I remember the first trend I hopped on. I was in my first year of middle school, I was eleven or twelve years old and the 90’s stretchy chokers were suddenly coming back into style. So I skipped down over to my local Claire’s and bought a whole pack of them.
Since then, I’ve been through middle and high school fashion trends. I’ve even got a taste of college fashion trends.
Picking clothing to match the new trends is simple. Just go on shein, romwe, zaful, or any other fast fashion website that definitely is sus and might steal your personal information and buy the whole website.
You can’t mess up being trendy by buying the most trendy accent pieces on the front page of the website. I would know from my personal fashion career AKA one semester of high school beginner sewing & fashion class. Accent pieces are clothing with pattern or bold style to add to the fit. Basics are. . . basic. Don’t worry about those, no one trendy does.
The last thing you want is to look like a walking trend. Instead, you want to look trendy.
You want to be a trendsetter or the person that makes and sets trends. And to do so you have to follow trends so you don’t look basic.
Once you fill your cart with enough items to single handedly and inevitably contribute to its own landfill in a foreign country, you’re set! No need to worry about the fact that you’ll probably shove at least half of it to the back of your closet. You’ll get attention at school for about a month before it's considered out of date and get made fun of for it. Then you’ll get to repeat the process.
Now I know fast fashion is bad for the environment, but hear me out you end up throwing away your old clothes eventually, so might as well make them cute and trendy. Your carbon footprint might hate you for it, but your digital one won’t. At least your instagram will make you look cool for your 200 followers that you need to impress.
Now you just hope your clothes made probably from children in sweatshops in foreign countries come in before the current trend dies, and you inevitably have to make another order for the next fad. Not only will you support fast fashion this way, but also mass production, the rich, and support businesses with awful working conditions and child slave labor all in one!
Now I’ve never been called trendy or had a separate instagram as fashion account, but the spam in my direct messages from sus accounts asking me to rep their clothes begs to differ.
Once you receive your package, try on everything and realize how f*cked the size charts are on your non-returnable items. And now you can make the choice of whether or not to wash them first and risk getting bed bugs in the process.
Congratulations fashionista! Now your next problem is figuring out when the trend suddenly becomes tacky and you look like a bum.