Creator analyzes contradictory fashion articlesfrom @caseymorrowlewis

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Suddenly, I can't open social media without seeing this story. This photo was taken at the University of Alabama. These appear to be Gen Zers. They're wearing light wash, baggy jeans. They're wearing black tops. The headline from the New York Post, generation zero style, which ouch, we're literally talking about jeans and a black top, which is like the most classic combination you can get. But I've been thinking about this since I saw the headline. I think it was published actually yesterday. It was published Instagram today. If we are at peak this look, what is next? This is a very nineties jean, the light wash, the baggy, the sort of low rise grunge. I think the next cool jean will be the the early aughts darker wash, not dark, better, like, darker, low rise, stretchier with a flare. That's just how trend cycles work. That's how they worked the nineties to the February and that we tend to see everything old is new again. However, in thinking about this story rank this black top, what, light jean, gen Z trend, something occurred to me. This was published in February by the same publication, the New York Worst, and they are talking about black tops and light jeans and referring to it as the ultimate girl uniform for millennial women. So which is it? Is it millennial core or is it generation zero? I mean, look, we're talking about a black top and jeans. Like this isn't a trend. This is two wardrobe basics. The way that people are wearing them though is very much a trend. And I'm very curious to see how long this will last. And as a millennial, it does kind of make me laugh a bit to think that gen z is wearing what was dubbed millennial court last year. A lot of the sort of generational, like, Gen z versus millennial battling is just a media thing meant to get clicks, but I don't tier. I see it play out on my TikTok, so we'll be very interested to see what happens next with this trend.