I absolutely love Gen Z’s joyful street style even if it’s not how I personally dress. As an elder millennial with both a Gen Z son and a Gen A daughter, it makes me so happy that their general attitude of tossing out rules just for the sake of rules bleeds into their fashion sense.
The hate they get feels so similar to the pushback that 1920s flapper fashion received at the time, maybe because they both inherited a world that felt doomed. When the world is burning around you, why would you embrace the societal and fashion norms of the generations that served you this mess?
Did you just write an entire article slamming fashion then interpret the term ‘street style’ as ‘homeless’? Maybe this isn’t the topic you should be writing think pieces on.
I get a ton of painfully earnest newsletters on my feed that I usually just scroll past without interacting. This was my first introduction to your account so that’s totally my bad for assuming I should read it through that lens — and to be honest, you nailed the bit incredibly well to the point that I clutched my stupid internet pearls so I have to hand the win to ya.
Hiding behind being "unserious" makes you not only a coward in the face of accusation but also robs your writing of value. If you are going to be a hater, at least do it with your chest out.
That’s total bullshit. People don’t read humor because they want to be serious. They read it to laugh, and the best humor is truth wrapped in absurdity or absurdity wrapped in truth. That person came at me because she entirely missed the point of the post as a result of her misinterpretation of its purpose. She thought it was a serious criticism (because she takes herself and the internet way too seriously). Giving someone permission to not take something I’ve written seriously gives them permission to unclench their rectum and laugh, which we all know is the origin of “I shit myself laughing.”
Watch literally any Curb Your Enthusiasm episode and come back to me and ask why I’ve taken up a few paragraphs making fun of fashion trends. You, just like Allie, take yourself and this piece way too seriously.
The only thing I take seriously is racing sailboats. Everything else is just silly nonsense. If street fashion criticism is your jam more power to you. I confess I don’t get it. 🤷♂️
The joke is on you, bro. You’re the one who wasted your time not only reading about a topic you don’t care about but also making not one but two comments about it.
If you’re going to take a writer’s time and leave a comment, then comment on a piece about a topic that you care about. The fact that you’re commenting on a topic you don’t care about (a satirical take on Gen Z fashion, which is the only one of nearly 100 posts that address fashion at all) tells me you don’t value your time and you’re just spraying boring, uninsightful bile around the internet.
I love to engage in someone’s criticism when they have a thoughtful take, but you clearly don’t think before you type. I hope you pay more attention when you’re sailing your little boat.
I don’t love flapper fashion, although I can appreciate the statement they were making. The truest thing I know about fashion is that we all love the styles that look best on our bodies — you’ll never catch me with a flapper drop waist dress or the early 2000s low rise jeans with the whale tail. I look best in a high waisted jean or a short dress so I lean toward 70s and 90s style.
So funny! That's what happens when you get to grow zero self respect and instead get substitutes handed to you in the form of lots of fake achievement tokens, freebies, goody bags and 'what would u like now honey'.
This article reads like all the yawn articles written by boomers about millennials when we were in our 20s. Shock horror: middle aged person doesn't understand youth fashion 😫
Your review and the stacks you follow tell me you’re a humorless, angry, under-fucked socialist who lives in an unfashionable London suburb whose idea of a fun Friday night is going to an anti-imperialist / anti-colonialist protest and then jerking off alone to Marxist anime porn on a very old Android phone in a clunky dark brown plastic case with a Che Guevara decal on the back. Thanks for reading!
They look like old people who go on coach trips and cruise holidays alone, who have been miraculously de-aged by some new technology and then shot at with paintball guns.
not to be all like the vogue person in romy and michelle but their fashion is objectively interesting, daring, and fucking good and you’re maybe being kind of an ass about it. I was reading along like yeah this shit is legit fucking challenging, but then I got to the House of Yes reference and honestly you should have the capacity to step up and appreciate? source: am GenX and appreciate the hell out of what’s happening, which is they’re resurrecting and redeeming-without-violating the spirit of the underappreciated 70s (and, terrifyingly, the early 80s, which I admit I’m not as ready for)
Shabby. Imagine a world where you don’t take everything soooo seriously, and you wait until your weed gummy anxiety hangover has subsided before scolding satire for being satirical. Have a nice glass of water, take a nap in your daytime pajamas, and then return to the Internet with a fresh perspective.
there’s a difference between satirical and mean, and i don’t think you’re *way* over the line but i do think you’re overshooting it. as you point out though it’s not that big a deal, carry on if that’s the bit you want to do, you’re certainly very good at it.
You do raise a question that I ask myself every time I write a piece (nearing 100 now): “am I being mean?” I think the best satire aims up at people in positions of power or privilege. This one piece probably aims down just a bit, which means the satire / ridicule balance isn’t perfect. So I take your point. Thank you for reading and taking the time to engage.
Went to a gig in Dublin recently, the young people looked like they had been dressed by Gary Larson. My first thought was those kids will be Virgins well into there 40s. Poor bastards have been psy oped, the guys especially.
Is Gen Z fashion just another example of the tech bro's idea of moving fast and breaking things?
The fashion to me was not the interesting thing for me about the article. It was the responses to your questions. It seemed like the answers were more about annoying people then being of any use. The people of the US have never really been that good at sarcasm. Leave it to the British. The Brits do it without emotion. The US has not learnt that yet.
Funny article.I needed a laugh . Thanks for your work
PS, I am an Australian living in ASIA for the past 20 years. The whole pyjamas in the day time thing has been in Asia for over a decade. Women wear PJ's during the day to prove to others they have enough money, or are married to a man who earns enough money, to not have to get up and go to work.
I went back to college in 2016 at age 36. The girls wore yoga pants with visible went stains on the crotch in the hallways. Or pyjamas and you could smell them at three feet (slutty gross and delicious but still). No joke. I couldn’t believe it. As the one of the only decent men in the college of 20,000 students (Fanshawe, Ontario’s biggest) I cleaned up with women. As in, flirted, had fun, made friends, had a girl, everyone came to my parties etc. played sports too. The guys and many women were a pornified disgrace. The student council and college paper were woke beyond repair.
I absolutely love Gen Z’s joyful street style even if it’s not how I personally dress. As an elder millennial with both a Gen Z son and a Gen A daughter, it makes me so happy that their general attitude of tossing out rules just for the sake of rules bleeds into their fashion sense.
The hate they get feels so similar to the pushback that 1920s flapper fashion received at the time, maybe because they both inherited a world that felt doomed. When the world is burning around you, why would you embrace the societal and fashion norms of the generations that served you this mess?
We have an iconic new two-word definition of Gen Z’s aesthetic: joyful homeless 🥇
Did you just write an entire article slamming fashion then interpret the term ‘street style’ as ‘homeless’? Maybe this isn’t the topic you should be writing think pieces on.
The biggest mistake anyone can make (besides reading my stuff) is taking anything I write even remotely seriously. You are not my intended audience.
I get a ton of painfully earnest newsletters on my feed that I usually just scroll past without interacting. This was my first introduction to your account so that’s totally my bad for assuming I should read it through that lens — and to be honest, you nailed the bit incredibly well to the point that I clutched my stupid internet pearls so I have to hand the win to ya.
Ok truce, we can be friends now :)
Hiding behind being "unserious" makes you not only a coward in the face of accusation but also robs your writing of value. If you are going to be a hater, at least do it with your chest out.
That’s total bullshit. People don’t read humor because they want to be serious. They read it to laugh, and the best humor is truth wrapped in absurdity or absurdity wrapped in truth. That person came at me because she entirely missed the point of the post as a result of her misinterpretation of its purpose. She thought it was a serious criticism (because she takes herself and the internet way too seriously). Giving someone permission to not take something I’ve written seriously gives them permission to unclench their rectum and laugh, which we all know is the origin of “I shit myself laughing.”
Allie: Right? I don’t understand letting other people’s fashion choices take up this much space in one’s mind.
Watch literally any Curb Your Enthusiasm episode and come back to me and ask why I’ve taken up a few paragraphs making fun of fashion trends. You, just like Allie, take yourself and this piece way too seriously.
The only thing I take seriously is racing sailboats. Everything else is just silly nonsense. If street fashion criticism is your jam more power to you. I confess I don’t get it. 🤷♂️
The joke is on you, bro. You’re the one who wasted your time not only reading about a topic you don’t care about but also making not one but two comments about it.
If you’re going to take a writer’s time and leave a comment, then comment on a piece about a topic that you care about. The fact that you’re commenting on a topic you don’t care about (a satirical take on Gen Z fashion, which is the only one of nearly 100 posts that address fashion at all) tells me you don’t value your time and you’re just spraying boring, uninsightful bile around the internet.
I love to engage in someone’s criticism when they have a thoughtful take, but you clearly don’t think before you type. I hope you pay more attention when you’re sailing your little boat.
1920s flapper fashion was objectively shit and enough time has passed that we can all agree to call a spade a spade at this point.
I don’t love flapper fashion, although I can appreciate the statement they were making. The truest thing I know about fashion is that we all love the styles that look best on our bodies — you’ll never catch me with a flapper drop waist dress or the early 2000s low rise jeans with the whale tail. I look best in a high waisted jean or a short dress so I lean toward 70s and 90s style.
You sound insufferable.
Cool, thanks.
Of course you do…
So funny! That's what happens when you get to grow zero self respect and instead get substitutes handed to you in the form of lots of fake achievement tokens, freebies, goody bags and 'what would u like now honey'.
But I have to love anti-fashion fashion.
This is very funny. And thank you for trying to explain these inexplicably awful clothes to a completely baffled old man.
That first paragraph was absolute GOLD, I laughed out loud
This article reads like all the yawn articles written by boomers about millennials when we were in our 20s. Shock horror: middle aged person doesn't understand youth fashion 😫
Your review and the stacks you follow tell me you’re a humorless, angry, under-fucked socialist who lives in an unfashionable London suburb whose idea of a fun Friday night is going to an anti-imperialist / anti-colonialist protest and then jerking off alone to Marxist anime porn on a very old Android phone in a clunky dark brown plastic case with a Che Guevara decal on the back. Thanks for reading!
You got all of that? Dang. I need to pay more attention to you.
TLDR; author is old fart.
Only an old fart would use the term “old fart”
Gen Z look like young farts.
They look like old people who go on coach trips and cruise holidays alone, who have been miraculously de-aged by some new technology and then shot at with paintball guns.
Lolll agreed, let’s collab
not to be all like the vogue person in romy and michelle but their fashion is objectively interesting, daring, and fucking good and you’re maybe being kind of an ass about it. I was reading along like yeah this shit is legit fucking challenging, but then I got to the House of Yes reference and honestly you should have the capacity to step up and appreciate? source: am GenX and appreciate the hell out of what’s happening, which is they’re resurrecting and redeeming-without-violating the spirit of the underappreciated 70s (and, terrifyingly, the early 80s, which I admit I’m not as ready for)
Shabby. Imagine a world where you don’t take everything soooo seriously, and you wait until your weed gummy anxiety hangover has subsided before scolding satire for being satirical. Have a nice glass of water, take a nap in your daytime pajamas, and then return to the Internet with a fresh perspective.
there’s a difference between satirical and mean, and i don’t think you’re *way* over the line but i do think you’re overshooting it. as you point out though it’s not that big a deal, carry on if that’s the bit you want to do, you’re certainly very good at it.
You do raise a question that I ask myself every time I write a piece (nearing 100 now): “am I being mean?” I think the best satire aims up at people in positions of power or privilege. This one piece probably aims down just a bit, which means the satire / ridicule balance isn’t perfect. So I take your point. Thank you for reading and taking the time to engage.
Stoking the inter-genenerational flame war today are we?
i kinda liked the corduroy shorts outfit 😶😶😶
Same tbh
Went to a gig in Dublin recently, the young people looked like they had been dressed by Gary Larson. My first thought was those kids will be Virgins well into there 40s. Poor bastards have been psy oped, the guys especially.
💯
Older generation complains about a younger one - a tale as old as time!
Is Gen Z fashion just another example of the tech bro's idea of moving fast and breaking things?
The fashion to me was not the interesting thing for me about the article. It was the responses to your questions. It seemed like the answers were more about annoying people then being of any use. The people of the US have never really been that good at sarcasm. Leave it to the British. The Brits do it without emotion. The US has not learnt that yet.
Funny article.I needed a laugh . Thanks for your work
PS, I am an Australian living in ASIA for the past 20 years. The whole pyjamas in the day time thing has been in Asia for over a decade. Women wear PJ's during the day to prove to others they have enough money, or are married to a man who earns enough money, to not have to get up and go to work.
The Gen Z version has really missed the point.
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I went back to college in 2016 at age 36. The girls wore yoga pants with visible went stains on the crotch in the hallways. Or pyjamas and you could smell them at three feet (slutty gross and delicious but still). No joke. I couldn’t believe it. As the one of the only decent men in the college of 20,000 students (Fanshawe, Ontario’s biggest) I cleaned up with women. As in, flirted, had fun, made friends, had a girl, everyone came to my parties etc. played sports too. The guys and many women were a pornified disgrace. The student council and college paper were woke beyond repair.
I did college completely wrong
"I can't even picture that. But it sounds cool."
😏
Thank you for reading and noticing the silly little details :)