From Tumblrcore to 2014core, the nostalgia loop is getting smaller and faster
Wired headphones are among the artifacts from the past decade making recent "nostalgic" comebacks. Fashion once moved in 20 year cycles but the nostalgia loop is getting smaller and faster,
by Neda Ulaby
Mar 01, 2022
2 minutes
Some recent fashion trends make sense. Take what's currently being called the Y2K aesthetic of wide-leg jeans, aggressive pink and metallic fabrics — a throwback to style sensibilities of the late 90s and early 2000s.
Fashion moves in twenty year cycles, or so conventional wisdom has it, when tastemakers get nostalgic for theirand and the musical . And twenty years after that, the 1990s witnessed a return to 1970s-style singer-songwriters, such as Juliana Hatfield and PJ Harvey, and an of Cat Stevens' 1971 song "Peace Train."
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