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Which year: guess which year each photo was taken

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712 points trymas | 2 comments | 17 Apr 25 10:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.419s | source
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TrackerFF ◴[20 Apr 25 08:35 UTC] No.43742422[source]▶
One interesting observation is how much less variation there has been in clothes for the past 20 years or so. Someone from 2005 could look completely undisguisable from someone today, by just wearing regular non-fashion forward 2005 clothes. Same goes for haircuts.

Same can't really said about someone from 1955 and 1975, 1980 - 2000, etc.

edit: Score 4695 Avg. Years Off 3.0

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jillesvangurp ◴[20 Apr 25 09:57 UTC] No.43742760[source]▶
It's an interesting phenomenon that you can observe with other things as well like tastes in music. I think it has something to do with people having access to about sixty years of people trying out just about everything they could think off. It's all been done before at this point and it's all available in new and fresh forms. So, it's no longer about collectively picking something that is genuinely new but individuals cherry-picking whatever that they like. And it helps of course that we're not funneling media through a handful of TV channels, newspapers, etc. anymore like we used to. So people cherry pick where they get their information as well.
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1. conception ◴[20 Apr 25 12:45 UTC] No.43743433[source]▶
Probably more that’s it’s much easier to market and sell something that’s been done before than come up with something new. Also our supply chains are highly specialized for the stuff we currently make. In 3-5 years we will see bell shaped pants back again as we go from 90’s repeats to 00’s repeats which were 70’s repeats. Etc etc.
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2. HelloMcFly ◴[20 Apr 25 13:42 UTC] No.43743716[source]▶
Perhaps another less depressing reason is the intersection of two things:

1) For all its negatives, online culture makes it easier to find and acknowledge different groups with different tastes that share yours, you're not as subject to having to "fit in" just with those near you. Maybe another way to say it is that fewer things are "weird" because it's easy to find others doing something similar

2) The availability of styles is not quite as bottlenecked into a limited number of taste-makers like it used to be.