# Does the fashion of this decade look appreciably different from that of the previous? Or the 90's? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 29, 2015, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-fashion-of-this-decade-look-appreciably-different-from-that-of-the-previous-or-the-90s/738916 "2015-11-29T10:11:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![sparky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@sparky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sparky_1)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-fashion-of-this-decade-look-appreciably-different-from-that-of-the-previous-or-the-90s/738916/21 "2015-11-30T17:22:32Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Hard to say. When I see old episodes of Friends, I don’t find the fashion particularly “jarring”. But 90210 I do. > > Fashion today is definitely slimmer than in the 90s. I have some shirts left over from college and they are all really baggy. Baggy misshapen clothes are a key indicator of 90s fashion. > > Beards, manbuns and other “lumberjacksexual” fashion is also common. In contrast, the “metrosexual” look was common in the 2000s (basically looking like an extra from the Twilight films). In the 90s, people dressed like slobs. “Lumberjacksexual”. First I’ve heard that term. Seems a very good description. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-fashion-of-this-decade-look-appreciably-different-from-that-of-the-previous-or-the-90s/738916/22 "2015-11-30T17:23:53Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > Some of us have been wearing the same fashions since we were children–only the size is different. Yes, and only maintain our weight/figure so we don’t have to purchase new a new wardrobe. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-fashion-of-this-decade-look-appreciably-different-from-that-of-the-previous-or-the-90s/738916/23 "2015-11-30T17:40:23Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Fashion today is definitely slimmer than in the 90s. I have some shirts left over from college and they are all really baggy. Baggy misshapen clothes are a key indicator of 90s fashion. Yeah, this is the main thing I notice for men’s clothing at least. I hesitate to say “fashion” because I’m not exactly a fashion conscious kind of guy, but even I notice how loose-fitting the look was back in the 90s compared with today. I only wear oversized tees today when I’m completely slumming around, whereas in the 90s, it was normal, everyday wear. Even my jeans back then were less form-fitting and more baggy. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-fashion-of-this-decade-look-appreciably-different-from-that-of-the-previous-or-the-90s/738916/24 "2015-11-30T17:42:52Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > Likewise, when we look back at the 1960s, we have a mental image of long-hair scruffy folks wearing tie-dyes. But tie-dyes only really had a heyday of about a year (69/70) - just look at the “Woodstock” documentary, which serves as a veritable ‘warts & all’ time capsule for what was popular in youth culture in 1969. How many tie-dyes do you actually see in it? Yep. Take a look at what people are actually wearing and their hair at Woodstock photos, and you’ll see people wearing normal clothes, with normal haircuts. Nobody is wearing a classic hippy costume. The truth is that most people continue to wear the same sorts of clothes they always wear, regardless of the decade. I wore jeans and boots and t-shirts and flannel shirts and a scruffy beard every day in the 80s, and in the 90s, and in the 00s and in the 10s. I’m not going to stop now, even though the fashion is for silver lame jumpsuits and translucent helmets with antennae. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-fashion-of-this-decade-look-appreciably-different-from-that-of-the-previous-or-the-90s/738916/25 "2015-11-30T18:20:03Z")
The biggest change to me is everyone now has their nose in a smartphone. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-fashion-of-this-decade-look-appreciably-different-from-that-of-the-previous-or-the-90s/738916/26 "2015-11-30T18:26:30Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Yeah, this is the main thing I notice for men’s clothing at least. I hesitate to say “fashion” because I’m not exactly a fashion conscious kind of guy, but even I notice how loose-fitting the look was back in the 90s compared with today. I only wear oversized tees today when I’m completely slumming around, whereas in the 90s, it was normal, everyday wear. Even my jeans back then were less form-fitting and more baggy. Speaking for myself, all of my clothing from the 1990s is a lot more form-fitting than it used to be. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-fashion-of-this-decade-look-appreciably-different-from-that-of-the-previous-or-the-90s/738916/27 "2015-11-30T18:29:25Z")
I went to a friend’s son’s Bar Mitzvah a few years back and noticed pretty quickly that his middle-school girl pals dressed a lot more provocatively than the girls at his dad’s Bar Mitzvah had. Gauzy, low-cut and yoga-pantsed are commonplace today in a way they weren’t in the 90s. Men’s clothes are tailored a bit tighter now (No more dressing like the guy from Mighty Mighty Bosstones), and with the Thom Brown influence, sleeves and pant legs are visibly shorter. Not only do fewer men wear socks, but there are foot powders to encourage and enable socklessness. T-shirts are likelier to have superhero themes than band themes. And seersucker isn’t just for southern lawyers anymore. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-fashion-of-this-decade-look-appreciably-different-from-that-of-the-previous-or-the-90s/738916.md?page=1)