Do you have clothing from the '90s and '00s that you still wear? (washed, difference)
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The 70's clothes are more of my Disco clothes, concert tee shirts and the 80's are high end designer clothes from fine Dept. Stores that are no longer around.
The quality with the clothes from the 80's is excellent.
The main fashion reference point for the youth of the '90s was foreign TV series and music videos. The characters of Beverly Hills 90210, Friends, Madonna and the Spice Girls were a source of inspiration for a whole generation. Today, these trends are embodied by many renowned designers
I have several items of clothing that are from that era. I go to Planet Fitness so as to NOT outgrow my clothes and have to buy new. Since retiring , I don't need much as I have a navy blazer with brass buttons from Land's End that has to be at least 25 years old. It is some sort of wool blend that travels very well and still looks great . In the summer, I wear track shorts and no shirt around the house. That saves on laundry. I am not the clothes horse I used to be.
This thread has my name on it. I am 67 and wear many items that are 30+ years old. Most of my jackets are from the early 1990s that I bought when living in New Jersey. From 1993 to 2019 I lived mostly in warm weather climates (Southern California, Arizona) so the jackets did not get much use! I also have a bunch of gloves and hats from the early 1990s. When I came to live in Germany after I retired, I brought along the cold weather gear that I had in New Jersey, and it serves me well here.
I'll add that I actually weigh less now than 30 years ago, so the items fit me fine. I am 6'0"/184 cm and weigh about 160 lbs (73 kg) which is the same as at age 19.
I;ve got a lot that I still wear, mostly golf shirts which are all cotton and good quality. Also super 120s wool pants still great. Shoes from WH book too Allene bmunds which tend to last with wearing once a week at most.
Suits too but don’t wear them since I retired, sports jacket and socks is most dressed up I get now.
Not regular clothes but I sure have a lot of hats and gloves from those days. Leather gloves probably date from the '60s or '70s. A bathrobe that my mother gave me one Christmas that I keep for sentimental reasons. I was just looking through my shoes and I have several pair of sandals that are ancient. Tried them on and they fit but compared to the soft insoles I wear these days, those felt like walking on rocks. (They are sooo pretty though.)
OH! I do have loads of vintage Barbizon nightgowns. I don't even know if they still make them but they are beautiful. Pintucks, little bows, embroidery, lace, good material that wears like iron, and some of them are long for winter and are made of something like satin but lined with thin flannel to be soft and warm.
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Do Hot Topic wristbands count? Also a chain wallet I haven't used in years. Everything else is either too small, in terrible shape, or tossed out long ago
I don't think anything from 20 years ago would have much "fiber integrity" after all this time!
um, fabric is wearable a lot longer than that--especially synthetics, which will outlast roaches. I have owned and worn clothing that was more than 40 years old. I wish I had kept that 1940s green wool jacket...
But I think the "cycles" are compressing, and the same trends recur in a shorter time period.
For instance, some 1960s fashions took inspiration from the 1920s, the '70s looked back at the '30s, the 1980s had a definite link to the 1940s. So about 40 years.
But that would mean that the 2020s would be recycling fashion from the 1980s, but it seems like that came and went quite a while ago. Maybe styles are looking back only 20 years or so now...
I have a flannel shirt from the 90's I bought at Nordstroms, it's amazing, wear it on chilly mornings over my shirt, missing some buttons, but the older, the more comfortable.
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