Fashion-y phrases

Phrases that are used time and time again that bug the hell out of you…
- rocking the insert deet trend
- boho chic
- band on trend (aaaarghh thats the worst!)
It starting to put me off reading magazines completely!
I’m an incredibly stubborn person and if something annoys me too much, I avold it altogether. Heck, if too many people recommend a movie/tv show, I refuse to watch it!!
I wouldn’t say that I’m a slave to trends or seasons, but reading these constantly, even in the likes of Elle, puts me off buying anything remotely related to that trend.
Any other ones I’m missing?? I could go grab some mags out of my wardrobe because there are a million more on the tip of my tongue but won’t translate onto my keyboard. However, its late and I’ll just end up winding myself up :)

I know what you mean about the cliched magazine phrases.
one thing I got sick of hearing at work was old women looking at clothes that are vintage-inspired and them saying “the old styles are all coming back in now, aren’t they?”. grr. yes, fashion repeats itself. get over it.

I REALLY dislike it when people say the trend is “ethnic” or “tribal.” I can not be the only one who finds this offensive…can I? I mean those terms are just so…inflammatory.

oh, oh, when they call people “fashion gurus”....they call everyone that! I also think it is silly when one magazine calls someone’s oufit very chic and amazing while a different magazine calls the same outfit a “fashion don’t” and awful and so on…

Perhaps you should try different magazines; the write ups in any of the Visionaire-run books are always nice. Other ideas: Wallpaper*, Surface, i-D, Purple Fashion, The Journal, Flaunt.

YES on the tribal bs! just seems wrong.
i dislike the term ‘fashionista’ – what. exactly. does that mean?
and i may be biased here, but it really grates me when people describe everything as “retro”, or a look as “vintage-y”, usually by people who describe any vintage item as being “so 80’s!”. It’s amazing how many people who work in fashion, and write for those magazines who don’t even have a general idea of a measly 100 years of fashion history. The term “vintage” is a loose enough term already.

haha. funny. for english i had to read this short on a book by Leslie Savan Slam Dunks and No Braineres: Language in Your Life the Media, Business, Politics and Like, Whatever and it was talking about fashion phrases like “that was so five minutes ago”
@ foxhuntvintage: i hate when those teenyboppin, decked out in A&F and HCO girls say that their clothes are “vintage”. it disgusts me.

groan! i loathe those “distressed” tees and jeans. it’s pretty funny, cause most people i’ve met who wear stuff like that barf at the thought of actually wearing anything secondhand.
hooray for dumb catchphrases!

I’m shocked no one mentioned one of the most obvious cliches: <blank> is the new <blank>. Another one that always make me cringe is glam, or just about any sort of abbreviation, for that matter – fab, fug, of course boho, etc. Also fierce is pretty played out.

Ooooh, I loathe “<blank> is the new <blank>” That one is really terrible.

I second the eurocentric use of the words “tribal” and “ethnic”- b/c wtf does that mean? Aren’t we all ethnic (meaning, we all have an ethnicity?!) Dumb. I used to work at a fashion mag, and I don’t think people realize that most of the staff don’t have design or fashion backgrounds, and you’ll be surprised what crap makes it into print- esp if it’s marketing write-ups. One marketing person used the word “grunge” to describe something, not even knowing that grunge was so ‘90s. Her words “Oh, I thought grunge was in the 80s.” Ugh.

lol, i hate “ethnic” too, and oriental, just say ASIAN!
i hate when people say “thats fresh” or “thats clean” when they see an outfit they like. but them again the people who say those phrases wear super matchy neon colors with their plastic jewlery(which is basically the ghetto hip hop scene)
also i agree with foxhuntvintage i hate their A&F distressed jeans, why pay for holes? make yer own!

cant go wrong with “thats Bitcheennnn” lol, its my phrase anyways.
oh the infamous “Thats Hot” which ironically is something i somehow managed to pick up and cant shake off. believe me, i am trying.
but then again, a valley girl like me cant shake off that kinda shit. i blame my best friend for tainting me with her valley girlie-ness!

A&F wearing 13 yr old grazing through A&F items: OMGGGG! SWEETIEEEE! THAT’S LIKE… SO LIKE VINTAGEEEE!
oh, i tend to yell out “stylin” a lot. :|

I personally hate ‘bang on trend’ and ‘fashionista’.

‘bang on trend’ really annoys me, it’s in just about every magazine going.

i just say ” damn bitch, you look fierce”

I hate it when I’m in a shop looking at something, and the owner comes over and says something unnecessary like “that colour is so hot this season.”
no, really?
hmm… and “maven” is a word I would like to see less of.

i don’t like the word vintage at all.. i cringe whenever i have to say it and just wind up saying “old”.

yea the whole ethnic thing.. wtf does that even mean???
and i agree with JLo. i really dont read magazines that much either.i just really hate it when ppl use/buy/rock something because they saw it in the latest issue of w/e magazine!

“Fierce” – I totally blame Tyra Banks.
“Workin’ it” – what work are they doing exactly?

lol a very good list
so over boho
sounds bad, looks even worse

in a ‘vintage’ shop the other day, where the only other customers were actually ‘vintage’ (read-elderly)
i wonder what they actually think of us wearing all their old clothes?

Boho chic is such a bad phrase

And is anyone else over “so hot right now”?

I actually like “fabu” because the Warner Bros said it, specifically Wakko, and I just love him to pieces. But at term I really don’t like is “fabuloscity”. I wanna hurt Ms. Kimora Lee for even letting that escape her lips because I knew some poor soul was going to repeat it…some where. Oh and saying someone/thing needs an “upgrade”. I don’t like that so much either. I’ll have to write Ms. B. Knowles personally for that one.

Frenchieee:" i hate when those teenyboppin, decked out in A&F and HCO girls say that their clothes are “vintage”. it disgusts me."

And those girls wouldn’t even step foot inside a store that sells real vintage clothing.
Way to know the definition of a word before using it.