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What is 'the look of the noughties' do you think?

Maybe the noughties look will becomes apparent in a few years, but for now I can't think of anything that will really define this decade. So far we've been recycling the 80s: tiered skirts were around in the early 80s, as were pointy shoes. The whole tucking jeans in boots thing is very 80s as well. Flat boots are nothing new: I remember buying mine in '85 – and bloody awful they looked too.

I'll look back on the 90s as quite a bland, play-it-safe, utilitarian time in fashion terms (combats scream the 90s), but for now, I don't think there's much happening beyond recycling 20-year-old fashion trends.
 
Dubversion said:
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ok - not mentioning any names but should i recognise anyone except the beautiful laydee there?

btw - i'd say it's too soon to tell on jeans into boots - three seasons does not a decade make - whereas flat boots (ugg varients flowing into ones with cris crossy strapping) have been around for much longer.

my votes go for the birkenstock / men's sport sandal, and the layered vest - and also the crossover/wrap top/dress, and frocks over trousers.
 
I think wrap tops were around in the 80s, if memory serves me correctly.

Hell, am I starting to show my age?
 
jeans in boots has been going for agggggesss now - longer than the layered vest IMO. i remember talking about that look with a friend back in 2001/2002. i think we'd seen pictures of zoe ball in a newspaper rocking the look. (why do i remember such stuff?)

and i can't believe i'm posting this crap, really.
 
I hate those cropped trousers that some women are wearing now with flat boots. It has to be one of the most unflattering looks ever.

I like the return of tailoring though :cool: Skinny jeans look great. Not on me particularly, but I love that skinny jeans/pumps/big top combo that's popular.
 
Skim said:
I think wrap tops were around in the 80s, if memory serves me correctly.

Hell, am I starting to show my age?
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oh absolutely - i have one which is that old. point is, there were hardly any around during the 90s

milesy, you're right. but earlier in the decade it was fuller trousers tucked in to give the awful renaissance knickerbocker look. the spray on jeans thing is more recent, i'd say.
 
zenie said:
*Puts hand up*

I wear jeans tucked into boots big buckled brown ones firky’s seen them :D

I’ve worn big belts, and err… I am not a fashion victim.

I think men in pink look :cool: and it is only because you are not secure in your own sexuality that you have a problem with it :p

Lacoste is cool man what did it do to you?
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Lacoste just reminds me of ticket touts. and it has a crocodile logo i fucking hate crocs and aligators.

See the jeans in boots thing can look very cool on girlies especilly if the jeans are tight.

Oh the not secure thing pisses me off. Why is it always assumed your insecure about your sexuality just beacuse your taste in clothes/music/whatever doesn't extend to certain areas. Maybe the blokes who wear pink aren't secure in thier sexuality and just use the pink thing as a mask. Especilly these days as it seems to be all the rude boys who are rocking the pastels.


dave
 
spanglechick said:
ok - not mentioning any names but should i recognise anyone except the beautiful laydee there?

btw - i'd say it's too soon to tell on jeans into boots - three seasons does not a decade make - whereas flat boots (ugg varients flowing into ones with cris crossy strapping) have been around for much longer.

my votes go for the birkenstock / men's sport sandal, and the layered vest - and also the crossover/wrap top/dress, and frocks over trousers.
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you'l find that the personable young men pictured are connected to this estimable organisation ...

and jolly good it is too!


as for the look of the noughties - what about the latest take on denim - we'd done snow-washed and distressing but there's all this grubby looking stuff now - very noughties IMO
 
Even more than grubby denim, what about the trend of having a big slogan (like 'dirty' or 'bling') slapped across your backside? I can't remember that being done in the 90s, although the 90s was the decade of the big slogan. (As was the 80s, come to think of it, those Katharine Hammnett T-shirts.)
 
Anything Diesel is very noughties.. choose anything they've done over the last 6 years and play with it and everyone would look 'noughties'..
 
Off topic a bit...

I agree with Kained - men in pink, regardless of their sexuality, should be taken outside and shot, and any remaining relatives they may have must be sterilised for the good of humanity.

Down with this sort of thing!

Right, I'm done.
 
Wolfie said:
you'l find that the personable young men pictured are connected to this estimable organisation ...

and jolly good it is too!


as for the look of the noughties - what about the latest take on denim - we'd done snow-washed and distressing but there's all this grubby looking stuff now - very noughties IMO
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how utterly fabulous!

dirty denim, yes - very noughties...

and after noughties comes "teenies", shurely?
 
I came across this thread by accident - interesting to look back 9 years ago.

In hindsight, the early 00s continued from the late 90s. Slim trainers, bootcut jeans. Men with short spiky hair... women in tank tops and with hair like Halle Berry in X-Men 3.

Then from 2006 we started haved Russell Brand setting the emo trend... so the early 00s was all about girls dressing like boys, whereas the late 00s was boys dressing like girls.
 
mmm, I seem to have been wearing the exact same stuff for the last 30 or so years - corduroy or leather trousers in winter, cotton dresses in summer with leggings or thick tights and T.shirts (several on top of each other in winter). I have certainly worn the same footwear - Meindl boots all year round. I have a couple of thin jumpers and a very warm woolly one and vests. I also own about 30 pairs of identical black knickers....and black socks. Fashion has passed me by (although a few years ago, I did buy several pairs of drill trousers in yellow, orange, green).

I never have, and never will wear denim jeans, high heels or anything which involves lace.

I have been fairly oblivious to other people's styles as well (and failed to even notice that the original post was started years ago). What I did recall, with amusement and bafflement was the seemingly endless dresses over trousers trend.
 
For guys surely tighter clothing generally, like skinny jeans etc. The nineties were totally baggy.

You can see this everywhere e.g.

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Skinny jeans that keep on getting even skinnier. I went into New Look the other day to get a new pair of bootlegs and I was surrounded by 'super skinny' jeans instead.

Ugg boots were definitely a big thing but I think they've reduced in popularity; the classic ones at any rate. I saw less of them about last winter anyroad.
 
Tankus said:
Beards .,....and way more tats....see a lot of chinos and plimsoles too with no socks
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Well, that's teens rather than 'noughties' (remember this thread is 9 years old!) I do find it interesting how, in the last 5 years full sleeve tatts have gone from being an extreme body mod thing to basically mainstream.
 
Greebo said:
Not if you've got wavy hair which reverts to type after a few hours.
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Well, the thing what seems to be fashionable is not what natural wavy hair looks like but where it's been straightened then someone has put big waves in. I guess I'm saying that creating those loose waves from scratch takes more effort than straightening hair. I have heavy hair that seems to drop any curl after 10 minutes.
 
such and such said:
Well, the thing what seems to be fashionable is not what natural wavy hair looks like but where it's been straightened then someone has put big waves in. I guess I'm saying that creating those loose waves from scratch takes more effort than straightening hair. I have heavy hair that seems to drop any curl after 10 minutes.
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Bear in mind (even without allowing for photoshop etc) that a lot of models use hair extensions - you can't go from short (above chin length) cuts to shoulder length or longer within a year without cheating. Nor can real hair take several bouts of dyeing, bleaching, or heat styling without damage (which will have to be cut out). And that sleek look with a very high glassy sheen? Again, that's not usually something which real hair is inclined to have.

Even people without extensions probably don't keep their hair like that all day and every day. </off soapbox>
 
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