I don’t

Build your own style and own it, trying to keep up with trends (of any sort) is a recipe for dissatisfaction

If you don’t love fashion, don’t try to “keep up with trends”.

Think of it this way. Fashion can be a hobby. You can spend hours every week researching, studying, searching for clothes. You can participate in message boards or discord groups for it. You can travel just for it.

Like photography. Like working out. Like gardening.

You can still like to take some pictures, and want them to be nice, without making photography your hobby. Same with going to the gym, or keeping some plants in your apartment.

So if fashion is not the hobby for you, don’t worry about it too much. Just learn what is good for you. Don’t care about the trends.

You can dress in any style nowadays tbh.

Just be mindful of getting a good fit on your clothes. Make sure the length of the pants is right, they fit well around the waist etc.

Maybe find a couple of ppl on social media you like the way they dress, and just passively absorb their content while scrolling.

Then go shopping from time to time, when you feel the need for a piece of clothing. Like maybe you need new pants, maybe you need new shoes.

You’ll have an idea of what kind of stuff you like, how you’d like to have your clothes fit etc.

But yeah, you don’t have to make fashion a hobby if you don’t want to. Trends are for kids and fashion autists.

Most of these comments are reddit levels of snarky and unhelpful, wow.

“How do I keep up my style?” Top comment: “I don’t, and neither should you.”

Great, thanks. Just because someone’s hobby isn’t tinkering with their Linux-variant for 5 hours a day doesn’t mean it’s worthless, especially to them. A lot more men are into fashion than Lemmy would have you believe, OP, don’t get discouraged!

My advice is that if you have no clue where to start looking at “trends”, I always recommend going to see what the big menswear fashion brands are doing in their seasonal collections and seeing if there’s any outfits, silhouettes or pieces you’re drawn to. Trying to find versions of those at your price point is the easiest way. And if you like things from a few seasons past, even better, because you’ll definitely find them at thrift stores and 2nd hand resell sites like Poshmark/Depop/etc for a fraction of the price.

Also look for natural fabrics (cotton, silk, linen), not polyester. Tencel and Lenzing ecovero are good alternatives of you need the elasticity and smoothness certain polyester fabrics have but can’t splurge on the higher cotton/silk quality. Polyester tends to trap smells, degrades quickly, and is basically recycled plastic clothing. Best to avoid.

Using money you haven’t earned to buy things you don’t need to impress people you don’t like…

I’d say don’t worry about it, it’s still money you can better spend somewhere else. Replace your clothes as they wear out, choose comfy, ethically produced fibers, buy goods that last. Fashion and trends is just a scheme to get more money out of you.

It’s easy, every morning I get up I take a few mins to put on clothes

By up to date on clothing and fashion you mean making sure your clothed every day right?

Jeans and a good shirt. My smile does the rest. I find, so long as you meet a basic level of personal upkeep, how you treat people is a more important.

Edit: Also, if you’re in the mindset of ‘trying to keep up’ with fashion you’ve already lost. Think “I want to be a leader” if this is that important to you.

Wear comfortable cloths that fit you well. When its time to replace something, get the same you had or pick out a new one you like.

Keeping up with “fashion” isn’t a time problem, its a wallet problem. The marketing is all designed to give you the feeling of missing out so you’ll buy cloths you don’t need.

Think back to childhood “back to school cloths”; did anyone actually care if your day 1 outfit was brand new and the latest fad? No. (If they did, damn them for ruining my point).

Fuck that.

Why would you want to?

Plesse dont, the world is turning ugly. also its super Lame to wear what the others wear.

I don’t, but probably the easiest way would be to shop from all those fast fashion stores that sell clothes that won’t last a month and pick the best sellers.

Probably best not to though.

Unless you’re in the fashion business you’ll always feel like you’re behind on trends.
One idea for a regular person would be to buy whatever mainstream stores are selling at the moment and try to combine it in unique ways. You will sometimes get bad results sure, but there will be less pressure to follow trends if you start coming up with your own styles.

You really don’t have to. Unless you intend to work in the capitalistic work of clothing marketing, there really is no point. Most of the people out there with style or that look good build their own personal style or at the very least take the time to understand what looks good on them, and that has a lot to do with proportions as well. Timeless style works best for a lot of people, especially considering most trends literally circle back around if you give them enough time.

It’s harder than ever to follow trends now that there are such things as “microtrends” and everyone’s just trying to sell you something constantly. Idk if this is stemming from a social insecurity about your looks, but trust me, people who find their style and rock it authentically look the coolest and will attract the right crowd for them (usually). There’s people out there rocking vintage fashion, punk, hipster, academic - and they all look so dang cool