Millennial jeans

[cimorene]

I believe I mentioned before that months ago I saw an incredibly silly article claiming that wearing skinny jeans was a "Millennial trait".

I don't say this is completely inaccurate, just that it's silly regardless.

Now every time I see a pair of skinny jeans getting worn, my brain goes "A Millennial???" without my permission.

For the record, I have not yet noticed them on any teenagers or very young people, so it's possible. But on the other hand, they are still making and selling them in fast fashion stores, so I'd be astonished if this were so universal (not to mention the average pair of jeans is much shorter-lived now than when I was a teenager in the late 90s, and most adults still had jeans they'd bought ten years before. Stretch denim was unknown as far as I remember up to 2001, when I was 18 and buying new jeans was a substantial preoccupation of mine because it was hard to find ones that fit).

Sigh.

Also, I am a millennial (or 'xillennial'), but I can't begin to tell at a glance if a stranger is. Or maybe it counts as beginning, since I can guess they're, like, almost certainly between 30 and 70. 😂 But I can't continue!

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

Ha ha. As if clothing choices were an organic thing that just happens. Clothing choices aren't "traits". We wear what our clothing industry provides for us to wear. Remember Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada?

At least now there are lots of different types of jeans to wear. But they are still jeans.

Also I'm with you on guessing ages... the older I get the more my categories have shrunk to "child", "younger than me" and "old".

[cimorene]

I can understand a contrast between the teenagers and very new adults at an age where a majority of them - not all! - follow trends pretty quickly and this encompasses leg silhouettes. A few years ago there was a flood of very wide legs and then more recently they've all been wearing flared pants. But this doesn't extend all the way up to their parents; it basically vanishes gradually as soon as they hit 20 or so. I've never seen as much variety of style as in college students.