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If you’ve been clothing shopping recently — heck even in the last couple years — then you have probably noticed that a lot of the clothes being carried in stores (looking at you, Target) are just straight out of the ’90s and Y2K-era.
And you also might have opened TikTok and stumbled across videos of Gen Z’ers combing through thrift stores looking for authentic “vintage” ’90s and early ’00s clothing. Needless to say, if you were a millennial who wore that clothing in middle school and/or high school you’re probably asking yourself three things: 1.) Ewwww, why is that coming back in style?, 2.) Am I that old?, and 3.) Could I wearsomeof the styles again even though I wore them back when they were new?
Well, we’ve got an answer: it’s the20-year rule. Most fashions and trends cycle every 20-plus years, with the ’90s and early ’00s being firmly within that (so Gen Z’ers never got to experience those trends). Yes, we are getting old! Nearly all millennials are now in their thirties or early forties. And lastly, probably (?), unlike our parent’s generation, it’s safe to say millennials don’t feel “old” or out of the loop with current trends or pop culture…so it’s likely we’ll incorporate some of that Y2K-style into our clothing — and probably with our own updated spin so it doesn’t feel like we’re trying to dress like young twentysomethings.
This is actually something that New York Times contributing opinion editor Jessica Bennett spoke about in a very interestingTikToktitled, “I Refuse the Graceful Slide Into Cultural Irrelevance” which was recently uploaded to the New York Times Opinion channel, and which is based on anarticleof the same name which she wrote for the paper back in August (and I highly recommend you read).
Jessica Bennett , who teaches journalism at New York University and is a center - aged millennial , recently found herself at the same stripe as one of her students . She had plump there because it ’s in her neighborhood and it serves only natural wine , “ better for old - someone hangovers , ” she explains . The student was there because she ’d meet the bar on TikTok . “ There we were , at the same post , both of us wondering what exactly that say about each of us — did it make her nerveless and me lame , or the other way around ? ” Jessica says . Indeed , because of her old age , the head of her coolness has been on Jessica ’s mind a slew latterly . She has begin to understand — or perhaps panic about — just how much of her professional identity element has been establish on coolness . “ Why should geezerhood come with a permanent departure of cultural cachet , if you have n’t entirely given up ? Of course I do n’t want to drop off my poise , ” Jessica says . “ I have intercourse too much about what happens to citizenry ’s relevance as they age , the manner our civilization continues to valorize youth ( especially for women ) . ” So Jessica has decide to work on being nerveless , like a job . “ Cool used to come up effortlessly ; now it requires aid . I call up of it less like clinging and more like uphold — like a well cutis care act . ”#geriatricmillennial#genzvsmillennials#nytopinion