Is frumpy the new fashion?

[Anonymous]

I guess I've reached the point where I'm out of touch with the current "in style" fashion? Is this what it is to be age 41?

It's not just skinny jeans... even shirts, dresses, skirts, everything is baggy, unfitted. Patterns are not particularly pretty.

[Anonymous]

Based on my teen daughter, yes. The more mommish the jeans the better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I guess I've reached the point where I'm out of touch with the current "in style" fashion? Is this what it is to be age 41?

It's not just skinny jeans... even shirts, dresses, skirts, everything is baggy, unfitted. Patterns are not particularly pretty.

I've been wondering the same thing. I'm 37. I get that my taste will not be the same as a teenager, but I don't understand a lot of the trends right now because they are SO unflattering. Baggy, high-waisted things that give you a flat ass look, nasty colors, ruffles.

[Anonymous]

Mine is clunking around in doc martens!

No idea if that is popular or trendy right now but at 17, they can wear something ugly like doc martens, and still look young and beautiful.

[Anonymous]

It’s the new fashion on young people. On the rest of us, it’s still frump.

[Anonymous]

It’s called normcore, baby. And like everything else, it doesn’t look good on us.

[Anonymous]

Ok then it's not just me. I desperately need new clothes and cannot find much at all that I like...

[Anonymous]

Yea, unfortunately. I'm 44 and when I was in high school, it was all about grunge -- oversized, cut up, army drab and black everything, so I'm not judging. the new look is like little house on the prairie meets sister wives. Which could be cool... with docs or with army navy surplus

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s called normcore, baby. And like everything else, it doesn’t look good on us.

I think normcore is gone.

There's definitely a more 90s silhouette popular now, but it looks less comfortable.

[Anonymous]

I love it and I wish I was younger so I could wear prairie dresses. I"m 48 and I'd love to trade these fashion trends for those dark days of the early 2000s when you could only buy shirts that were midriff-baring.

[Anonymous]

Yep! We're not going anywhere so what the hell!

[Anonymous]

I’m all about the comfy. Why exactly were uncomfortable jeans ever popular???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yea, unfortunately. I'm 44 and when I was in high school, it was all about grunge -- oversized, cut up, army drab and black everything, so I'm not judging. the new look is like little house on the prairie meets sister wives. Which could be cool... with docs or with army navy surplus

Baggy jeans and tiered prairie dresses

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s called normcore, baby. And like everything else, it doesn’t look good on us.

I think normcore is gone.

There's definitely a more 90s silhouette popular now, but it looks less comfortable.

Normcore was never a thing. It was a joke that people took seriously.

Cottage Core is an actual thing right now.

Mom jeans etc are part of the 90s revival.

Athleisure reigns supreme.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s called normcore, baby. And like everything else, it doesn’t look good on us.

I think normcore is gone.

There's definitely a more 90s silhouette popular now, but it looks less comfortable.

Normcore was never a thing. It was a joke that people took seriously.

Cottage Core is an actual thing right now.

Mom jeans etc are part of the 90s revival.

Athleisure reigns supreme.

Normcore was actually a thing. Those pervy wire rimmed glasses that people were wearing, SAS style grandma wedges (only obscure German brands), hideous jeans. I knew a woman who wore it and just felt bad for her until I realized she was dressing that way on purpose.