Also: I didn't really experience this, but one thing I've heard from older people is that fashion travels much more quickly. Fashion trends used to start in some hot place in New York or LA, then a couple of years or months later would move to other coastal cities and into suburbs, but it wouldn't reach middle America until much later. You could go from New York to the midwest and feel like you traveled back in time ten years because the fashion seemed so out of date. Nowadays you can go to like rural South Dakota and the girls might dress like NYU students.
I feel like this still happens by accident. I knew a family from NY who moved to the Pittsburg area like 15+ years ago. Somehow they're stuck in the 2011 era of scene and emo trends. Its the weirdest thing to see, like they moved and just froze in time.
there’s still distinct micro-trends i’d say. you’ve got the true religion chief keef swag era type fashion from the early 2010s, affluent white boys wearing vineyard vines and patagonia in the mid 2010s, when i was in high school a bunch of girls used to wear the sweatshirt + leggings/yoga pants combo with socks pulled over their pants which i don’t think i’ve seen in a really long time, and countless others but i don’t think anything of that existed before 2008 and a lot of stuff has definitely fallen out of popularity since
i’d agree though that as a whole though fashion seems same-y and nowhere near as distinct as it was decades prior. probably due to the rise of “fast fashion”, the spread of the internet essentially killing monoculture in general, and mainstream cultural stagnation
Also: I didn't really experience this, but one thing I've heard from older people is that fashion travels much more quickly. Fashion trends used to start in some hot place in New York or LA, then a couple of years or months later would move to other coastal cities and into suburbs, but it wouldn't reach middle America until much later. You could go from New York to the midwest and feel like you traveled back in time ten years because the fashion seemed so out of date. Nowadays you can go to like rural South Dakota and the girls might dress like NYU students.
This is very true. My cousin lived in Philadelphia and I lived in the Midwest. I knew that whatever she was wearing, we'd be wearing in a year or two.
I feel like this still happens by accident. I knew a family from NY who moved to the Pittsburg area like 15+ years ago. Somehow they're stuck in the 2011 era of scene and emo trends. Its the weirdest thing to see, like they moved and just froze in time.
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Yes. Awesome. Finally going to get a scene GF. I've been waiting for this.
On the other hand, there's less distinctiveness in fashion between eras. Everything since 2008 or so feels same-y.
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there’s still distinct micro-trends i’d say. you’ve got the true religion chief keef swag era type fashion from the early 2010s, affluent white boys wearing vineyard vines and patagonia in the mid 2010s, when i was in high school a bunch of girls used to wear the sweatshirt + leggings/yoga pants combo with socks pulled over their pants which i don’t think i’ve seen in a really long time, and countless others but i don’t think anything of that existed before 2008 and a lot of stuff has definitely fallen out of popularity since
i’d agree though that as a whole though fashion seems same-y and nowhere near as distinct as it was decades prior. probably due to the rise of “fast fashion”, the spread of the internet essentially killing monoculture in general, and mainstream cultural stagnation
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