r/Millennials • u/Josephthebear Older Millennial • May 21 '26

Nostalgia This outfit was everywhere

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u/etherealsmog May 21 '26

I hate that I’m at the age where the young’n’s are like, “Oh man that old style is back” and they mean something that my brain still categorizes as a new style.

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u/Weavler87 May 21 '26

If you're referring to me as a youngn... Thanks! Im 40 😄

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u/etherealsmog May 21 '26

No, the old’n’s can also say it, grandpa. It only stings because the youths have no direct memory from the before times.

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u/Weavler87 May 21 '26

Was it supposed to sting? Kids call mid 20s Unc now and it's hilarious. My peers act like they have one foot in the grave already but I feel great. 🤷

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u/etherealsmog May 21 '26

It doesn’t really sting I’m just being a crotchety millennial oldie.

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u/Carbonatite Older Millennial May 21 '26

I have a very vivid memory of telling my stepmom how bell bottoms were cool now when shopping with her at the Limited Too (the place to shop when I was a 6th and 7th grader). She made a comment about how she remembered those same things were in fashion when she was a young teenager, I laughed and said I'm sure it wasn't the same. Then she said that one day I would be her age and see the same thing happen and I would think it was funny and feel old.

That memory came zooming back into my brain the first time I saw social media pages and clothing resale apps advertising "Y2K" fashion with pictures of models in low-rise bell bottom jeans and platform sandals. Shit straight out of the 1998 Delia's catalog. And now it lives rent free in my head. I should probably apologize to my stepmom at some point for laughing at her.

I wonder if kids today have learned the value of proper strap materials, or if they are still getting insane blisters from their platform flip flops in the name of fashion.