Parental Influence - Topic of the day 3/17/25
Do your parents have the parental drip? What have you learned from your parents on dressing? Are your styles similar? Share with us a fun story or heirloom you have with your family!
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My father was always on Chelsea Boots and I thought they were the coolest thing ever as a child and teen
Nowadays I wouldn't get one because they have a negative association where I live
My father is a quarter-zip wearer with absolutely zero drip.
I think i inherited a certain tendency for louder, slightly more whimsical clothing from my mom.
i'm inheriting the dad clothes vibes from my dad but i'm shoving all of his "look at me i have GUNS and i shoot GUNS and also i'm an AMERICAN" stuff down the drain
everything else i do is me and me alone, neither of my parents dress the way i do
My dad wears/wore a lot of cool vintage GORP stuff and my mum loves Viv and dressing like an 80s goth, so probably.
my mom has always been a big fashion girly, used to be that my wardrobe was mostly things she grew out of / got bored of but I've been accumulating a lot of stuff on my own too
I’m convinced the reason I don’t like new balances is because I can’t admit I was wrong for making fun of my dad wearing them growing up.
mom loves seeing me experiment with clothes and also loves seeing me dress skimpy unlike most other moms which i love
My dad also always had a lot of cowboy boots and I really enjoy helping him find new ones now.
I was put off of fashion for a long time because my mother tried to force her style on me too x.x
Me and mom ❤️
My dad always loved buying clothes for me when I was a child so I definitely got my interest in fashion from him
Nowadays the outfits he suggests make me look like a middle aged woman so our sense of style is pretty different💀
but I‘m sure my tilt towards more preppy/formal styles stems from his influence
I fought it for a long time but the redneck family camo bug finally caught up to me. My style is pretty radically different outside of that though
No
That leaf print is sick, really pops with the (seersucker?) fabric
Joining in, here‘s me and my dad
i basically got into fashion by borrowing my mom's clothes. we were nearly the same shoe size which helped a lot
i think i still have some of her stuff! a ck blazer and a coach backpack
she was the source of my flowy oversized shirts for a while bc that's her thing
lots of pieces that look like ann but she styles in a totally different way, so our outfits end up looking nothing like each other despite our closets being made up of a lot of the same things
I can't not say that my personal style has been influenced by rebellion against my parents. They have pretty negative views about fashion and self-expression.
I feel bad following up @sam s lovely mom anecdote with that though :monkaS:
My pops played in punk bands for ages but was also honestly a nice young man who liked to camp so I think that kinda sums up my two style modes tbh
I consider my mom very stylish and she’s very confident in her style and what suits her. I also admire that her style continues to evolve even in her 60’s and she’s not just stuck in a single time period
My dad on the other hand doesn’t give a fuck about fashion, and just puts on whatever my mom gifts him (so he’s got a lot of Cuban-style shirts and Lacoste in his repertoire)
Typical boomer dad fits, but he’s happy and I admire that too!
my mam’s somewhat interested in fashion, my dad is not. i’d say as soon as i started being able to afford to dress myself my style changed pretty drastically. that said they both very much encourage me to dress how I like (with some loving banter mixed in) and my parents have bought a lot of pieces/enabled me to buy a lot of pieces that I love
i mean-
we were a HUGE new balance family growing up which made it easy to reject them once i could earn enough money to buy nikes and then start buying them again once i realized nikes were crushing my feet lol
My father was of a different generation, but wore suits daily. I feel very grateful that he imbued a lot of basic knowledge about tailoring that I think stopped being passed down a generation earlier in many other families.
He was a shoe nut. And just for perspective, he had a collection of about thirty black captoe oxfords. Wish my feet were his size, some of them were absolute classics.
I wouldn't say there is a direct influence on fashion choices per se, but they definitely instilled a frugality that impacts my clothing choices, if that makes sense? It has honestly been one of the hardest pieces to shake with getting into clothing. As recently as a couple years ago my approach was basically just a fabric to $ ratio. Breaking out of that mindset is hard. I still can't fathom paying "designer label" prices for literally anything and durability somehow feels like the only acceptable justification for buying something "nice". "I like it more" gives an intrinsic yuck feeling to me if the price difference is more than say, $10.
So I guess more psychology than fashion per se, though I suppose the fact that I err on the side of overdressed is also somewhat a rejection of their approach. My dad would have worn sweatpants to his wedding if my mom allowed.
I think I have the exact sweater you’re wearing in this photo. And, to keep on theme, the reason I have it is that I stole it from my dad when he outgrew it.
mom is a fashion geek, worked in fashion in nyc for 15 years and still is one of the best dressed people i know. i also inherited all of her fathers jewelry, and that man also was dripped out, wish we kept his actual clothes bc we would probably be the same size :(
her mother is also dressed quite well most of the time
my dad used to have drip in the 70s and 80s but now has 0 drip :(
OOC in what region do Chelsea boots have negative connotations?
In Brazil they're linked to our cultural equivalent of fratboys
We call them agroboys
I don't want to wear flannel shirts and look like my dad
I don't want to look like my dad anyways so I'm trying to find out what clothes not to pick
My parents wore suits to work and now I wear suits to work and own too many blazers.
My dad wore a suit to work so that I could wear hoe dresses to work
Ideal effect honestly
I didn’t learn shit from my parents so we working from scratch baybeee