It's just the fashion industry digging through the trends and fashions of the past 60 years for things to recycle. It doesn't have to make aesthetic or semantic

It's just the fashion industry digging through the trends and fashions of the past 60 years for things to recycle. It doesn't have to make aesthetic or semantic sense; it just has to sell. Leaning on existing fashion from the past lends a certain sense of legitimacy to whatever trend they are pushing, so it's a tried and true tactic to reintroduce them — conveniently stripped of any social classifiers associated with it (but they do look great on Instabook). That said, today's teenagers wearing Nirvana T-shirts may smell like teen spirit, but I doubt any of them has even heard a single song of that band. It's a bit weird.