Things You Wish Were Still In Style?

Stockings and dressing elegantly in general. I don't see the appeal in people dressing up like they're getting ready to do a sports meet, half marathon, or a pilates session all day long. It's aesthetically ugly. Euros and Aussies tell me that they always know when Americans are around because they're the only people who wear athletic clothes casually. It's so flesh-driven. I don't think this is the norm everywhere but it is in an urban city. I only see ruptures from trend in upper class wine bars. I have to buy my clothes from AliExpress

Other than that, things have all gotten for the worse in every sense, while nothing was good starting out. The 90s was a really low point in culture that many see as a high point since it was a relatively period of peace. I take the 90s, and much that came with it, as a nihilistic sensibility amongst Gen X to nuke whatever remained of Cold War culture in the most mean-spirited way, reaching to the lowest depths for the lowest common denominator at the highest record speed possible. From there, you get Fear Factor and Will Smith movies

I also wish we'd go back to people carrying themselves with dignity. I'll see these academics making six figures listing off their "disability," their "first generation status," and their supposed poverty. Some have all of those in serious ways. A lot of people in those circles embellish it since there's a trend to act like poverty breeds virtue (it doesn't). It's all a product of striver culture. I find myself worried (up to a small point) that when Baby Boomers die off, I'm no longer going to have any allies. There's a real lack of grit, courage, and even basic honesty amongst younger people trying to make it. The system rewards that in brutal ways