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Our Daughters Are Dressing Like We Did In The 90’s And Calling It A VSCO Girl

Pookah shell necklaces, friendship bracelets, parachute shorts, scrunchies, oversized t-shirts, Birkenstock’s, and a big messy bun on top of your head now makes you something called a VSCO girl. 

Which is crazy, because I just described the outfit I wore to school all four years of high school. The term Vsco girl actually originated on tiktok (it’s a new app that’s sort of a cross between Instagram stories and Snapchat all the kids are using. You can follow me here.) 

Basically a VsCO girl is every nineties girl trend rolled up into one. The term back actually comes from the popular photo editing iPhone app that the girls were using to give their photos sort of a vintage feel. (Or vintage “aesthetic” as they like to call it.)

Our Daughters Are Dressing Like We Did In The 90s And Calling It A VSCO Girl

They are covering their hydroflasks (that’s the expensive water bottle everyone is carrying today) with cute, colorful stickers and trying their best to be eco-friendly with metal and silicone straws.

Our Daughters Are Dressing Like We Did In The 90s And Calling It A VSCO Girl

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It’s a fun trend that most of us who have teenage daughters are totally loving, and trying not to let them know that it’s only cool because we did it first. 😉 

But they’ve taken it to a whole new level, because not only are vsco girls all the rage right now, but there’s an entire sub-culture devoted to making fun of the vsco girls, too. 

Their water bottles are loud when they drop them. When they laugh it kind of sounds like “sksksksksksksk” instead of a real laugh because they’re too busy trying to be cute.

These girls are so nice they will share their scrunchies with you, but do you really want to borrow it in the first place? 

Our Daughters Are Dressing Like We Did In The 90s And Calling It A VSCO Girl

All in all, vsco girls are a harmless trend, and if your daughter is one, it’s kind of a good thing, because it mostly just stands for a good, clean cut girl trying to do the right thing. 

Our Daughters Are Dressing Like We Did In The 90s And Calling It A VSCO Girl

And if your daughter is a VSCO girl, here are some things she MUST HAVE!

Our Daughters Are Dressing Like We Did In The 90s And Calling It A VSCO Girl

Neene

Sunday 19th of January 2020

My daughter keeps complaining that VSCO girls in her school are not nice and very exclusive. In fact when I asked her what a VSCO girl was she replied someone I will never be.

Elizabeth

Sunday 20th of October 2019

This a great article, but what does VSCO actually stand for?

Ciara

Sunday 13th of October 2019

It's honestly kind of cool to see my childhoodcome back. Haha

My question is for the scrunchies. Why why why are the girls giving them to the boys as a sign of relationship status?

Not the come back I expected of the scrunchie

Amber

Monday 7th of October 2019

Thank you for this enlightening post!! I wonder, would you be ok with me linking to this article in my blog post this weekend? I mention VSCO girls (and the fact that I’m upset about people hating on them!) and would like to link to this article to explain what VSCO girls are ?

Jamie

Thursday 10th of October 2019

heck yeah!

Jamie

Monday 7th of October 2019

Sure!

Roxie

Monday 30th of September 2019

Someone called my daughter a Vsco girl just yesterday..... I said excuse me?! What did u say.. They said it’s just the style girls are wearing now!