Millennial Trends That Have Lost Their Cool

OK, but TBF: "Tramp stamps" were a horrid trend: those tattoos just low enough you mostly couldn't see them, but just high enough to poke out of the lowriders that were so damned common.

It was Oscar Wilde, I believe, who said something along those lines.

Amen. Just wear what suits you. As a millenial, who used to love her skinny jeans: I‘m quite happy pants got wider for now, much more comfortable. Skinny jeans will return though and if you still wan to wear them, just do it.

""Fashion is what you're offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose." (Lauren Hutton). There actually are people who manage to look quite dapper in skinny jeans because it complements who they are and how they appear. But as a fashion fad, they are thoroughly through.

IKR? Those are annoying, but the interior used in the illustration is pretty great.

"Live Love Laugh" was written frequently on folders, walls, jeans, etc. at my junior high/middle schools and high school in the '80s, usually with just one big L for all of it.

Crocs are ugly, but they are quite good. And this looks like perfect slip-on shoes for short walk outside in winter.

I'm sorry, Ray. I've said it before, and while the inner-Lakota is still cringing about it, I love my Crocs now. When Stilgar was sick as a puppy and we had to carry him in and out of the house for two months (he couldn't walk) and bathe him frequently when he soiled his diapers, I gave in and bought some Crocs (fast to slip on, waterproof) because the backyard was messy/didn't want to go barefoot in the grass. I've never looked back. I have a purple leopard-spotted pair now that I wear out in public sometimes even when it's too hot to put on socks and my sneakers. I'm sorry. I have become that which I always said I would not be.

Which are my two favorite shoes! 😉 I finally got a pair after finding them brand new at a thrift store for 15$. I'm in a chair and my feet are painfully cold even in San Diego Winters. These are amazing and worth the money. Full price even

Uggs and a bikini? No. Uggs for slipping out in cold weather? Hell yes.

What are they?

Ikr. If only people would educate themselves what they are for and how to use them. They are a beautiful cultural, spiritual symbol. Not some fair-weather trend.

Yeah, I've always been a bit weirded out by that. Kinda like people who wear Stars of David or Crucifixes even if that isn't their religion or culture but just because it's 'cool' or 'pretty' or wanting to make some sort of fashion statement. I'm not going to gatekeep other people's items of cultural significance, but if you are going to borrow things like that, at least be aware of what you are doing and why.

The only ones that bother me are the ones people hang on their rear view mirrors...

Ah, the fashionably outraged are on the prowl. This is one trend I will be happy to see die, searching the internet for things to pretend to be outraged by.

I ain't afraid of no hair!

Right? I've only heard such being a slur. Another bit of "stellar" writing and understanding of basic knowledge win for our BP editors. Woop woop!

In Jamiacan Patois it's a slur for homosexual.

The second one would be "pouffe", for 'pouffiasse". Lol, I love that BP doesn't censor French words!

BP didn’t invent this. There was a big spate of Gen Zers ragging on millennials for side parts. Millennials basically told Z to get stuffed.

Young generation hates it, because it's 'old generation', until their next generations hates their style, because it's 'old generation'. Like for hundreds of years 🤷‍♀️

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We're heading right back to hieroglyphs

Well said.

Honestly, I never used emojis growing up much either, but I don’t think they’re terrible, though; sometimes you have somebody text ‘hey, can you check the chicken in the oven’ and a response such as ‘ok’ or ‘yeah’ is the same thing as a ‘👍’. I do agree that 💀 meaning something funny (probably as in ‘dead funny’) is something I didn’t immediately understand either, so emojis can sometimes pretty much be its own sort of ‘hieroglyphic slang’; though I do like the fact that my username could be something like the following in ‘Emoji-ese’: 🐀🐁🥛