in/out 2025

100% accurate

hello check out my in/out 2025 trend predictions for this year ahead. Feel free to fight about this list with your friends over coffee at a diner.

in:

• star quality podcast + newsletter :-*

• check the materials before buying clothes / no more cheap fabric!!!!

• audio-only formats

• physical media (DVDs, books)

• butter

• warehouse raves + early 90s rave culture

• shabby chic

• fairies, elves, gnomes

• sepia tone

• care bears + my little pony

• off-season travel

• cheap beer

• monroe piercing (piercings in general)

• aviator sunglasses

• twee (like first term obama era)

• pet bunnies, pigs, geckos “alt pets” lol

• shrugs (the clothing)

• academia/nerdy aesthetic

• social exercise classes (rockclimbing, zumba, water aerobics)

• grunge is back

• messy buns

• loch ness monster (new sightings, tv specials, movies)

• bell sleeves

• perms

• phone calls

• patchwork pants + crunchy hippie reboot

• dumplings (the food)

• hair charms

• penny lane coats

• colors: lavender, orange, moss green

• dissolving filler (not my stance, just what we’ll see)

• natural + no-paint nails

• fishnets

• politically forward rock ~ a la bikini kill, rage against the machine

• offline celebrity era

• chokers + ribbon necklaces

• magazines

• apartment swapping

• partiful app boom (second coming of facebook events)

• frozen yogurt revival

• blind dates

• lockets

• braided hair crown

• skillshare workshops (sewing, electronic repair)

• “free luigi” shirts a la “free winona” / OJ Simpson trial level obsession when it kicks off + insatiable fandom

• no-show socks

• “old school” spiritual boom: buddhism, kabbalah, taoism

• fiber is the new protein

• “being a regular” at your fav bar, coffee shop, etc

• all-inclusive vacations

• composting

• new popular cult will hit the scene

• indie + acoustic rock

• blazers / business-y looking jackets

• sake bars are the new wine bars

• DIY kitchen staples (making own yogurt, hummus, etc)

• performance art

• oversized sunglasses

• drugstore makeup

• heat-sensitive technology + fashion

• faceless social media accounts

• buy nothing groups

• inflatable furniture / blow-up chairs

• classic flip flops

• budget hotels/motels (holiday inn, best western)

• x-games (skateboarding, BMX)

• webseries (can’t believe i’m saying this lol)

• using products down to the last drop ~ no waste

• black bean burgers + vegetarian food renaissance

• popping off

• local groups and clubs, actually building community + ritual

• prediction: hunter biden on the surreal life or dancing with the stars (prob just a best selling book, wah)

out:

• blaming your natal chart

• “dress like your ___” anything videos / following other people’s style templates vs creating your own

• overly cutesy designed expensive pantry items (recession realness)

• coquette

• lipliner

• Instagram

• man-on-the-street interviews

• leather trench + bob haircut combo

• celebrity brands (makeup, perfume, etc)

• overpriced subscriptions (the era of streaming-cord-cutting)

• literally TV / RIP good TV can’t wait for your comeback

• “vibey” restaurants with bad food

• eyelash extensions

• therapy-talk

• hard seltzers

• mindless spending

• vhs camcorder aesthetic (overdone)

• quiet luxury

• baggy jeans

• bubble hems

• ordering mocktails (just get a coke or diet coke or soda water with lemon no more $ on that shit!!!)

• slick hair

• camo / cosplaying as blue-collar

• the following: “being trash, goblin, bedrotting, such a mess” cuz a real messy bitch would never say this? they would just be it idk!!

• ballet flats/ballet anything

• being a neutral ass coward! take a stance, damn

• tiny little stick-and-poke tattoos

• beige/stone/earth tone colors

• thin / bleached eyebrows

• “hauls”

• over-processed “health food alternatives”

• big thick headbands

• “doing it for the plot” lol be a human, my guy

Disclaimer: if you like stuff on the out list it’s ok, dude. [but don’t say I didn’t call it once you realize]