I’m part of a little known and always overlooked generation called Gen Jones which falls in the dip between Boomers and Gen X.
I didn’t grow up online and I can’t even begin to imagine what that does to a young woman’s sense of self.
I’m a retired fashion designer. We just feel what is coming for the next year or so. I’ve always called it Astral Design Committee because most designers are on the same page with where we’re going.
It really is important to own things you love and not what others tell you to wear. I doubt you will ever find a basic white blouse in my wardrobe or a suit of any kind. They just don’t work for me. Classic to me means what consistently works for me.
There is an upside to fast fashion and constant trends. They are so easy to ignore. Most people don’t follow fashion that closely. I’m not saying to be dressing in boring clothes at all. Just find quality things that you really like in fabrics, shapes, and colors that flatter you. Still follow the overall trends, just be true to yourself first.
I just searched this, the Gen Jones point. I remember my mom saying she wasn’t a boomer, and I never knew why. She was born in 1957, and definitely falls outside of the prevailing boomer stereotypes. Now i’m very fascinated. Thank you for sparking my curiosity!
I’m glad you’re curious about our tiny democratic. We are the dip between Boomers and Gen X. It is nice to be stealth. There’s something freeing about it. My mom was born in ‘38 so she was also born in a dip. This is giving me something to think about.
I may be part of the same group. I was born in 1960. I had the good fortune of being born and raised in New York City, the 4th of four, kind of ignored but spoiled compared to most of the country, and odd. I could go anywhere alone and I was very lucky.. I never had a name for whatever it is.
I lived in the suburbs of Montreal. We would tell our mother we were leaving and we were gone for hours. Our family friends that lived in the city also took the subway. We knew what to do and not do to stay safe.
I am, I assume, somewhat of a minority in your community because I've been an alt/goth kid since I was a child in the 90s. I've never really followed fashion trends, but there have been moments in my adulthood where I've fallen victim to the "rightness" of clothing for my body. I'm short, I'm thick, I'm VERY curvy, and there were times in the last 10 years where I've felt pretty fucked up about myself because even at the height of the "everyone loves plus sized chicks" movement, I still couldn't find an influencer or style icon who looked like me. Everything I tried based on the prevailing plus sized trends just looked wrong. It feels so stupid now, but having the revelation that there's only one body and personality exactly like mine really let me breathe and release all the pressure I was putting on myself to try to fit into a mold that was never for me.
I’ve never stuck to trends per se. I mean I wear clothes that meet the moment, but I’ve always chosen my own style. I’m a Gen Xer, so I’ve seen MANY trends come and go and I obviously had to get rid of some clothing along the way, a lot of the time I could wear what I owned as long as it lasted or was finally just totally out of style.
I’m part of a little known and always overlooked generation called Gen Jones which falls in the dip between Boomers and Gen X.
I didn’t grow up online and I can’t even begin to imagine what that does to a young woman’s sense of self.
I’m a retired fashion designer. We just feel what is coming for the next year or so. I’ve always called it Astral Design Committee because most designers are on the same page with where we’re going.
It really is important to own things you love and not what others tell you to wear. I doubt you will ever find a basic white blouse in my wardrobe or a suit of any kind. They just don’t work for me. Classic to me means what consistently works for me.
There is an upside to fast fashion and constant trends. They are so easy to ignore. Most people don’t follow fashion that closely. I’m not saying to be dressing in boring clothes at all. Just find quality things that you really like in fabrics, shapes, and colors that flatter you. Still follow the overall trends, just be true to yourself first.
I just searched this, the Gen Jones point. I remember my mom saying she wasn’t a boomer, and I never knew why. She was born in 1957, and definitely falls outside of the prevailing boomer stereotypes. Now i’m very fascinated. Thank you for sparking my curiosity!
I’m glad you’re curious about our tiny democratic. We are the dip between Boomers and Gen X. It is nice to be stealth. There’s something freeing about it. My mom was born in ‘38 so she was also born in a dip. This is giving me something to think about.
I may be part of the same group. I was born in 1960. I had the good fortune of being born and raised in New York City, the 4th of four, kind of ignored but spoiled compared to most of the country, and odd. I could go anywhere alone and I was very lucky.. I never had a name for whatever it is.
Thank you.
Welcome! You are definitely part of Gen Jones.
I lived in the suburbs of Montreal. We would tell our mother we were leaving and we were gone for hours. Our family friends that lived in the city also took the subway. We knew what to do and not do to stay safe.
Ph.D. in aesthetics me: Excellent work, grasshopper.
ADHD me: Damn, that was a fun hyper-focus. Bonus for the “Justice Sensitivity.”
Copy editor me:
Em dashes, innumerated lists, bold font, … you have neuro-spicy punctuation infatuation.
Hahahahaha I need shiny objects to keep me reading, so yes, guilty 😂 thank you ❤️ also i’m going to go google justice sensitivity.
Justice sensitivity is a doozy! When I wrote about it in grad school, I kept thinking “Yep, this is totally me.” It impacts so much of who I am.
Haas 🥑? I’ll never be able to unsee that nor look at guacamole the same way again 😂
HAHAHAHA but have you seen the scene? Tell me if you detect a lie 😂
It’s like you’re in my brain!!! Thank god someone else despises Love Story. It couldn’t finish it because it was so exhausting
Right before we watched it to see what all the fuss was about, I said to Alex, “wait what if it’s like, awful? LOL.” 😳 LOL indeed.
I am, I assume, somewhat of a minority in your community because I've been an alt/goth kid since I was a child in the 90s. I've never really followed fashion trends, but there have been moments in my adulthood where I've fallen victim to the "rightness" of clothing for my body. I'm short, I'm thick, I'm VERY curvy, and there were times in the last 10 years where I've felt pretty fucked up about myself because even at the height of the "everyone loves plus sized chicks" movement, I still couldn't find an influencer or style icon who looked like me. Everything I tried based on the prevailing plus sized trends just looked wrong. It feels so stupid now, but having the revelation that there's only one body and personality exactly like mine really let me breathe and release all the pressure I was putting on myself to try to fit into a mold that was never for me.
I’ve never stuck to trends per se. I mean I wear clothes that meet the moment, but I’ve always chosen my own style. I’m a Gen Xer, so I’ve seen MANY trends come and go and I obviously had to get rid of some clothing along the way, a lot of the time I could wear what I owned as long as it lasted or was finally just totally out of style.
We were kids in the 70s and 80s and our parents dressed us in weird shit. We do get to claim Grunge and Eminem.
100%!