Squad Uniforms: this trend, which brings fashion back to its tribalistic, 'safety in numbers' origins, has reared its head following a socially-divisive 2018. If you and your compadres already share affinities and opinions, why not a wardrobe?

Nouveau Ladylike: demure lengths, wallpaper florals and dusty hues are verboten no longer; femininity is powerful, always has been (but you knew that). So are, unfortunately, the toxically macho man-children running the planet. Vive la Resistance, ladies!

Bike Shorts: yeah, this one's a head-scratcher, and will probably remain so till the end of days. Maybe, though, bike shorts speak to our dreams of materialising a unicycle from thin air, and cycling the f*ck away from civilisation in its current state.

Puffed Volumes: no social commentary here (sorry to disappoint you), just pretty shapes. Move along, dear reader.

Pantsuits: in a world where Hillary Clinton isn't President of 'Murica and Angela Merkel has been depowered like Mystique in X-Men: The Last Stand, it's up to all us to be — or at least dress like — Hillarys and Angelas.

Squad Uniforms: this trend, which brings fashion back to its tribalistic, 'safety in numbers' origins, has reared its head following a socially-divisive 2018. If you and your compadres already share affinities and opinions, why not a wardrobe?

Squad Uniforms

Nouveau Ladylike: demure lengths, wallpaper florals and dusty hues are verboten no longer; femininity is powerful, always has been (but you knew that). So are, unfortunately, the toxically macho man-children running the planet. Vive la Resistance, ladies!

Nouveau Ladylike

Bike Shorts: yeah, this one's a head-scratcher, and will probably remain so till the end of days. Maybe, though, bike shorts speak to our dreams of materialising a unicycle from thin air, and cycling the f*ck away from civilisation in its current state.

Bike Shorts

Puffed Volumes: no social commentary here (sorry to disappoint you), just pretty shapes. Move along, dear reader.

Puffed Volumes

Pantsuits: in a world where Hillary Clinton isn't President of 'Murica and Angela Merkel has been depowered like Mystique in X-Men: The Last Stand, it's up to all us to be — or at least dress like — Hillarys and Angelas.

Pantsuits

Fashion | Trends

New Year, new fashion rules: Street style trends to try (or reconsider) in 2019

Word on the street

Text: Ryan Sng

Trends wax and wane, though some tenaciously outstay their welcome. They also have the power — at least according to self-important fashion folk like ourselves — to mirror the world, as it is and as we wish to see it. A new calendar year, loaded with resolute intention, is a chance to wipe the slate clean and rebuild, garment by garment and accessory by accessory, a fresh fashion vocabulary. If you should find yourself itching for (sartorially-charged) change, we've assembled a shortlist above of the key street style trends to experiment with in 2019.

Some are familiar and comforting — think midi lengths and trouser/skirt suits — while others are simultaneously bewildering and enticing —"Could I rock a pair of bike shorts far from the nearest cycling path?" — and best left to those proficient in the language of style. You've been warned. Click through, get inspired, and let the wardrobe shenanigans begin!