This decade is one of fashions worst missteps since the 80's

[ally14]

I semi-agree. I think the 80 inspiration can go without but I've also seen a lot of sleek chic modern fashion that is new and beautiful, although many of it is similar to 60's fashions such as Audrey Hepburn's style or Jackie O's style. I hope the next decade will embrace classiness more than this decade's wackiness. A lot of the reason why the actual STYLE of this decade is good is because a lot of people have remained classy and stylish but the FASHION trends certainly do not all get a check mark from me.

 

[LolaSvelt]

20's is obviously known for its roaring twenties style. 30's, 40's and 50's for its defining elegance. 60's is where it got funky. 70's was hippie chic. 80's was just dodgy. 90's was so bad it's good look and the 00's...er--it just seems to be copying past trends from past decades. Not only that, but chavvy stylewear is a major downfall. The types of clothing I see from chavvy girls is hideous.

 

[Kimkhuu]

This is a decade of FAST, DISPOSABLE fashion.

High street fashion stores are popping up constantly: H&M, TopShop, Zara...

You name it.

 

[gius]

^ and many high end designers also working for those

i was watching a show about interiors last night..
and it covered a lot of things, changing fashions...
it mentioned it could take months-years for all styles to be completely shown from place to place...

whereas now with the Internet you can become up-to-date all the time
there are many styles, always changing quickly
pretty much this idea of globalization

 

[veggie4life]

I love this decade it's an anything goes decade which just rocks because everyone finds what they like instead of finding whats accepted

 

[SnejanaIsMyMuse]

^I agree.Though not having lived through any other decade other than the 90's ,this period right now is pretty good.It's basically whatever you want you can wear.

 

[Cryspatus]

I absolutely agree with the first post. This will decade will go down as one of the worst. There are some good trends, and I actually like the vintage thing, but the vintage look is no where near as prevalent as tracksuits, uggs, juicy couture, etc. I think that is what the 2000s will be remembered for, especially because that is the look that is unique to the 2000's. It seems like everyone dresses to look tacky - whether it's to be ironic or to show how much money you have.

I don't think anyone will look on these fashions fondly:

Viceland.com

Star Pulse

Dailymail.co.uk


^This is the look I think most people will remember, not the Williamsburg hipster look...

 

[princessaud]

sometimes, my sense of judgment seems to be impaired due to the excess of "funky, mismatched" outfits that i see all over the internet. it's like at first glance, you think "WTF" until you start seeing outfits like that all over and over again until you tell youself that "hey, it's not that bad, it's actually really cool/funky/fashionable blah blah blah".
but really, i think why most people dress like that nowadays is just to distance themselves from the crowd, they want to stand out and i think they don't really care how they do it, as long as it makes people take notice of them.
they want the attention and they don't care how they get it. maybe it stems from the feeling that they are just one in a million, they are ordinary and they don't want to feel that way. they want to feel as in they're different and special but the sad thing is, they end up looking like clones from another planet.

i'm not a fashion expert but i do think that in the past, women and men dressed with at least some form of dignity. the women would wear really nice dresses and matching shoes/bags with perfectly coiffed hair and made up faces while the men, well, they generally dressed like one; in suits that fit well and nicely combed hair. somehow i wished i was born in the era where people dressed well, not just merely to impress of shock others.

 

[D'Felipe]

Not to be completely contrary, but the bubble shape or volume of any kind of that matter is not new or exclusive to this decade.

Cristobal Balenciaga became famous for rounded bubble shaped dresses in the 60's, and in the 80's practically every designer did what became known as "pouf" skirts, short, puffy and turned under at the hem to create that shape. Christian Lacroix was well known for helping to start that trend.

The only difference is that now a lot of the bubble shapes have been done in softer fabrics so that they're not as voluminous, but they're not new.

you're right.

What I should've said was that the bubble/cocoon shape will be regarded as the silhouette of the decade in fashion history.

for instance...

50's: dior's new look silhouette
60's: A-Line silhouette
70's: bell bottoms silhouette
80's: Power dressing (broad shoulder) silhouette
90's: babydoll silhouette
00's: bubble/cocoon silhouette

 

[KhaoticKharma]

I'm not all too sure about the looks in post #47 being the definitive looks of our time. I mean, I haven't thought about Ugg boots in God knows how long, and haven't seen them since what feels like decades ago. A lot of that look was part of the transition between the 90's and the 00's, and I'd be willing to bet that whatever look is hot when 2010 rolls around will be the look that fashion historians remember the 00's for. My money is on the Williamsburg Hipsters, Mis-Matched Gossip Girl/SATC Fashionistas, Skater Dude Rappers, et al.

 

[Cryspatus]

I'm not all too sure about the looks in post #47 being the definitive looks of our time. I mean, I haven't thought about Ugg boots in God knows how long, and haven't seen them since what feels like decades ago. A lot of that look was part of the transition between the 90's and the 00's, and I'd be willing to bet that whatever look is hot when 2010 rolls around will be the look that fashion historians remember the 00's for. My money is on the Williamsburg Hipsters, Mis-Matched Gossip Girl/SATC Fashionistas, Skater Dude Rappers, et al.

I go to college in New Jersey and everyone in my school still wears them. I'm only 10 minutes from NYC so I don't think we're that backwards either lol. They also wear the Juicy tracksuits. I guess you're lucky that those fashions are over where you live. If you look at the "trends you are sick of," thread, I see a lot of people complaining that they still see Uggs and tracksuits where they live. Maybe you're right about the hipster fashions but I usually only see that look on college-aged kids who hang out in the city.

 

[mishahoi]

I agree...`comfort over style` seems to be what the masses (NOT the "fashion people") have chosen to define this decade.
Even in Japan, Uggs are still everywhere...crocs and their ilk, hell even birkenstock is back and HUGE.

 

[softgrey]

i think that the 90's was far and away the worst decade..
i don't think anything else can possibly compare...

brown lipstick..grunge style...
just ...

i think there are more people in this decade with access to affordable fashion than in any other ...
and with the internet fashion has become global...
so i actually think that makes for MORE well-dressed people who are fashion conscious than ever before...

so i guess i completely disagree with the original statement of this entire thread....
...



but maybe i am just one of the few here who is old enough to remember some other decades a bit better...

 

[disco54]

Actually early 80s was very much with the bubble look , with Norma Kamali . The 70s wasnt the bell bottom silhouette , The early 70s were influenced by hippie and 30s/40s fashion , The mid 70s , were about Ethnic looks and the late 70s(1977-1979) , disco and new wave , with a super skin tight look with huge dolman tops and drainpipe pants

Imo the most fashionable era was between 1975-1980, girls were stylish back then from tucking their skin tight jeans into stacked heeled boots to dingo and frye boots ,wearing sexy dresses , to skin tight tee shirt and flares , girls back then had more individual style in that it wasnt trying to imitate US weekly celebrities .

 

[saann]

about the photos posted.. I don't really think they represent the fashion of this decade since most people wouldn't look at those outfits and think that they look good

I think that a lot of people who were 'fashionable' during the 80's might look back now and wonder what the hell they were wearing.. but at that time they probably thought that they looked awsome

 

[aglamourgirl]

I think we shouldn't look at it from that angle. This is not the first time people have mixed all sorts of characteristics from different epochs to create something new. What I had to think of immdiately is the architectural epoch "historism". During the 19th centuary architects gathered all they new about architecture since the roman time and built houses, churches and so on that actually did not belong in to the 19th century. They were crammed with all sortrs of elements from differnt epochs that somehow did go together, but actually, historically, didn't make sence. People from europe might know what i mean.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Rathaus_Erfurt.jpg
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Amtsgericht_Ilmenau.JPG

I think each form of art reaches a point where it looks back in order to know what lies ahead. Looks always were revived, sometimes more subtle than others. Think of empire dresses of the 18th/19th century, that had they origin in the antic greece. Think of renaissance. Just the way architecture had to go back in order to go foward, I think fashion has to, also. malicious tounges might even call it recycling fashion.

pls, overlook my spelling mistakes, i was writting in a hurry.

 

[MilkyWay]

I love this era. Poor taste is poor taste and there will always be those who display it.
I think ppl dress better now esp. older people because there are fewer
rules.

 

[pseudovirus]

I'm not all too sure about the looks in post #47 being the definitive looks of our time. I mean, I haven't thought about Ugg boots in God knows how long, and haven't seen them since what feels like decades ago. A lot of that look was part of the transition between the 90's and the 00's, and I'd be willing to bet that whatever look is hot when 2010 rolls around will be the look that fashion historians remember the 00's for. My money is on the Williamsburg Hipsters, Mis-Matched Gossip Girl/SATC Fashionistas, Skater Dude Rappers, et al.

where the heck do you live where you don't see Ugg boots anymore? blahh, last winter/spring that's all anyone wore at school. It's summer now, so everyone is wearing flip-flops, but I'm sure once it starts getting a little nippy out everyone around here will be bringing out their Uggs again.

 

[mishahoi]

of course, we have to remember that these people wearing the uggs etc are largely in thier 20s. Are the women in the 30s wearing them? What have they been wearing this decade? or the women in their 40s? Is it decidely cut that young people, rather than a working woman- who defines a decade? Youth will always propel new ideas...but for defining...it could mean something completely different.

 

[GroovyDolce]

I don't think this decade's fashion is a big misstep, if not all, but some (uggs, leggings, skinny jeans, and others) trends were the missteps, while the rest has just been recycled from other decades like the 50s 60s and 70s with good effort. I'll remember this decade more as the recycling decade, result of a lack of originality and creativity that we had to look back in the past, and I think the latter is great because I love vintage and retro fashions, so it's great being able to wear them even though you didn't live back then. I think one's own sense of style plays a key role in making something like leggins or the like a misstep.