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The author is entirely incorrect that you won’t be able to differentiate fashion from today and 2007. There was a clean break even if you compare 2013 to 2023.

The author is entirely incorrect that you won’t be able to differentiate fashion from today and 2007. There was a clean break even if you compare 2013 to 2023. He’s just not very discerning of clothes. And he doesn’t have the benefit of looking at only archival photos that capture the purest expression of cultural moments.

criddell 4y ago
Look at fashion changes through 1965, 1975, 1985, 1995. You didn’t need to be discerning at all to spot differences through the decades.
- flappyeagle 4y ago
  You don’t need to be discerning at all to see the difference between 2003, 2013, and 2023.
  - criddell 4y ago
    Do you think if we picked a random issue of Vogue magazine from 1975, 1985, 2005, and 2015 and asked 100 people to guess which issue comes from which year, do you really think people would be just as likely to confuse 1975 and 1985 as 2005 and 2015?
mach1ne 4y ago
I disagree. When watching How I Met Your Mother, I am always astounded that it was filmed in 2005. Practically nothing has changed in daily lives since then.
- xmcqdpt2 4y ago
  Well, I for one think it's very easy to tell that it was filmed in 2005. Men are wearing "baggy" pants by todays standards, are close shaven and no one is wearing athleisure.
  - dbspin 4y ago
    'Athleisure', or at least wearing a tracksuit or tracksuit mixed with jeans as a daily driver has been popular since the early 90s. It was popularised by the British rave scene in the late 80! The primary difference now is its pastel coloured.
- flappyeagle 4y ago
  Half of those episodes would not be able to be made on todays political climate. The skinny suits that NPH wears would look very dated today.
dbspin 4y ago
I don't think this is correct at all. 'Retro' of one kind or another has been the primary focus of mainstream fashion as far back as the 70s. Since the early 2000s retro become so ubiquitous that it's essentially invisible. All mainstream, big brand high street fashion is currently remixed 80s and 90s styles and colours. It's not that you can't distinguish whats being worn now - it's more that it's a slight variation on what was being worn then. But it's objectively true that you could walk down the street wearing contemporary high street fashion in even the mid 1980 not seem wildly out of place. By contrast, if you wore high street fashions of the late 1970s in the early 1960s, and so on, your outfit by contrast would seem outré and theatrical - perhaps even shocking, depending on the decade and the prevailing norms for concealing the female body.

criddell 4y ago

Look at fashion changes through 1965, 1975, 1985, 1995. You didn’t need to be discerning at all to spot differences through the decades.

flappyeagle 4y ago
You don’t need to be discerning at all to see the difference between 2003, 2013, and 2023.
- criddell 4y ago
  Do you think if we picked a random issue of Vogue magazine from 1975, 1985, 2005, and 2015 and asked 100 people to guess which issue comes from which year, do you really think people would be just as likely to confuse 1975 and 1985 as 2005 and 2015?

mach1ne 4y ago

I disagree. When watching How I Met Your Mother, I am always astounded that it was filmed in 2005. Practically nothing has changed in daily lives since then.

xmcqdpt2 4y ago
Well, I for one think it's very easy to tell that it was filmed in 2005. Men are wearing "baggy" pants by todays standards, are close shaven and no one is wearing athleisure.
- dbspin 4y ago
  'Athleisure', or at least wearing a tracksuit or tracksuit mixed with jeans as a daily driver has been popular since the early 90s. It was popularised by the British rave scene in the late 80! The primary difference now is its pastel coloured.
flappyeagle 4y ago
Half of those episodes would not be able to be made on todays political climate. The skinny suits that NPH wears would look very dated today.

dbspin 4y ago

I don't think this is correct at all. 'Retro' of one kind or another has been the primary focus of mainstream fashion as far back as the 70s. Since the early 2000s retro become so ubiquitous that it's essentially invisible. All mainstream, big brand high street fashion is currently remixed 80s and 90s styles and colours. It's not that you can't distinguish whats being worn now - it's more that it's a slight variation on what was being worn then. But it's objectively true that you could walk down the street wearing contemporary high street fashion in even the mid 1980 not seem wildly out of place. By contrast, if you wore high street fashions of the late 1970s in the early 1960s, and so on, your outfit by contrast would seem outré and theatrical - perhaps even shocking, depending on the decade and the prevailing norms for concealing the female body.