Gen Z: What a year for fashion. 2025 = iconic vibes.

Boomer: like chronic. I’ve seen the worst fashion crimes since 1985’s ‘shell-suit summer’.

Rude! We legit brought back so manyof your generation’s trends.

Like?

Those triangle scarves for one. I’ve got the same Anthropologie one in five different shades.

Pardon? I’m much too young to wear what one fashion editor dubbed an ‘early-bird special shawl’.

Apols. Thought they were big when you were young in the 70s.

Maybe with Russian babushkas. Funnily not with teenagers from London.

What about low-rise flared jeans? According to Gen Z trend tracker YPulse, they were the ninth biggest trend of 2025.

The last time I wore flares was to a Blondie gig in ’78. Got them caught in my bike chain cycling home and was nearly charged with indecent exposure…

I love them. Gap’s Y2K-inspired ad with global girl group Katseye in super low-cut denim was this year’s most-viewed campaign, with eight billion impressions.

And I’d get around eight billion funny looks strutting around Tesco in hip-huggers. Less ‘washboard abs’, ‘mind the flab’.

FR*, how many times have we talked about #bodypositivity this year?

As many times as you’ve tried to convince me those hideous jelly shoes are stylish.

They are!Voguecalled them summer’s ‘unlikely It-shoe’ anda ‘fashion editor favourite’.

I’m with theTimeswriter who said they’re too laden with memories of blisters and crabbing in Skegness.

Get with it. According toVogue2025 has been all about ‘maximalist’ and ‘chaotic’ accessories.

Like my patterned reusable shopping bag?

Like the furry trapper hat, now the‘go-to headwear for off-duty modelsand New York cool girls’.

Them and Joseph Stalin. Perfect for Fashion Week – and invading Poland.

IJBOL*. Please say you like Labubus ?

La-who-whos?

You know… the furry little toys fromPop Mart we all have on our handbags.

Oh yes. The ones Sarah Vine rightly described as ‘Gremlins crossed with Cabbage Patch Kids. Only uglier, if you can imagine such a thing’.

Us Gen Zs don’t think so. Pop Mart’s profit rose 400 per cent this year through Labubu sales, with Business Of Fashion calling them ‘perfectly ugly-cute’.

They got the ugly bit right. Looks like something you’d find under a bridge demanding a riddle.

Given Rihanna, Lisa and Lizzo have them, I’m gonna ignore your negative vibes.

As you wish. But the furry trolls get a labu-bye from me.

Well, if you want a sophisticated 2025 fashion trend, what about ‘office siren’?

Dressing as a fire alarm?

No, the hot kind of siren. The trend-tracking website Hyphen said 2025 has been all about ‘corporate looks with a sexy twist’.

The closest I got to being an ‘office siren’ was when my blouse’s second button popped off.

Now it’s all about skinny glasses, loafers, knee-high socks, miniskirts and grey and brown. Haven’t you seen the Prada and Miu Miu collections?

Knee-high socks and miniskirts? No wonder unemployment’s on the up. You’ve all been booted out by HR.

There must be one 2025 style you’ve liked. Sheer skirts?

Call me old-fashioned, but opacity is one of my basic requirements for a garment.

Fine. How about midi dresses over jeans?

Ridiculous! All the layers would make me look frumpy. Plus, it’s a nightmare pulling them all up and down when you need to spend a penny.

Wait, I’ve got it.

Go on…

Brown knitwear!

Huh? I’ve been wearing that since 1974.

And now you’re finally in fashion.Who What Wearsays mocha brown is the ‘most elegant winter shade’.

I’m finally vindicated. And it nicely summarises all your 2025 fads, too.

Let me guess… a latte nonsense?

A mocha-ry of fashion.

*FR = For real.

*IJBOL = I just burst out laughing.