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[–] linuxduck@nerdly.dev 169 points 1 year ago (11 children)
[–] Kiosade@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year ago

Exactly what I thought of lol

[–] Sharpiemarker@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago

We're living in the future

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[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 81 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The current female waistline fashion is 1980s throwback

[–] Throwdownyourgrandma@feddit.nl 25 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Does that mean 90s fashion is going to make a return soon? I am all for that to be honest.

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

It already is

[–] Tar_alcaran@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Havent you noticed all the midrifs yet?

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[–] bstix@feddit.dk 14 points 1 year ago

The 80s throwback has lasted longer than the 80s did.

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[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

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.

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[–] Ddhuud@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

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.

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[–] jasondj@ttrpg.network 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

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

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[–] Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Kichae@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago

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

[–] d3m0nr4v3r@feddit.de 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

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

[–] Globulart@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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).

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[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago
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[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] sus@programming.dev 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

... wait no actually a jdress sounds awesome

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Britney Spears pulled it off in 2001.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Woah I had no idea she was Canadian.

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

She's from Louisiana, which was originally a French colony whose government was based in Quebec, soooooo this tracks.

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[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] obinice@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

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

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

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.

[–] chase_what_matters@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

This is a high-quality comment, dingus.

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 😂

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[–] MadMenace@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

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.

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[–] _I_@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

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[–] snaptastic@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago (10 children)
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[–] blazera@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Hey thats the #3 pro hero show some respect

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

MHA origin story

[–] ethd@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

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

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