Fashion is the passion of all times

 

Fashion is the passion of all times
Fashion lately has changed faster than we can write it

The early 80’s used to be about minimalism and the practicity, soft colors, and then the aerobics came back from the 70’s like an iconic boom, it shifted to focus in colors, shapes and strength, make it colorful, make it about fitness, make it shiny and loud to the eye.

The 90’s would look a bit similar to the 2000’s with subcultures’ fashion, some wore cropped translucent shirts, the goth was in rise, bob cuts werent odd between women, tattoos and ear-piercing were being more accepted. And then came that part that sort of reminds me of some recent tendencies and it actually came back in some parts of the internet, the Heroi- … wait im allowed to say the name of that drug? lets call it: H- Chic. It revolved about looking skinny and sick, smokey eyes and pale skin, clothes that make them look small and fragile. The fashion became minimalist once again, such a contrast from the flashy and iconic aesthetic of the 80’s. At some point came in the Grunge and alternative rock with the Casual Chic that is t-shirts, hoodies, jeans and sneakers. But at the end, it was a reciclying of older fashion, more recognizably from the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s.

‘The 2000’s, when people thought the devices would stop working or outright explote because the coders made the date of the years in computers the last two digits of the year.

Once the problem was solved the subcultures rised in the internet as never before: Scenes, Emos, Goths, in Chile we got the ‘Pokemones’, and the large etc that is in the Aesthetics Wiki of the 00’s

‘Pokemones’

Things started shifting in 2010 since the subcultures slowly started fading, websites and communities were becoming more homogenous.

In the USA were common the Tumblr communities and was quite popular the skinny jeans and simple clothing with smokey eyes or the galaxy print depending on where you lived, I used to wear pants and hoodies with galaxies, is a bit nostalgic since I hadn’t wore anything similar to that since 2016 or so.

Jeans and smokey eyes

2020 was a a blur of aesthetics, mostly with cottagecore and kidcore being what I remember the most due to the pandemic forcing people to stay home, that makes people nostalgic for the outdoors of their home, cottagecore being exactly about being a self sufficient person in the rural part of the town wearing flowy clothes and some additions like corsets (I gotta add that a corset isn’t meant to be tight or uncomfortable since people had to work on it for hours in its prime, I can’t explain all the history here), and mind me, what do corsets reminds you of? Old times, the medieval or Victorian era. Though what I just wrote was what people wanted to wear, im pretty sure we all wore pijamas or something along those lines when we weren’t seen on camera.

Cottagecore

From the 2020 onwards it was a blur of aesthetics on the internet, it depended on what place of TikTok you were in and in what country, tho if I compare the outfits I see on the streets today with outfits from 6 years ago I believe I wouldn’t see major changes.

Around 2023 or 2024 I started noticing how people became a bit too much obsessed about beauty (or maybe more open about their obsession), which I never had an interest on apart from trying to look decent before I went out).

Am I too biased?

Do you think people are becoming more materialistic?

That people are being more open about judging a book by the cover and not by the content? Is it only me?

Is this level of perfectionism practiced in maintaining this image that they want to show to the world normal? The extreme and dangerous diets that we thought we left behind in the early 2000’s and the now increasingly popular surgeries?