VSCO girls . Help me understand

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Anonymous wrote:What do VSCO girls wear in the winter? Asking for a friend....

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Anonymous wrote:My sixth grader is all into this, too. It is interesting because she and her friends seem to want to mock it and imitate it at the same time.

Exactly! My 7th grader points them out, but then she got all the "stuff" that makes a VSCO girl.

Yep. My 6th grader is the same. 8th grade son says VSCO is another descriptive for "basic white girl."

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Teens following trends and other teens making fun of said trends are spectacles as old as time.

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Anonymous wrote:As a mom of a 7yo boy, I'd never heard of this. I thought my teenage niece was just kind of plain, untrendy, and doing her own thing, and borrowing her mom's old scrunchies! Not that any of that is bad at all. Here, she's actually curating a whole look I totally missed. I love it.

my 43-year-old mom friend and I are going as VSCO girls for Halloween

JOIN US

mwahahaha

Genius. I've been looking for Halloween costume ideas. I love Halloween costumes that I just wore yesterday... I mean, I mean, that I could possibly cobble together out of my closest.

Last year my teen reported that a group of mean girls at her school were dressing as “ basic” girls for Halloween. I wonder what sort of parents those girls had. Now I know.

They aren't making fun of them. They are mom's dressing as a trendy teen group for Halloween. It's silly and harmless. It's like dressing as a valley girl or whatever for prior generations.

Right...like black face in the 60’s?! Totally harmless!!!

You are really comparing this to blackface? Really? Oversized t-shirts and nike shorts to....blackface? That's not even a parallel.

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Anonymous wrote:Teens following trends and other teens making fun of said trends are spectacles as old as time.

Kinda, except you mostly got a pass for following trends - these were "unmarked." Preppy was the default. You put yourself into mockable group when you followed subgroup trends like alternative or goth or heavy metal (and these subgroups then felt suprior to the default group). But I'm a bit alarmed that just following youth trends makes you mockable. What a hard place for a kid! In the mall in the 80s, no one would ever have pointed out preppys and laughed (unless they were goths overcompensating - certainly they wouldn't have pointed them out to their mom).

I want my children to be able to choose to mark themselves and stand out and find community even if it makes them a target of ridicule. But I want this to be a choice. They also should be able to NOT mark themselves and just wear the "in" clothes and pass undetected.

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I think what makes this trend mockable is that they group together and tsk sound together. My MS kid says that the different girl vsco groups fight or mcompete against each other.

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I don’t understand the hate for this trend or why people are puzzled that it’s a trend. The girls are dressed generally age-appropriately and with light, tasteful makeup. This is way, wayyyy better than the tight, ultra low rise jeans and belly and cleavage baring tops of my late 90s/early 2000s youth. My parents would have been thrilled if I wanted to wear Norts/big tees/Birkenstocks when I was in high school!

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Anonymous[b wrote:]I don’t understand the hate for this trend or why people are puzzled that it’s a trend.[/b] The girls are dressed generally age-appropriately and with light, tasteful makeup. This is way, wayyyy better than the tight, ultra low rise jeans and belly and cleavage baring tops of my late 90s/early 2000s youth. My parents would have been thrilled if I wanted to wear Norts/big tees/Birkenstocks when I was in high school!

I think the main reason is that this trend also presents itself on social media, which magnifies hate responses to everything. I feel very lucky that we didn't live our lives on social media when I was a teenager.

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Anonymous[b wrote:]I don’t understand the hate for this trend or why people are puzzled that it’s a trend.[/b] The girls are dressed generally age-appropriately and with light, tasteful makeup. This is way, wayyyy better than the tight, ultra low rise jeans and belly and cleavage baring tops of my late 90s/early 2000s youth. My parents would have been thrilled if I wanted to wear Norts/big tees/Birkenstocks when I was in high school!

I think the main reason is that this trend also presents itself on social media, which magnifies hate responses to everything. I feel very lucky that we didn't live our lives on social media when I was a teenager.

That makes since. I don't care if my kids are left out - they are never going on social media. I was friends with kids with strict parents who didn't let them go out or talk on the phone to boys We were still close friends then, just at school and the occasional outing and they survived just fine (unlike some of us who were killed drunk driving in h.s. or had a baby or an abortion)

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The developmental stage of middle school is defined by conformity of style with one's chosen peer group. The VSCOs are one of these groups.
My 10th grade DD called her 7th grade sister a VSCO girl as an insult so now we don't use that term in our house.Of course she thinks her sister is "lame", like all HS students regard middle school kids, but really for an adult to use VSCO girl is a character flaw.

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Wow, my 8th grader was asking for a lot of these things last year.

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Anonymous[b wrote:]I don’t understand the hate for this trend or why people are puzzled that it’s a trend.[/b] The girls are dressed generally age-appropriately and with light, tasteful makeup. This is way, wayyyy better than the tight, ultra low rise jeans and belly and cleavage baring tops of my late 90s/early 2000s youth. My parents would have been thrilled if I wanted to wear Norts/big tees/Birkenstocks when I was in high school!

I think the main reason is that this trend also presents itself on social media, which magnifies hate responses to everything. I feel very lucky that we didn't live our lives on social media when I was a teenager.

That might be so HOWEVER....many many girls dress this way simply because it’s what the stores are selling and it’s cute. My DD had NO clue what a “vsco” girl was until someone asked her if she was one! Lol. Please remember that not all kids and middle schoolers get their fashion cues from YouTube or tick tick (whatever that is).

I still want to know what “ non vsco” girls are wearing in MS?? Because big tee shirts and shorts/jean shorts are so widespread that I would say most middle school girls are dressing this way.

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FYI - This is the original "and I oop" video (caution: language).

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Anonymous wrote:As a mom of a 7yo boy, I'd never heard of this. I thought my teenage niece was just kind of plain, untrendy, and doing her own thing, and borrowing her mom's old scrunchies! Not that any of that is bad at all. Here, she's actually curating a whole look I totally missed. I love it.

my 43-year-old mom friend and I are going as VSCO girls for Halloween

JOIN US

mwahahaha

Genius. I've been looking for Halloween costume ideas. I love Halloween costumes that I just wore yesterday... I mean, I mean, that I could possibly cobble together out of my closest.

Last year my teen reported that a group of mean girls at her school were dressing as “ basic” girls for Halloween. I wonder what sort of parents those girls had. Now I know.

They aren't making fun of them. They are mom's dressing as a trendy teen group for Halloween. It's silly and harmless. It's like dressing as a valley girl or whatever for prior generations.

Right...like black face in the 60’s?! Totally harmless!!!

You are really comparing this to blackface? Really? Oversized t-shirts and nike shorts to....blackface? That's not even a parallel.

Hahaha.i can't. Nike volleyball shorts as cultural appropriation. PP, you realize with that ridiculous comparison you are saying VSCO is a culture, the same as being African American. ....... You cray.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the hate for this trend or why people are puzzled that it’s a trend. The girls are dressed generally age-appropriately and with light, tasteful makeup. This is way, wayyyy better than the tight, ultra low rise jeans and belly and cleavage baring tops of my late 90s/early 2000s youth. My parents would have been thrilled if I wanted to wear Norts/big tees/Birkenstocks when I was in high school!

This.

Compared to alternatives, this is glorious