Do you consider yourself stylish and up-to-date? According to a leading brand and pop culture expert, many of your daily habits might be secretly dating you. Rebecca May has compiled a definitive list of 27 passé lifestyle choices that indicate you are no longer ahead of the curve.
The Tell-Tale Signs You're Ageing
From your food preferences to your fashion choices, seemingly innocent actions can be a dead giveaway of your age. Rebecca May, a respected authority on brand and pop culture, has pulled back the curtain on the subtle behaviours that stamp you as 'out of touch'. The revelations might make you reconsider your daily routine.
Outdated Food, Fashion, and Tech
The list covers a wide range of lifestyle areas. In the kitchen, serving burrata at a dinner party is now considered passé, with the sophisticated crowd having moved on to stracciatella. Similarly, truffle-flavoured crisps have had their day and are deemed far too commonplace.
Fashion missteps are equally revealing. The once-ubiquitous Uniqlo bum bag is no longer in vogue, and pairing a blazer with jeans as your go-to 'smart casual' outfit is a sure sign you're behind the times. Even your tech habits can age you. Insisting on printing out your boarding pass instead of using a digital version on your phone is a major timestamp, as is using a phone case that opens like a book.
The Full List of Ageing Habits
Here are the 27 lifestyle habits that Rebecca May identifies as passé:
- Planning your car journey route in advance, even when you know the way.
- Eating truffle-flavoured crisps.
- Serving burrata instead of stracciatella.
- Wearing yoga pants all day as a fashion statement.
- Being an adult who loves Harry Potter outside of reading it to your children.
- Replying to messages using only emojis, especially the laughing face.
- Using a book-style phone case.
- Ordering a flat white, which is no longer considered chic.
- Buying your underwear exclusively from M&S.
- Wearing ankle socks when socks are now meant to be seen.
- Adding salt to your food before tasting it.
- Carrying the Uniqlo bum bag.
- Insisting on vinyl records over streaming services like Spotify or Apple Music.
- Keeping printed boarding passes 'just in case'.
- Saying 'let's do drinks' but meaning one glass and being home by 9 pm.
- Getting genuinely excited about a new cleaning product like The Pink Stuff.
- Saying 'the youth of today' and meaning it.
- Thinking a 'nice bottle of red' makes you sophisticated.
- Screenshotting everything instead of using your phone's save feature.
- Having your child as your social media profile picture.
- Using two or three-in-one hair products.
- Saying 'Netflix and chill' unironically.
- Carrying a reusable shopping bag 'just in case', or even using it as a handbag.
- Thinking 'smart-casual' means jeans and a blazer.
- Matching your shoes to your handbag.
- Still buying the same perfume you wore at university.
- Thinking you need to apologise for ordering tap water in a restaurant.
This comprehensive list serves as a stark reminder that trends are constantly shifting. What was once the height of sophistication can quickly become a social faux pas, leaving many to wonder if they are unknowingly revealing their age through their everyday choices.
