This post will show you the outdated fashion trends in 2021, and what you should be wearing instead.

2020 was straight out of a Black Mirror episode.

A pandemic spread across the world, privileged people finally realized our continuous perpetuation of systemic racism, wildfires destroyed the habitats of millions of people and animals, just to name a few of the seven plagues.

And 2021 seems to be the sequel no one asked for, but I guess we’re watching because well, we saw the first one, right? And yet the costume design of this franchise is Oscar-worthy.

From psychedelic era tie dye to ’90s, well, ‘90s everything, 2020 was worthy of an Oscar nod for best Costume Design for, well, period clothing, I guess. Fashion realized it doesn’t have to be strutting down the red carpet to be exhilarating and cathartic. It can be sitting on the couch eating Cheetos in a rib knit sweatsuit. 

But just like many of the events from 2020, there are a lot of clothing trends that deserve to be put in a box in your basement to be reused in 30 years when your teenage daughter wants to dress in 2020 nostalgia.

And look, I loved many of these trends, but I think we all loved them so much, we might need a break from each other.

You know what they say: Distance makes the heart grow fonder.

And in other cases, I loved those trends on supermodels. I mean at the end of the day Naomi Campbell could wear a sack and we would all call it the biggest trend of 2021, but I still wouldn’t wear it because I’m not Naomi Campbell. And some of the trends were just no.

So here are the top outdated fashion trends to ditch in 2021, and what you should wear instead.

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Ripped Jeans

As I gathered my ripped jeans at the end of 2020, I didn’t know where to put them, not in the sense of should I donate or sell, more in the sense of I don’t have room to store this many pants.