Was window shopping at Altered State and Urban Outfitters and pining for all the clothes that I can never wear. They are just so darn cute and what I would have worn all those years ago. Don’t you agrer.
I was way cuter in my 20s!!
Me too. But gosh - the ugly clothes ruined the photos! 
Wondering if my mom thought the clothes I bought were cuter than in her teen days!
@Pizzagirl I was way thinner when I was in my 20’s!
Me too! If I had only realized that I wouldn’t stay that hot forever … I would have worn bikinis to the grocery store!
I just wished I had realized I was tiny then!!
Fabrics were so much better in the 70s and 80s. I’m not talking about the style of the clothes, but about how they were made. They kept their shape and lasted, maybe even longer than we wanted.
@dragonmom you talking about those nice polyesters
Lol, no! I’m thinking of cotton knits and woven wool.
That’s funny, I was just thinking the other day that the clothes that the young kids are wearing look just like what I wore in college…Embroidered peasant tops, halter shirts, jean skirts, banana Freye boots, clogs, sheath dresses in mod prints and flare leg jeans that are back this year…i lived in clothes like that and the ubiquitous black leotard under sweater and black tights in the winter.
Some are … I love the equestrian look. But I was in college in the early 80s during the height of the preppy craze and I’ve always loved that look too.
“Embroidered peasant tops, halter shirts, jean skirts, banana Freye boots, clogs, sheath dresses in mod prints and flare leg jeans that are back this year.”
My 23 yo D doesn’t dress like that (NTTAWWT). She is very J Crew - classic cuts, lots of navy / nautical, simple jewelry.
My 20 something dresses like momofthreeboys mentioned, but mostly from thrift shops. And add in lots of plaid flannel. Can you telll she lives in Seattle?
pizza, I think that’s very classic…but I do see alot of girl daughters of my friends and my sons that are one day classic and the next bohemian-ish…if that’s a look…they go back and forth. Think Sundance catalog. I got dropped off at college in plaid pants, red Dr. Scholl’s and a white polo shirt - didn’t take me long to “get” the prevailing spirit on campus, but once I graduated it was back to classic in a heartbeat.
My 20 something is a Banana Republic kind of girl. Clean lines. No peasant tops, no frills.
She also likes Limited, Gap, JCrew, Ann Taylor and Loft.
Not much peasant looking stuff in her closet.
Most of the young women (daughters of friends and girls that hang with my youngest) go back and forth between the clean classics and the Sundance catalog boho look with alittle exercise wear in between. I don’t see a twenty something “uniform” as much as I used to notice in the 80s and 90s.
My D is full Bohemian (unfortunately the expensive kind of Bohemian), dressed that style in high school when it wasn’t even fashionable.
Me, I also was much cuter in my 20s. I actually thought I was ‘fat’, refused to wear a bathing suit in public and now I look back at the photos and go “what was I thinking???”" But, because of budget constraints and styles, the clothes I was wearing weren’t cute at all
My daughter very much does the boho/thrift shop look but favors a streamlined, tailored look for the workplace. Her stuff is either super pricey or super cheap.
I think many girls today have more body confidence than back in my day which is a good thing.
The one thing I don’t ‘get’ is rompers . . . I could not have worn those even in my teens or early 20s.
I have mixed emotions on this. I see some cute outfits on 20 somethings, but I also see entirely too much that is thin, clingy, and very revealing and I don’t think it’s appropriate in a professional, business work setting. Or in most settings except a night on the town. YMMV.
I do often look at 20 something girls and think they look so much cuter and prettier than we did as a group. I even weigh the same as I did the day I graduated high school, but sadly, somehow it’s all re-arranged 