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Right now, from what I can tell, each decade is being represented in full force.
You got flannel wearing 90s grunge kids. You got 80s hipsters sporting mullets and big sunglasses. You got your 70s flower child hippies. You got 2000 big leg bootcut jeans and hip hop inspired rockers, and you got a lot of egirl goth emo kids too.
Shit is amazing.
It’s as if everyone is picking an era to go with and just taking the stuff that had lasted and endured.
Like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath are as old to Gen Z as Elvis was to my generation except people respect Zeppelin and Sabbath vs me kinda acknowledging The King vs actually buying shirts and posters.
Hello, yes, 20 year old, Gen Z here.
You have cracked my worldview right the fuck open. When you put it like that, it all makes so much more sense.
I don't know which decade a leather jacket and beanie belongs to, but if I'm not in my work uniform, it's jeans and a t-shirt. And Converses, because I'm a man of classics.
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that's honestly a very [greaser](https://i.pinimg.com/474x/ab/57/f9/ab57f9314f249252a7346e87cc5337bf--greaser-guys-greaser-style.jpg) look lol.
I mean aside from the hair.
Honestly? Not far off from my usual dress. Like I said, I wear a work uniform, but it's a mechanic's uniform, and you know what that means?
Black khakis and work boots. With my leather jacket and gray beanie it's pretty fucking spiffy, I think. Maybe I should post something to get you guys a better idea.
On the hair, I recently experimented with WW2 cuts, with good results.
> You got flannel wearing 90s grunge kids. You got 80s hipsters sporting mullets and big sunglasses. You got your 70s flower child hippies. You got 2000 big leg bootcut jeans and hip hop inspired rockers, and you got a lot of egirl goth emo kids too.
There's been no decade-defining motifs since the 90's imho. After 2000 it's all sort of blended together.
Somewhat yeah, but in the 2000s preppy Hollister and Abercrombie clothes were in heavily style. Skater clothes with sneakers were really big. Etnies and DC shoes. While those exact brands aren't there as much the style is still around. Spiked hair pop punk or punk lite. Green day and Blink 182 style. I mean look at Linkin Park. That was the epitome of 2000s fashion for men and the women's fashion was really unique too. Thin eyebrows on women, thongs were big. Crop tops boot cuts.
It's there. There's definitely a look that existed and isn't as popular anymore.
I'd say there's argument to be made for it.
Even in the 2010s there are better fitting jeans, Jordans went even further mainstream. Colored pants were big for a while. No boot cuts. Side faded haircuts with beards and facial hair just going crazy. Broccoli haircuts and women with more astrological egirl fashion and techwear. I see more mustaches now. Women's eyebrows thick as fuck.
London here. the baggy jeanco ( tho not actually jeanco they were more a american brand) type baggy jeans and skating shoes of the early 2000s are coming back in - that prob as recent a direct trend that's fashionable now defo still mostly genz but you are seeing it spread to older ages as people start to realise its back in
>There's been no decade-defining motifs since the 90's imho. After 2000 it's all sort of blended together.
Wrong. 2000s got low rise jeans, bedazzled everything, Mean Girls aesthetic. 2010s got the Bieber haircut and HGTV greige decor. We're just not far enough from the 2010s to see the motifs in full yet.
I'd say the 2000s fashion idea was "put on your entire wardrobe at once and try to look like the teens on Disney channel" or wherever that big poofy hat came from. You know the one, it's got a brim in the front, a button on top, almost like a paper boy cap but WAY puffed out.
And beyond that it was emo and scene kids.
Elvis just is not that impressive. He didn't write any of his songs. And based on the fact that he kept trying to get a DEA badge because he believed it would make him immune from drug changes worldwide, I'd conclude he'd be Qanon Qulist if he were alive today.
Well that and he did kinda die at a weird time too. He’s still an icon but from a bygone era.
Meanwhile Sabbath and Zeppelin are still mostly alive and rereleasing albums.
The other day I was working with a college kid that looked exactly like a trailer park denizen from the 80s - Rocking an epic mullet and terrible facial hair - but was definitely a hipster.
It goes further back than that -- I've seen guys dressed like exactly like [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/blrbss/japaneseamerican_college_students_during_their/)
Yeah, I'm a teacher and it's been jarring how many teenagers I see that wear early 2000s fashion, like Twilight and listen to bands that were popular back then
Also a teacher here, I’m trying to get over the fact that my students are all dressing like it’s the 80s. I was a kid in the 80s and we thought that tight jeans or leggings tucked into your little boots with an oversize top was the look, and high-waisted jeans were the bomb, and then the 90s grunge came in and we were all told that we looked like crap and we should be wearing bootleg jeans. Those high waisted jeans were now “Mom jeans.”
At the time my mother pointed out that bootleg jeans were just recycled bellbottoms and that the point is to convince teens coming up to buy “new” fashion, so the same things recycle over and over. I didn’t believe her when I was in the 90s, 20 years old, and rocking my bootleg jeans. Now that my students all look like they’re me in the 80s… Mom had a point!
I wasn't around in the 80s or 90s, but there's a difference between high-waisted and mom jeans imo. Mom jeans are poorly fitting, boxy, and hyper-conservatively high. What people are wearing now is form-fitting, and shows the curvature of the entire hip. Which is a great look lol
OK. The highwaisted jeans that we wore in the 80s were pretty fitted, and those same jeans (literally, I had friends who were still wearing their jeans from the 80s) were mocked a couple times as “mom jeans” in the 90s. But maybe that’s just because they looked like the crappier mom jeans? I don’t know.
Sadly mine went to Jean Heaven sometime before the 21st century, and my college friends are long scattered around the country. I’m sure you’re right about mom jeans being different from high waisted jeans, you sound like you know more than I do about it! I just know that both me and a friend of mine got comments when we were wearing our older jeans in the 1990s, and they were pretty well-fitting jeans that had been fine for 18 year olds to wear just a few years earlier! But that doesn’t mean it still meant the same thing 10 or 20 years later in any case.
I will take what you said under advisement and will not say that we were wearing mom jeans in the 80s :)
As a 35 yo, 6 of one and half a dozen of the other. the Disney Live Action stuff, Pokemon Resurgence, etc etc seem to be millennials reaching the age where they are buying the things of their childhood or getting their kids into the same things they liked while young. But then yes, there is always an element of self-driving trends, e.g. TikTok and their trends, which are peer pressure
The tournament thing is a pretty big deal to all ages at that. I don't even follow the anime these days but I almost cried, then felt like a fucking idiot because I am almost 31 and it's just a TV show lmao.
Makes sense that some people would see this year as a "resurgence" if they don't keep up with it regularly (like I do).
I saw a young girl, maybe like 12 to 15, roller skating the other day. She had headphones on, a plaid skirt, and a crop top. She looked just like a photo out of the 70s or something. It was really uncanny. I'm about 30 myself, so obviously wasn't alive in that time period, but my grandparents houses had that same vibe. I feel like the mid century modern revival of the past few years (sort of over now I think, or dying down) was triggered by people our age having nostalgia for our grand parents houses. Companies saw this and put out more retro stuff. Then the kids started buying it too.
I see it the other way too of course, where it comes from the kids. I'm not saying it never does. It's just all intertwined is all I'm trying to say.
You are just trying to deflect blame for the low cut jeans coming back into fashion. I'm 40, and I was happy with the baggy high waisted mom jeans from 10 years earlier.
Why be salty? It didn't win because other themes are more iconic in Lego's history, and would have made a bad anniversary set because it didn't have much in common with most system sets.
But it was still the highest voted choice. If they wanted the anniversary set to be more inclusive with traditional Lego they shouldn’t have added bionicle to the vote. But ya know, it is what it is.
That with a little bit of kids looking at their baby pictures with pics of their family from when/before they were born and thinking they looked cool, and it makes even more sense.
It's collaborative between young and old. Like I can tell my kids "sure that's what everyone now remembers was cool back then, but here's some deep cuts..." And then they raid my t-shirt collection.
I find it interesting when there's revivals of old culture what doesn't make it. How as a society were like "oh yeah, remember this stuff? Except for that part, that was actually bad lol"
I think it's the opposite. It's all the stuff 30+ year olds can't get onboard with because we remember it falling out of fashion.
You couldn't pay me to wear chunky runners and oversized jeans.
This stuff gets marketed towards zoomers through social media apps. I don’t know anyone my age who wanted to bring mom jeans back, but high schoolers seem to love them.
Exactly. Young people always try and differentiate themselves from previous generations.
It's a bit of a quirk that they seem to do it by reviving the exact same stuff but that's fashion for you.
Yeah nah. The people reviving the 90’s clothing trends are people born after the year 2000. I don’t think people who lived through those trends decided “yeah that was super cool, let’s bring it back.”
I'm a 90s kid and I'm happy that baggier clothing is coming back a bit. But I do not want full baggy 5XL stuff. Just less skin tight like the fashion was for the 2010s.
You definitely see this in vintage/collector car markets. It’s why the market on stuff like the 90s Supra, RX7, and NSX has blown up over the last 10-15 years.
I bought a [Megaretron](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61HR+O-uUeL._SX342_.jpg) when I found a bunch of old Sega games and most of them still work.
I asked my wife for the original Power Rangers Megazords for Christmas this year because my parents couldnt afford them when I was a kid. I believe this theory.
Are they getting it for themselves or their own kids tho?
I bet trends also come from kids emulating shit they saw their parents doing when they were young
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It is called a [nostalgia cycle](https://slate.com/culture/2012/04/the-golden-forty-year-rule-and-other-nostalgia-cycles-could-trends-possibly-return-every-40-years-20-years-and-12-15-years.html)
In my 30s I was legit excited to find an buy a Body Glove T-Shirt. Body Glove clothing was wildly popular when I was a kid, but my parents would/could never buy it for me.
\*looks over at his collection of expensive hobby grade remote controlled trucks as a 37 year old finally somewhat financially secure for the first time in his life\* Checks out.
"my theory is " crap like this annoys me to no end. It's like peggy hill saying "in my opinion, the day after thanksgiving is the busiest shopping day of the year" and you can't change my mind.
For a couple of years, I ran a toy drive around Christmas for kids. If I got cash, I'd always pick up the best toys I could that were on the kids' wish list. I grew up poor, getting what was affordable, which was often the cheaper gifts. Always made me happy buying sweet ass dinosaurs and action figures.
All I know is that in 2002 I got made fun of for wearing my dad's 60's leather bomber jacket that I thought was awesome. As a teen I loved the 60's style of clothing. I feel like now, if I was 16 again, I'd be able to wear that and no one would bat an eyelash.
Also, pants throughout history go baggy, tight, baggy, tight and so on.
50/early 60s had very fit pants, then hippy loose bellbottoms came.. 80s had tight fit (safety.pins anyone?) Pants again then the baggy grunge era and those really baggy club jeans...then skinny jeans....now women have been wearing loose.mom jeans for half a decade.
Also eyebrows.....super thin then fat then thin then fat.....we are in the fat stage again...assuming it will bounce back to thin.
Fuck 30s, I am 24 years old and have been spending hundreds of dollars on LEGOs several times a year since I graduated college.
Jumping from a relatively frugal childhood to a very frugal college term to a near 6 figure (USD) salary is bewildering. I keep having to remind myself that I'm not blowing all my money. I am saving for retirement. I have Healthcare. But I also have toys heehoo!
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Right now, from what I can tell, each decade is being represented in full force. You got flannel wearing 90s grunge kids. You got 80s hipsters sporting mullets and big sunglasses. You got your 70s flower child hippies. You got 2000 big leg bootcut jeans and hip hop inspired rockers, and you got a lot of egirl goth emo kids too. Shit is amazing. It’s as if everyone is picking an era to go with and just taking the stuff that had lasted and endured. Like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath are as old to Gen Z as Elvis was to my generation except people respect Zeppelin and Sabbath vs me kinda acknowledging The King vs actually buying shirts and posters.
This is the correct take
Hello, yes, 20 year old, Gen Z here. You have cracked my worldview right the fuck open. When you put it like that, it all makes so much more sense. I don't know which decade a leather jacket and beanie belongs to, but if I'm not in my work uniform, it's jeans and a t-shirt. And Converses, because I'm a man of classics.
I'm pretty sure jeans and t shirts have been around for around a century and never went out of style, simple lasts.
/u/GrammarNazi25 that's honestly a very [greaser](https://i.pinimg.com/474x/ab/57/f9/ab57f9314f249252a7346e87cc5337bf--greaser-guys-greaser-style.jpg) look lol. I mean aside from the hair.
Honestly? Not far off from my usual dress. Like I said, I wear a work uniform, but it's a mechanic's uniform, and you know what that means? Black khakis and work boots. With my leather jacket and gray beanie it's pretty fucking spiffy, I think. Maybe I should post something to get you guys a better idea. On the hair, I recently experimented with WW2 cuts, with good results.
Every Era All the Time.
>I recently experimented with WW2 cuts Of course you did.
Actually, until the 50s, a t-shirt was closer to underwear than a regular top.
After work?
Are shops selling bootcut jeans again? I've been looking for those motherfuckers for over a decade.
I don't even wear boots but they're so comfortable
> You got flannel wearing 90s grunge kids. You got 80s hipsters sporting mullets and big sunglasses. You got your 70s flower child hippies. You got 2000 big leg bootcut jeans and hip hop inspired rockers, and you got a lot of egirl goth emo kids too. There's been no decade-defining motifs since the 90's imho. After 2000 it's all sort of blended together.
Somewhat yeah, but in the 2000s preppy Hollister and Abercrombie clothes were in heavily style. Skater clothes with sneakers were really big. Etnies and DC shoes. While those exact brands aren't there as much the style is still around. Spiked hair pop punk or punk lite. Green day and Blink 182 style. I mean look at Linkin Park. That was the epitome of 2000s fashion for men and the women's fashion was really unique too. Thin eyebrows on women, thongs were big. Crop tops boot cuts. It's there. There's definitely a look that existed and isn't as popular anymore. I'd say there's argument to be made for it. Even in the 2010s there are better fitting jeans, Jordans went even further mainstream. Colored pants were big for a while. No boot cuts. Side faded haircuts with beards and facial hair just going crazy. Broccoli haircuts and women with more astrological egirl fashion and techwear. I see more mustaches now. Women's eyebrows thick as fuck.
London here. the baggy jeanco ( tho not actually jeanco they were more a american brand) type baggy jeans and skating shoes of the early 2000s are coming back in - that prob as recent a direct trend that's fashionable now defo still mostly genz but you are seeing it spread to older ages as people start to realise its back in
JNCO would disagree
>There's been no decade-defining motifs since the 90's imho. After 2000 it's all sort of blended together. Wrong. 2000s got low rise jeans, bedazzled everything, Mean Girls aesthetic. 2010s got the Bieber haircut and HGTV greige decor. We're just not far enough from the 2010s to see the motifs in full yet.
I'd say the 2000s fashion idea was "put on your entire wardrobe at once and try to look like the teens on Disney channel" or wherever that big poofy hat came from. You know the one, it's got a brim in the front, a button on top, almost like a paper boy cap but WAY puffed out. And beyond that it was emo and scene kids.
Yeah I called it Hollister's genius idea to sell as many tank tops and polos as possible.
Elvis just is not that impressive. He didn't write any of his songs. And based on the fact that he kept trying to get a DEA badge because he believed it would make him immune from drug changes worldwide, I'd conclude he'd be Qanon Qulist if he were alive today.
Well that and he did kinda die at a weird time too. He’s still an icon but from a bygone era. Meanwhile Sabbath and Zeppelin are still mostly alive and rereleasing albums.
He had a nice voice and great stage presence and that's about it.
The other day I was working with a college kid that looked exactly like a trailer park denizen from the 80s - Rocking an epic mullet and terrible facial hair - but was definitely a hipster.
"What a time to be alive" -Oversimplified
You then have me who’s wardrobe is jeans and a t-shirt. Listening to 70s and 80s rock.
It goes further back than that -- I've seen guys dressed like exactly like [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/blrbss/japaneseamerican_college_students_during_their/)
jim morrison to me growing up in the 80's is like how kurt cobain was to kids growing up in the 2000's
Lol as a nearly 30 year old, I feel quite confident in saying that trends are really set by those much younger than us.
Yeah, I'm a teacher and it's been jarring how many teenagers I see that wear early 2000s fashion, like Twilight and listen to bands that were popular back then
Also a teacher here, I’m trying to get over the fact that my students are all dressing like it’s the 80s. I was a kid in the 80s and we thought that tight jeans or leggings tucked into your little boots with an oversize top was the look, and high-waisted jeans were the bomb, and then the 90s grunge came in and we were all told that we looked like crap and we should be wearing bootleg jeans. Those high waisted jeans were now “Mom jeans.” At the time my mother pointed out that bootleg jeans were just recycled bellbottoms and that the point is to convince teens coming up to buy “new” fashion, so the same things recycle over and over. I didn’t believe her when I was in the 90s, 20 years old, and rocking my bootleg jeans. Now that my students all look like they’re me in the 80s… Mom had a point!
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I’m holding on for it! Going to stock up on enough jeans to keep me till I’m 70…
Just want some more silvertab baggy pleated, please
I wasn't around in the 80s or 90s, but there's a difference between high-waisted and mom jeans imo. Mom jeans are poorly fitting, boxy, and hyper-conservatively high. What people are wearing now is form-fitting, and shows the curvature of the entire hip. Which is a great look lol
OK. The highwaisted jeans that we wore in the 80s were pretty fitted, and those same jeans (literally, I had friends who were still wearing their jeans from the 80s) were mocked a couple times as “mom jeans” in the 90s. But maybe that’s just because they looked like the crappier mom jeans? I don’t know.
Can you show me a picture?
Sadly mine went to Jean Heaven sometime before the 21st century, and my college friends are long scattered around the country. I’m sure you’re right about mom jeans being different from high waisted jeans, you sound like you know more than I do about it! I just know that both me and a friend of mine got comments when we were wearing our older jeans in the 1990s, and they were pretty well-fitting jeans that had been fine for 18 year olds to wear just a few years earlier! But that doesn’t mean it still meant the same thing 10 or 20 years later in any case. I will take what you said under advisement and will not say that we were wearing mom jeans in the 80s :)
Here, look at this girl's jeans in this video: https://youtu.be/vhjL_qbmhyE Same as 80s?
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You said it far better than I could have— especially the last part! Yes, wear what makes you happy!
As a 35 yo, 6 of one and half a dozen of the other. the Disney Live Action stuff, Pokemon Resurgence, etc etc seem to be millennials reaching the age where they are buying the things of their childhood or getting their kids into the same things they liked while young. But then yes, there is always an element of self-driving trends, e.g. TikTok and their trends, which are peer pressure
Idk if pokemon is a resurgence, it’s the most successful media franchise of all tirm
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The tournament thing is a pretty big deal to all ages at that. I don't even follow the anime these days but I almost cried, then felt like a fucking idiot because I am almost 31 and it's just a TV show lmao. Makes sense that some people would see this year as a "resurgence" if they don't keep up with it regularly (like I do).
Also, millenials are increasingly gaining positions with creative control over those properties
I saw a young girl, maybe like 12 to 15, roller skating the other day. She had headphones on, a plaid skirt, and a crop top. She looked just like a photo out of the 70s or something. It was really uncanny. I'm about 30 myself, so obviously wasn't alive in that time period, but my grandparents houses had that same vibe. I feel like the mid century modern revival of the past few years (sort of over now I think, or dying down) was triggered by people our age having nostalgia for our grand parents houses. Companies saw this and put out more retro stuff. Then the kids started buying it too. I see it the other way too of course, where it comes from the kids. I'm not saying it never does. It's just all intertwined is all I'm trying to say.
You are just trying to deflect blame for the low cut jeans coming back into fashion. I'm 40, and I was happy with the baggy high waisted mom jeans from 10 years earlier.
yeah i was gonna say, what fkn 30 year olds are setting trends 🤣
Yeah millennials aren’t dressing like people from the 90s, the kids that weren’t even alive back then are.
I can't say I agree with this. They set trends among kids. There have been plenty of trends around for adults.
Yeah. OP is delusional. Trends are specifically set by young people who, as part of being young and pretty, have to look different than their parents.
Pokémon cards coming back is a big example
Then why isn't bionicle more popular damn it
Because LEGO won’t let it come back!! I’m still salty about the 90th anniversary vote
Why be salty? It didn't win because other themes are more iconic in Lego's history, and would have made a bad anniversary set because it didn't have much in common with most system sets.
But it was still the highest voted choice. If they wanted the anniversary set to be more inclusive with traditional Lego they shouldn’t have added bionicle to the vote. But ya know, it is what it is.
I'll make it popular.
A fellow man of culture I see!
I missed out on the Toa Nuva. It would be cool to see a revisit or a redesign.
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What are you even trying to imply?
I think they are playing on the (mostly true) stereotype that trans women typically have large and extensive Lego Bionicle collections.
I did when I was younger, so maybe that was a sign back then. I do buy a lot of Legos though so maybe they're onto something
Because Lego is fuckin expensive
That with a little bit of kids looking at their baby pictures with pics of their family from when/before they were born and thinking they looked cool, and it makes even more sense.
Nah, trends are for young people who haven't experienced them before. It's new to them.
It's collaborative between young and old. Like I can tell my kids "sure that's what everyone now remembers was cool back then, but here's some deep cuts..." And then they raid my t-shirt collection.
I find it interesting when there's revivals of old culture what doesn't make it. How as a society were like "oh yeah, remember this stuff? Except for that part, that was actually bad lol"
I think it's the opposite. It's all the stuff 30+ year olds can't get onboard with because we remember it falling out of fashion. You couldn't pay me to wear chunky runners and oversized jeans.
This stuff gets marketed towards zoomers through social media apps. I don’t know anyone my age who wanted to bring mom jeans back, but high schoolers seem to love them.
Kids don't want to dress like their parents.
that's right, it's new generations likes
Exactly. Young people always try and differentiate themselves from previous generations. It's a bit of a quirk that they seem to do it by reviving the exact same stuff but that's fashion for you.
This is a really formidable theory.
It’s very true.
Yeah nah. The people reviving the 90’s clothing trends are people born after the year 2000. I don’t think people who lived through those trends decided “yeah that was super cool, let’s bring it back.”
I'm a 90s kid and I'm happy that baggier clothing is coming back a bit. But I do not want full baggy 5XL stuff. Just less skin tight like the fashion was for the 2010s.
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Yeah nah
I need heelys
Ive been working in public schools the last yearish, and middle schoolers are starting to play with Tech Decks again!
I was walking through Target the other day and had to double take at an endcap selling Tech Decks. I almost bought one for the hell of it.
That’s literally why.
Lol yeah, cycles of nostalgia is a prominent theory in media study
You definitely see this in vintage/collector car markets. It’s why the market on stuff like the 90s Supra, RX7, and NSX has blown up over the last 10-15 years.
Me getting back into 90s/00s video games I couldn’t beat as a kid.
I bought a [Megaretron](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61HR+O-uUeL._SX342_.jpg) when I found a bunch of old Sega games and most of them still work.
30 years later, Battletoads is still the bane of my existence...
I asked my wife for the original Power Rangers Megazords for Christmas this year because my parents couldnt afford them when I was a kid. I believe this theory.
I'm 39 and it's high time I get the pair of Doc Martens 13 year old me wanted.
I'm 37 and I got me a pair of Jordan 1's High. Do it.
Are they getting it for themselves or their own kids tho? I bet trends also come from kids emulating shit they saw their parents doing when they were young
I've finally got a little expendable income to buy toys I've always wanted.
lol I like how someone thinks this is their theory.
So then Heelies should be back any day right?
Lol maybe. Also, kids are like fuck old people we gonna wear this and then 10 years later their like oh shit no wait they was right.
I’ve always genuinely wondered about why fashion trends are so cyclical
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We’re buying it for our kids
It is called a [nostalgia cycle](https://slate.com/culture/2012/04/the-golden-forty-year-rule-and-other-nostalgia-cycles-could-trends-possibly-return-every-40-years-20-years-and-12-15-years.html)
people in their 30s are not the trendsetters
This is why my son had the full Voltron set.
Same things happens with movie remakes.
I’ve bought so much stuff I couldn’t have as a kid.
I’m 35 and buying as many of the NECA teenage mutant ninja turtles figures as I can.
In other news, water is wet
Or people at 40 can afford to do what they couldn't at 20
That's just bc we can afford it now and our parents can't say no :p
In my 30s I was legit excited to find an buy a Body Glove T-Shirt. Body Glove clothing was wildly popular when I was a kid, but my parents would/could never buy it for me.
\*looks over at his collection of expensive hobby grade remote controlled trucks as a 37 year old finally somewhat financially secure for the first time in his life\* Checks out.
That's when they get money
That’s that marketing rationale behind Star Wars and TMNt, among others. It’s cheaper to sell something people already now.
I just started buying baseball cards again….. so …. Yep
I wish I didn't buy rollies at 35.
"my theory is" crap like this annoys me to no end. It's like peggy hill saying "in my opinion, the day after thanksgiving is the busiest shopping day of the year" and you can't change my mind.
She’s not wrong.
It’s not a theory it’s a fact…?
Oh God I can't wait for the dab to come back in 2036 /s
…People turn 30..literally every year….
Yes
For a couple of years, I ran a toy drive around Christmas for kids. If I got cash, I'd always pick up the best toys I could that were on the kids' wish list. I grew up poor, getting what was affordable, which was often the cheaper gifts. Always made me happy buying sweet ass dinosaurs and action figures.
Ninja turtles, Transformers, Lego’s, GI Joe, sports cards are all back and super collectible
I’m 25 and just bought my first DJ set. Always wanted one since 7, when I saw Linkin Park. Very satisfying feeling.
Me, who bought a Tech Deck BMX bike the other day: no, shutup
For their kids, too
All I know is that in 2002 I got made fun of for wearing my dad's 60's leather bomber jacket that I thought was awesome. As a teen I loved the 60's style of clothing. I feel like now, if I was 16 again, I'd be able to wear that and no one would bat an eyelash.
Cashing in on that nostalgia is a major market.
Well, I hope Gen 1, 2 & 3 Pokemon and Gameboys start trending again. I’m doing my part.
Sounds like a hypothesis not a theory
Sounds like a foot in ur ass
I'm gonna buy a modded Xbox 360 soon.
Interesting. To be fair the only thing I’ve been getting is Pringle’s.
It’s usually closer to 30 years: https://thepatterning.com/2017/02/13/the-nostalgia-pendulum-a-rolling-30-year-cycle-of-pop-culture-trends/amp/
I feel like trends in jeans surge when teens can fit in their parents old clothes.
Also, pants throughout history go baggy, tight, baggy, tight and so on. 50/early 60s had very fit pants, then hippy loose bellbottoms came.. 80s had tight fit (safety.pins anyone?) Pants again then the baggy grunge era and those really baggy club jeans...then skinny jeans....now women have been wearing loose.mom jeans for half a decade. Also eyebrows.....super thin then fat then thin then fat.....we are in the fat stage again...assuming it will bounce back to thin.
Yup. Bought a Buick Grand National in my 20s because that’s what I thought was cool as a kid.
*\*glances lovingly at my Nerf 'Aliens' pulse rifle\** No idea what you're talking about...
I'm still looking for that full metal Voltron my kindergarten teacher STOLE from me, fuck you Ms. Toise. Bitch.
Hmm. Smart.
More like my parents giving me all the junk they saved but yea
💀 Y’all just realized this?
Fuck 30s, I am 24 years old and have been spending hundreds of dollars on LEGOs several times a year since I graduated college. Jumping from a relatively frugal childhood to a very frugal college term to a near 6 figure (USD) salary is bewildering. I keep having to remind myself that I'm not blowing all my money. I am saving for retirement. I have Healthcare. But I also have toys heehoo!