fashion trends keep returning to the past for ideas
Posted by: gigle
12th Nov 2008 11:47pm
Where are our young designers who can set new trends...do we have to keep living in the past for ideas.
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Anonymous
Alexander Mc Queen is a fanatic designer
Anonymous
I know what you mean, we need to get more original :L
giznjack
There are only so many times you can revamp the little black dress, re-do the hippy 60's and 70's, or go loud and fluro in the 80's. Someone needs to start with something completely new! I know it's hard, but surely there is an inspired desinger out there who can conjure up a whole new idea. My biggest gripe is that most of the fashion on the catwalks is quite ugly. It's either see through, got your but hanging out or made for a six foot tall woman who weighs 40 kilos. Where is the catwalk shows for the real fashion, (stuff we actually wear out in public)
CAT17
Hey gigle, I think young designers find it very hard to set trends and they should be praised for their work. Really fashion has always been cyclical and what was old yesterday becomes trendy today! A lot of the fashion items I wore in my 20's are back in fashion now. Hot pants were my favourite and I did have the legs to wear them back then! Now the short shorts are here and on the right figure they are gorgeous. Now I am in my 60's I dress to suit my age, but I do try to be fashionable - and I love to wear jeans!!
CAT17
Hey gigle, I think young designers find it very hard to set trends and they should be praised for their work. Really fashion has always been cyclical and what was old yesterday becomes trendy today! A lot of the fashion items I wore in my 20's are back in fashion now. Hot pants were my favourite and I did have the legs to wear them back then! Now the short shorts are here and on the right figure they are gorgeous. Now I am in my 60's I dress to suit my age, but I do try to be fashionable - and I love to wear jeans!!
Niki
Makeup-free, healthy skin is the latest craze for all ages, as of now; no neck jewellery but good dangling earrings and chunky finger-rings.
Roz
Over the many, many years that people have been interested in what they have worn, they have covered every aspect of style, colour and design. Now it is up to our new designers to come up with new and interesting ways of combining the different aspects of fashion. Our skirts have gone up and down as far as they can go, so have our trousers. shirts have been opened, buttoned, zipped, frilled and pintucked. Jackets have covered all areas and, hardly any, and dresses have been all over us and conservastive and excessively skimpy cute. Whoever manages the next imaginative combination with colours we have not had for a while will win the prize, so to speak.
Holly
I totally agree with Sammie. God awful fashion everywhete.
MandMm
One thing I find about fashion is that most of the mainstream clothing is so basic, cut to the outline of the body, it's like we are in a recession and are on fabric rations (Think what fashion was like before the wars, then it lost all it's body and flounce until the 50's).
I love more three dimensional fashion, where some thought has gone into draping.
Anonymous
i like the fashion of the past, most of it covered our lumpy bits, unlike today which shows off the not so nice bits on women.
natters
I think that its because past ideas can always be improved upon. I've seen so many new designs that I can remember some similarities from the past and many variations. Don't get me wrong, I like a lot of new designs - but wonder if they impress me because its a variation on an old design
Miss Prim
Maybe fashion has gone as far as it can as many styles of long ago are creeping back. When my sister was 16 she described a dress to our mother that she wanted her to make and told her it was the latest design. Mum just laughed and told her that she wore that style when she was 16 too. So, it shows fashion is on the merry go round. I have four sisters and we were very lucky as teenagers to have one off designs as our mother was a professional dressmaker. Mum made her wedding gown and cut it out without a pattern and made her attendants gowns and tatted their head pieces too. If you can sew why not try your own design by copying parts of fashion and add your own touch.
Anonymous
Everything seems to turn full circle and fashion is no different. I'm sure the designers look at photo archives and copy the trend from other times. The currant designers don't seem to have any origional ideas.
aussieladydi
When you look into the history of fashion you will find that apart from going back to the Crinoline (which looked lovely but so impracticle), styles in all areas rotate in a circle. I am a 60's teen (now 60) and wish I had kept my clothes for my daughters. A fashion follower then, I decided shortly afterwards that I would dare to be different to what some designers decided I should wear, and wore instead what I liked and suited me. Nothing against designers meant by this but really some girls, women look absolutely horrific in current designs if they do not suit their figure.
19chris51
I think the trend to go back to the past is lovely, I`v seen clothes similar to what my Mum used to wear as an under 20 year old, even the shoes, great look,
Rach
I am a comfortable size 12 with a curves and went clothes shopping this weekend and everything I say was for size 6 to 8 ! You have to have no figure at all for these clothes to look any good ! Short Shorts, tight tops, skinny jeans ! Im over it !
Scallywag
There is nothing wrong with getting ideas or inspiration from past fashions. Seeing some of the current fashion out their I prefer the past looks.
Piccolanippy
Yeah it's very cold today.
kay62
Overseas!
donitik
i think it's cool...those retro fashion designs are cool...nothing wrong with living in the past for ideas... :)
Wona
How I wish for a few more designers like Lee McQueen!
kikiiblue
Yes I agree. I reckon it takes one to really have their own idea and styles if they are talented. fashion is just not copying and modifying. it's something that lives in them just like spirit.
show
so cold in sydney these days
rachel44444
ok thats random
splendiforous
well if new means that dripping vest and cardigan fashion with all that excess fabric hanging around the hips which looks grotty on fashion models then lets go back to the past - esp. 50s, 60's and 70's bring it on!
Rosem
I agree all that drapey look , especially on hems does not suit many women, plus it loks unprofessional at work. We don't all want to wear suits or trousers to work.
CactusMary
Thank goodness we are living in the past - that way I can wear the wardrobe of clothes that I have hanging in there!
fannyp
Brilliant, I love getting something out of the wardrobe after a few years and teaming it with something new!
Miss Prim
I agree and I don't let fashion dictate me as I wear what suits my figure and taste. I think that the 80's fashion style was much better than it is today. When my sister was a teenager she told our Mother about the style of dress she wanted and Mother just laughed and said that she wore that style when she was a teenager too. What does it matter if old styles keep coming back as I think most of the designs have been exhausted by now. You can always change the look of an outfit with accessories which I do quite often. I dress up an outfit for evening and play it down for day wear. I have been complimented on my style of dress too.
frilly
I wish I had kept mine. my daughters could wear them but I cannot.
I see the Duster Coat is coming out again in quite upmarket fashion in the USA. I wore that over 50 years ago. I swear if I had mine it would be exactly the same and the colour too a lovely lime green.
Worn in the same way with a beautiful large colurful print underneath. The Empire Line dresses were the full fashion then with cutaway armholes and high neck collars & very short A line skirts.
My circular skirts and petticoats did their turn earlier in the girls lives and my beautifully finished & decorated Bustiers were worn out underneath jackets. It is just amazing it just keeps going.
The heels too. I wonder how many others can remember our extremely high heeled shoes that had screws fitted in the end of the heels as the heel end. To repair the heels we just put in another screw?
Being banned from wearing them at certain places as they could make deep scars if not holes in the floors?
Anonymous
haha - this post is the best - I completely agree!!! And I'm a fashion designer :-)
saltashlady
I like this reply!!!!
cookla
it is so much harder for a designer to get off the ground and to get backing with a completly new design many ppl don't like new and differe. it is much easy to advance on wat the ppl already liket
Holly
GodAwful fashion everywhere !
rachel44444
i totallly disagree with u an skinny jeans on men who arent stick insects are hot...maybe u need to get with the times and embrace the fashion instead of critising it
sammie
the fashion these days is ridiculous im 23 and i walk into about 3-4 different stores b4 i find anything that is wearable and guys get rid of those silly skinny leg pants for women it sooo does not look right
mustang
Im a young fashion designer trying to get my brand up and running, part of the reason that fashion looks to past is the old saying "dont fix what aint broken!" but, you can always take something old and give it a fresh new edge, or blend two genres together. Id say im a trend setter not follower, but having said that there are trends i follw but in my own unique indiviual way! i.e. a decade iago i swear i was responsible for restarting the "denim Jacket" trend, but in my own way by making my jacket unique with sew on patches and badges. once i noticed everyone wearing denim jackets again, i stopped wearing mine!
Fashion is a cut throat industry and most young designers probably try to compete against the heavy weights!
But some designers/brands try a different approach, and it works for them in a slower growth initially but then in the long term for the better!
aussieladydi
I agree with you completely and best of luck
Pippy
why cant we look to the past for inspiration?
kezza052
Most of the young desingers go over seas and try their luck in different countries as there is more oppurtunity for them to exspand in the Industry