Millennials Are Calling Out The Style Trends Gen Z Doesn't Realize Are Actually Extremely Uncool, And Oh Boy, I Fear I've Been Called Out
As a Gen Z'er myself, I'll admit it: there are a lot of rather confusing trends our generation buys into. Sometimes, we adapt a particular style choice that actually makes no sense to anyone older than us.
1. "I'm all for you doing you, but I am BEGGING men to stop with the mullets."
"Women can look pretty cute — it's a fun shag, a Joan Jett kind of thing. Dudes with them though, good God, what are you doing?"
— garebehr
2. "Always looking like a slob, no matter the occasion."
— georgia007
3. And similarly, "Wearing pjs everywhere... the airport, mall, supermarket, etc. They literally roll out of bed and go out. It's so trashy."
— pastelmoon72
4. "The pimple patches on your face in public."
"Like, don't draw attention to it — everyone knows what's happening…it's a bit cringe."
— fillyfromphilly
5. "I am Gen Z'er, and Yeezys with mismatched socks. A looooot of guys my age wear them."
"They will slide their feet in and out of them to fidget. You see their feet sweat stains, and it's nasty."
— savoryorc15
6. "Birkenstocks, especially with socks."
— jaleeahchesson
7. "Mom jeans."
— aliradcliffe89
"God they are so uncomfortable. Why do they have to be high or low? Why can't women just have normal, sits below the waist, but not low enough for muffin-tops, jeans like men?"
— stephaniev23
8. "I know it isn't just a Gen Z thing as I've also seen millennials hopping on board, but I cannot for the life of me figure out the bleached eyebrow trend."
"Am I the only one? I get if you bleach your hair and want your eyebrows to match, but these people typically have darker-colored hair and bleached eyebrows. Any time I see someone with those creepy brows, I just automatically think of Lord Voldemort."
— embneal
10. "Slick-back hair."
— twilightravenclaw27
11. "I don't understand the chunky foam shoes. Does anyone? Because they are just plain ugly."
"No offense to anyone who wears them."
— smileyturkey342
12. "I think it's funny when you see a TikTok of a like 30-year-old girl trying to recreate 2000s fashion (skirt over jeans, tons of patterns, cardigans and layers) and then the top comment will be a younger person saying, 'Lowkey, it's giving.'"
"It just cracks me up because they really love those looks! And in general, they love chaos, and taking silly things and making them into fashion.
It's so fun to watch how they think and create looks!"
— areyoukidding
13. "Their weird ideas (and strong opinions) about socks."
— terrible_yam13
14. "The socks over leggings."
"I'm a cusper and see it in the gym all the time. It's so strange to look at. Like, does it offer more compression? I know it wouldn't make sense to have long socks UNDER the leggings, but why not wear shorter ones?"
— arions
15. "Dark lip liner. I'm sorry, but it makes your mouth look like a butthole."
— malloryf4c060efed
16. "Fanny packs and bucket hats, although bucket hats were just starting to return in 2015 my senior year. But it's gotten worse."
— savannahg4e56476eb
17. "Dudes wearing shorts outside in freezing temperatures for the attention."
— le02
18. "Fake nails. Normal nail polish looks so much cleaner, and it's way easier to do."
— twilightravenclaw27
19. "It's not clothing, but here goes: I don't get why they're so afraid and offended by a dome cup when they order drinks. It's dumb when they ask for a flat lid for a frappé with whipped cream and the cream just gets squished everywhere."
— senpainoticedu
20. "Barrel jeans. Why do you want to look like a cowboy who has been sitting on a horse for too long?"
"And they are not flattering on a single person."
— taylorchristiannep
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21. "Baggy pants, oversized t-shirts, and platform loafers. It just looks stupid."
— austinb137
22. "Gen Z'er here, but: having your shorts or pants all the way up your buttcrack."
"There is this girl I know, and she pulls her pants so far up that she gets a cameltoe, and she says that it's going to start trending. Girl, no, it's not."
— ameliathomson10
23. "I just hate tight clothes paired together."
"Like a compression shirt with Nike Pros or something. I just can't."
— poeticshield272
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24. "Rolled-out-of-bed PJs with a full face of glam."
— dizzychicken474
25. "They all wear black shirts, mom jeans, crew socks, and oversized sneakers."
— ultraviolet4910
26. "Not a style trend, but the sea of cell phones at concerts these days is baffling."
"Paying for a ticket to be there, live, with your favorite artist on stage, only to experience it through a phone screen? It just doesn't make sense to me. What happened to the pure joy of being present? The jumping, the dancing, the singing along?
At The All-American Rejects this past Saturday, I was stunned by the amount of phones, each one a barrier between me and the actual experience. It's like we're trading real memories for digital recordings, and I can't help but wonder what we're all missing."
— thegloriasophia
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Now it's your turn! Gen Z'ers, tell us which millennial trends you can't stand, and millennials, tell us what other Gen Z trends you don't like. Leave them in the comments below 👇
I'll go first: I hate skinny jeans. Like, no thank you, millennials.
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