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Fashion is a weird thing (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by LambLeeg@lemm.ee to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[-] linuxduck@nerdly.dev 169 points 10 months ago

[-] Kiosade@lemmy.ca 22 points 10 months ago

Exactly what I thought of lol

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[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 88 points 10 months ago

The current female waistline fashion is 1980s throwback

[-] Throwdownyourgrandma@feddit.nl 28 points 10 months ago

Does that mean 90s fashion is going to make a return soon? I am all for that to be honest.

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

It already is

[-] Tar_alcaran@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

Havent you noticed all the midrifs yet?

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[-] bstix@feddit.dk 14 points 10 months ago

The 80s throwback has lasted longer than the 80s did.

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[-] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 60 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

And there are people that make more money in a year than you'll make in your life, whose "job" it is to decide to raise that seam a half inch up from last year for fashion, to acolades and red carpet galas praising their unparalleled genius for doing it.

Then the ones that actually make the jeans that people actually wear make less in their lives than we make in a year.

Humans are soooo weird, cruel, and cruel in genuinely weird ways.

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[-] Ddhuud@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago

They haven't been paying attention for long enough to make such a prediction.

The waist height vs time function is approachable to a sinusoidal function with a period of about 20 years.

[-] akilou@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago

This is the correct answer. It's sinosoidal and the frequency has to stay low enough that the time between peaks and troughs will necessitate that people continuously buy jeans and can't reuse the ones from the prior peak or trough.

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[-] jasondj@ttrpg.network 42 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Lady, if you’ve got the same hips after 20 years, you’re either doing something really wrong, or something really right.

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[-] Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago

And yet, I'm sure the pockets can't fit a phone.

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[-] Kichae@kbin.social 32 points 11 months ago

We've already seen the upward evolution of high wasted jeans, and it's coveralls.

[-] d3m0nr4v3r@feddit.de 31 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Haven't low waist pants been having a major comeback for a while now?

[-] Globulart@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah you can tell that this is a place full of coders. People talking about trends from the 80s being current and 90s arriving, when 00s has been back for a while already.

I was thrilled to pull my overly baggy skater clothes out again (then decide they definitely look bad and put them back).

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[-] Hyperreality@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago

They have.

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[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 30 points 11 months ago

... wait no actually a jdress sounds awesome

[-] dingus@lemmy.ml 62 points 11 months ago

Britney Spears pulled it off in 2001.

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago

Woah I had no idea she was Canadian.

[-] dingus@lemmy.ml 20 points 11 months ago

She's from Louisiana, which was originally a French colony whose government was based in Quebec, soooooo this tracks.

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[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago

Comrade Spears of the Fashion Vanguard. fidel-salute

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[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

The jress

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[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 29 points 10 months ago

So 2 datapoints = the trend forever? I mean today I parked my car one space to the left of where I parked it yesterday. So I guess in a month it will be in the middle of the street.

[-] sus@programming.dev 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

relevant xkcd

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[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 22 points 11 months ago

Best Jeanist liked this post.

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[-] obinice@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

I noticed 90s high top jeans are back in fashion lately, lots of 20 year olds walking around looking like my mum haha, but eventually they'll lower again, and then go up, down, up, etc, it's just a cycle is all.

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[-] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

If you did this comparison from the 70s to the 2030s you'd have pants around the ankles.

It fluctuates, wear whatever makes you happy. Don't try to slippery slope fashion, they're way ahead of you already

[-] _I_@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

ITT: 35+ year, out of shape, men.

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[-] Chapo0114@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago

Hahahahaha womban wear dumb clothe

[-] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 14 points 11 months ago

I'm really not a fan of the high waisted era. Bring back the hipster era

[-] dingus@lemmy.ml 51 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I don't disagree, but the high-waisted era works a lot better for girls with more curve to their figures, which I see as a net gain.

And considering the number of overweight/obese people continues to grow apace, it's not a bad thing for them to be able to feel good about themselves and have fashion options that flatter their figures instead of all fashion being catered to near-impossible body types.

This should not be read as an endorsement of obesity, which can be a dangerous medical issue, but rather a willingness to see that everyone deserves to feel positive about their self image. Weight gain is a difficult issue to tackle in a country that subsidizes corn syrup and puts it in damn everything, on top of a broken education system that certainly doesn't teach people healthy eating.

[-] chase_what_matters@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

This is a high-quality comment, dingus.

[-] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 9 points 11 months ago

Every man, woman and other deserves the chance to feel comfortable and beautiful. Just because I like and prefer something, doesn't mean everyone or even my wife has to... I'm not Kanye West 😂

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[-] noundus@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 11 points 11 months ago

The future is now.

https://archive.ph/njKj1