YOU may have lived in “mom jeans” in the Eighties and have your favourite Noughties ballet shoes to thank for your bunions. But wearing such fashion items today reveals your age. That is according to TikTokers who, despite reclaiming many Nineties and Noughties styles, mock others as outdated.
There are 90.2million Gen Z v Millennial posts, with hot topics of debate including the types of jeans worn by women aged over 27, the length of their socks and even the way they tuck in their shirts. Here, fashion editor and millennial Clemmie Fieldsend reveals how TikTokers are casting judgment and that what you wear is, apparently, an instant giveaway of age.
JUST a bag, right? Wrong. The fashion politics of your arm candy is a complicated affair. If, like us, you spent your youth squeezing everything into an over-the-shoulder handbag, you have most likely graduated to a cross-body bag now, like Sarah Jessica Parker , 59.
Maybe you wear a crossbody that sits at the hip or higher. The longer version indicates you are Gen X or a baby boomer. The higher one – dubbed the “millennial Birkin” by TikTokers, says thirties or early forties.
The irony is that Gen Zers – who only carry a phone and keys – now prefer the slim shoulder bags we loved in the Nineties. IN the early Noughties the term “French tuck” was coined by male stylists on the show Queer Eye For The Straight Guy. It referred to the Parisian way of having half of your shirt tucked in and the other side, and back.
