Faceless fashion police

I think it has been always thus.

I used to wonder what it would be like when I got older, but personally am pleasantly surprised.

Having said that, I barely buy more than two items of new[to me] clothing per year. Currently.

Why are all tops and knitwear so short everywhere you look?

Why is everything made in such dreary colours for winter when jewel colours would brighten us all up?

It’s often been said/written that the economic situation is reflected in fashion.

www.thevaultuwmadison.com/blog/finance-amp-fashion-does-the-economy-influence-fashion-trends

We all need new clothes from time to time and I agree that it is annoying to be tied to particular colours and styles which may not suit me.
I do however keep my clothes for a long time and look after even something that I have bought at Tescos if I really like the item. So I always have available to me a wider range of colours and styles that is not restricted to current fashion on offer.
I have always been in the size 14/16/18 range and so have tended to wear classic unfussy styles . I think that makes it easier to keep clothes for a long time.

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I don't think we have Faceless fashion police ROMILO, we have artistic, driven designers who want to offer something new and eye catching to the catwalk of the world - and colours, which used to be dictated largely by the dye industry are more varied and easier to obtain. Given that, there is definitely a zeitgeist and it's amazing how many people suddenly see something new and exciting in similar palettes.

If you go to somewhere like the "Première Vision" shows in Paris and elsewhere you can see what the textile industry is offering that is new. These are what the designers are looking at and are inspired by. New fabrics, new processes, new takes on the old.

Whilst you and I might just see, say, lace, tweed or denim there are manufacturers who spend a lifetime working on one particular type of fabric. There is always innovation.

Here is some info re denim this year (just as an example):
www.premierevision.com/en/articles/4544e140-58ae-f011-8e61-000d3a2355f0/entrez-dans-le-futur-du-denim-65-exposants-15-pays-une-vision-commune-de-l-innovation

And a photo of "new" denim boots.

The colour strip photo is probably what you will see next Autum and Winter as they are busy designing and making that stuff now ... just saying!

Just because we don't suit/like things, it doesn't mean we have to be policed into them!

My favourite colour is blue in every shade and I always chuckle when it's announced that blue is this season's colour. It has been my lifetime colour. Same with wide leg trousers I have worn them for years. If I don't like a fashion as in the dreadful cold shoulder tops of recent years I don't buy it.

Roses

Why are all tops and knitwear so short everywhere you look?

Why is everything made in such dreary colours for winter when jewel colours would brighten us all up?

I was bemoaning the short tops to my daughter. She said it’s because the fashion is for high-waisted trousers/skirts thus long tops not needed. A thermal vest bridges the gap!

There are a lot of 70’s colours and styles in the shops at the moment. I guess I wore them then but I don’t want to wear them now!

Well with regard to shorter tops I think it’s the “rule” of baggier/looser/wider bottoms = shorter closer fitting tops…think peak seventies?
80s was all about l-o-o-ong coats,tops and oversized shirts
Skinny bottom half, looser, longer top.
Midi skirts are “in” too now such as faux or real suede.

Though all or most trousers are too long for me personally unless they are the really fuddy duddy ones… not ready for them yet. and don’t get me started on lack of pockets (or worse fake pockets).
and all or most sweaters/tshirts,tops have a horrid boring unflattering neckline that gives me a mono boob . That’s Just designers lazy thinking imo, and it’s cheaper to knock out millions of the same old shape.

There are more sleeves which makes a nice change.

And the autumnal colours are good too but for me anything is better than grey …so so glad it is not dominant everywhere.

The clothing market has aways been like that, since the time people started considering fashion when buying clothes.

Why should it change now? Shops will only stock clothes that they know they can sell large quantities of. It is just not profitable to stock lines that only have low demand, ditto why would manufacturers make a dress or top that will only sell 100s when other garments can be sold in their thousands?

This applies to everything, grocery items you love that disappear from the shops. Restaurants that take you favourite dish off the menu, because too few people share your preference.

Autumnal colours for autumn provide camouflage as we go about our business. A government directive so that we don’t feel overpopulated. 😂

Another M&S grumble here, a whole floor dedicated to very short knitwear that on first glance are made for 7 year olds.
In colours…brown, black, grey, cream and various odd shades of green.
No decent shirts or blouses at all.DP was amazed that we left the store without me buying something.🤭

Especially after seeing the recent ‘latest’ trouser styles, e.g. the barrel leg which personally I find hideous, I’ve come to the conclusion that designers rack their brains for something new, which (they hope) will have millions of us rushing out to buy it, regardless of hideousness or whether it suits us, just because it’s must-have ‘fashionable’.

If anyone here actually likes barrel leg trousers, no offence meant, each to her own, but personally I wouldn’t be seen dead in them.

I just do a very specific Google search for what I’m looking for, eg long bottle green cotton cardigan, and it usually comes up with options for what I’m after. I don’t like short knitwear, or things that go bobbly either, but by being very specific I can avoid wasted effort trawling through the rails. One that was very hard to avoid a couple of years ago was tiers on dresses, but thankfully that’s passed on into the fashion archives now by the looks of it.

NotSpagetti I applaud the fact that you are obviously very passionate about fashion but your reply is ever so slightly patronising. I say this having a background of four years training in fine art and textile design so not completely ignorant.
Most of the people who post on here will not be off to the shops in the latest Paris Fashion Week cat walk designs, they buy their clothes from high street stores and on line retailers and haven't you rather proven my point by posting a photo of the colours we WILL be wearing next Autumn.

ROMILO

NotSpagetti I applaud the fact that you are obviously very passionate about fashion but your reply is ever so slightly patronising. I say this having a background of four years training in fine art and textile design so not completely ignorant.
Most of the people who post on here will not be off to the shops in the latest Paris Fashion Week cat walk designs, they buy their clothes from high street stores and on line retailers and haven't you rather proven my point by posting a photo of the colours we WILL be wearing next Autumn.

Well said.

I have been getting my everyday t- shirts from Poundland. Much longer, wash & dry great., only £3. They don’t shrink like the already short t- shirts from M & S.
Poundland unfortunately, are shutting some stores I’ve heard.

Mt61

I have been getting my everyday t- shirts from Poundland. Much longer, wash & dry great., only £3. They don’t shrink like the already short t- shirts from M & S.
Poundland unfortunately, are shutting some stores I’ve heard.

Best night shirts too, as they don’t shrink.

If everyone followed the fashion there'd be no individuality which I like to see. I know someone who follows the fashion trends religiously even if the style doesn't suit her even when it was the bare midriff trend. It wasn't a pretty look on the expanded waistline of a 50+ lady. She could look stunning if she didn't follow the herd.

ROMILO I'm really saying (badly) how the stuff on the high street comes from the catwalks and the colours for next A/W are already out there but that is because the buyers/designers have seen what the manufacturers are offering.

You asked "who are the Faceless Fashion Police" and I thought I was being helpful.
Apologies.

As M0nica says we don't have to be part of it or policed by it. I suppose I should have added that there are lots of "timeless" styles that we wear for years -

I wasn't trying to lecture anyone and am sorry it came out like that (I was probably sidetracked when i went off to find the colours for next year!).

Like you I'm a actually a textile person but am loosely aware of what's going on fashion wise.

NOT spaghetti Thankyou for that, I hope my reply didn't come across as too 'preachy' The whole post came about because I was having a hard time finding what I wanted at a reasonable price.

Who cares what the ‘fashion police’ dictate?
I have a collection of old clothes which I still like & enjoy wearing - things that were saved ‘for best’ & which I’ve realised I should enjoy wearing while I can.
I don’t need to buy new clothes & try not to.

I think it depends where you shop, I always google ‘longline xxx’ as I’m tall, Joe Browns and others usually have a pop of colour.
Best of all charity shops or Vinted, then you’re not governed by ‘this seasons fashion’.

But fashion catwalks do dictate what will be in the stores, and therefore what the buyers will order, which I think is the point NotSpaghetti was making. So the 'faceless fashion police' really are the designers at the various fashion houses. That includes colours too.

You may know that, Romilo but not everyone does. If NotSpaghetti sounded patronising it may be because you were asking a question that you already knew the answer to.

Oreo I just love those short jumpers in dreary colours. Mist my cup of tea .