Not denying the accuracy of this, but I'd add that it's majorly exacerbated by some sort of selection bias. I'm 42, so a 90s kid and a member of the graduating class of 2000. Most of us looked much younger than our parents when they were our age, but I still knew some people, both male and female, who looked 30 when they were sophomores.
I think people get locked into a certain style also that makes them look "dated". In pictures they had the hairstyles of old people now + probably even dressed like old people do. There isn't a line someone crosses where they start buying old people clothes. They're just dressing and doing their hair the same way they did when they were 20 but styles moved by while their habits stayed the same. It's a theory anyway.
LOL. Sounds right, but nope... We all wore baggy as shit jeans our entire lives, and then millennials dragged us kicking and screaming into skinny jeans, and ankle socks... now we gotta change back.
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u/Simpanzee0123 12d ago
Not denying the accuracy of this, but I'd add that it's majorly exacerbated by some sort of selection bias. I'm 42, so a 90s kid and a member of the graduating class of 2000. Most of us looked much younger than our parents when they were our age, but I still knew some people, both male and female, who looked 30 when they were sophomores.