Gillian Branstetter: Trends are for people without style

Trends are for people without style

Some Millennials in my timeline are insecure because Gen Zs are telling them their ankle socks age them. I can't stress enough that you don't need to care about what a bunch of 20-somethings think about your clothes, mainly bc you don't have to care about what ANYONE thinks about your clothes.

As someone now closer to her forties than her twenties, no pair of ankle socks or skinny jeans or side part will make you look as old as trying to chase the trends of 20-year-olds

One of the great gifts of age is the moment when you first realize that you just don’t care anymore about this sort of thing. Wonderfully freeing.

I mean okay but flare pants look so damn good on me. They’ll pry my skinny jeans from my cold dead hips though.

I think flared pants always look good and every four years everyone else just realizes I'm right

I'm closer to my seventies than my forties, and it's been about half a century since I really cared what anyone thought about what I was wearing. My t-shirt and cargo shorts are comfortable in this heat, get off my lawn.

Preach!

My grandmother used to declare she earned every wrinkle and gray hair and she wasn’t going to be ashamed of them. That probably kept her younger than some of these hand-wringing 30-somethings.

Outside of utility in some cases, what's the draw of full length socks? -Gen Xer

I'm a lot cooler now in my 30s than I ever was in my teens and 20s. Then again, my 20s was in the era of Noughties Lad Culture.

YES! THANK YOU I'VE BEEN SAYING THAT FOREVER!

You goddamn better believe I embrace that shit like ankle socks and listening to Foo Fighters ages me

what young people think is cool is not my problem anymore

For dog's sake there is no world possible where anyone's choice of clothing should be anything but their own business. I"m 61 years old and my attire is t-shirt with a cat on it and jeans.

But it's ok if tube socks aged my parents, correct?

Well said,

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