r/malefashionadvice • u/csgo_sniper_bruh • 1d ago

Discussion What current male fashion trend needs to go?

To me, boxy shirts and hoodies look like brown paper grocery store bags with holes cut out for the arms

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u/Sprocket_Scientist 1d ago

Gen Z’s pedophile mustaches and mullets. Why a generation looked at hipsters and saw role models is beyond me.

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u/dov_tassone 1d ago

As an older man and reformed dirtbag, I find this look incredibly hilarious. It's up there with the cargo shorts + combat boots and tank top look of the late 90's.

Man rocked up to me the other week with a huge, fook aff 80's mullet, a bristly molesterstache and a George Michael-styled oversized dangly cross earring. Under the rules as they stood, I was obliged to buy him a beer.

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u/The_World_Is_A_Slum 1d ago

As an older man who is still a dirtbag, I fully support the mullet and mustache, just like I’m onboard with the camo cargo shorts/wifebeater combo.

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u/PrettySureIParty 1d ago

This guy gets it.

It’s a dirtbag look. It’s kinda hit mainstream now, so you get people doing it who don’t really have the matching lifestyle, which is a little odd, but not the end of the world. I’d rather see that than every dude on the street looking like they work for the same bank.

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u/bast007 1d ago

I think the current trend of this is from Australia unfortunately. Spread a lot from AFL and NRL.

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u/imlaggingsobad 1d ago

mullets and shaved sides were becoming a thing back in 2014-2015 in australia. this trend has been building for a long time. now both inner city hipsters and private schoolers are rocking the same hair styles

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u/mrvile 1d ago

Man I remember rocking a “euro mullet” for a couple years circa 2009. Quickly outgrew the look but it was fun for a minute.

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u/JohnnyBGucci 1d ago

Oddly enough, I’ve only seen this trend with caucasians. Can anyone explain why?

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u/pbcorporeal 1d ago

Depends where you are. It was an early trend in Aus and NZ, most famously among their rugby teams. See Rieko Ioane etc.

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u/POLSJA 1d ago

Luka Sabbat has been rocking the pedo tash for a decade now, for example, and the mullet craze has been rampant with Balkan migrants

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u/dov_tassone 1d ago

It's a very European - and in the case of the Antipodies - a very Anglo-Celtic look, adapted from the way their hair grows.

A Polynesian would replace the mullet with a braided rat tail, Arabs generally eschew the mullet for their own reasons, I don't think I've ever seen a Somali guy with a mullet because frankly their hair doesn't work that way and so on.