What was Fashion in the 2010's?

[melty]

As a fashion follower, the 2010s was pretty devoid of fashion movements and imo just lacking appealing fashion in general. What did it really contribute? More stupid hairstyles? More casual shit? Instead of teenagers having alt styles and movements like scene or emo, the 2010s mainly had various lgbtq identities as it's alt movement. I guess athleisure was also a thing, and the instagram look for makeup, often together.

One thing I liked that I think will be fondly remembered in a couple decades is printed leggings. I can see people reviving lularoe ironically and stuff like black milk less ironically.

I think things are looking up a bit with newer stuff like cottagecore. It's at least an actual thing that tries to be aesthetic.

 

[Syaoran Li]

Well, you had hipsters in the early-mid 2010's and that sort of led to stuff like women becoming ugly woke punk dangerhairs and men becoming ugly woke soy beardos.

Dyed hair, hipster glasses, side shaves, and beards. It's all so ugly and it's still a big thing in 2021. That and hip-hop.

 

[Dom Cruise]

To some degree the 2010s is when American culture stopped evolving, the only real major changes were political.

Look back at the hipsters of 2010 and tell me it any way seems "retro" now, how can it be when so much of it was retro to begin with? But that's not normal, we're talking over a decade ago now, compare 2001 to 1990 for example and there's a pretty big difference.

Basically once upon a time whatever was old was just... old and stupid, people kept trying to push things forward, then at some point people just kinda... gave up and everything became some of kind of ironic riff on retro styles.

It makes me worried because the fact that culture to some degree has ground to a halt makes me wonder if societal progress as a whole has ground to a halt, it's the fucking 2020s, but where's the robots, the flying cars, the missions to Mars, the fully immersive AI? It's the future, so where's the future? If we want to talk technology the leap from 2000 to 2010 was fucking huge, but the leap from 2010 to 2020? Like I said, everything seems to be slowing way down and in some cases going backwards, compare Windows 10 to Windows 7.

There's just something fucky going on with the world today, these are not normal times we live in.

 

[Maurice Caine]

in South America people still dress like this

 

[💗Freddie Freaker💗]

Health goth, seapunk and pastel goth are new trends I recall seeing. Trends that came back include rockabilly and grunge.

90's fashion started getting recycled around 2016

Earlier than that. Mollysoda was doing it around 2011.


Then of course there was SJW chic-- problem glasses, dangerhair, clown clothes.


QuIrKy clothes themed after cats in space:

 

[Syaoran Li]

Health goth, seapunk and pastel goth are new trends I recall seeing.
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Earlier than that. Mollysoda was doing it around 2011.
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Then of course there was SJW chic-- problem glasses, dangerhair, clown clothes.
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And this set of underwear that was everywhere a few years ago:
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IIRC, weren't Seapunk and Pastel Goth from the early 2010's? Both were influences on the emerging Vaporwave aesthetic around that time.

Really, the only good artistic aesthetics from the 2010's were the stuff that came out of the Vaporwave music mini-genre and certain spin-offs like Future Funk, Mallsoft, Simpsonswave, and Fashwave (with Laborwave as the Christian Rock to Fashwave's Black Metal and Vaporwave's Rock & Roll)

It's rather telling that the best aesthetic of the 2010's is derived from a trippy warped nostalgia for the 1980's and 1990's.

 

[Red Hood]

The weird thing is, the more "look at me" fashion has gotten, the more I've leaned toward going for a less is more aesthetic. Men's style icons didn't become that way by dressing like clowns- most of the time it's simply wearing decent-looking clothes that fit well. Look at Steve McQueen- eternally cool, and rarely is he pictured wearing the most ridiculous fashion excesses of his era.

Same goes for James Dean, Dean Martin, Bond-era Connery- it's just about the right fit and the right haircut. If you have a flamboyant style you need to have the personality to pull it off or it won't have an impact (the David Bowie type), you'll just be a moron dressed like a clown.

 

[Slap47]

I think we're losing the idea of having one monolithic culture.

Sure you can point at emos, hipsters, people that wear pajamas, and fedoras but those were not very popular despite existing in every high School.

The culture is too balkanized to really say that there was a style.

 

[melty]

I thought for sure health goth was a joke and not a real thing. But looking into it I find a number of articles discussing it as though it was real. That's some mandela effect shit right there.
I refuse to believe seapunk was really a thing though

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

I think we're losing the idea of having one monolithic culture.

Sure you can point at emos, hipsters, people that wear pajamas, and fedoras but those were not very popular despite existing in every high School.

The culture is too balkanized to really say that there was a style.

The annoying thing about the fedora/trilbee hat is that hipsters do not commit and wear at least the zoot suit with it. Commit to the noir look with at least a trenchcoat hipster fags. T-shirts just look awful with it.

Emo/Goths/Vamps/whatever just seem like they got shafted by their stagnant music scene.

 

[💗Freddie Freaker💗]

II thought for sure health goth was a joke and not a real thing. But looking into it I find a number of articles discussing it as though it was real. That's some mandela effect shit right there.
I refuse to believe seapunk was really a thing though

It was, it just wasn't very popular outside Tumblr. It has a Wikipedia article and Azealia Banks made a song about it.

There was also slimepunk, I forgot to mention slimepunk.

 

[Red Hood]

It was, it just wasn't very popular outside Tumblr. It has a Wikipedia article and Azealia Banks made a song about it.

There was also slimepunk, I forgot to mention slimepunk.

slimepunk just sounds like crust punk before it dries.

 

[mr.moon1488]

Cutting your penis off and wearing a dress.

 

[dirtydeanna96]

The Matrix was the last significant original contribution to popular culture. That is because it's true: the world ended circa the year 2000 or so

The script was written in 1994 or 1995.
The world ended in '94
2000 was lived in a world on a wire.

 

[Syaoran Li]

I thought for sure health goth was a joke and not a real thing. But looking into it I find a number of articles discussing it as though it was real. That's some mandela effect shit right there.
I refuse to believe seapunk was really a thing though

Seapunk was definitely a thing outside of Tumblr but it was mostly just within the raver, convention, and club scenes in certain cities like Chicago.

"Health Goth" and Pastel Goth were things that only existed on Tumblr

 

[Maurice Caine]

The annoying thing about the fedora/trilbee hat is that hipsters do not commit and wear at least the zoot suit with it. Commit to the noir look with at least a trenchcoat hipster fags. T-shirts just look awful with it.

Emo/Goths/Vamps/whatever just seem like they got shafted by their stagnant music scene.

Good trenchcoats are kinda hard to find. Stores that sell Army reenactment gear usually only sell greatcoats and perhaps the eventual overcoat but that's it. I did find this one, but I don't know if it looks good live...

 

[LargeChoonger]

pastel

I completely forgot about that trend. Fuck pastel aesthetics, they directly correlate with SocJus bullshit. I watched them evolve into that awful corporate/tumblr "art" of fat black women. You know exactly what I'm talking about

 

[Yeeted Teet]

I think drag influenced makeup/Instagram face stands out more than any clothing trend. Heavy eyebrows, lash extensions, lip fillers, full coverage foundation and contouring. That particular style of heavy makeup transcended subcultures and fashion trends, and hung around longer.

 

[Sperghetti]

IOh and one thing I noticed was women's jeans went from being so low they showed the top of a girl's buttcrack in the 2000s to going up to their navels in the 2010s, which strikes me as a perfect example of how arbitrary fashion often is, like "well, we can't go any lower but it's a new decade so things have got to be different somehow, uhhhh, higher I guess?"

I find it kind of hilarious in a sad way. Back in the late 90's and early 00's, it was damn near impossible to find women's jeans that wouldn't show off your buttcrack when you sat down. Everything was low rise or ultra low rise. Wearing jeans that went up to your waist (and worse, having your shirt tucked into them) was only something middle-aged moms did that was a holdover from the 70's and 80's. Then in the 2010's, we started getting mid rise and now high rise jeans, and tucking your shirt in became a thing again. There was a brief trend a few years back for colorful jeans, and I remember seeing a light pink pair that looked exactly like pants my mom had when I was a little kid.

I think drag influenced makeup/Instagram face stands out more than any clothing trend. Heavy eyebrows, lash extensions, lip fillers, full coverage foundation and contouring. That particular style of heavy makeup transcended subcultures and fashion trends, and hung around longer.

I hate this makeup trend. I hate it so much. I especially hate contouring. It all just looks unnatural and bad.


Another 2010's trend: Glasses with really huge 80's style lenses, worn so only about the top 1/3 is over your eyes and the rest is over your cheekbones.

 

[Dom Cruise]

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This photo caused me literal physical revulsion.

IIRC, weren't Seapunk and Pastel Goth from the early 2010's? Both were influences on the emerging Vaporwave aesthetic around that time.

Really, the only good artistic aesthetics from the 2010's were the stuff that came out of the Vaporwave music mini-genre and certain spin-offs like Future Funk, Mallsoft, Simpsonswave, and Fashwave (with Laborwave as the Christian Rock to Fashwave's Black Metal and Vaporwave's Rock & Roll)

It's rather telling that the best aesthetic of the 2010's is derived from a trippy warped nostalgia for the 1980's and 1990's.

The revival of synth based music is one of the only trends of the 2010s I unironically like, I was ahead of the curve on that too because I was big into synth around 2006, 2007 and 2008, your Tangerine Dream scores, Giorgio Moroder and stuff like that, before it was "hip"

But it says it all that it's a trend that evoked the past.

The script was written in 1994 or 1995.
The world ended in '94
2000 was lived in a world on a wire.

The world ended in the oldest year I can clearly remember? Bummer.

I didn't know the script of The Matrix goes as far back as 1994 or 1995, that's weird because it so perfectly captured the zeitgeist of the late 90s, I would have it guessed it as being written around 1997 or so, the Wachowskis were definitely on the cutting edge.

Seapunk was definitely a thing outside of Tumblr but it was mostly just within the raver, convention, and club scenes in certain cities like Chicago.

"Health Goth" and Pastel Goth were things that only existed on Tumblr

Wow, seapunk, there's a word I've not heard in a long time.

You mentioning the raver, convention, and club scenes does remind me one trend I liked and that was women wearing thongs as outer wear outside of the beach.

I find it kind of hilarious in a sad way. Back in the late 90's and early 00's, it was damn near impossible to find women's jeans that wouldn't show off your buttcrack when you sat down. Everything was low rise or ultra low rise. Wearing jeans that went up to your waist (and worse, having your shirt tucked into them) was only something middle-aged moms did that was a holdover from the 70's and 80's. Then in the 2010's, we started getting mid rise and now high rise jeans, and tucking your shirt in became a thing again. There was a brief trend a few years back for colorful jeans, and I remember seeing a light pink pair that looked exactly like pants my mom had when I was a little kid.


I hate this makeup trend. I hate it so much. I especially hate contouring. It all just looks unnatural and bad.


Another 2010's trend: Glasses with really huge 80's style lenses, worn so only about the top 1/3 is over your eyes and the rest is over your cheekbones.

As a guy, I liked those low riding women's jeans, sorry.

I hate the high wasted ones, both because I just think they look dumb but I also heavily associate them with retarded "YASSSSS QUEEN SLAYYYYY!" types.