An illustrative picture: Leighton Meester at 17 (left) and 40 (right).

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[–] 2 points 1 day ago* (2 children)

Nah, Gen Z's thing is mostly fashion sense because they're essentially cultural archeologists in a lot of respects. Gen Z does make new stuff, but a lot of what they do is also remixing old stuff and dusting it off and trying it out again too. And some of that shows in their fashion sense where they're often mixing stuff that makes them look like my Dad with stuff that makes them look like my Grandpa.

It's sort of like how names like Gertrude and Agatha and stuff are starting to make a come back. A lot of the younger crowds never met those old people and got the associated "that's an old person name" cultural alignment. To them, it's just a nice sounding string of syllables.

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