Fashion is a weird thing

Exactly what I thought of lol
We're living in the future
What is that from
- Naruto Sandstorm
- My Hero Academia.
- My hero academia : P it's actually a great anime and also a great TCG
- My Hero Academia
I knew Best Jeanist would be here

The current female waistline fashion is 1980s throwback

Does that mean 90s fashion is going to make a return soon? I am all for that to be honest.
- It already is
- Havent you noticed all the midrifs yet?
- there was a lot of BAD 90s fashion, be cautious about what you are asking for!
The 80s throwback has lasted longer than the 80s did.
Yup. Late post to this, but went shopping with our kids the other day and our daughter picked out several of the high waisted jeans that are popular now. I just chuckled looking at them and pointed out to my wife that she used to wear the exact same thing in high school - late 80s.
80s was a new era of fashion, as will be the 2030s

And there are people that make more money in a year than you'll make in your life, whose "job" it is to decide to raise that seam a half inch up from last year for fashion, to acolades and red carpet galas praising their unparalleled genius for doing it.

Then the ones that actually make the jeans that people actually wear make less in their lives than we make in a year.

Humans are soooo weird, cruel, and cruel in genuinely weird ways.

They didn't "decide it". If you get fat as many nowadays do, you'll just spill over your jeans. The only way to avoid that is by raising them up high. This is one disingenuous picture because of that.

I'd we were suddenly as soon as we were in 2011, we would wear the clothes the way we did in 2011 .
- Not only is this not true, but like others in the thread have said, the current jeans fashion is actually a callback to the 1980s.
- I’d we were suddenly as soon as we were
  
  Pardon me?

They haven't been paying attention for long enough to make such a prediction.

The waist height vs time function is approachable to a sinusoidal function with a period of about 20 years.

This is the correct answer. It's sinosoidal and the frequency has to stay low enough that the time between peaks and troughs will necessitate that people continuously buy jeans and can't reuse the ones from the prior peak or trough.
Right. Who else remembers when bell bottoms came back what, 18 years ago?

Lady, if you’ve got the same hips after 20 years, you’re either doing something really wrong, or something really right.

Isn't the shape of hips defined primarily by bones? 🤨
- Fine, perhaps I should have said “waistline”.
- Which can change over time, especially when doing activities like bearing children
It's a manequin
- Looks like a womannequin to me.

And yet, I'm sure the pockets can't fit a phone.

If a phone fits in a pocket, how will we sell women handbags?

We've already seen the upward evolution of high wasted jeans, and it's coveralls.

Haven't low waist pants been having a major comeback for a while now?

Yeah you can tell that this is a place full of coders. People talking about trends from the 80s being current and 90s arriving, when 00s has been back for a while already.

I was thrilled to pull my overly baggy skater clothes out again (then decide they definitely look bad and put them back).
- Haha I feel you. My theory is that once the trends and styles of your own youth reappear/are recycled by the younger generations, you are usually out of the game. That's when you stop going with the trends. Because you cant 'ironically' wear the clothes you wore seriously 20 years ago, again. I can't, at least..
They have.
Correct. Along with crop tops. Because it's the era of paying more for less in everything, even clothing materials.
- Well this is one short term effect of our system that I can get behind for now :D
Yes, whoever made this is a full decade behind fashion in every panel lol

... wait no actually a jdress sounds awesome

Britney Spears pulled it off in 2001.
- Woah I had no idea she was Canadian.
- Comrade Spears of the Fashion Vanguard.
- So what you're saying is the comic is backwards?
The jress
- Pronounced like django.
- Why was Britney Spears acquitted?
  
  She was acting under jress.
- ✅
i was about to combine jeans and jumpsuit

i am not a smart person

So 2 datapoints = the trend forever? I mean today I parked my car one space to the left of where I parked it yesterday. So I guess in a month it will be in the middle of the street.

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Boku no Hero Academia ahead of it's time
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I noticed 90s high top jeans are back in fashion lately, lots of 20 year olds walking around looking like my mum haha, but eventually they'll lower again, and then go up, down, up, etc, it's just a cycle is all.

Yup. Lots of 90s fashion is in right now. My daughter is wearing flannel shirts. I told her I could have loaned her some of mine but I got rid of them all about 20 years ago.
- Yeah. Most of the flannel we have left is only good for working in the barn...

If you did this comparison from the 70s to the 2030s you'd have pants around the ankles.

It fluctuates, wear whatever makes you happy. Don't try to slippery slope fashion, they're way ahead of you already

ITT: 35+ year, out of shape, men.

Ah yes you didn't like the meme so it must be sexist which demands sexism in return! Sorry they don't make jeans in your size 😔
- Ah yes you didn’t like the response so you must be shitty in return
- I'm not female. You're still an old fat guy, discussing girl pants with a bunch of other old fat guys on the internet.
- I think their point is they're out of touch. In 2023 kids are wearing baggy jeans again.

Hahahahaha womban wear dumb clothe

I'm really not a fan of the high waisted era. Bring back the hipster era

I don't disagree, but the high-waisted era works a lot better for girls with more curve to their figures, which I see as a net gain.

And considering the number of overweight/obese people continues to grow apace, it's not a bad thing for them to be able to feel good about themselves and have fashion options that flatter their figures instead of all fashion being catered to near-impossible body types.

This should not be read as an endorsement of obesity, which can be a dangerous medical issue, but rather a willingness to see that everyone deserves to feel positive about their self image. Weight gain is a difficult issue to tackle in a country that subsidizes corn syrup and puts it in damn everything, on top of a broken education system that certainly doesn't teach people healthy eating.
- This is a high-quality comment, dingus.
- Every man, woman and other deserves the chance to feel comfortable and beautiful. Just because I like and prefer something, doesn't mean everyone or even my wife has to... I'm not Kanye West 😂
- On one hand, low rise jeans were a result of the beauty ideal at the time being "heroin chic," which was undoubtedly harmful and caused many to develop eating disorders.
  
  On the other hand, high waisted jeans are a result of the beauty ideal now being Kim Kardashian, which is still harmful (ask all the women out there with botched Brazilian butt lifts), not the least because the Kardashians lie about their bodies being natural so they can shill useless products.
  
  Although having a small waist is still ideal, I'm glad the window has shifted back from the time when celebrities were slammed in every magazine as fat for looking like this.
- Hmm, I think the key lies in your username. Replace corn syrup with hot sauce. You can still subsidize farmers, just have them growing Carolina Reapers instead of field corn.
- As someone who has PCOS belly the opposite is true. High waisted jeans are a nightmare to wear with the bloating and extra abdominal fat.
- Obesity itself is poorly defined and the understanding of it has been determined by diet culture fads that affect the directions nutritional science goes, in a co-production feedback loop. Medicalizing adiposity is fraught with socioeconomic issues. Best to let people live and wear what they like.
I cycle, so I'm definitely not a fan of low waist jeans. I want my lower back to feel warm and covered.
- Can I suggest wearing a WWE belt backwards?
  
  Joking of course, wear whatever you're comfortable in
- You exercise in jeans?

MHA origin story

The future is now.

https://archive.ph/njKj1

How is this a meme?

how is it not?
- It’s a comic.

The kids are doing 2011 again

They're doing 2000 again.

Hey thats the #3 pro hero show some respect

I've actually see 2031 already. it's kinda like Obelix

Made me laugh, take my upvote

It's not 2031 yet but I'd absolutely rock a jress

Isn't the 2031 one a real thing already? I'm pretty sure I saw humans wearing something like that in the past.

These two were 30 years ahead of their time. From 2001: https://www.eonline.com/news/729308/britney-spears-justin-timberlake-s-denim-date-happened-15-years-ago-today
Everywhere in the seventies.

Haha women amirite?

High waisted jeans are some of the most hideously unflattering clothing I've ever fucking seen. It's an instant cringe whenever I see some poor soul wearing them. I get everyone wants to follow fashion, but some fashion is just straight up ugly whether it's in or out.

That's almost word for word what I was thinking about low-rise jeans when they started replacing high waisted jeans. And now when high waisted jeans came back I think they look so weird.
- Fashion is manipulating but some shit is just plain ugggff
Depends on whether its jeans or spandex "jeans" ie jeggings.

Getting women in spandex is always good fashion 👍
...says an overweight man in cargo pants. You miss the teenage days when you weren't fat and ugly, and young girls in low waist pants would give you some attention. You miss those times, don't you.

I would wear 2041 right now

I still have my black jeans with the fire decal going up the leg!

I live in the start of the 2031 - noticed such dress several times on the streets

2031 looks great

Cover up your forehead, you trollop

In every time, in every season, volcel-judge

Prolly a boomer made this meme.

Nah, this is objectively incorrect. We all know 2021 was the start of paying more for less. 2021 fashion was crop top, crop jeans, crop everything, even our crisp packets had less crisps in it. Over it all, you wore a jacket that used to be your Dad's blazer that he used to wear for work (the super boxy one).

The start?
- Coming out of lockdown, remember?

You posted cringe

I think the high waisted stuff became fashionable as part of the marketing blitz to celebrate obesity. Shame, because healthy (thin) bodies in low rise jeans look fantastic.

I miss low rise jeans, but I'd be a tray of muffin tops these days. That being said, when I was in my teens and early 20s they may have fit me perfectly around the front with my flat stomach and narrow hips but my big kaboose (that was not in fashion back then) really struggled to stay in! Avoiding plumber's crack was a daily struggle. They were made for a very specific body type.
- I fail to see the problem there
High waisted jeans don't do heavy people any favors, as it makes their fupa more pronounced if they have their shirt tucked in