I see tons of new skaters about (they keep turning up in my precious car park) and they were the most random shit. There’s one girl who seems to live exclusively in dinosaur hoodies that have spines down the back. I’m not jealous really
Not wanting to sound too much like my Dad but I just don’t get it. Surely a load of toggles and cords and straps hanging off can’t be practical so i guess it’s all just flair but it looks fucking ridiculous (to me)
Nylon shirts with flames, padlocks and spiked up mohawks then $600 off white dunks seems mental to me
God I feel ancient
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It’s called fashion mate 
Yeah, you only need 1 wallet chain.
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Pah, I’ll be in my shed if anyone needs me
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The whole ‘soundcloud rap channeling weird 90s goth vibes’ look is defo one of the most bizzare reworked comebacks of recent years. I didn’t realise how big a thing it actually was until recently too.
So hard to take owt like this seriously but hey who are we to judge
My old workmate DJs this shit and I was like what’s the deal and he described the whole scene as like ‘rap but metal and electronic’ hahah
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Well put. I think that’s the strangest part; weird looking fashion will always come around but these particular reference points are mind boggling.
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hahahah i skate with a couple younger kids who are bang into all that shit, peak example of “it’s not a phase this is who i really am”
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Theres must be a load of middle aged dads with early 2000s emo tattoos underneath a gilet standing watching kids play football at the weekend in crocs and khakis wondering what the fuck happened
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With no new original sub cultures that past generations had ( punks/new romantics/ravers/goths/grunge/metal etc) it’s no surprise there’s these mixed/mutated rehashed fashion statements.
It’s like they Went mad on a supermarket sweep challenge in Camden market.
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This must be an effect of the internet - of a whole generation now having access to too many reference points all at once.
There was some interesting discourse ten years ago or so saying how there are no teen subcultures anymore. It feels a bit now like it’s overreached in the other direction, kids are making all new subcultures but using fashion trends that already happened 20-30 years ago (goth/industrial/nu metal/90s pop).
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There’s a couple of girls on my team who are 22/23 and they dress like the cast of Friends in 94 - oversized leather jacket, stone wash denim etc.
It’s funny because I associate 90s fashion with the generation above me but for them it’s 2 generations removed so it’s all new
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Gonna be hard to not look at these new subcultures with the air of nostalgia as it’s not exactly new and fresh. But I also don’t blame them for trying , it’s a phase of life experience critical for identity .
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That would be like our parents seeing the whole hippy/bell bottom phase that hit the 90’s for all of a few seconds. I remember my mum commenting saying they had proper flares back in the 70’s, ones you’d trip over constantly.
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Maybe it’s just lockdown or something, but one thing I seem to notice with young women/teenage girls on the street is that it seems a lot more of them are happy to just go about without feeling the need to wear make-up. It appears to me that there’s a much more of a care-free approach and that young women don’t feel obliged to conform to some dolled-up prototype, and instead just look more natural. It’s rad
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I see blokes wearing more make up than lasses at the minute shakes fist at cloud
Nothing wrong with a little concealer to hide those blemishes
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You look gorgeous, Queen, glow up
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