Words by: Esperanto Team 
Art by: Evelyn Johnson

“What is your unpopular fashion opinion?” 

This question has echoed through the cavernous social media landscape, where people have voiced their hatred for new or revived fashion trends. You may have watched these videos and vehemently agreed with the interviewee’s opinion, or maybe you found yourself yelling at the screen “What do you mean?? I love that trend!”. With how fast fashion culture goes, in a matter of weeks, a trend that was coming in hot can be pushed out by something new and shiny. So here are some of the trends that have popped up in recent times that we think are total flops. 

Low-rise Skinny Jeans 

Low-rise skinny jeans seriously have to stay away from me. Please leave me and my waistline alone. Let me and my high-rise mum jeans skip our merry way into the gloriously comfortable sunset. Skinny jeans are tight, they’re hard to put on and they make my legs look like a pair of freshly gnawed chicken drumsticks. Not to mention the constant fear of the exposed bum-crack every time I bent over. I left that feeling in 2009, thank you very much.

The Dad Runners

I don’t know if it’s because I get violent flashbacks from casual clothes days in primary school, where the only shoes I had to pair with my ill-fitting jeans were my runners, but I HATE this trend. I’m absolutely down for the sneaker look. Nike Air Force 1s, Adidas Gazelles, those yellow and black Onitsuka Tigers? Wonderful! Excellent! But for the love of God can we please stop pairing massive, white, ugly New Balances with wide-leg pants or white flowy dresses? We don’t have to be ready for an intense hike and a trendy bottomless brunch at the same time. We need to stop dressing like a teenage boy whose mother still puts his outfits together 

Baggy Jorts

I literally cannot think of a more unflattering cut of shorts to wear than the ¾ length baggy jorts. I don’t care how many influencers and festival goers think they’re cool, I will die happy only if my style has never been violated by putting a pair of jorts on my body. Don’t get me wrong, I love an Adam Sandler movie and he always rocks the ‘middle-aged dad who doesn’t care about his appearance and has no sense of style but still has a hot AF wife’ look. But 100% of the time I would rather be dressing like the hot wife than the 50-year-old man who has let himself go. #canceljorts!