being obsessed with very out-of-date fashion trends: C or D?

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on ILX, we have (a) the hippie-haters (oh so sixties); (b) the crustie-punk haters (oh so seventies); (c) the mullet- and goth-haters (oh so eighties); (d) the grunge/flannel-haters (oh so nineties). the common denominator in all of the foregoing being that said fashions are dead dead dead.

― Tad (llamasfur), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 05:45 (twenty-two years ago)

how are they dead if people still dress like that?

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 05:47 (twenty-two years ago)

they're zombies duh

― Tad (llamasfur), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 05:47 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Dada, Wednesday, 30 July 2003 05:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not a toga hater.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 05:56 (twenty-two years ago)

i dont care what people wear.

― donna (donna), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 06:36 (twenty-two years ago)

dogs on the other hand...yeesh

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 06:50 (twenty-two years ago)

The examples you named not really fashion trends per se, they're more like the uniforms of their respective cults.

If you had listed people who enjoy wearing shrugs or baby-doll dresses that would be more of an out-of-date fashion trend.

― Larcole (Nicole), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 12:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Do you think there will be more cults with time or less?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

who hates goth clothes?

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Not me, probably to my detriment.

― Larcole (Nicole), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Goth clothes urgent and key. Or at least black T-shirts.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 13:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Sadly, walking round London these days would confirm that the mullett is far from dead.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

It varies depending on the exact flavour of goth, but the goth uniform is one of the better subcultural uniforms.

― fletrejet, Wednesday, 30 July 2003 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

i only like goth chix, but on the point of less cults with time, the way people dress across cults is more homogenous than ever, imho - it's kind of a sartorial mainifestation of post-tribalism and it's actually very dull..

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

almost anything goes now.
i don't think there's anything wrong w/shrugs OR baby doll dresses.
i mean, think of the 40's and 50's, the skirts were all past the knee, in the 60's the mini was huge, in the 70's it was all about the midi. in the 80's skirts were short or long, and in the 90's suddenly the big shockah was the knee-length skirt (anyone remember that?). what i'm saying is you can wear any length skirt now from yr feet to yr crotch (see xtina, obv.) and it's fine. this is just one example.
of course, these are broader aspects of fashion. overly trendy details, like acid washed jeans, come and go, and a lot of those things are dead now. or should be.

― praying mantis (praying mantis), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

hi donna!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

they say that baseball players keep the hairstyle from their most productive years -

maybe fashion-hata obsessives are the same?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

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