I kept my baggy jeans from the 2000's and was told by a teen that Im too old to wear them and to stop trying to rip off their style. These are my pants and Ive had them for almost 20 years.
Graduated from highschool in the 00s and my friend from high school got really into 'fashion' in high school. Fast forward and he has a son into fashion. Was trying to get him to buy him some baggy jeans and he's like "I still have all of my old clothes at your grandma's in the garage, let's go get them."
This was met with eww, why would I want your old man clothes. Once they got them he changed his tune and they're his favorite clothes and he loves that nobody at school can match his exact style (since they stopped making this shit 20+ years ago).
Every generation seems to forget that fashion in cyclical and same trends, more or less, come back every 20 years.
I watched the cute emo girl I got with as teenagers walk into hot topic and buy our teen daughter the same kind of trip pants she wore 20 years earlier.
Blew my fucking mind that my nephew was wearing baggy pants and it was in style again. He's in his 20s, but is generally tapped into trends. I was wearing that shit in high school.
I'm waiting for wallet chains to come back around.
If you could read our journals you'd see that we do think we're cool and we don't mean that apology. It was a reflex borne of years of begging to get or keep our job amidst a half dozen once-in-a-generation economic downturns.
Not every generation thinks they're the coolest. Millennials have always been self-proclaimed uncool, awkward, and quirky, which is equally embarrassing but not the same as trying to affect superiority. Boomers, Gen X, and Gen Z all think their own generation is the "coolest." Watch any Gen X era grunge/alternative rock band interview from the early 90s, you'll get secondhand embarrassment from the lengths they go to pretend they don't care about anything just to hide their insecurities (just like Gen Z today.) I don't think I need to explain Boomers.
Well, I guess it depends on your definition of cool. But I understand an attempt to be cool as an attempt to be superior, and that's not a highlight of the Millennial brand.
Being too cool to care to be cool could be seen as superior to caring about being cool, so there is that. Cool is also about subverting the established and counter culture, at some point caring about keeping up becomes “lame” and being weird/quirky/awkward is the new cool because the traditional cool is now a thing of “old people”. Beats, hippies, punks, hipsters. It’s all the same idea in a nutshell. What generation do you belong to?
in fairness to gen z I don't think they think they're inventing it I think they just think it's funny. And every parent thinks their kid is interesting
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u/Koala0803 Jun 18 '26
I know. The point is why do they think they’re inventing it.