The fashion that comes to mind is the 80s neon colors, leg warmers, off the shoulder tops.
But I dont see any geezers wearing them. I should start.
I suppose it depends on what you do, but when I was young (lo, those many years ago!), you absolutely did not wear jeans to work. You wore nice dress pants.
Working in marketing and advertising for the last 37 years, it’s gone from:
- Business attire only (suits and ties)
- Casual Fridays (khakis, polo shirts or casual buttoned shirts, but no sneakers or jeans)
- Casual everyday (but same rules)
- Sneakers are OK
- Jeans are OK, too
That said, my main client for the last 10 years was still “business attire only” until about 4 years ago, and there, it’s still a mix between business attire (i.e., senior people are still suit-and-tie, and that’s what I wear when I visit) and casual business (khakis, no jeans, no sneakers).
Touche’
But you know, if you’re not looking down, 24 hours a day, at your phone it’s because you’re “old” enough to know when to put it away. Like not walking into poles or fountains. Or dinner.
I’m the old geezer here you won’t let the kids and grandkids have their devices at the dinner table. I get told this nearly every day.
The Lil’wrekker is fond of saying I can eat, make eye contact, listen to you and read my texts. I’m a multitasker.
I still make her put it to sleep or in her bag. She’s old enough, yet young enough the grandkids see her as a role model.
Yep, same for me. I worked in technical engineering jobs and had to the dockers and or tie thing my first 20 years. The tie was the first thing to go. My last 25 years it went to dockers and button down shirts (then to polo shirts) and then to jeans and shirts with no large logos on them. I saw people wearing shorts at one near the end.
But now, today, I’d say jeans are normal wear for almost all people that are not upper level managers or customer facing business people.
Hell, during work during covid many people mentioned that they went to online meetings in their underwear. Maybe those are the young people not wearing jeans. 
I have also seen the evolution of required dress codes to casual wear in my kine of work.
All of my male supervisors wore suits and ties when I started in the mid 1990s.
Since I was a social worker our dress code was somewhat relaxed while in the field.
However, we were required to wear dress causal clothing while working in the office for a number of years.
When we went to court we had to wear dress clothing - suits or blazers with dress pants including neck ties for men, dresses or styled pants suits for women.
That gradually devolved over a period of years to the point where jeans are worn everyday and accepted even in court.
The attorneys still wear suits and ties or dress clothing for court but my office is low maintenance when it comes to clothing.
Up here in the Pacific Northwest, we practically consider North Face jackets, jeans, and sneakers to be business formal. I don’t find myself very often in situations where I feel the need to wear a suit, like say going to the opera or eating at a high-end restaurant, but when I do I’ll invariably wind up sitting near someone wearing a sports jersey or a miniskirt.
This just isn’t true, in my observation. I mean, what is it that youngsters wear instead?
I wear jeans all the time. Although I’m definitely a geezer, I’ve worn jeans since my youth. My current very fashionable wear is a pair of jeans with a hole in them. 
The hole, in the knee area, isn’t from wear, it’s from attempting to fall flat on my face while tripping over a curb.
This event happened while returning a holter monitor to my cardiologist. There’s nothing wrong with my heart, but now my jeans are torn. This reinforeces my belief to avoid having medical care inflicted on you. 
My son broke his ankle in the moshpit at Aftershock a couple of years ago. I don’t know where the line for “young” is, but he was 31 at the time.
The Great Flood
In my completely anecdotal experience sitting outside the middle school (now high school) to pick up my kid, I see way more sweats, joggers, leggings and pajama pants on the kids these days than I see blue jeans. I can’t speak for what they wear when out on the town (do kids even go out on the town these days what with their cellular phones and MTVs and MySpaces??)
Punks not dead, it just goes to bed at a more reasonable hour.
How about writing things down instead of just making a list on your phone?
Yeah, Punk isn’t feeling lucky today. Is he?
Oh and carrying that little notebook and ink pen where ever you go. My Daddy did it for years.
I do tote a small sketch book and have my pen in my bag. But it’s for private moments out of the house. Because I’m usually drawing not note taking.
I wouldn’t be adverse to taking down a note, tho’.
oh no, I’ve reached a thresh hold.
Again, a question: when did people say that writing things down was cool? “Boy, that Jim gets all the ladies, look at the way he writes stuff down!”
Yeah they’ve definitely stood the test of time.
I should’ve added to my earlier post that yes, lot’s of people wear sweats, shorts, and PJs, too - my chain sells a ton of those as well. My point was that everyone in every age group wears jeans, it’s not just a geezer thing or kids/teens/young adult habit.
What’s ironic is that I myself rarely wear jeans (
) , and if I do it’s to wear a nice pair for a night out. I wear shorts 70-80% of the time. 
And in colder weather I wear mostly athletic pants. Jeans just aren’t comfy to me for general activities, though I think they look great. I’m a massive workout junkie though too, so that influences what I wear.