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I don't think it's a complaint so much as an observation. There are distinct differences in style between each decade, and the article would like us to believe we have not had a change in two decades.
I disagree with the article. I think there are obvious differences from style between the 90's and 00's. We're only in the early half of this decade, so it's hard telling what changes we'll see for the 10's. Furthermore, each decade plays off the last decade, and past decades, as it goes. Thus, the 60's reinvented pieces of the 20's, the 70's reinvented pieces of the 30's and the 80's would like to have touched on some of the 30's/40's. (These were only bits and pieces, though, and only small instances.)
Could we get away with wearing torn jeans, plaid flannel, dirty long hair and combat boots to the store (i.e. early-mid 90's young adult style) in this decade? Sure - just like we can get away with wearing Harris Tweeds. Style doesn't mean the same thing it used to, thus, we're in a decade where old fashions can be interchanged without much worry. And then you have hipsters who are pleased to wear mashed up fashions of multiple decades...but let's leave that for another thread?
If anything, fashion is becoming more slippery.
I disagree with the article. I think there are obvious differences from style between the 90's and 00's. We're only in the early half of this decade, so it's hard telling what changes we'll see for the 10's. Furthermore, each decade plays off the last decade, and past decades, as it goes. Thus, the 60's reinvented pieces of the 20's, the 70's reinvented pieces of the 30's and the 80's would like to have touched on some of the 30's/40's. (These were only bits and pieces, though, and only small instances.)
Could we get away with wearing torn jeans, plaid flannel, dirty long hair and combat boots to the store (i.e. early-mid 90's young adult style) in this decade? Sure - just like we can get away with wearing Harris Tweeds. Style doesn't mean the same thing it used to, thus, we're in a decade where old fashions can be interchanged without much worry. And then you have hipsters who are pleased to wear mashed up fashions of multiple decades...but let's leave that for another thread?
If anything, fashion is becoming more slippery.