I work at a highschool and see a lot of students dressed in clothes that looks straight out of a 1970s fashion catalog (amoung various other decades). How prevalent has this been throughout history? Were teenagers in 1870 trying to to look like women in 1815? Or was this seen as a bad thing as they didn't have the latest fashion. I would love to see instances of this in history!
There is always room for a new answer on this, but I have a few past ones that deal with this question:
Why were some women's dresses from the 1800s actually really simple?
Which culture/s influenced hairstyles and clothing the most in Victorian England?