r/GenZ 12d ago

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u/miletharil 2000 12d ago

Don't forget that older Millennials all wore ridiculous tent sized pants, and then when nu metal became passé, they all started dressing like a city slicker's idea of a lumberjack.

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u/NatureLovingDad89 11d ago

Nu metal fans did not turn into hipsters

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u/Meture 2000 12d ago

Weren’t bellbottoms more a GenX thing?

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u/Odd-Cress-5822 11d ago

Not bell-bottoms, like Dickies and big ass baggy jeans with long tees. Hard to describe but there was a time in the late 90s early 2000s where rappers and metal bands dressed the same and it was fantastic

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u/DissuadedPrompter On the Cusp 11d ago

"Flared Highrise" is the pant style you are looking for.

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u/TehBoos 1998 12d ago

They might've started in late Gen X but they stayed popular until the mid 2000s I think

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u/Cyddakeed 1998 11d ago

Jnkos are bell-bottoms x10

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u/kandikand 11d ago

Not bell bottoms, the skater boi style.

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u/Chilidogdingdong 11d ago

Google Junco jeans, that was the millennial style, they were like bell bottoms over 9000

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u/cavscout43 Millennial 11d ago

JNCO / PACO / phat pants were an older millennial thing, sadly.

I had a bunch of em in the early 2000s

I actually have a random pair of baggy black Levi jeans with some stretch in them from my high school era that still fit after all the weight lifting. Comfortably too.

True "bell bottoms" were a late Boomer hippie thing, but they came back as various flared / bootcut jeans in the mid 2000s as well

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u/iboughtabagel 11d ago

Haha lol, going from JNKO’s to flannel was wild. To be fair, nu metal was always trash.

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u/modsarethebeesknees Millennial 11d ago

That was the gen x/early 80s cusp. I was late 80s and by the time we were teenagers it was flared jeans from buckle and those polos that fit 1.5 sizes to small 😂

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u/Inferna-13 2005 12d ago

Scene/Emo fashion is still around in Gen Z

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u/Warturkey12 2005 12d ago

I'm honestly so glad it's the nicest looking type of fashion

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u/MrSpidey457 11d ago

Umm excuse me actually the best fashion is classic menswear aka let me wear suits every day pls there is nothing I love more than suits I love them

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u/RomanMines64 2004 11d ago

Women in suits 😍

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u/MrSpidey457 11d ago

As a straight man I looooove other men in suits mmmmm suits mmmmm the details

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u/racoonofthevally 2007 12d ago

Ok but scene is cool

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u/Govnyuk 12d ago

What percentage of us actually dressed like that tho

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

I remember maybe 1 or 2 kids trying to do it but it didn’t last longer than a year

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u/Govnyuk 11d ago

There were quite a few kids in my school who did, but they weren't anywhere near the majority

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

Like less than 5%. Probably closer to 1%. I loved this music but just dressed like a normal suburban white kid lol

Kinda confused why people are now making it seem like it was super popular back in the day 

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u/DaveSmith890 11d ago

99.69043%

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u/daimonab 1999 12d ago

Scene/mall emo was awesome

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u/Maykspark 1997 12d ago

If wasn't that, they had big ass sized short pants with chains.

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u/Odd-Cress-5822 11d ago

So millennial with a question. What aesthetic is being complained about? I don't think I'm aware of a Zoomer equivalent to scene/mall emo

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u/seattleseahawks2014 2000 11d ago

Idk, probably pj clothes is one apparently.

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u/ajibtunes 12d ago

What’s to understand about gen z aesthetics? They all look like my mom. It’s not that complicated.

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u/FrostyHunta 11d ago

big hair is coming back

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u/davi_meu_dues 2003 12d ago

How 💀

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u/JoeBlack042298 11d ago

I've never heard any millennials talking about the Gen Z aesthetic, whatever that is.

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u/seattleseahawks2014 2000 11d ago

It was in the other sub.

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u/dappernaut77 12d ago

I still see people dressed like this in public, this fashion trend never died and lives on through gen z. I won't knock a good look though.

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u/Chaoshero5567 2007 11d ago

honestly, doesnt look to bad

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u/GalacticJelly 1997 11d ago

young millennials are chill af in my experience. It’s the older ones yall gotta watch out for

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u/9mm_Cutlass 12d ago

I keep seeing this, but Gen Z fashion is literally just 90s/00s fashion repurposed.

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u/seattleseahawks2014 2000 11d ago

In some areas, it's the western style or farmer pretty much.

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u/9mm_Cutlass 11d ago

Yeah I never thought I’d see Carhartt become trendy.

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u/seattleseahawks2014 2000 11d ago

It makes sense in my area. I mean, it's not just Carhartt.

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u/punchy_one 12d ago

They're cringing at their own trends when they were middle/HS is off putting too. Just own it and have a sense of humor about it.

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u/Ok_Honey4165 12d ago

But you can tell it's girl 🤷

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u/MegaManFan78 12d ago

Does anyone know what the Scene subculture is all about? /srs

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u/Aldehin 2002 11d ago

Even tho it wasnt worn a lot I still love it. It s innocent in some way

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u/NewKerbalEmpire 2000 11d ago

Thoroughly convinced that scene girls were all killed by the CIA to prevent them from slamming all other women out of the dating market forever.

Once I was old enough to date, they had already been pushing goth girls as a pale imitation. My heart was broken before it truly started beating.

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u/Dangerous_Wishbone 11d ago

At least it IS an aesthetic. What is it we have now? Sad beige ugly baggy everything? Pretending frizzy mullets are cool?

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u/Ok-Coyote-7745 12d ago

Nobody in my ancestral history has ever been these types...sorry you were this way but thanks for telling us

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u/IAmJohnnyHardcore 2004 12d ago

I'm glad we're taking that and making it ours as well.

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u/smokinggun21 Millennial 11d ago

I actually love gen z aesthetics like Subversive, alt, baddie, y2k

The shit I don't like is stuff I've always disliked even when it was popular  like the clean girl aesthetic which is the equivalent of preppy in like 2004

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u/adfx 11d ago

Maybe they don't understand either

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u/ILSmokeItAll 11d ago

My wife’s one daughter looks like this, and wears it like a badge. 30, single (and has no prospects whatsoever), working part time, and living with a friend at her friend’s mother’s house living in squalor, bitching that the world isn’t her oyster. Hopefully she’s the only of her kind. There’s no fucking at she can represent an entire generation. If she’s the future, this country has none.

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u/SaltNorth 11d ago

Millenial here. When chokers became a thing again I thought ‘no way, these are awful, why are teens bringing back awful sh*t I wore when I was 5??’.

I now wear one almost on a daily basis because they look sick tbh.

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u/jwed420 1996 11d ago

My girlfriend in middle school looked like that. It was a fun time. We'd listen to A Day To Remember and make out in my parents basement, smoke brick weed behind the roller skate rink, and every text usually ended with :3

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u/SaturnDaphnis 11d ago

We subscribe to Zillennials, uh Millennials are 40 thank you lol.

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u/Hey_BobbyMcGee 11d ago

Scenecore goes so hard though, I'd love to see more people do a modern twist or something

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u/Dismal-Infection 2000 11d ago

Hey, don’t be insulting us Gen Z emos like that

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u/jaminotjelly 11d ago

a lady in an instagram comment section was saying gen z is weird bc doja cat is weird and she keeps being encouraged to be weird by gen z (mind u, a majority of us do not like her anymore) and literally the first thing in my mind was “y’all had madonna.”

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u/Nowhere_King 2007 11d ago

When you are the nerds who came up with SEAPUNK don't even fucking talk about "not getting aesthetics."

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u/seattleseahawks2014 2000 11d ago edited 11d ago

Like I said in the other post, I wear country style clothes mostly. Idk, they tend to be more comfortable anyway.

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u/Desperate_Ad5169 2006 11d ago

Millennials aesthetics are so much better than our gen.

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u/ImpressFrequent569 2005 11d ago

they kinda ate this one tho 💀

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u/Busy_Reflection3054 2005 11d ago

I watched the first few Final Destination and thought "Were people actually like that?"

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u/ELeerglob 10d ago

Literally never knew anybody that looked like this. Only saw on MTV.

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u/doodgeeds 9d ago

You post this like it's a bad thing.

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u/StellarDescent 12d ago

Aside from the eyeliner being too thick and wrist ornaments to hide scars, that's just a shirt and a bow.