Fashion + Trends I'm Loving Right Now! | What's Trending In My World for Fall/Winter 2023

OMG THE LITTLE HAMTARO ON THE MIC ><

I can see why sportswear wouldn't buzz you as being associated with "classy" but for me it definitely does-- it's what the yalee wears where he's drinking brewskis with the other future supreme court justices. Also college sports are a big part of how elite institutions favor the ultrawealthy for college admission. Weird right? Aside from football and basketball, sports recruits at elite schools are substantially wealthier on average than other admitted students. So I feel like it's still sort of a class signifier. That said... ugh it still hits a cord with me, it's still so fun looking.

Those big scarfs and shawls remind me of rebozos! It’s a Mexican garment traditionally worn by women. I wonder if that’s where the designers are getting their influence.

Would love to hear your take on personal style vs trends! I made a video on it recently, though I discussed more the effect of trends on us, but would love to hear your thoughts! And yes, the sportier/cozier take on academia is way more practical for everyday wear and I utilize it a lot 💕

Love your style and your focus on second-hand clothing and rewearing our already-owned clothes! I personally like it when trends are more about a vibe (ex- collegiate) than specific items.
While I don't have a long plaid skirt, I do have a red plaid mini skirt (the most basic of red tartans) and I've always struggled to wear it because I'm afraid I will be read as "sexy schoolgirl" rather than "alt-fashion girlie" :| I'll try to lean into the preppy and see how it goes!

I have had a rugby shirt in my ebay cart for months...It was originally for my son but now I think I might need to add one for myself as well...

Thanks for the reminder to finally fix the ralph lauren rugby shirt that's been rotting in my to mend pile since 2020

Hi😊 I'm new here. Just wanted to pop up to say apart of your entertaining fashion commentary and styling yourself to the discussing feature accordingly i REALLY appreciate your inclusivity in example pictures. It is not that easy to curate your feed to see representation of various human bodies and cultures. And i'm really thankful to creators like you who take time to find pictures to represent whole spectrum of us.

I live in Wisconsin too😎 Thanks for representing ❤️

love.. very Very cute

Loved this! Knitters will be celebrating the shawls & big scarves!

Great breakdown! I feel like the scarf speaks to me the most. I strive to be lenny Kravitz blanket/scarf levels of cozy 😂

The ‘camera bag’ trend you mention has been super popular for about 1,5 years in the Netherlands/Western Europe! Soooo…. You are not imagining the trend, I think it’s coming your way! ;)

I love your channel definitely help keep fashion fun in a post Covid, returning to corporate utilitarian world

Wait yes please!! A video about the intersection of personal style and trends!

'Personal style' is soooo influenced by what is popular, whether intended or not. Anyone with interesting personal style in a certain era still looked like they were in that era. David Bowie, grace jones, Cyndi Lauper, Joan Jett are good 80s examples. Not shortage of others in other eras too. Any other examples you all can think of? @beepworld, maybe we need a fashion history vid!?

It's also reliant on what you have access to
- Obvi cost and availability but also region (fashion trends vary across the globe and the next block over)
- If you're buying new, you're limited to buying basically only what's "trendy" (unless you shop individual creators)
- If you buy secondhand, you have slightly more selection because you can shop the trends of the last several decades.

Even secondhand is getting harder because clothing has declined in quality so much. Less and less of the previous decade's trends even make it to the thrift store. The high volume of newer, cheaply made items crowd the store and it's getting rarer to find higher quality pieces.
Let's trade instead!

Ooh, I did get all excited when I saw plaid skirts on the trend lists, just since I've got two waiting in the wings for their moment to shine. I don't know about the strap thing being a trend either, but we're certainly on the same wavelength- I actually replaced two of my bag straps for older bags I don't wear with with heftier ones last month. Playing around with scarves also seems like it'd be a lot of fun, so hoping I see lots of good inspo this year!

I love how the trends here have so much overlap and can be combined so intuitively! They seem to build off each other in a sense I rarely get from other trend lists, bravo! Also this past weekend I made a massive scarf/shawl thing out of a thrifted wool throw blanket with big orange flowers on it and I'm obsessed with it! It had tons of pilling, but I brushed out the texture with a clothes brush, making the wool super soft and fluffy! And it's cut on the corner so it looks like a shawl with the triangle of the corner in the back or on the side, but then it wraps, ties, and styles like a big fuzzy scarf. I feel like it hits this perfect sweet spot of wearable, practical, cozy, yet also trendy, statement-y and pretty!

So funny when I heard the cars I said “oh I experience the same all the time🙄” & then I see that you live in DC too 🤭😂

I’d be super interested in a video on trends vs personal style. I’ve always thought of trends as primarily the province of the young (not in a derogatory way, more like a life phase way?). I don’t buy clothes very often, but I also know that as I get older I wear the clothes I own differently because I’m feeling it’s more and more important to look “put together.” Would be super interested to hear your thoughts!

Thanks for adding more diverse bodies and people to your references!! I deeply appreciate creators that are inclusive!!!

I would llooove a personal style v fashion trends video

Bro why am I just finding your channel now! You’re so cool! I wanna be your friend so bad!!

My mom used to wear a big pashmina drapped over her shoulders over top of her winter dress coat. The coat was deep navy and the scarf was full of virbrant jewel tones and had a tassle edge. It was so fabulous. It can be hard to dress up our outerwear in really cold climates but thats definitely one way.

I really appreciate that you include the diverse models in your visualization. Thanks for embracing the beauty of diversity

I was in my teen and 20s when preppy styles were popular in the 80s. It's great to see it is coming back but more with an edge. I also love the fair isle sweaters and I picked up a few at the thrift store recently. Re: the big scarves, the look reminds me of the pashminas that were popular in the 90s and 2000s, but I do have some ponchos that I had picked up at the thrift store last year

I can get behind the asymmetrical skirts, camera bag/strap, and drapey scarves. I love fur ponchos, by thr way. But the rest of those trends are not for me. I think we must have such different style types 😅😅😅

not your stack of books literaly being some of my fav ones if read this year

The saying that all trends eventually come back around is very true. Many of the “new” styles, colors, trends are re-runs with a twist: being seen through the eyes of the latest generation. I have many of the styles in this video from the last go round, and had kept them because they were “me” (still are). I think the key to keeping “old” fashion items fresh is the willingness to add, subtract or modify within whatever is current. Also as you have stated, being honest with yourself if it’s something you truly like and will wear more than a season or just that you’ve been overexposed to it in social media.

I’m happy pleated skirts are coming back! I have always loved them and now maybe I can find some!

I live in Norway and it's so funny to see fair isle as a "trend" 😅

At this moment, I'm just wearing my father's clothes 👍

I love how you style yourself with the items/trends that you're talking about!!!

I love a trend that's just a specific color combo or ratio, especially since usually you can accomplish it with stuff that's already in your closet or getting one new piece from a thrift store, and it's really accommodating to different body shapes dress styles

Please please pleaseeee make a personal style vs trends

arent rugby shirts just long sleeved polo shirts? i am confused by the difference

the first bag in the camera bag trends is done by polish designer Chylak and it was so so so popular in Warsaw around 3 years ago I think it's done for now 😂

i always learn new words with your videos, this time it was collegiate 🥲
the "as usual I'm realizing I've never had an original thought in my life" is cracking me up
ps: I've never experimented with drapey scarves but they look great on you!

you’re so art teacher/librarian and i love it

Thank you

I love the different reference photos and different bodies represented in your videos❤ where do you get them?? I look at Pinterest but it's not as diverse 😢

I’m a little late to commenting on this video but I think it’s so funny that you mention being subtly influenced and participating in trends without knowing. About a year ago, I realized instagram and tik tok were making me really depressed and so I deleted them. I was also excited to see how my sense of personal style could evolve without consuming so much fashion and trend related content! And I’ve been having so much fun with it and feeling really able to flex my own creativity. But then I watched this video and pretty much every single trend you listed (blokecore, giant scarves, collegiate vibes) are EXACTLY what I’ve been wearing it literally flabbergasted me. I guess even without directly consuming trend content I’m still being influenced 😅 or maybe we just have similar fashion sense! Anyway, love the vid and happy to keep following along!

I'm so glad I found your channel! Its so hard to find fashion you-tubers that I resonate with or am interested in long term. Your videos are so well made and inciting!

You sometimes mention "influenced by" as it may have a slight negative connotation. I prefer "inspired by" which you also say. It's not like everything that is pushed through social is going to be your taste but some things just are good and you can't help it.

As a kid in the 90s - I loved wearing cargo pants, leggings, skorts and chunky tennis shoes. I remember this teal plaid skort that my mom made me - it had a wrap front. I would wear it today if I had it

Collegiate like your 4th year at hogwarts

That rugby shirt was every Abercrombie and fitch and American eagle shirt in 2002 it was just called a polo back then lmao

Dang, as a child I was really into my school uniform, plaid, white socks, moccasins ☺️ but now as an old lady, I feel silly if I wear anything that resembles a uniform. 😅