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Whenever jeans trends evolve, people tend to freak out. Vox reader Stephanie asks: I will grant you that at 43, I am old. However, I am scratching my head about why fashion that I have seen already in my lifetime is recycling itself? Mom jeans were bad the first time — why are we doing it again when they look good on literally no one? The ’90s are bad but worse this time? Have we lost creativity in fashion? This didn’t seem to happen before, but then again, maybe I’m wrong … It’s a truth universally acknowledged that kids rediscovering the fashions of your youth will always be bizarre and inexplicably kind of annoying.  My personal nightmare manifested around 2018 in the form of ’90s-style tiny sunglasses (and later, eyeglasses), after what felt like a solid two decades of the wayfarers and oversized frames that suited my very round face. But guess what kind of sunglasses I wear now? So you’re not wrong that it’s weird — but new, it is not. Conventional wisdom holds that trends tend to be recycled every 20 years, because that’s how long it takes for a new generation to come of age and rediscover the aesthetics and style that were popular when they were too young to enjoy them.  To truly understand why mom jeans have returned, however, you’ve got to grasp a fundamental truth about fashion that has existed for nearly a century, as well as some context about the way the industry — and our own modes of attention — work now.   Are trends moving at hyperspeed?  There’s been a lot of internet discourse in recent years that the trend cycle is speeding up because of the way social media regurgitates trends in ever-shortening time spans: At the beginning of the pandemic, for instance, kids on the internet were expressing their nostalgia for the year 2014, a mere six years before.  Sign up for the Explain It to Me newsletter The newsletter is part of Vox’s Explain It to Me. Each week, we tackle a question from our audience and deliver a digestible explainer from one of our journalists. Have a question you want us to answer? Ask us here. Part of why it feels this way is because everything is trendy online now, and therefore nothing is. You could choose a random fashion item from any point in the last 50 years and you’ll find a community of people on the internet who still love it. An incomplete list of things I was certain would never return but somehow have: mullets, kitten heels, thongs sticking out of jeans, ’80s blush.  View this post on Instagram A post shared by I AM GIA (@iamgia) But we’re also seeing the 20-year cycle play out right on schedule in the form of relentless Y2K-inspired trends in fashion, beauty, and music, as well as those very ’90s mom jeans you’re referring to. Those actually started gaining steam around 2016, reaching their peak Google search interest in 2021.  Does that mean that fashion is undergoing a crisis of creativity? Maybe — but I think there’s also something more interesting going on.  As has been the pattern in countless other industries, corporate consolidation and cost cutting are driving fashion brands to produce cheaply (read: unethically) made clothing that caters to algorithms and sales data. Your clothes are, in fact, worse now.  At the same time, consumers are pushing back on poor quality and unimaginative fast fashion by thrifting, which has never been more popular. In addition to being a really fun way to spend an afternoon, scouring racks of vintage allows shoppers to think more sustainably about where their stuff comes from, while also injecting a bit of that much-needed individuality into fashion. Right now, one of the biggest fashion trends on TikTok is all about finding your personal style, which reflects a widespread interest in opting out of the viral fad hamster wheel.  One piece of fashion writing that I think might help you understand is the sociologist Angela McRobbie’s 1989 work on how the rise of the secondhand market after World War II completely changed the way cool young people have dressed ever since.  Basically, in the ’50s and ’60s, kids began flocking to “ragmarkets” and fleas, repurposing items everybody else thought were outdated: army coats, old-fashioned furs, petticoats, items made of higher-quality fabrics than the ones being sold at department stores of the time (the more things change!). Thrifting created the hippie look, with its peasant-style blouses and bohemian draping, borrowed from items from the 1940s but styled them in a way that evoked the present. Why do “ugly” clothes have such enduring appeal? Not only have kids been repurposing past fashions for generations — they’re also specifically drawn to items that mainstream tastes find ugly or unflattering.  McRobbie references two women in the 1970s who popularized arty, androgynous dressing but in very different ways: Patti Smith, who appeared malnourished and unkempt in leather jackets and T-shirts, and Diane Keaton as the “frumpy” Annie Hall. Both wore clothing typically associated with men, but neither, she argues, “conferred true androgyny.” In both cases, part of the purpose of the masculine silhouette was to accentuate just how much of an unmistakably female form lied underneath.  The same can be said for mom jeans, which, of course, only read as matronly if the wearer possesses what is considered to be a “mom bod.” Because beneath all fashion trends is a deeply unsatisfying truth: When young, hot people start wearing something, it makes the rest of us believe that the item itself is magic.  But really, that’s just the magic of being hot.  Bella Hadid, for instance, can wear jorts and a tank top and people will call her a fashion icon because even regular clothes look extremely sexy on her. When enough people try to recreate that look in the hopes it’ll confer hotness, it just becomes what everyone’s wearing.  Which means that if I had to guess, at some point in the next few years, you might find yourself buying what your current self would consider to be mom jeans. But by that point, of course, they’ll just read as “jeans” to you.  That’s kind of lovely, I think! It shows us that fashion, and by extension culture, is constantly challenging our notions of what’s acceptable, and the things we find beautiful and pleasurable are entirely subjective.  You don’t have to like mom jeans, just as all of us are free to ignore what all the cool young people are doing and dress however we want. But just because you’re “old” (you’re not!) doesn’t mean your style preferences have to remain the same for the rest of your life. Sometimes, rediscovering the clothing items you never thought you’d see again is exactly the novelty a wardrobe needs.  This story was featured in the Explain It to Me newsletter. Sign up here. For more from Explain It to Me, check out the podcast. New episodes drop every Wednesday.

After LeBron James finally lived his dream of sharing the NBA court with his son Bronny, he called it a "moment I'm never going to forget."

President Biden echoed one of former President Trump's famous phrases by calling to politically "lock him up," a statement that quickly went viral across social media.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk onstage as he joins former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a campaign rally at the site of his first assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, on October 5, 2024. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images I write a newsletter called On The Right, which covers the often-complicated and compelling political ideas driving the modern conservative movement. This week, I thought it’d be important to cover Elon Musk — a man who is single-handedly bankrolling much of Trump’s ground game. What are the ideas that drive an engineering titan to make such a sharp turn into politics? But reporting on Musk’s worldview led me to a perhaps surprising conclusion: His politics are boring.  His social politics are taken straight from the X replies he frequents — a specific type of edgelord bigotry that drifts frequently into debunked conspiracy theories. His economic views are even less interesting — the same tired hostility toward taxation and regulation that you hear from most people of his economic strata. For someone who has done such innovative work on cars and rocket ships, his politics could scarcely be more conventional. Yet for all their boringness, I realized Musk’s ideas were worth writing about anyway. This is true, in part, because of his sheer financial investment — one that Trump himself estimates at roughly $500 million in total. The eye-popping sum together with stunts like the possibly illegal million-dollar-a-day raffle for registered swing state voters demand some scrutiny of the man behind it all. While Musk may not successfully buy the election, he has succeeded in purchasing our collective attention.  Perhaps more importantly, the unoriginality of Musk’s politics is revealing in itself. In Musk, we see Trumpism as it truly is: not a war between populists and small-government types, but a marriage of them. In the conventional picture of the modern GOP, the Trumpian culture warriors are described as “populists” comfortable with big government who are being held back by their super-rich allies. The super-rich, in turn, are described as cultural libertines who put up with the race-baiting and xenophobia to get their tax cuts. Yet this picture is misleading, capturing only part of the dynamic. And no one shows why more clearly than Elon Musk. He is a gullible conspiracy theorist chummy with white nationalists, true; but he is also a plutocrat who believes that the greatest kind of freedom is letting big corporations do whatever they want. In this, he exposes the flaw in the popular analysis that the new GOP is beset by a fundamental contradiction between populists and elites when, in fact, the priorities of the culture warriors and the wealthy are often one and the same. Elon Musk, conventional thinker Elon Musk’s town hall in Pittsburgh this Sunday — which began with about 30 minutes of Musk free-associating on politics followed by an hour and a half of questions — provided one of the most unvarnished looks yet into his political worldview. In front of a friendly audience, with all the time in the world, Musk was free to say whatever he wanted. He sounded exactly like the person he is on X. When warning about the risks of a Harris presidency, for example, Musk dismisses the vice president as an irrelevancy. “There’s almost no point in attacking Kamala personally because she’s just a puppet of the Dem machine,” he says. Many of his fears about this machine’s agenda — like “wide-open borders” and “freedom of speech taken away” — are classic Trump-right themes. But his crowning fear, the one that he says pushed him into investing so heavily in the Trump campaign, is that the Democrats are importing “illegals” to replace native-born American voters. “There’s a massive increase in the number of illegals being put in swing states,” Musk said. “The goal will then be, over the next four years, to legalize all of those illegals. … Every swing state will be blue. America will be a one-party state forever, just like California. And that will be a nightmare — democracy gone. That’s what I think will happen with a Kamala presidency.” This, as my colleague Li Zhou explains, is top-to-bottom nonsense.  Musk’s claim that the undocumented population in swing states is surging, sourced to unspecified “government data,” appears false: Data from both Homeland Security and the Pew Research Center debunks Musk’s claim of a Biden-era surge in undocumented immigrants to swing states. (In a few swing states, undocumented populations have shrunk, whereas in others, they’ve increased slightly or been stagnant.) Migrants aren’t being “put” in those states by anyone, let alone Democrats; that’s not how undocumented migration works. Nor is there any evidence that Harris has a viable plan to grant them all citizenship in four years or proof that they’d all vote for Democrats forever once given the franchise. Really, what Musk is doing is taking a hoary old white nationalist trope — the “Great Replacement” mainstreamed by X’s most prominent talk show host, Tucker Carlson — and reiterating it with dubious swing-state demographic data. More or less what you’d expect from the guy who once told an X user ranting about Jews that “you have said the actual truth.” Musk had one other big policy theme throughout the town hall: deregulation. Again and again, he returned to his fervent desire to shrink government so that private industry can work its alleged magic — employing tired anti-government rhetoric that could have been cribbed from any national Republican campaign since Ronald Reagan. “The larger government gets, the less individual freedom you have,” Musk said. “They’re currently making new agencies at a rate of two per year, and every one of them is chipping away at your freedom. It’s essential for us to unwind that process and restore your personal freedom — and with that will come great prosperity and personal happiness.” One might note the irony of a man whose companies benefit immensely from subsidies and government contracts proposing to starve the beast. But Musk, for his part, seems unconcerned. The perfect Trumpist “Rich guy supports Republicans to eliminate regulations and increase profits” is a tale as old as time. But what’s interesting about Musk is that he pairs it with an almost naïve faith in the rankest culture war conspiracies: the sorts of thing that the ultra-wealthy aren’t *supposed* to believe. Theoretically, the Republican Party is torn between its “populist” and “establishment” wings. The populists are culture warriors who take a more government-friendly line on the economy; the establishment are elite cultural squishes and free market dogmatists. Yet this stylized description has never really captured the reality on the ground. Trump, the populist-in-chief, is a billionaire whose sole first-term legislative accomplishment was a tax cut for the wealthy. And many of the party’s big-money elite — including Musk, Rebekah Mercer, and Bill Ackman — are all-in on the culture war. In emerging as Trump’s leading surrogate, Elon helps bring this reality to the fore. His unoriginality, cribbing equally from X trolls and hoary anti-government cliches, shows us what the true priorities of a second Trump term might be. Not the faux-populism of JD Vance and staged McDonald’s shifts, but the co-equal prioritization of culture and class war — both waged on the wealthy’s behalf. This story was adapted from the On the Right newsletter. New editions drop every Wednesday. Sign up here.

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