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I didn't even realize young people had money for clothes. Like there is one specific fashionable guy i see when i'm out shopping and he's more or less the only person I see anywhere who isn't dressed shlubby or like a circa 2012 Colombuia outdoor wear catalogue. Part of that is living in the mathematically furthest point from art, culture, and and the pulse of the new though.
i used to like the california shabby-chic style from the mid 2000's most because it was cheap but also because of the sprezzatura nature of it was natural for me due to being a life long lazy dresser and not caring about fashion and you're right about this kind of ethos being far away from art, culture, and new thought.
i'm an engineer without a single artistic bone in my body; but i'm been surrounded all my life by artistic & politically active people (mostly through blood) and; since they're an overwhelming majority of the people i care about in my life; i've learned to let their outsized influence be the biggest source of new forms of art, culture and new thought to enter my life.
i still have my own sources for those things; but they're all grey beards like me and the stuff coming from gens z & alpha is usually much more fun. lol