FASHION
Will you be wearing the new grandpacore look?
Last year grandmacore was a thing, but in 2024 it’s older men to whom the youngsters are paying style homage. It’s all over social media, says Anna Murphy
Brooklyn Beckham and the influencer Yoyo Cao sported braces recently
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The Times
I saw one of my godsons this week, a twentysomething who dresses in a style that might be summarised best as 1920-something. Think braces and ancient-looking brogues, plus a handknitted balaclava for the lols.
Hector’s keen to get off the materialism merry-go-round, he told me. So he would probably be less than delighted to learn that he is channelling what Pinterest has just predicted will be one of the biggest trends of 2024: grandpacore. This is something he is unlikely to learn, however. He never looks at his phone. As I said: grandpacore.
Yes, another year, another “core”. This is the increasingly ubiquitous suffix that signals that what may seem to the uninformed to be merely a case of someone having dressed in the dark
