Clothing trends are awful now

[Anonymous]

I have been buying high-quality, brand name, age appropriate clothes for the last few months and spending much less. I am thrifting exclusively. Better a skirt or blouse manufactured in the nineties that’s 100% cotton or silk than the garbage coming out now.

True story; I saw a plain white blouse at Nordstrom being sold for almost $250 (!). The kicker: it was 100% polyester. This is what we’re dealing with, people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have been buying high-quality, brand name, age appropriate clothes for the last few months and spending much less. I am thrifting exclusively. Better a skirt or blouse manufactured in the nineties that’s 100% cotton or silk than the garbage coming out now.

True story; I saw a plain white blouse at Nordstrom being sold for almost $250 (!). The kicker: it was 100% polyester. This is what we’re dealing with, people.

Same. I walked out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You need to upgrade your stores if you want them to cater to your age group

THIS. I don't shop at places that carry this kind of stuff.

Agreed. One of the reasons I like this forum is that many of you help me find new places to shop.

NP but where do you all shop?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just shop at Chico’s and JJill and Talbots and be done with it.

In my 50s seems like all that will work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have been buying high-quality, brand name, age appropriate clothes for the last few months and spending much less. I am thrifting exclusively. Better a skirt or blouse manufactured in the nineties that’s 100% cotton or silk than the garbage coming out now.

True story; I saw a plain white blouse at Nordstrom being sold for almost $250 (!). The kicker: it was 100% polyester. This is what we’re dealing with, people.

Deeply agree with this. It takes time, but the clothes are so much better. I often filter for "new with tags" or "excellent condition" and still find so much high-quality clothing, for about the same price as the polyster crap in the good stores.

[Anonymous]

I switched to searching on EBay and Poshmark. I look for older Anthro pieces.

[Anonymous]

I don't know what happened, but I'm pretty confident if you showed me a picture of anyone between 1900 and 2000, I could guess the year it was taken within two years. And be totally accurate.

Not so much today.

Different times. There are no meaningful fashion trends anymore.

[Anonymous]

There are always silhouette and color trends. If you follow those, you can buy stuff anywhere and look up to date. Key difference is you have to keep up, I don’t think you can rely on retailers to push out cute stuff.

[Anonymous]

Alright so where are my 40-something’s who don’t want to look like they’re trying to be Gen Z but also want to be somewhat on trend shop? I’m struggling to find the balance between anthro and Talbots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Alright so where are my 40-something’s who don’t want to look like they’re trying to be Gen Z but also want to be somewhat on trend shop? I’m struggling to find the balance between anthro and Talbots.

I just wear my clothes from 10+ years ago. I get a surprising number of compliments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Alright so where are my 40-something’s who don’t want to look like they’re trying to be Gen Z but also want to be somewhat on trend shop? I’m struggling to find the balance between anthro and Talbots.

Quince, Uniqlo, Gap, COS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just shop at Chico’s and JJill and Talbots and be done with it.

In my 50s seems like all that will work.

NP. I actually see quite a bit at all of those stores that I like. But what really irritates me is the random embellishments on so many of the clothes. I'll see a great pair of pants or a top, but on closer inspection, there's some weird embroidery or bedazzling that just makes me want to run. Chico's especially is guilty of this. Do they think that all women 50+ like that kind of thing?

[Anonymous]

The balloon leg pants are awful.

[Anonymous]

Terrible. My summer plan is to dress up basics with showy yet subtle jewelry pieces. I’m not a peasant and I’m not a prairie woman, and most importantly, I’m not a high schooler, which is the only type of woman who would look good in these fashions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You need to upgrade your stores if you want them to cater to your age group

+1