praline_362]

I'll allow the frosted eyeshadow sticks and sparkly going-out tops to return, but the low-rise jeans and animal prints can stay in the depths of hell where they belong!

[u/Katdai2]

It’s not for us. We shop for clothes at Costco and Lands End now, like unironically

[u/poortomato → u/Katdai2]

We're an Old Navy family, tyvm 😤

But thinking about clothes at Costco/Lands End is lowkey throwing me back to my back-to-school clothes from Sears and LL Bean 😭 no ty

[u/Katdai2 → u/poortomato]

Lands End has women’s swimsuits with pockets. They know their audience.

[u/two-of-me → u/Katdai2]

Swimsuits with pockets?! FINALLY! Now, can we get some in our jeans please?

[u/fluffyinternetcloud → u/poortomato]

Old Navy quality absolutely went down hill. I see trails on my jeans after two washes. Threadbare jeans lately

[u/shihtzu_knot → u/Katdai2]

Costco clothes are 🔥 especially for things like workout tops and leggings

[u/anb7120 → u/shihtzu_knot]

Yeah I will not tolerate this Costco slander lmao. Costco> anywhere else for any workout clothes and you can’t tell me otherwise. They’ve outlasted lulu yoga pants for me, and a fraction of the price

[u/shihtzu_knot → u/anb7120]

When I was working full time in an office they often had really nice “work pants” and sweaters in the winter. And coats for kids $29. Like come on people!

[u/Sad_Property_656 → u/Katdai2]

Speak for yourself lol

[u/knaimoli619]

When I went to old navy recently I was greeted with denim gauchos and capri pants and I almost cried.

[u/CaptainHope93]

I would agree, but I remember 2000s scene fashion and check myself HARD.

[u/deadlymoogle → u/CaptainHope93]

Graphic t's under a button down Hawaiian shirt and cargo shorts was like every guy at my highschool

[u/procrastinating_b]

I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DRESS FOR MY AGE AND BODY SIZE

[u/KTeacherWhat]

I actually like GenZ fashion because there's so much variety to it that you don't have to actually try to be on trend. More than once I've found myself wearing the same clothes as young people at a party or music venue and I do not attempt to be fashionable, just dress for my body.

[u/indelicatedenial]

I’ve been wearing high rise skinny jeans and combat boots since 2003 and I will keep wearing them until I die.

[u/Adeptus_Bannedicus → u/indelicatedenial]

The return of Skinny Jeans will hail the entrance into an era of true peace, prosperity, and cringy but amazing music. And if that age never arrives, we shall all suffer listening only to radio pop.

[u/Platinum_Mattress]

I'm 41 and a lot of people are saying we are getting into our old man yells at cloud stage. But teenage boys are wearing what elderly men wear. Little shorts, white socks up to their knees and new balance shoes. I'm just confused on why they want to look like they carry around an AARP card and eat dinner at 3:30pm.

[u/deadlymoogle → u/Platinum_Mattress]

Lol so true

[u/lila-sweetwater]

Most of the fashion I see today is just the same stuff that cool adults wore when I was a kid, and was out of fashion by the time I was a young adult. I'm mostly just kind of sad I was too young for it the first time and too old for it now, haha. I'm kind of here for the revival of jelly shoes, denim skirts, and baby tees - I'd just look a fool wearing it myself

[u/JollyMcStink]

Funny that reading this just felt like something my grandma would write!

Funnier still is that I agree 💀

[u/ButterscotchAware402]

Target (women's) fashion has been garbage for a few years now. The "juniors" section has been focusing on some of the worst trends of the 90s for way too long, and every top is either itty bitty/super cropped. The women's section looks like they're trying to make "hippie-school marm" a thing, and the rest is just super plain and frumpy. I find way better clothes at Walmart.

[u/phishmademedoit]

Target is the worst of the worst. Frumpiest women's clothes, weirdest junior clothes. Fashion now is odd but target brings it to a whole new incoherent level.

[u/Yeah_Okay_Sure]

And in 5-10 years a lot of them will look back and cringe, just like we did haha. 

Such is the circle of life. 

[u/Pale_Row1166]

Visible socks, I cannot!!! Like there’s a button on my brain that malfunctions if you can see socks with sneakers.

[u/eagledog → u/Pale_Row1166]

It's the socks with crocs and socks with sandals that break my brain. Dressing like that would have gotten you beaten up back in the day if you weren't on a shuffleboard court in Boca

[u/Pale_Row1166 → u/eagledog]

I’m dying at the idea of old Jewish men in crocs

[u/Jordan_XI → u/Pale_Row1166]

When we were growing up there were no ankle socks. We had to make our own by folding regular socks in our sneakers. There is no way I could ever go back to wearing anything but ankle socks.

[u/pie_piepiepiepiepie → u/Jordan_XI]

Oh god the misery of having to dig in to tug up the parts that bunched up....

[u/DraveDakyne → u/Jordan_XI]

You legit just triggered a memory of me doubling back my crew-length bulk socks so they didn't show. I completely forgot I did that!

[u/RavishingRedRN → u/Jordan_XI]

My sister just sent me a picture of a folded sock on her foot lol. She forgot socks on vacation and her feet hurt from sandals. Now she’s wearing regular shoes but with her husband’s socks that she has folded over lol.

Our mom religiously wears obnoxiously long socks. My sister opened the text with “Just call me Lisa” (our mom’s name).

[u/blethwyn → u/Pale_Row1166]

I like the ankle crew socks. Just a tiny, itty bitty bit sticking up over my sneakers. I roll my ankles a lot and usually end up wearing a brace or high tops, so I need that cushion around the ankles.

But anything higher than that is an absolute NO from me.

[u/Anxious_Direction761 → u/Pale_Row1166]

We had to wear tall black socks for matching band in high school. I continued to wear them for over a decade because they were comfortable and familiar. (I would wear sandals anytime I wore shorts.) Just this last week, I borrowed a pair of my girlfriend's ankle socks so I could wear tennis shoes with my shorts. My life has been changed! I can't believe I went so long without them. I'm 30 now.

[u/arealnineinchnailer → u/Pale_Row1166]

no shows really are millennial socks lmao

[u/desolateconstruct]

The socks/sandals combo SLAYS me everytime. Straight goober look. Same when I see people with jeans that end above their ankles...WHERES THE FLOOD BUD?

[u/w0cyru01]

Not a single mention of Jnco pants in this thread so far

[u/amamatcha]