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ExpensiveWords4u@reddit

Yup there it is, welcome to the 90’s fashion resurgence!

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Knappyone@reddit

I saw a South Pole shirt at hot topic. Hell is frozen for sure.

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ScreenSensitive9148@reddit

Yes, but notice how Aaliyah’s clothes MATCH. It looks like a cohesive outfit and not just random clothes pulled from 2 different peoples closets. Not going to the gym at noon and a quinceañera at 1 😂

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Aquaeyes5212@reddit

And she’s not wearing sweats, more like cargo pants, also doubtful she’d look bad in anything

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OP's description could absolutely describe exactly what's in the gif. Nowhere in what they said was there any implication of what you're saying. I can't even tell what the fuck you're talking about with "going to a quinceanera" unless you're talking about like a frilly top or something that was not what was described

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ScreenSensitive9148@reddit

Is Aaliyah wearing pants that my pops might wear around the house? Does it look like two different outfits got mixed up?

You don’t know what the fuck is going on, but other people do.

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alphazero925@reddit

Is Aaliyah wearing pants that my pops might wear around the house?

Yes

Does it look like two different outfits got mixed up?

If it's someone who isn't familiar with the style, I could see them saying that, yeah

Just because you're out of touch with reality, that doesn't make me a troll lol

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ScreenSensitive9148@reddit

I’m blocking you because you don’t know what “sweats with an elastic waist” are and you’re desperate for engagement. Boring.

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Ashe_Unlimited@reddit

In cycling, there's a debate of "dress for the ride, or dress for the destination?"

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Shortbus_Playboy@reddit

Apparently, where I live, the answer to both is “spandex and pretending to be sponsored”.

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OhWhyNotMarie@reddit

This is exactly it. Y2K street wear. I’m guessing op was never into streetwear.

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Remarkable_Kiwi_4096@reddit

I'm 3 years younger than OP and I gave up my boot cut jeans when skinny jeans came in, and gave up the skinny jean when the wide ones came back. i mean, no one should be obligated to dress any way, or change what they wear because it's not in style, but i will never understand people in their 40s acting like modern fashion trends are an inscrutable mystery.

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helicopter_corgi_mom@reddit

I'm a year older than OP and same. I love keeping up with fashion trends, personally. Even if someone doesn't, we're a little young to be shaking our fists and muttering "yoooooths"

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likesblackcoffeebest@reddit

Yup, this. My 17-year-old lives in this look. OP could even be describing her in this post lol

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Ok_Percentage5157@reddit

Right? Trends recycle.

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IkidIgoat@reddit

Precisely

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imnottheoneipromise@reddit

Gods I’ve been waiting to tell this story!

So my 15 year old son has a girlfriend that lives out of town.

A few weeks ago, my very normal, very well adjusted, handsome, well-behaved son went to visit her for a few days. When he came back, he was not the same person.

…

He was wearing fucking socks and Birkenstocks!!!!!

Yall. I promise I tried to raise him right. I did my best.

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DrMcJedi@reddit

I work argyle socks and Birkenstocks to graduation in ‘99.

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up_scumbag@reddit

You need to play Rusted Root when he enters rooms now lol

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Double-Tradition413@reddit

All of the pants that really high because the youngins’ have a lot more big bellies than we used to. Hopefully fewer eating disorders though.

For me, I appreciate a comfy high waist myself. I also appreciate that the younger generations don’t seem to care about labels like there was the pressure for us to.

I definitely don’t get the boxy looking jeans that are all afraid and look like the person just came off a deserted island, but whatever.

I just want them to be happy and to be able to buy houses.

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SupahRad@reddit

Yes to everything in this comment.

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TryFine317@reddit (OP)

100%

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squirrelfriend3@reddit

I hate the really short jean shorts (like hot pants) paired with a boring long t shirt or sweatshirt that completely covers their butts. Like Winnie the Pooh. It looks frumpy and too revealing at the same time.

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pls_send_caffeine@reddit

It's a throwback (in a sense) to 90s fashion. Back when we wore baggy jeans with body suits or snug crop tops

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Nanashi_Kitty@reddit

My Jr high wardrobe staples were jeans with a bodysuit and a flannel.

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Aquaeyes5212@reddit

First couple years of High School for me and one of the colors in my flannel matched the color of my baggy, sagging, jeans

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Littleroo27@reddit

Ah, the memories.

Honestly, my mom’s back to school shopping trip was the only reason I ever had anything remotely fashionable. I’ve been fat since kindergarten, and never kept up with the trends because I couldn’t wear most of them! But my momma made sure I had baggy jeans and plaid waffle-weave shirts with the stitching on the outside.

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CommandAlternative10@reddit

In the 90s it was baggy jeans and fitted tops. Then we morphed to baggy tops and fitted jeans. Well the pendulum swung back again. I just bought my first pair of baggy jeans after instagram made me realize it was time, and honestly I love them. Felt right at home!

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Tricky-Passion-7191@reddit

Babe, same xx

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dewihafta@reddit

Only thing is, i cant swing the crop tops anymore.

Its just not happening.

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CommandAlternative10@reddit

I had been wearing more tunic style tops with my fitted jeans, and yes, shorter tops now look better with my baggy jeans, but not cropped like I’m showing any skin!

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Sufficient_Turn_9209@reddit

Remember these from the early aughts? They're perfect for the mom bod under the crop top and still look cute.

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dewihafta@reddit

When i go clothes shopping and pass by the juniors section, i like to play “top or dress?”

It’s exactly what it sounds like.

Im not bitter or anything, i swear!

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Feisty-Comfort-3967@reddit

They're not supposed to swing.

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mermaid619@reddit

Crop tops are too precarious for my bosoms. I don’t know how anyone gets anything off the top shelf!

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sysiphean@reddit

Like a year ago my wife came out of the fitting room in baggy pants and a crop top as a joke, saw my expression, and said something like “I didn’t expect that to awaken something” and opted to buy the outfit.

I regret nothing.

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TrixieBastard@reddit

It was a good look then, and it's a good look now!

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sysiphean@reddit

It definitely triggered my teenage longings.

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moving2mars@reddit

Did you pair them with a fitted top? I have three pairs I’m giving to my step niece because I feel weird in them. I think they’re a tad too baggy, but also maybe it’s the top part of the look that I’m missing? I fell right back into the low-rise, which I’m so glad is back, but I think baggy will take some time, I am keeping one pair though.

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CommandAlternative10@reddit

Definitely shorter tops than I had been wearing with my fitted jeans, but not super fitted. You do need to balance the volume on the bottom with less on top.

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fingerling-broccoli@reddit

When I read the description Aaliyah came to mind

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Area212@reddit

In certain ways the 90’s were more connected. I’d even go so far to say it was the last decade of true subcultures in the US, before the fragmentation of cultural mediums.

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Pink_Peach_Blossoms@reddit

IDK if this style ever went out of style as far as hip hop goes. Or maybe I am just picturing Aaliyah, who would look beautiful in anything.

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Feisty-Comfort-3967@reddit

...all day long!

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Spiritual-Promise402@reddit

And rave culture

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cpzy2@reddit

30 year fashion cycle theory hits! My teen says baggy jeans are in. I show him JNKOs and he said, "those are so tough!!"

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Feisty-Comfort-3967@reddit

Tough? Well, well. It seems your teen is a bit of a boomer.😅

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CommandAlternative10@reddit

I just bought a 12 year old an oversized Stüssy shirt and he was dumbfounded how I knew he wanted it. Easy, it was the shirt I wanted thirty years ago!

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Littleroo27@reddit

1980

I still remember girls contorting into pretzels to get their bodysuit crotch snapped back together after gym class. I didn’t have a body that could wear that kind of thing, but I still had a pair of baggy jeans, ready and waiting!

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Stevie-Rae-5@reddit

God, she was seriously one of the most gorgeous people ever.

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Due-Blackberry8056@reddit

The one thing that always bothers me is the male skinny jeans. Looks absurd and horribly uncomfortable. Boot cut pants all the way.

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OohBeesIhateEm@reddit

So, I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones.

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No_Scallion_3365@reddit

I used to be young and with it once

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ThatDog_ThisDog@reddit

But then they changed what “it” was

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arcxjo@reddit

Starland Vocal Band‽

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Melicious_1709@reddit

And now what I’m with isn’t “it” anymore

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Funandgeeky@reddit

It will happen to YOUUUUUU!

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Brilliant_Ad_6637@reddit

no way, man! We're gonna keep on rocking forever...

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Fourberry@reddit

One day, it'll happen to you...

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RaisinToastie@reddit

It’ll happen to you!!!!!!!!

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big_sugi@reddit

It’s happened to youuuuuu!

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CheesyRomantic@reddit

I miss those days

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Cherry_Hammer@reddit

My story begins in nineteen-dickety-two. We had to say “dickety” because the Kaiser had stolen our word for “twenty”

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Darth_Floridaman@reddit

I chased him for dickety6 miles, but that rascal got away...

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arcxjo@reddit

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Fakeadmiral_tt@reddit

Dickety. Highly dubious.

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gummi-demilo@reddit

What’re you cackling at, fatty? Too much pie, that’s your problem

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ComebackShane@reddit

It’ll be a cold day in hell before I recognize Missouri!

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Express-Tea-9270@reddit

Missourah!

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LeatherDude@reddit

My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it!

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pixelprolapse@reddit

Mine gets 40 hectares on a single tank of Kerosine. Just remember to put it in H.

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sysiphean@reddit

Funny, I was just looking at a post about an old Saab that had a switch between the gasoline and kerosene tanks.

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Bacteriobabe@reddit

On your way to Morganville, which is what we called Shelbyville in those days.

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SkeltonJustCalled@reddit

Those blintzes were terrible.

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InigoMontoya2725@reddit

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jugdeesh@reddit

“ hey everybody, there’s an old man talking”

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BulimicMosquitos@reddit

Gimme five bees for a quarter?

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barefootincozumel@reddit

lol I wonder if it was my daughter in front of you because that is a very typical outfit for her.

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ButterscotchAware402@reddit

My husband plays drums in a band with two 16 y/o guitar phenoms. Their clothes never cease to make me giggle. They had a show Friday night and one of them was wearing a slightly oversized t-shirt, tucked into his Uncle Jesse style jeans with a woven belt. The other was wearing jeans that were super baggy, yet tapered at the bottom and a big gold chain necklace. They're adorable, but yes, it baffles me.

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Safe-Willing@reddit

Are pegged pants coming back!?

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ScreenSensitive9148@reddit

Tapered baggy jeans is WILD 😂

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Scared_Ad_6240@reddit

They look like barrels, she said.

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TryFine317@reddit (OP)

That’s so cool!!

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Ok-Sprinkles-3301@reddit

Hoodies & crocs ✌🏼🚶‍♂️

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PoopUponPoop@reddit

I just don’t understand how we’ve all decided that men’s shorts should be above the knee. Looks fruity as hell.

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Thattowniegirl@reddit

I just wish tops covered my belly. Stupid crop tops.

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TryFine317@reddit (OP)

teamIdliketherestoftheshirt

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ArtisanalMoonlight@reddit

Loose pants and tighter top has been a thing for decades (and it's a more put together look than baggy everything). In the 90s we just did big ass jeans or overalls. 🤷‍♀️

My default out of the house wear is leggings and flowy tunics or tank tops and palazzo pants. (Which are about as soft and comfortable as pajamas for the Boomeresque folks here complaining about "the kids" wearing PJs in public.)

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Sufficient_Turn_9209@reddit

Linen palazzo pants and a fitted cap sleeve tee. Say no more.

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knittinghobbit@reddit

Yeah, I tend to balance my outfits like this as well. Fitted tee with loose jeans or more fitted bottoms with a loose top. Sometimes all loose things if I am just over it.

I think it’s pretty basic. I personally don’t feel comfortable baring my midriff, but a fitted tee and loose sweatpants doesn’t seem too bad.

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ArtisanalMoonlight@reddit

Sometimes all loose things if I am just over it.

Yeah. I'm embracing my crone era early. If I come off looking like a witchy fortune teller, I'm all for it.

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knittinghobbit@reddit

I now understand the brands that are all loose, flowy, crazy art teacher vibes. It’s the bloat and hot flashes and the IDGAF of your 40s.

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ArtisanalMoonlight@reddit

With age comes the wisdom about art teacher fashion.

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sciencewitchbrarian@reddit

I’ve become quite a collector of the patterned palazzo pants. The most comfortable thing on earth that becomes an outfit rather than a PJ pant….i like to call them my “party pants.” 😁 if I was a little younger I would wear a fitted crop top with them but I’m fully in my perimenopausal bloat belly era so it’s usually a longer tank top or like a boxy muscle shirt 😕 (1979)

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On_my_last_spoon@reddit

I saw a young man wearing baggy, low rider jeans on the train yesterday just like 90s Hip Hop...but inside out!

I've noticed that fashion now is just a mish mosh of everything from like 1992 to present. Nothing matters as much as what the wearer wants!

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Longjumping-Bell-762@reddit

81’ here and I often pair tight tops with baggier bottoms. Been doing that since I was a teen. I like wearing fitted tops because if I wear flowier tops I feel very frumpy. I’m short so I can easily be swallowed up in fabric.

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BrinaElka@reddit

Me: Dang, they're 81 and on Reddit?!?!

Oh, wait.

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CalmTheAngryVoice@reddit

Tbf, the apostrophe is supposed to be before the 81, not after

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ImOnlyHereForTheCoC@reddit

The ol’ 81-footer

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CalmTheAngryVoice@reddit

Username checks out, I guess?

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Longjumping-Bell-762@reddit

Oh just noticed that I did that. Whoops! Commented before my coffee kicked in…

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thesmellnextdoor@reddit

I can't stand this loose crop top look that's popular right now. I kept trying to buy a sweater all winter and they barely made it past my ribcage and then were at wide as a garbage sack at the bottom. I don't know what body type looks good in that, but it's definitely not for me. I'm tall and it looks horrendous.

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lcl0706@reddit

It’s for my body type. I’m an upside down triangle. I have broad linebacker shoulders, thick arms, a larger bust and a wide waist. I have narrow hips and long chicken legs.

I’m 5’3 and about 128lbs but I swear 100 of it is above my naval. Loose, flowy, wide neck or off the shoulder or dolman type shirts conceal all the business I got going on up top and balance me out. If it’s cropped I can pair it with a higher waisted maxi skirt and have the same effect.

I absolutely cannot wear fitted tops without looking like I’m going to fall over from the weight up top pulling me down, or I belong on an NFL team.

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thesmellnextdoor@reddit

I'm glad it works for you!

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IkidIgoat@reddit

I had this issue with some sweaters I got second hand off ThredUp, I’m wearing them with a tank or tucked in bodysuit and high waisted skirt or pants.

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PostTurtle84@reddit

I'm short and chubby and it's very very bad. So I've defaulted to boot cut jeans and flip flops, birkenstock boots, or some tan strappy wedges, and graphic tees. Might swap in a colorful wrap skirt, or my old scrub pants because they're my version of sweatpants.

I don't really care what's in style beyond how it effects my access to my prefered styles.

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cheesy_bees@reddit

Yep I'm short too, I need either a fitted top or fitted bottom. Can't wear a loose-fitting top with loose-fitting pants, it's just impossible for that to look ok

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Balerionmeow@reddit

This is basic fashion rules. One or the other.

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cheesy_bees@reddit

I see tsller people rocking a baggy+baggy combo though

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ImOnlyHereForTheCoC@reddit

Also the entirety of mid-90s indie-rock slackers would beg to differ at well

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IndependentCurve4054@reddit

Try baggy+baggy but with sleek styling: a sleek ponytail for example, sleek shoes (small heel or leather flats, not chunky sneakers). I’m 165 and chubby and love baggy clothes but need to pay attention to the accessories/hair to not look like an unc or swollen by fabric

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Pheeline@reddit

I wear baggier or flowier tops if I'm wearing leggings, mainly because I'm fat but leggings are comfortable and I'm not comfortable showing off the droopy belly, lol.

But I like more fitted tops when I wear my long flowy skirts because I also don't want to look like I'm going out in a 2-piece muumuu.

I do sometimes see kids out and about and understand how my parents felt when looking at my generation when we were teens, including when seeing trends that came back around.

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ScreenSensitive9148@reddit

Tight tops with baggy bottoms is normal. That’s the look tha Aaliyah and countless other artists wore on the 90s. It balances out the silhouette.

But the idea is to keep those pieces at the same party: athletic top and bottoms, or band tee and jeans (even ripped jeans!), small cami and palazzos or whatever. If you decide to contrast patterns/materials/vibes it can be tricky to look good. Gotta do it thoughtfully. Or else you look like my childhood best friends mom, who would definitely wear heels with her Sears sweats. 😂 It was definitely a choice.

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wickedmasshole@reddit

It's weird because the contrast does work sometimes with other combos.

Like I love a cute skirt with boots or sneakers. But no, heels with sweatpants is garbage. If someone makes it looks good it will be in spite of everything, not because of it.

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IkidIgoat@reddit

Yeah ‘83 here, this is 90’s street style, everything from TLC to Gwen Stefani No Doubt years. Add some hoops, a high pony, cute sneakers and you can ask me for anything. This goes for someone of any gender.

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Badger_Actual1@reddit

Mmmreaaallllly??

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ResurgentClusterfuck@reddit

Whereas I still dress like a guy (baggy t-shirt, flannel, loose pants and skater shoes bc they're cute

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wheres_the_revolt@reddit

Skater girl chic! I’ve recently got back into the style as well.

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fromthedarqwaves@reddit

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Pl4ysth3Th1ng@reddit

Today I made a student a pair of baggy jeans out of two pairs he thrifted. I’m sitting there reliving high school when I teach high school. shudder

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Filbertine@reddit

Well, I’m a ‘79 lady. I do actually think this style is pretty, and moreover I remember some of the cooler girls in grade 11 in a version of this. And I have a good friend who is about 30 and dresses this way, she looks like a gorgeous ballerina on vacation from the New York City Ballet.

Personally though I need to stick to jeans and tee shirts because my body is now shaped like a turnip. Sigh

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Meekanado@reddit

That’s my daughter. Sweat pants and crop tops. I did see her rocking a Von Dutch Tshirt the other day so there’s that.

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moonbunnychan@reddit

I used to believe I'd never become one of those people who crapped on current fashion but man I hate current fashion. It feels like after the lockdowns everyone just gave up and wears nothing but ugly buggy sweats.

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newYearnew2025@reddit

And it appears this is the only outfit available for teenage girls at the moment.

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LopensCouisin@reddit

And here I am wearing vintage fashion from the 1930s-60s. I ignore all other decades.

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TryFine317@reddit (OP)

That sounds stunning!!

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CheesyRomantic@reddit

Oooooo in the early 00s I loved mix matching styles.

I remember going to a party wearing a fitted, sleeveless low cut top top with baggy knee length shorts and peep toe ankle strap heels...and a sparkly /sequenced oversized purse.

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B4SSF4C3@reddit

This is how my feed came up and I was very confused for a sec…

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TryFine317@reddit (OP)

😂

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iheartnjdevils@reddit

My teen son dresses exactly like my friends and I did when we were teens in the 90's. Baggy jeans and band t-shirts. It's wild and I kinda love it.

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aweedl@reddit

Jeans, t-shirts of local bands, sweater or hoodie. Served me well for the past 30+ years. I don’t see any reason to stop.

I don’t need to understand what young people are doing.

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TheGirlwThePinkHair@reddit

I think it’s hilarious that, for the most part they either dress like your dad when he’s at his laziest or they are dressed to the nines, tons of makeup, teeny tiny clothes that are a size too small. I’m totally amused by it.

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saki4444@reddit

Personally I’m loving this trend. But it’ll be a cold day in hell if I ever wear low rise pants again.

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Where_Is_Bucky@reddit

I still wear an onion on my belt.

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gangofone978@reddit

Don’t most sweatpants have elastic in the waist band?

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TryFine317@reddit (OP)

Yes lol - I was trying to differentiate that type from the yoga style comfy pants.

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RelaxYourself@reddit

I saw a kid with a chain wallet and it transported me back to simpler times.

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BrittaUnfiltered67@reddit

Are you ready?

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BrittaUnfiltered67@reddit

That sounds like fairly normal clothing from at least the 80s to today.

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fermentedradical@reddit

Fashion goes in cycles. The 2010s were about very tight clothing, this is a reaction to that - a return to bagginess.

While it's not entirely bad, it's not my thing either and I laugh at my students (I am a college prof) that wear stuff that, to me, look like mom or dad jeans or the ugly socks and sandals look.

I'd really like the tailored, fitted look to come back into style for everyone, but we don't have tailors anymore in the US doing bespoke stuff, so, sigh.

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TryFine317@reddit (OP)

Excellent point!!

Sometimes I wonder when we all stopped wearing hats regularly. I know some folks still do but I’m meaning more on societal scale. If you look at old film of a city from like the 60s more people than not were wearing hats.

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Superb_Sprinkles5942@reddit

My 16yo wants to bring back hats. Yet, most days he heads for school in a t-shirt and plaid flannel bottoms, so 🤷‍♀️

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fermentedradical@reddit

For men, it started to change in the mid-20th century. Long-term societal decline based on changing cultural trends: https://www.primermagazine.com/2021/learn/jfk-mens-hat

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TryFine317@reddit (OP)

That was a great read! Thanks for sharing!

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ScreenSensitive9148@reddit

Everything more extreme. Saggy mom jeans with I’ll matched tops, or extreme short bottoms. I saw some lady’s straight up booty cheeks at the vet! Like veterinarian office where people bring their ill pets, full of shedded hair. As a fellow woman, I don’t even like to wear shorts on a plane because I don’t like my thighs touching public transit. Can’t imagine just chillin with Fido’s pet dander on my crack.

(But I’m also the person who wipes down the plane seat first so maybe I just take hygiene more seriously than others…)

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Happy-Fennel5@reddit

OMG the booty shorts! We had a heat wave last week and I saw so many teens and 20 somethings wearing butt floss jorts. They looked wildly uncomfortable to me.

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somenemophilist@reddit

The high waisted short shorts make them look like they are wearing diapers.

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FungiStudent@reddit

Im all for the short shorts.

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geekgirlwww@reddit

I can’t remember the celebrity but just before Covid she shared a video of how she sanitizes everything in her seat area when flying. Got teased. Covid hit, oh yeah people are gross.

I’ve always carried hand sanitizer and wiped the phone down too. People are gross

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ScreenSensitive9148@reddit

Naomi Campbell! Some people were saying she was doing too much. But was right.

Honestly, even before COVID, I would wipe down my seatbelt and snack tray. We did a 4 month trip with a lot of flying in 2017 and didn’t get sick at all. After that, I kept it up.

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geekgirlwww@reddit

Yes! Someone who has flying heavily for the past 30+ years I’m going to trust their system

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Lensgoggler@reddit

After a few family stomach bugs I'd rather be "that lady" than go through it if I can avoid it. and I'm not ashamed god damn it.

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TryFine317@reddit (OP)

Not the vet booty cheeks!!!! 😆

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Cool_Dark_Place@reddit

🎵 "Booty Butt... Booty Butt... Booty Butt cheeks " 🎵

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JoyOswin945@reddit

The kids are too smart for hard pants.

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mjh8212@reddit

I’ve always wore fitted tees and baggy pants. It’s back in style again. I also sometimes wear fitted skinny jeans but like the look of a fitted shirt with baggy pants

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Thick_Bumblebee_8488@reddit

That sounds cute.

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plastiquearse@reddit

My kids are very much into the current fashion trends. It seems pretty cozy.

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Sun_Sprout@reddit

There’s a style that literally intends to do opposites on top and bottom, sometimes referred to as a Pinterest outfit. Something like baggy basketball shorts with ballet flats with a ribbon that wraps up the ankle, a lace tight fitting top and a baseball cap. The kids are having fun.

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Stardewthedew@reddit

I read the title as current fascism baffles me then reading what this woman was wearing, my mind was trying to piece together the connection like that Julia Roberts gif.

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TryFine317@reddit (OP)

😂😂 Fascism Sweatpants

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strongcoffee2go@reddit

My daughter wore that exact outfit yesterday and I thought it was cute and looked comfy.

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LovelyHead82@reddit

Funny thing is that all the stuff we wore in the 90’s are back and a lot of 90’s fashion was inspired by the 70’s

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Spiritual-Promise402@reddit

I mean, i love that baggy clothes with crop tops are back. I know i might be alone on this but super baggy jeans or sweats with a fitted top is my jam. Also the super big sweatshirt with bike shorts or leggings and platform sneakers is the best. I usually get 2X sweatshirt (my usual size is M). It's just so comfy

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brainvheart143@reddit

I hear you. I can’t with any of it. Leggings and tennis skirts are the preferred choices of most of the other sports moms. I’m still trying to figure out why but I know I don’t have the patience. I feel like this was not an issue growing up. Like my mom wore whatever and was secure in her career… oh wait that could be it

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FantasticAd4938@reddit

I thought the younger generation had just decided not to do style.

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SilverAsparagus2985@reddit

If this sub turns into more boomer like posts, I swear to god.

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AppropriateTax6525@reddit

Seriously. Next post is about how music just isn't the same anymore.

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ConfusionOk4908@reddit

It isn't though 😆

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SheShouldGo@reddit

They're combining fashion trends from 1989-1999, putting street and urban fashion with alt, preppy and boho. Throwing in some grandpa fashion just for the heck of it.

Sometimes I think this must be how my mother felt when "60s" fashion came back. She used to tease us b/c we were wearing things from 1965-1975 all together and looked ridiculous. But we KNEW we were hot and period accurate, lol.

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babyBear83@reddit

The kids are calling it Y2K fashion now. No one prepares you for when your teenage fashion becomes a throw back.

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Background_Title_922@reddit

My big somewhat unrelated complaint about current fashion is that it's getting harder and harder to find slim jeans, which sucks for me because dark wash slim cut jeans with a blazer is appropriate for my professional setting - what's mostly being made now isn't. So I'm going to have to kick it up a notch if this continues.

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ArthurBea@reddit

One person wearing something indicates their own sense of fashion in that moment. It could mean intentional or something thrown together for a quick errand.

I see what you’re saying, which is that this doesn’t seem like something anybody should wear ever? I don’t know without seeing it.

I don’t think it’s fair to label it “current fashion.”

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DriftingIntoAbstract@reddit

I honestly love current style. It makes more sense to me than a portion of the 2000s style. Skinny jeans were horrible, business casual out was weird, the tacky bright colors and gaudy layering of everything looked like a toddler allowed to dress themselves. Baggy sweatpants balanced with a crop top to me is a cute laid back look.

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beachbummeddd@reddit

Yea did you tell her to get off your lawn ?

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Blackbird136@reddit

I see this all the time on that age. The only time I wear sweatpants in public is if I just really don’t give a shit. Like if I’m sick and running into the store for cold meds.

But. It’s blatantly obvious visually, that I don’t give a shit in that scenario. These girls will have a full face of makeup, styled hair, and….sweatpants. Yeah. I’m old cause I don’t get it either.

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AlgoStar@reddit

My son complained to me that the kids in his class call him the Jeans Kid because I never let him wear sweats to school. I relented and said that he can on Fridays lol.

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geekgirlwww@reddit

Seriously let the kid wear what he wants. Loosen the reigns

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AlgoStar@reddit

I literally didn’t even know sweatpants as “normal” clothes was a thing, I just thought everyone was being lazy. Turns out I’m old!

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TryFine317@reddit (OP)

Exactly!!

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TheRealJefe@reddit

We fell off a wagon hard in the past few decades.

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EverybodyPanic81@reddit

You do realise this has always been a thing. Even in the 80s and 90s.

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Bushwazi@reddit

These kids are taking THe WORST of what we wore and rocking it. White socks with sandals?! White socks with Dad shoes?!

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Character_Bend_5824@reddit

What I don't understand is the mom jeans and white sneakers. Looks like something a haggard mom would wear because that's all the energy she could muster to do laundry. Why are young ladies wearing this stuff?

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Consistent-Ease6070@reddit

So many different reasons, I suspect. For some it’s comfort and convenience. Others may be making a rejecting societal expectations to present themselves in a way that attracts the male gaze. That can be a choice to make a statement or simply a defensive mechanism to make themselves less of a target… Some just wear whatever their friends do so they can fit in.

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TryFine317@reddit (OP)

lol, it’s like if you plan to have kids just wait you’ll get to that outfit

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geekgirlwww@reddit

I don’t know how much of this is Covid-societal burnout but the percent is more than 0.

I wonder if we’re going to get an overcorrection in the 2030s and everyone is going to be dressy again

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Yellow_Curry@reddit

lol we had JNCOs I don’t think we can throw shade at anyone.

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TonyNoPants@reddit

The thing I'm having difficulty accepting is all the young women with metal hanging out of their nostrils. It's is sooooo not a good look. Thats just me though.

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Crabcakefrosti@reddit

The baggy mom jeans craze seems to be getting worse. Don’t get me started on all college kids with white shoes and white socks. They look like clones

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Superpriestess@reddit

The white athletic socks with heels or loafers or sandals or any kind of dress shoe is killing me right now

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IAm5toned@reddit

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sageberrytree@reddit

I hate it too. I have teens and it baffles me.

But fashion has always been weird. I mean...see codpieces

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No-Banana247@reddit

I heard that the fashion cycle has changed with social media and fast fashion. It shortened so much that many just wear what they want. I love that but IDK if it's actually true.

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ParticularYak4401@reddit

And here i am swearing that all teenage girls ( the white ones specifically) are all variants of each other with the same hairstyle and clothing. I also cringe to think these kids walking around in public In their sweats or pj pants and Ugg slippers and then going home and climbing in their bed. Just ew.

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Sweetboss-e@reddit

The makeup trends are also hard for me to get behind. Contour looks like dirty noses, overly pink/brown cheeks done to achieve what, and visibly fake lip lines look odd to me.

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donnadoctor@reddit

When contouring is done right you don’t notice it at all.

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cranberries87@reddit

A lot of this contouring presents well on social media/photos, but looks odd IRL.

So much of what we do now is heavily influenced by social media, even things like overly-elaborate baby showers and parties, gender reveals, balloon arches, backdrops and fancy color-coordinated dessert tables at events, custom made cakes vs grocery store cakes at kids’ parties, elaborate promposals and prom attire, etc.

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Salty-Tea6815@reddit

I don’t see what’s wrong with the outfit. You are supposed to pair a fitted shirt with a baggy pant, and a flowy top with tight pants. It’s called balancing proportions. Baggy pants with baggy top, tight pants with tight top, horrible looks that give the impression that you bought clothes in the wrong size.

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Exciting-Argument-67@reddit

Okay, but I don't think "baggy pants" in this equation was supposed to mean old-fashioned gym sweatpants with the elastic band. But what do I know.

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cheesy_bees@reddit

I've seen young people wear these.... Not sure how they do it but some can look put-together in these sweatpants. I think dressing them up with nice sneakers, a fitted top, and accessories, plus being clean and tidy (not slobby old sweatpants), avoids looking like a slob in these

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Salty-Tea6815@reddit

That’s the thing with fashion though, there really is no such thing as old fashioned. What’s trending and in style just keeps getting recycled every so often. So what was once old is now new again. Those have been a trending lounge pants style for the past couple seasons.

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-EvilLittleGoat-@reddit

You will have to pry my baggy, comfy pants with modern fit Gap tees off my dead body along with thermals under my concert tees, and empire waist mini/midi dresses.

My Mother still tells me she thought I’d grow out my “teenage style”, so I assure her I did. The Gap tees are no longer cropped and I’ve added an inch or two to the hem line of the dresses.

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Pickles_McBeef@reddit

Yep. My wide legged and baggy pants with a fitted shirt, oversized sweatshirt or flowy top with leggings or a fitted pant. Loose/loose makes me feel grumpy and the days of getting away with tight/tight are LONG gone.

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Chemical_Butterfly40@reddit

Tiny tops and baggy-ish jeans was my early 90s uniform and I see it everywhere with younger ladies now.

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nuskit@reddit

I wore that all the time as a teenager. It was often baggy gray sweatpants pushed down to your hips, roll the top waistband down so you could see the string hanging out snd the tag on the back (especially if it was Champion brand). Then pop on either a scoop neck bodysuit where the leg holes came up way over your hips or just a tight 3/4 sleeve scoop neck top. It was pretty typical urban hip hop streetwear.

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Astrazigniferi@reddit

I remember girls wearing that literal exact outfit in college in 2003, except that they had also rolled the waistband of the sweatpants down to their hips so their whale tale popped out the back when they sat down. They hadn’t come out with the super stretchy jeans yet. For girls who gained their freshman 15 in their thighs and butt, it was how they could wear their crop tops and be sexy when their jeans didn’t fit. (Those of us who gained weight in our chest and stomach just had to go shopping again because the early 2000s were the WORST for our bodies.)

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blabber_jabber@reddit

Sounds like Aaliyah in the 90s

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mowglinoir@reddit

I’ve just turned 44 this month and I’m currently wearing the EXACT outfit you described. Grey cuffed joggers and a black long sleeved, scooped neck cropped top. If I was popping out, I’d put on some old school vans and be done with it. I haven’t worn boot cut jeans since I was about 14!

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Complete_Bird1843@reddit

This complaint about the youth post is bordering on boomeresque. Girl, we are better than that.

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elektrik_noise@reddit

Since kind of dressing like a slob is popular atm, I'm like eh, if I look like a slob going to pick up my prescriptions I won't be the biggest slob there. I'm just going to ride my errands slob era for the moment and enjoy being comfortable until fitted clothes come back in.

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cranberries87@reddit

“Errands Slob Era”! I LIKE IT! 😄I, too am in my slob era. I’m going to start sorting everything into an era like the young folks. I’m also in my “Final Career Push Until Retirement” era.

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elektrik_noise@reddit

Eras don't have to just be for pop stars! I never thought I'd see the day I wore socks and slides but while everyone else looks like a loser, why shouldn't I? I just won't allow photo evidence of it lol. Or wear white socks

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cranberries87@reddit

As the kids say, “No free feet.” 😆

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Funkopedia@reddit

Was it a fashion thing/"choice" or was it the equivalent of "going out in your pajamas" which is something everybody does constantly now, apparently. Just throwing on whatever clothing is within reach to go out because you were sitting around the house in your underwear.

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TryFine317@reddit (OP)

Nope it was an outfit, hair/makeup done etc. (Lovely young lady.) I just didn’t realize the Rocky running up the steps sweatpants were such a vibe for the youth. 😆

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ailish@reddit

Old people have never understood the fashion of young people. Take as old as time.

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tillyspeed81@reddit

My 19 year old dresses like that probably. Don’t understand half the stuff she’s wearing…officially old

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Ivy7424@reddit

Born in 1985

That actually sounds like a pretty cute outfit like what the “cool girls” wore in the early to mid 90s. I’ve never worn sweats out of the house - it was drilled into me by my parents that those are not ‘outside’ pants - but it sounds like something I’d wear around the house or out in the yard.

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timsea99@reddit

Best fashion advice I ever received: wear what you like, eventually it will be in style

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derps-a-lot@reddit

It's not just "the youth" or whatever either. Everyone's clothes are too big.

I work in an industry where everything is business casual/smart casual and we're doing frequent events with stage speakers and panels.

The most fashion forward people on stage are wearing suits that look two sizes too big. And this isn't a commentary on off the shelf blazers, I'm talking women in their 40s in senior leadership positions who dress like David Byrne in Stop Making Sense where his suit just keeps getting bigger.

They all look like toddlers who can't dress themselves, and this is coming from a guy who bought the biggest baggiest shorts possible to wear to Ozzfest '97.

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tati-ennui@reddit

I have almost exclusively Gen Z friends at the moment (my chief socializing vector ranges broadly) and I love the way they dress. It’s so creative! Pretty much nobody wears underwire bras anymore and they tend to prioritize comfort and self expression.

I am still wearing boot cut jeans and faux vintage soft t-shirts, because I am in my mid forties and they will pry my high waisted pants from my cold dead body, but if I were in my twenties, I’d also do that.

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Wife_Trash@reddit

Oh man does my middle age self love a high waisted jean.

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tati-ennui@reddit

Remember hip huggers? Never Again.

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mcfetrja@reddit

Yeah. Pandemic changed us as a society. Heading into the Public sphere and third spaces? Dress like you’re on day 3 of a nasty flu. Getting ready to display yourself and ideals in virtual spaces on social media? Gonna need an hour or more to get everything ready for that focusing on hair, skin, clothing, set, and setting.

In short- We care more about the artifice than we do the face to face.

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Character_Bend_5824@reddit

I've been meditating on this as well, lately. It seems public interactions, which I was once so embarrassed by, mean less to me, now, because they more clearly don't impact my life. It's the digital circle which concerns me more. Pre- social media, electronic entertainment was very much one-way and rather pointless ("the boob tube"). Now, electronic engagement is often more important than random public interactions such as Starbucks or the supermarket.

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QueenSqueee42@reddit

That's a very astute observation. So true.

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RoxyLA95@reddit

These kids were in high school when the pandemic hit. They are used to be comfy and looking cute from the waist up.

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fingerling-broccoli@reddit

Guys I saw a kid last night with bleached hair with leopard spots we’ve already come full circle

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jessek@reddit

I drove by my high school the other day and saw a kid crossing the street who looked like and was dressed as I was 30 years ago. Tall, skinny, baggy dark clothing, unruly mop of hair. Made me feel “hey at least some of the kids are alright”.

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sciencewitchbrarian@reddit

I know why it feels weird to see that style…it’s because it’s the clothes and silhouette from the 90s but it’s like the “uncool” version. Like everything is a gross color or just weirdly cheap-looking. It reminds me of the clothes my parents would buy me from Kmart or JC Penney and not the ones I’d pick out for myself.

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CarlSpackler22@reddit

We're boomer posting now

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SyntheticScrivner@reddit

Unfortunately, sweat pants in public has been popular for ages. I only judge people randomly wearing track suits, tbh.

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GemGlamourNGlitter@reddit

OR could it be that she just threw on anything without putting much effort into it just to grab a bite to eat? Not everyone cares when they go out in public what they look like. I know when I go out for something quick I literally just put on a bra and hit the store.

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Polymox@reddit

That's pretty minimalist. You must live someplace warm.

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GemGlamourNGlitter@reddit

Florida

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PuppyJakeKhakiCollar@reddit

Didn't we have a similar trend in the 90s, except it was fitted tops and track suit bottoms? I remember wearing that a lot.

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blackcurrents78@reddit

The world has become far too casual. I personally own no sweatpants, crocs or slides, but I love a big clunky heavy rubber soled shoe nowadays. Go team stability!!! 😂

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Jub_Jub710@reddit

For a while kids were doing the "white trash mom from the 90s" look with over sized t-shirts to make it look like they weren't wearing pants. Just waiting for banana clips, crunchy hair and Salem 100s to make a comeback.

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Asleep_Onion@reddit

Fashion has always not made sense. If it made sense then it wouldn't be called "fashion", it would just be called "the optimal attire for what you're doing."

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genesimmonstongue415@reddit

It's real pig-pen shit.

I'm no fashion-man. & I believe in freedom of choice. I usually wear Levi's & cowboy boots & a tucked in t shirt.

But it Blows my mind to see so many young people age 14-28 wearing PAJAMAS in public, all the time!

They look like idiotic babies & slobs.

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mcfetrja@reddit

So we’re gonna have to pick a lane here- Either we all need to dress as bland as modern minimalist design to blend in with the monoculture, or we need to be the replacement flair for that which was removed from public display in service of said monoculture.

It helps me to understand that dressing down is a direct response to removal of fun in public spaces. Grandpa would wear a button up short sleeve shirt and tie to take us to McDonalds dining room that looked like a dragon on LSD shat fiberglass French fries and fry guys throughout. They got rid of the whimsical setting and replaced it with all the class that’s need to order off the value menu. I’ll be damned if I’m gonna be the one trying to bring the class to McDonalds when the niece and nephew start begging for a happy meal. Some dude in Chicago made that decision for me 15-20 years ago, and my lounge pants loving self thanks him.

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lordnecro@reddit

Wearing pajamas in public was super popular in our college years.

Wearing torn/distressed clothes was popular in the 90's.

Wearing oversized clothes was popular in the 90's.

None of this stuff is new.

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HarrietsDiary@reddit

Old people didn’t understand our clothes either.

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Exciting-Argument-67@reddit

True. In the mid-nineties, I used to buy turtlenecks at Goodwill and cut off the neck and cuffs, leaving the edges frayed. My grandmother basically said I looked like a war refugee from the slavic country our family was once from. (Ha.)

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mister_burns1@reddit

Current trends seem to be low-effort, rather than a fashion trend that I don’t like.

I think what irks me about what OP describes is the seemingly low effort.

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Weird_Squirrel_8382@reddit

What's so confusing about the 90s being back? I had this in every color in high school. I couldn't afford cute boxers to reveal the waistband like Aaliyah, and my mom wouldn't have let me anyway. But yeah, every time I see my nieces I'm like "I should have saved that stuff for you."

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hardwarecheese@reddit

This is just normal now and its been normal for quite some time now. Im a guy and when I turned 30 and saw some of my friends looking older but still dressing like they did 8 years ago and my two older brothers still dressing like the early 90s I started to buy nice clothes and update my closet.

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Bleacherblonde@reddit

Boot cut jeans until the day I die!

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Smartal3ck@reddit

I work in fashion, specifically for people in their 30s-50s is the target market. Wearing baggy/loose pants with a form fitting top is basic fashion. It allows the person to have a clean silhouette while also being comfortable rather than wearing baggy sweatpants AND chunky sweatshirt and looking like a mess.

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rjcpl@reddit

I both appreciate and am confused by all the Def Leppard shirts that seem to be everywhere now.

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inabighat@reddit

Moustaches, mullets, and acid wash jeans are back for christ sakes. Who can tell anymore?

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pixelfishes@reddit

Everything is very 'street fashion' nowadays, which is another way to say it was thrifted and thrown together. Baggy + tight (either top or bottom) seem to be the outfit du jour for most teens and twenty-somethings.

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ttttunos@reddit

I've said it before: everyone dresses like they're trying to smell like fart and cigarettes.

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elliemff@reddit

1981 wear that exact outfit a lot. Reminds me of high school with my skater jeans and baby tees.

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Enough-Skin2442@reddit

It’s been a thing for a few years now: tight top and baggy bottoms or oversized top with tiny/tight bottoms

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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

It's a very weird interpretation of the 90s mixed with the 2000s

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Verbull710@reddit

Light gray sweat pants with the elastic waistband

can visualize, yes

a fitted scoop neck long sleeve crop top

...huh? I wonder how a guy like myself would describe whatever this actually is lol

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tati-ennui@reddit

Fitted: following the natural lines of the body, tight, or at least not loose

Scoop neck: a round, deep collar that shows off the middle part of the chest

Long sleeved: sleeves go to the mid forearm or wrist

Crop top: midriff (stomach) is exposed

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youshantnome@reddit

1977 That’s nothing. I saw a girl in a skirt so short her panties were more than half exposed. And I understand that some girls do that and wear those ruffled extra large panties or they wear shorts underneath. But this girl just had her normal underwear fully exposed

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edasto42@reddit

In all honesty, what that person was wearing is out of fashion now. I was seeing that look all over a couple years ago as the dedicated casual style. But it’s fading away and is not as common. I just think that look has reached the everyday department store for middle America and has gotten to the point where it will be fully gone in a couple more years.

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ConcreteKeys@reddit

Hey, get with it man. Dressing like Napoleon Dynamite is hot.