Trends Younger Millennials Loved That Older Millennials

There are certain things that come to be cultural norms for different generations, and that other generations are completely baffled by. This is definitely true when it comes to fashion trends older Millennials don’t get, but that younger Millennials loved.

It makes sense, really, considering that, according to the Pew Research Center, “the oldest ‘Millennial’ was born in 1981.” “This analysis assumes that the youngest Millennial was born in 1997,” the report added. In that case, it would appear that there are 16 years between the youngest and oldest Millennials of the bunch. Not only that, but older Millennials grew up in the ’80s, middling Millennials were brought up in the ’90s, and younger ones were kids in the late ’90s and early ’00s.

There were so many changes in pop culture between the early ’80s and the early ’00s — particularly in the realms of fashion and technology. Thus, older and younger Millennials may view each others’ upbringings as completely alien to their own, despite being part of the same generation.

Although we have our similarities — like our shared love of the Spice Girls — there are some trends that younger Millennials loved back in the day, and that older Millennials don’t often seem to get their heads around. So here are some fashion looks that confused the older among us.

1. Skirts & Dresses Over Pants

The skirts and dresses worn over pants trend was probably totally weird to older Millennials. Why couldn’t younger GenY-ers just make their minds up and wear “normal” clothes like the rest of us?

2. Popcorn Shirts

WTH is a popcorn shirt and why did it exist, let alone become fashionable? It looked like something you cobbled together in home economics, thus causing you to flunk the class.

3. Lace-Up Pants

4. Sassy Slogan Shirts & Pants

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5. Velour Tracksuits

It’s not that older Millennials don’t get athleisure, because duh, Clueless practically invented the trend; it’s more that velour tracksuits took the athleisure trend and got Barbie to throw up on it. Younger Millennials wore their matchy-matchy velour tracksuits to the mall, likely paired with their fuzzy boots, all the while trying desperately to be like Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie on The Simple Life .

6. Butterfly Clips

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