Ins & Outs For 2025

Next year will signal the return of athleisure and peep-toe shoes. Meanwhile, we've hit peak Carrie Bradshawfication.

Helllllo Hautties!

I’m back after a brief hiatus, having spent the past two weeks in Japan (keep your eyes peeled for the next volume of Silly Little Outfits for everything I wore and got up to). It was one of the first holidays in years that I didn’t bring my laptop, completely avoiding computer screens unless ordering sushi to be whizzed directly to me on a conveyor belt.

As we’re approaching the end of the year, I wanted to say a quick thank you to everyone who has tuned in. I started this account towards the end of 2023 so I could have dibs on the name Haute Garbage (which looks a lot better written than spoken, especially with an Australian accent), though I didn’t actually do my first post until April.

I honestly thought by this time, I might have like six subscribers, which would all just be me forcing Joel to sign up with fake emails. So, seeing everyone following along has absolutely exceeded all my expectations. Vice versa, reading articles from so many top-tier writers has reinforced for me that social platforms aren’t all gross, soulless, dick-swinging machines and that quality content still exists.

To ease myself back into writing after my break, I’ll be rattling off some lighthearted ins and outs for 2025. I’m def not adding to the quality content; I’m real tired, but I hope you enjoy anyway.

No, I won't be elaborating on anything, but feel free to playfully duke it out with me in the comments.

Ins

• Hairy textures that look like you’ve just skinned a muppet. I hesitate to write Skinned Muppetcore.

• Moth-Eaten Maximalism

• Skinny jeans

• Jeans with a turned-up hem

• Teeny tiny kitten heels (or nipple heels, courtesy of

  Liana Satenstein
  )

• Boho. Sigh

• Athleisure (less Lululemon, more Tibi)

• Stan Smiths

• Balaclavas (these by Amas Verdâtre are insane)

• Oversized shopping bags (bonus points if it’s from Aneto - iykyk)

You Absolute Muppet - Jil Sander and Dries Van Noten

• Going bare-faced with a smudgy lip

• Fashion weeks outside of the Big Four

• Bodysuits

• Remixing pieces from different eras instead of dressing like you exist in one specific decade

• Cyberpunk fashion

• Guess

• Polène

• Oily fish

• Unexpected color combinations

• Micro hemlines. I hesitate to share this TikTok I starred in as my own voice sickens me, but the data is super cool.

@editedhqMidi vs. mini vs. micro…which trend does the data support? Using EDITED, our analysts found that mini dress and skirt sell outs are +174% YoY, despite arrivals of midi lengths dominating the market. #microshorts are also having a moment, with arrivals +82% YoY. 🔥 Looks like #underwearasouterwear is here to stay, with @Prada @Miu Miu, and @Sandy Liang leading the charge for #SS25. What trend do you want us to analyze next? #creatorsearchinsights #trend #dataanalysis #report

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• Windbreakers

• Toe shoes - peep, almond and visible

• Dark inky green

• Bathhouses for business and pleasure

• Tech-free third spaces that don’t have a wanky sign like “pretend it’s the 90s and talk to each other”

• Dystopian and post-apocalyptic fiction that isn’t YA (this is me asking for recs)

• Swap parties

• Belts on belts on belts

• Mixing metals

• Swimming, hiking, and crafting clubs

• Not documenting absolutely everything

  

  Perfect Magazine & Tory Burch

Outs

• Disney collabs

• The Carrie Bradshawfication of everything

• Bows

• Jorts (it’ll all be about the tailored Bermuda)

• Milkmaid dresses

• Mesh ballet flats

• Old Money aesthetics

• Remakes, live-action films, sequels or musicals

• Micro trends, obvs

• Stan culture

HBO & ALAÏA

• Generational trend wars

• Romanticizing anything corporate

• Method dressing

• 10-step skincare routines

• Going above and beyond

• Celebrity power couples

• Fashion brands participating in Earth Month

• Run clubs

• 5am clubs

• Lookalike contests

@blakelively & @ayoremastered

• Editorials that are just one designer’s collection head-to-toe

• Pranks

• Filming or photographing nonconsenting adults for content

• Influencers tapping their nails on products

• Voice notes

• The term “push present”

• Boo boxes

• ASMR

• Food as make-up or skincare trends

• Motivational quotes

• “Everything I eat in a day” content

• Brunch

• Legacy social media

  

  Vogue & Rhode Skin

Note that the fashion predictions are for what I expect to see materialize across the wider industry and shouldn't be taken as gospel about what you as an individual should or shouldn’t wear next year.

I’ve tried to remove my own personal taste from this list - while my money is on a skinny jeans revival in 2025, there is no way I’m putting my thighs through that again. I also do realize that some of the outs read as more of an airing of grievances. Oh well, it’s nearly Festivus after all.