https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-ever-get-genuinely-angry-over-trends-recurring Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Sun, 26 Apr 2026 22:35:32 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-ever-get-genuinely-angry-over-trends-recurring/page/2#post-1718324 Wed, 24 Aug 2016 11:43:29 +0000 Anonymous 1718324@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hi Laura -- I read you post and the comment section and I totally understand where you are coming from.&nbsp; </p> <p>To answer your question, I feel that "nothing is new."&nbsp; Absolutely nothing.&nbsp; So in my mind recurring trends "just happen."&nbsp; The only strong emotion I feel is when a trend I hated the first time is recycled.&nbsp; And I really hate it when the fashion industry acts like this is a new, never before seen innovation.&nbsp; They do that a lot.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-ever-get-genuinely-angry-over-trends-recurring#post-1718300 Wed, 24 Aug 2016 09:35:55 +0000 Style Fan 1718300@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>No.&nbsp; I loved the fashion of the 1960s and early 1970s.&nbsp; I still have some of my clothes from that time.&nbsp; I enjoyed the grunge era too but I could live in 60s fashion for the rest of my life.&nbsp; Actually I might do that.&nbsp; When I see trends reoccurring (especially the flower child era which seems to happen) I feel a sense of pride.&nbsp; Of course they want to wear those clothes and listen to the music.&nbsp; Who wouldn't?&nbsp; It was the best.</p> <p>If some 18 year old is wearing a Bob Dylan T shirt I think they have good taste.&nbsp; Of course they may have never listened to Bob Dylan but I don't care.&nbsp; I get to see Bob's picture.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-ever-get-genuinely-angry-over-trends-recurring#post-1718297 Wed, 24 Aug 2016 09:21:03 +0000 chirico (Chiara) 1718297@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>It depends, although if I experience a negative feeling it's more annoyance than anger.<br /> As Angie, I love some recurring trends - I love the 70s, I have some pics of my mom at the park with white bell bottoms and platforms, and she looks so chic IMO!<br /> I really don't like 80s and 90s fashion, so when I see a girl wearing those my thinking is more on the link of - I bet in 5 years you'll regret wearing this.<br /> I get annoyed when teens wear a recurring trend as if they created it. But that's just me! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-ever-get-genuinely-angry-over-trends-recurring#post-1718295 Wed, 24 Aug 2016 09:01:52 +0000 rachylou 1718295@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ok wait, one more: so I really like that movie that Heath Ledger (sp?) did, which is ridiculous - the one where he's a peasant boy and becomes a knight and everybody rocks out. It seems intentionally anachronistic. But I'm bothered by that WB show about Queen Mary, I think it is, because I feel like they don't get it, what's anachronistic about the way they're playing things...and that it's a consequential miss.</p> <p>Actually...you know what that brings to mind: the original Roots, the mini series. That was such a major thing, tackling US history and the subject of race on tv. And it has been a disappointment to me that kids don't react to it when they see it now...However, I tried to watch it again. That 70s style of filming and acting...oh, that's painful. Without the context of when it first aired, it's embarrassing honestly. It feels mocking. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-ever-get-genuinely-angry-over-trends-recurring#post-1718290 Wed, 24 Aug 2016 06:48:38 +0000 RoseandJoan 1718290@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I agree with Rachylou, the proliferation of late 80's early 90's fashion is largely due to our generation (who were teenagers at the time) now reaching positions of influence within their industry.</p> <p>This cycle partly explains why out generation listened to grunge but The Beetles were used in the adverts of the time.</p> <p>I don't feel angry about the situation at all. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-ever-get-genuinely-angry-over-trends-recurring#post-1718269 Wed, 24 Aug 2016 04:40:45 +0000 Cococat 1718269@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Not angry, in fact, I'm usually thinking if I kept anything that I could wear again..lol. </p> <p>I went to a gala event on Saturday night and I wore an off shoulder top that I bought in the 80s! I have kept it all of those years knowing/hoping it would come back in. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-ever-get-genuinely-angry-over-trends-recurring#post-1718265 Wed, 24 Aug 2016 04:14:28 +0000 rachylou 1718265@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>When dd was 8 (or was it 11?), she gave me a lecture about how rap was her generation's music. Being the indulgent, gentle parent that I am, I laughed in her face and told her that was my generation selling her that felgercarb, ahaha! Yeah, that irked my nerves. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-ever-get-genuinely-angry-over-trends-recurring#post-1718254 Wed, 24 Aug 2016 03:27:47 +0000 binkle 1718254@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>To clarify my thought on cultural appropriation:</p> <p>Wearing poodle skirts or glitter tees or neon brights or grunge - not cultural appropriation.</p> <p>White kids running around Coachella in feathered headdresses - cultural appropriation. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-ever-get-genuinely-angry-over-trends-recurring#post-1718250 Wed, 24 Aug 2016 03:24:21 +0000 Jaime 1718250@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>No not angry. We are all reinventing the wheel aren't we? I have been eagerly been waiting for the hippies to return and am a bit annoyed things keeping going right when I want left. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-ever-get-genuinely-angry-over-trends-recurring#post-1718247 Wed, 24 Aug 2016 03:20:16 +0000 binkle 1718247@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I don't think resurrecting a commercial fashion trend is flippant or dismissive, nor is it cultural appropriation. I mean even at the time, most people were wearing message tshirts or hippie gear (and wasn't that cultural appropriation of native peoples) or grunge plaid, whatever the decade, without buying in to the originating underlying messages.</p> <p>I personally am secretly praying that glitter will come back in its full glory. I guess it has in a way, with cork-ease platforms, hi-waist pants, sequin applique, sharply cut velvet blazers, etc. Does that mean that what I lovingly wore in 1975 was dismissive of the 20s or 30s or 40s?</p> <p>Plus why shouldn't younger folks have their chance to look as wacko as I did. For their sakes, I just hope Hukapoo polyester shirts do NOT come back!</p> <p>It's all good to me. Now where are those pumpkin-orange Plushbottoms elephant bells of my youth? Or those swank Fiorucci pegged trousers... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-ever-get-genuinely-angry-over-trends-recurring#post-1718229 Wed, 24 Aug 2016 02:49:53 +0000 JAileen 1718229@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I love the 70s. My entire high school and college experience was in the 70s. I have fond memories of the styles (such as bell bottoms), colors (earthtones), music (The Eagles, Don McLean, Roberta Flack, and Marvin Gaye, for example), and movies (such as American Graffiti, Star Wars, The Sting, and Saturday Night Fever). So I'm not mad at people who disparage the 70s, I just don't understand why they don't love that decade as much as I do. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-ever-get-genuinely-angry-over-trends-recurring#post-1718224 Wed, 24 Aug 2016 02:33:10 +0000 Jenn 1718224@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You've said something similar before about 80s/90s fashion trends bringing up visceral, negative feelings for you, just encountering them in the store. Does it, perhaps, have more to do with your relationship to that time in your life than the people you see wearing the clothes? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-ever-get-genuinely-angry-over-trends-recurring#post-1718213 Wed, 24 Aug 2016 02:03:44 +0000 catgirl 1718213@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>No. I only get angry at sizing and quality issues sometimes. Trends are part of the roller coaster ride - some of us go around a few times! My niece lecturing me about how acid wash skinnies are so cool had me rolling my eyes, but her time will come!</p> <p>I do have issues with authenticity but that's not really the same. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-ever-get-genuinely-angry-over-trends-recurring#post-1718206 Wed, 24 Aug 2016 01:52:02 +0000 RobinF 1718206@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I definitely agree with the historical stuff, if they are putting all that effort into something please do it right!</p> <p>As far as fashion, I think I know what you mean. It doesn't make me angry but it's kind of like they're stealing our style and pretending it's theirs. I usually find it funny, they wouldn't think it so cool if they saw me in it at 15. I usually avoid throwback styles for a while because they just seem dated until I get used to it again. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-ever-get-genuinely-angry-over-trends-recurring#post-1718195 Wed, 24 Aug 2016 01:34:48 +0000 Peri 1718195@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Not at all, but I attribute some of that to my own cluelessness! I'm doing well when I know what the trends are. A lot of the decades I lived through, I probably couldn't list for you what was trendy for those times. I sure don't feel any cultural significance attached to trends I wore. For example, yes I wore broad shouldered jackets in the 80s even though I have my own broad shoulders. I took out the shoulder pads, but you can't change the cut. What was the context and meaning of those shoulders? Couldn't tell you!!</p> <p>My only sadness regarding trends is that the ones around when I was young and cute were not what I'd call that great! Angie likes the 80s, so that feeling is not fact, but I don't look back fondly on what I got to wear in younger days. I don't feel protective of it at all! I remember thinking in the late 90s, early 2000s, that I wished those had been the years I hit my 20s.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-ever-get-genuinely-angry-over-trends-recurring#post-1718182 Wed, 24 Aug 2016 01:10:30 +0000 Echo 1718182@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>No, not angry at all. And I disagree about cultural appropriation, too; one cannot culturally appropriate from their own culture. Just because I did not live through an era doesn't mean that my knowledge about it is invalid. How can any author under 40 write accurately about Kennedy, WWII, the pharoahs of ancient Egypt, or prohibition? Sometimes the way a new generation reinterprets trends (or historical or political events) can be eye-opening and really refreshing.</p> <p>What DOES bother me is when I was about 30 I was wearing a Gap t-shirt that said something about 1963. A high school kid asked me if I had been there or if it was my own old t-shirt. Nevermind that for me to have been able to choose and wear that same shirt in 1963 I would have had to have been in my mid-50's - everyone over 25 is ancient when you are 16! I'm pretty sure I never wore that shirt again... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-ever-get-genuinely-angry-over-trends-recurring#post-1718169 Wed, 24 Aug 2016 00:37:46 +0000 Gaylene 1718169@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Well, now that I'm in my late sixties, I'd be always angry if I felt that way! :)</p> <p>What's really odd is to be in setting where someone a couple of decades younger starts discussing a decade that he/she "knows" only from TV, films, and hearsay. I try very hard not to roll my eyes. I tell myself they'll experience the same disconnect 30 years from now when they listen to 20-somethings talk as if every woman lawyer dressed like Alicia Florick or high-speed car chases occurred every 10 minutes in large cities. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-ever-get-genuinely-angry-over-trends-recurring#post-1718004 Tue, 23 Aug 2016 19:05:22 +0000 Ginger 1718004@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p><i>Maybe it's my historian-nerd coming out, just like it pains me when<br /> watching so-called 'period' movies when they get the details of how<br /> people spoke, what they wore, what technology would be available so so<br /> wrong, and don't even seem to care. </i></p> <p>Laura, THAT I can identify with. Good analogy. I admit there's not any particular trend I have personal, emotional attachment to. But I am very annoyed when trends or garments recur and are called new, or worse, are promoted as being a callback to something significant in history <i>and get it wrong.</i> &nbsp;<br /> Women's trousers were not a triumph of wartime innovation and women's<br /> lib; they'd been around since the 1920s, following a fascinating<br /> progression from avante garde "pajamas" for beach and hostess wear to<br /> adoption for casual and practical active wear.</p> <p>(There's centuries of history of women's clothing adopting men's styles; it's not something that 20th century women can congratulate themselves on.)&nbsp; Platform shoes aren't a 1970s innovation, they're 1940s; the 1970s just re-discovered them.&nbsp; There was a huge "retro" movement back to the 1930s in the late 60s and early 70s (think to Bonnie &amp; Clyde); so many catalogs and patterns show the long skirts and classy tailored jackets that throw back to the mid-1930s.&nbsp; A lot of the fussy, frilly looks of the 1940s were adopted from the fascination with c. 1900s styles - think Judy Garland.&nbsp; The early 1960s re-invented the so-called 1920s "flapper" and thereby adopted/justified the mini skirt!&nbsp; I love the history of fashion; it's not monolithic, very VERY few single people had significant influence (not even Chanel), and there's tons of borrowing and re-inventing that goes back pretty much forever.</p> <p>Not angry, but passionate for history and truth. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-ever-get-genuinely-angry-over-trends-recurring#post-1718000 Tue, 23 Aug 2016 19:03:47 +0000 Gail 1718000@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I quite enjoy seeing some of the trends come back but it seems when I look at pics of myself in the outfits that the people wearing them now look much cooler than I did !</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-ever-get-genuinely-angry-over-trends-recurring#post-1717998 Tue, 23 Aug 2016 18:59:50 +0000 Diana 1717998@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I don't, but I can understand this feeling on an academic level.&nbsp; It's basically a form of cultural appropriation.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-ever-get-genuinely-angry-over-trends-recurring#post-1717996 Tue, 23 Aug 2016 18:52:05 +0000 Angie 1717996@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Laura, that seems unfair, don't you think? To judge the person negatively because they are wearing a past decade and assuming they don't understand it. We don't know that. And even if they don't understand it - like me - they've probably put the past decade onto a pedestal because they want to live through the magic of it in some way. Why can that not be celebrated?&nbsp;</p> <p>As for your annoyance with when the details aren't right in period movies, I get that because it's historical inaccuracy. And things like that should be accurate - otherwise what is the point of its historical significance.&nbsp;</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-ever-get-genuinely-angry-over-trends-recurring#post-1717988 Tue, 23 Aug 2016 18:40:23 +0000 deb 1717988@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Never angry, just interested in how the style is tweaked. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-ever-get-genuinely-angry-over-trends-recurring#post-1717987 Tue, 23 Aug 2016 18:39:14 +0000 Laura (rhubarbgirl) 1717987@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Quick rephrase: it's not the trend itself that angers me; I know that kind of cyclical process is just the way it goes in fashion. It's the way that people are wearing it. I think it's along the lines of what greyscale and rachylou are saying - I feel like they don't understand what it really means, or the context that it evolved from, and they're making no effort to learn that.</p> <p>And of course I would never say anything rude to anyone about it; I was just surprised at the vehemence of my own thoughts. </p> <p>Maybe it's my historian-nerd coming out, just like it pains me when watching so-called 'period' movies when they get the details of how people spoke, what they wore, what technology would be available so so wrong, and don't even seem to care. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-ever-get-genuinely-angry-over-trends-recurring#post-1717981 Tue, 23 Aug 2016 18:19:58 +0000 rachylou 1717981@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Is it the trends or the kids? Lol. Kids are just not cute after age 11, mwahaha. And their perspective is so off. And each generation is more and more removed from reality. It really shows at the bakery. These kiddos come in and their only real skills are video games and watching fake wrestling. No one has ever worked before turning 18 because it's pretty much illegal. Heck, my mother scoffs at me because I don't know about laundry starch. She thought I should have somehow picked it up from the ether. I like to quote MC Lars to kids: Hot Topic is Not Punk Rock </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-ever-get-genuinely-angry-over-trends-recurring#post-1717979 Tue, 23 Aug 2016 18:14:37 +0000 Greyscale 1717979@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think I know what you mean. It's not anger for me exactly - I'm quite excited to see my 90s style back - but some sort of eye-rolling at people not realizing they didn't invent these things themselves. I think it's similar to the feeling some punk friends have when they see punk trends sold for hundreds of dollars -- except they have more legitimate reason to gripe than me, because I can't claim any purity of philosophy around my old grunge clothes!</p> <p>I am, however, irked that the 70s trend just won't fade, because it's not a look that I prefer for myself, and elements of it have creeped into all of my favorite brands. That's just for my own preferences though, a different sort of irritation. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-ever-get-genuinely-angry-over-trends-recurring#post-1717971 Tue, 23 Aug 2016 18:06:32 +0000 Janet 1717971@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Not anger, but some resurgences annoy me a little and cause me to roll my eyes. Mostly just amusement. Once in a while I'm excited by an old favorite that comes back around (yay for pointy toes!). </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-ever-get-genuinely-angry-over-trends-recurring#post-1717970 Tue, 23 Aug 2016 18:05:22 +0000 Barbara Diane 1717970@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Not angry, but old, lol.&nbsp;<br />I remember clearly the first time I saw peace sign chokers, bell bottoms, and embroidered jeans and jean jackets/workshirts come back.</p> <p>Actually, a little angry when jeans with holes came in. Felt like it was cheating to shortcut the process of wearing and wearing and wearing the jeans til you earned the holes. The funny/odd part of this is that I never wore jeans with holes. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-ever-get-genuinely-angry-over-trends-recurring#post-1717967 Tue, 23 Aug 2016 17:58:39 +0000 celia 1717967@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>No,not anger. But I do question what this youth knows about Kurt Kobain to be wearing t-shirts with him. It makes me wonder if other generations also feel weird about me wearing certain items that culturally make sense to them but not to me. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-ever-get-genuinely-angry-over-trends-recurring#post-1717962 Tue, 23 Aug 2016 17:49:58 +0000 Angie 1717962@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p><b></b>No. I have never experienced anger at recurring trends.&nbsp;<b></b></p> <p>NOT AT ALL. Quite the opposite. I CELEBRATE recurring trends and am very positive about it. They put a smile on my face. I was born in 1970, so '70s and '80s fashion have a very special place in my heart. I like seeing youngsters rock these decades, and love wearing recurring trends myself. &nbsp;</p> <p>My next favourite decade is the '60s, and I don't for a second feel like I'm being flippant and dismissive of trends because I wasn't around to wear them. Instead, I put the style on a pedestal.</p> <p>I am far less fond of '90s fashion, although it did have its good side. That said, I enjoy seeing youngsters rock the '90s with the best of them.&nbsp;</p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-ever-get-genuinely-angry-over-trends-recurring#post-1717960 Tue, 23 Aug 2016 17:37:29 +0000 Aziraphale 1717960@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>No, I have never experience anger in response to a trend revival. Not at all. I'm surprised you feel this way. Not that your reaction is somehow invalid -- we feel what we feel, whether we like it or not -- but as a fellow grunge-era youth myself, I am quite pleased to see the revival of some specifically early-90s-era things, like chokers. I may or may not wear them this time around, but it's nostalgic (in a pleasant way) to see them.</p> <p>I think we always pick and choose when it comes to fashion. And after about 20 years, it's about time for a 90s revival! </p>