Fashion trend forecast 2024

[Anonymous]

This comes up every year, with someone asking. So I'll preemptively make the thread and name some trends based on the Spring 2024 runways and also street fashion blogs.

Overall: more polished, chic, classic looks with modern finishing. Officially the end of the covid sweatsuit era. Casual looks will be oversized, eg, baggy looks will reign. Waistlines will be a new area of emphasis with dropped waistlines, and long peplum being on trend.

Jeans: baggy will be most fashionable followed by flare.

Colors: black and white, red, lilc, pink, and a range of yellows from butter to sunshine. Blue is being pushed by Pantone but the fashion world doesn't seem to be listening

Purses: oversized, large bags most fashionable, but tiny bags still in. Fanny packs still in style.

Shoes: knee high boots coming back hot. Thigh high still good. Kitten heels. High heels very in for most fashion conscious, but this year's flat trend will likely hang on.

Hemline: micro mini and midi for fashion people

Miscellaneous: cutouts remain very hot, gold metallics here to stay for a long time, see through fabrics will be more common in typical clothing stores, 1990s the muse for most looks. Enjoy your middle parts and wild shag cuts now, ladies, because by 2025 we will be deep in 1990s hair trends like a less layered, more undone version of The Rachel. This year, you can wear a deep side part and look like you're on the cutting edge of trend.

Every year I respond to the trend thread and people get upset with me. Take it up with the fashion people. I don't make the rules, I just keep up with them.

[Anonymous]

This is helpful, thanks!

[Anonymous]

Finally I'm going to be "in style". This is how I already dress!

[Anonymous]

This is great, thanks OP.

*tries a deep side part*

[Anonymous]

Yay to the end of the sweatsuit era!

[Anonymous]

Thanks!
How about makeup trends- specifically lips?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This comes up every year, with someone asking. So I'll preemptively make the thread and name some trends based on the Spring 2024 runways and also street fashion blogs.

Overall: more polished, chic, classic looks with modern finishing. Officially the end of the covid sweatsuit era. Casual looks will be oversized, eg, baggy looks will reign. Waistlines will be a new area of emphasis with dropped waistlines, and long peplum being on trend.

Jeans: baggy will be most fashionable followed by flare.

Colors: black and white, red, lilc, pink, and a range of yellows from butter to sunshine. Blue is being pushed by Pantone but the fashion world doesn't seem to be listening

Purses: oversized, large bags most fashionable, but tiny bags still in. Fanny packs still in style.

Shoes: knee high boots coming back hot. Thigh high still good. Kitten heels. High heels very in for most fashion conscious, but this year's flat trend will likely hang on.

Hemline: micro mini and midi for fashion people

Miscellaneous: cutouts remain very hot, gold metallics here to stay for a long time, see through fabrics will be more common in typical clothing stores, 1990s the muse for most looks. Enjoy your middle parts and wild shag cuts now, ladies, because by 2025 we will be deep in 1990s hair trends like a less layered, more undone version of The Rachel. This year, you can wear a deep side part and look like you're on the cutting edge of trend.

Every year I respond to the trend thread and people get upset with me. Take it up with the fashion people. I don't make the rules, I just keep up with them.

I hope you are accurate re: end of sweatsuit era. I saw someone in a matchy matchy Alo sweatsuit, they looked to be walking through the grocery in their pajamas - actually bearing a smug look on their face. For real? You look silly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This comes up every year, with someone asking. So I'll preemptively make the thread and name some trends based on the Spring 2024 runways and also street fashion blogs.

Overall: more polished, chic, classic looks with modern finishing. Officially the end of the covid sweatsuit era. Casual looks will be oversized, eg, baggy looks will reign. Waistlines will be a new area of emphasis with dropped waistlines, and long peplum being on trend.

Jeans: baggy will be most fashionable followed by flare.

Colors: black and white, red, lilc, pink, and a range of yellows from butter to sunshine. Blue is being pushed by Pantone but the fashion world doesn't seem to be listening

Purses: oversized, large bags most fashionable, but tiny bags still in. Fanny packs still in style.

Shoes: knee high boots coming back hot. Thigh high still good. Kitten heels. High heels very in for most fashion conscious, but this year's flat trend will likely hang on.

Hemline: micro mini and midi for fashion people

Miscellaneous: cutouts remain very hot, gold metallics here to stay for a long time, see through fabrics will be more common in typical clothing stores, 1990s the muse for most looks. Enjoy your middle parts and wild shag cuts now, ladies, because by 2025 we will be deep in 1990s hair trends like a less layered, more undone version of The Rachel. This year, you can wear a deep side part and look like you're on the cutting edge of trend.

Every year I respond to the trend thread and people get upset with me. Take it up with the fashion people. I don't make the rules, I just keep up with them.

I hope you are accurate re: end of sweatsuit era. I saw someone in a matchy matchy Alo sweatsuit, they looked to be walking through the grocery in their pajamas - actually bearing a smug look on their face. For real? You look silly.

So you think you have a psychic ability to read the minds of people with smug looks in order to attribute said smug look to the proper thing ... and this person happened to be smug because they were in the grocery store in their pajamas. What?

[Anonymous]

I’m just happy if some color is coming back, I’m tired of the sad beige neutral look and the “old money” neutrals trends.

[Anonymous]

What is an example of "long peplum"?

[Anonymous]

This is interesting, thanks OP! Fingers crossed for the side part, ha.

I watch a lot of kdramas, and recently I was watching something from around 2019/2020 and noticed that the young women dressed exactly the way my American teen does now in 2023. Of course, it’s easy to see correlations in things like “yellow”, but the forecast does bear a resemblance to what’s currently worn in more recent kdramas. And baggy looks were huge in Japan last year when we were planning a (sadly canceled) trip and I got curious what trendy people were wearing there. I wonder if Western fashion is following Asian trends these days?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks!
How about makeup trends- specifically lips?

OP here.

Sadly, the clear high gloss look is getting dated. Ugh, I loved it.

But no need to throw the gloss away; it just becomes a top coat.

Hottest colors are red, brown, and "concealer" (basically blend the lips in). The look is still glossy for now, but with color. I recently bought a bright red gloss, looks great and lots of fun.

You can do a classic 90s lip with liner etc and look very on trend.

If you want to look very trendy, take a gold highlighter or even gold liquid eyeshadow (I have one by Kosas that is perfect for this) and use the gold to create a shimmer effect in the center of your top and bottom lips. Make sure to blend. This is all over tiktok and right now is street fashion, but I predict it's the next hot thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is interesting, thanks OP! Fingers crossed for the side part, ha.

I watch a lot of kdramas, and recently I was watching something from around 2019/2020 and noticed that the young women dressed exactly the way my American teen does now in 2023. Of course, it’s easy to see correlations in things like “yellow”, but the forecast does bear a resemblance to what’s currently worn in more recent kdramas. And baggy looks were huge in Japan last year when we were planning a (sadly canceled) trip and I got curious what trendy people were wearing there. I wonder if Western fashion is following Asian trends these days?

OP here. For street fashion, a lot if it is related to what's in warehouses and inventory. You have to remember that fashion is a business and they pump "trends" that happen to match what they've purchased and what's in inventory. Most of our clothes are made in Asia. Paradoxically, you can get more cutting edge street fashion stuff from these Asian retailers like Shein than from traditional mall brands, who buy asian but use a more conventional (longer lead time) approach to buying their inventory. And street fashion has more mass appeal than runway or haute couture, so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is an example of "long peplum"?

The lavender one in this link is the silhouette I'm talking about.
https://www.instyle.com/peplum-trend-2023-7501180

It's a fresher take because it starts flaring out nearer the hips. A vaguely Victorian look, and I think this more Victorian silhouette will be the hottest. Why do I say that? A couple reasons. One, corsets are trending, and corset lacing in unexpected places (sleeves, on skirts, etc). Second, fashion tracks our inner world, and right now people think about thinks like handmaids tale, etc and the suppressed yet exaggerated sexuality of these looks matched the zeitgeist.

[Anonymous]

The Pantone color of 2024 comes out in a couple days. I’m excited!