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Do You Ever Get Genuinely Angry Over Trends Recurring?

shurimano

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As late 80s, early 90s fashion has become all the rage for the teenage/college crowd, I find myself getting super-annoyed. Usually recurring trends just make me laugh and roll my eyes, but this is a deeper reaction. I'm not sure if it's that I'm taking it personally, because I was a teenager during that period, and so it seems flippant for them to pick and choose and somehow be dismissive of our trends (little do they know that they'll feel the same way in 20 years), or what.

Curious whether others have had this reaction, or how you get past that emotional tie to certain kinds of clothes.

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Cardiff girl

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No ,I have no trouble at all with trends re occurring.ln fact it sometimes amuses me to see thing s that I ve worn in the past being hailed as the latest thing.I might be old but I m deeply cool(,ha! Lol)Fashion is very circular these days and there is such a high turn over of trends that it’s not surprising that things reoccur.

rachylou

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Well, I do remember when my dd was 8 or something and she tried to tell me rap was her generation’s music and I said, ‘Girl that’s my generation selling you that stuff.’ Lol. I *was* simply full of disdain on that one...

Style Fan

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No, it does not bother me at all. Fashion is always borrowing from other eras. In the sixties, the dresses were seen as all new but they were influenced by other eras. There is a scene from the movie "To Sir, with Love" when the teacher takes the students to the museum to show them this. Of course, I remember that scene.

Toban

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Amused, yes. Angry, no. It is interesting what memories the revised trends invoke. Usually humorous memories, especially the 80s big hair :). Having gone through some of the trends once it has become easier to say no this time around.

jussie

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What’s that old saying- “there is nothing new under the sun” ie no ideas are truly original, they’re built from previous ideas. Does it annoy me? No but it does make me feel slightly silly for buying (literally) into it all.

Bijou

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No Never! I live near a university and it makes me happy to see Uni students wearing similar clothing to what I wore at a similar age. I enjoy seeing what trends they pick and chose because each generation will put their own spin on fashion. I see the late teens as a great time to experiment and find your own voice and tribe, fashion is part of finding that identity.

Helen11

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I'm amused, too, not angry. My mum told me it would happen, lol! Very glad I can pick and choose which trends to take up again.

Anonymous

Put me in the “amused” camp. Even more amusing that they think it’s original and of their own idea or making- lol.
SF- Right!? I loved that movie and its sequel ( talk about coming back around;-) I find even TV shows, game shows and movies keep coming back as remakes too. I never think they are as good. Best to let some things be and watch the old ones in reruns. Then you laugh at 50-60’s plot lines and filming techniques.

cindysmith

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I either get amused. or I start wondering what the heck these kids are thinking because that looked goofy the first time(s) around. I grew up on 80s fashion and it didn't make me angry when it came back around. I was glad to see skinny jeans come back!

Janet

(website)

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It amuses me more than anything. Like
The kids who thought that Green Day invented punk. LOL

Runcarla

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Everything old is new again! Amused - not angry! As long as I don't have to wear it again - LOL! Some era's are better than others, though!

The Cat

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No. I don't see any reason for me to get angry about things like that.

Besides, this forum is about having FUN with fashion.

rachylou

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Ok. So yeah... I guess I’m in the Angry Camp... At the very least I’m in the Mock You Mercilessly Camp... Green Day is not Punk! If you stop playing because people are getting ‘too rough’ in the mosh pit - you get thrown off the punk team! I give the boot to Green Day!

Also, if you live past 30.

Ahahaha!!

It kills me too that Blondie is often called punk too nowadays.

(Thank you, Janet. I really enjoyed the opportunity to give my punk rant )

K.M.

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I'm also in the amused and sometimes delighted camp! I was a teen in the 80s and early 90s. When I see some teens now wearing extremely high-waisted tapered jeans with cropped tops, it makes me laugh (but I'm not going there myself--those were uncomfortable!). And I am happy that my beloved bootcuts and flares from the early aughts are coming back too.

Suz

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Since you mention that you're ordinarily amused by this, it does sound as if something specific is going on for you here. Maybe this period of fashion feels very tied to your identity and it feels disrespectful for others to "toy" with it, or maybe you look back at yourself wearing those things and think how silly and wonder why anyone else would subject themselves to it. Or maybe it's a question of regretting lost youth? (I don't mean to psychoanalyze here, by the way -- just throwing out ideas to consider -- you know your own feelings best!)

I tend to fall into the amused or bemused camps. I do like the return of high waists but I don't think I'll be wearing true crop tops this time round.

elpgal

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What Suz says about lost youth resonates with me. I loved sunburst skirts in the happy care-free days of the 80s and now regret that I can't wear them.

Gaylene

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Another amused/bemused here. I think Suz, as usual, has nailed the heart of the discomfort we sometimes feel when the “youngsters” blithely appropriate something we feel belongs to our generation without the slightest interest in acknowledging its precedents. But then, I remind myself that my generation in the sixties didn’t invent miniskirts, jeans, or over-the-knee boots, nor did the eighties invent big hair, or the late eighties/nineties invent plaid shirts and Converse footwear.

That’s the interesting thing about fashion—every group of young ‘uns gets to pick and choose from what has gone before to figure out what is THE look at that moment in time. And does so with the conviction that look, idea, or whatever was born with them. Infuriating, but also amusing.

Gigi

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I'm another one in the amused camp. I think it's interesting to see the trends come around again and see how the younger generation wears them. I felt kind of goofy in those clothes in the eighties (I was a teen in the eighties), so I'm curious to see what will be embraced and what will be rejected.

Whenever I have a strong reaction to something fashion-wise, it's usually because there is something more going on than just what is on the surface. I used to get genuinely angry about flared pants and jeans. Those were for the seventies, so why is everyone wearing them now? I realized that it had to do with being a young child in the seventies and having to wear hand-me-downs that were really ugly, many of them with that silhouette. Some forum members convinced me to try bootcuts because they were in line with my overall style, and trying them out made me change my mind about them. Now I don't mind them one bit and actually enjoy wearing them every now and then.

jill58

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It annoys me more to hear a Ramones song being used in a Peloton commercial.

Mainelady

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I don’t think I have ever been angry about trends, current or recurring. I have been amused, confused, puzzled, perplexed and pleased. Those are enough reactions for me.

Anonymous

Seems like a waste of emotion to me.....

Jaime

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I can imagine feeling a certain sense of nostalgia seeing trends repeat. I was too clueless to notice trends when I was younger, but can get very emotional about certain songs. I firmly believe - with Jussie and Solomon - that there is nothing new under the sun.

Joy

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Camp amused. I'll be ROTFL if the high schoolers ever go for those oversized shoulder pads in a big way.

rachylou

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Ok. Don’t like the Ramones being used in the Peleton commercial either... so far, I guess I’m all about the music... but it’s part and parcel to me.

On the other hand, I like bell bottoms the second time around, but didn’t the first.

...I’m actually quite surprised more peeps don’t find rehashing more irritating.

Like the Season

Interesting to think about. The return of trends from the '80s and early '90s makes me deeply nostalgic more than anything. They're the fads I participated in, enjoyed and even "understood" -- as strange as some of them were. But for most of my adulthood, I've avoided trends, finding them impossible to keep up with and often uncomfortable in a "this isn't me" kind of way. By the time I come around to a few of them, the rest of the world has moved on.

bridgie

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No. Never. I do think this is an interesting post and most of the replies are amusing.

My favorite replies are The Cat and Lisa P.

Jenni NZ

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I've never got angry either, more nostalgic, and I think it's to do with partly mourning my lost youth! From age 15 when I was allowed to choose my own clothes I have liked many of them and remember the happiness of those times eg my very 80s Princess Diana-like wedding dress.

Jessikams

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It makes me a little irritated to see how easily one can BUY everything these days. As in, all kinds of crazy trendy stuff is in stores and it’s super cheap too. When I was younger, fashion took a lot more work— stores had only very basic, boring stuff, and so we had to make things or dig for vintage finds- you couldn’t just go to target and buy it.

I have no idea why this would piss me off. Guess I’m an old grump, shaking my fist and saying “kids have it so easy these days!”

Janet

(website)

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Jessi, I know what you mean. A few years back, I saw a young person wearing the very Siouxsie & the Banshees tee that I have from when I saw them in ‘85. Mine is packed away in a container in the basement with a bunch of other vintage concert tees. But hers was probably from Hot Topic or something. Sigh. I had a moment of mixed feelings — one one hand a little envy that kids now have so much style and music from all eras and parts of the world at their fingertips, while we had to go searching for this stuff when I was young. But I am glad I grew up when I did — we had to work to find the cool stuff and probably appreciated it all the more for the effort we had to make.

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