"The goal is to look like you just threw together your outfit last minute, plucking discarded clothes from your bedroom floor or from the back of your jeep..."
Now, anyone here with a young-ish daughter or niece has come to realize the word “aesthetic” has an entirely new meaning in this modern age. In old times, it simply referred to the particular principles connecting an artists work back to itself or that defined a whole artistic movement. Now, it means style and is quantified by a descriptor. Girls can be VSCO, cottagecore, fairycore, dark academia, baddie, pastel goth or the newest and hottest, surfer nephew.
What is the surfer nephew aesthetic?
Per Fashion:
Think about what one of the girls from 2002’s surfing movie Blue Crush might wear today for a casual dinner with a hunky out-of-towner — perhaps a white tee layered over a slip dress with Tkees sandals and a raffia bag? Quintessential surfer chick Ivy Sullivan from 90210 is another good reference. The goal is to look like you just threw together your outfit last minute, plucking discarded clothes from your bedroom floor or from the back of your jeep, and they just happen to look phenomenal together. It could be your situationship’s oversized button down! Your brother’s old graphic tee! The only criteria is it has to look casual, coastal and oh so chic.
The phrase was coined by stylist Allison Bornstein and is related to the desert aunt aesthetic though the desert aunt is into dogs and cats, surfer nephew just dogs. The desert aunt also says “wonderful” while surfer nephew says “awesome.”
Observing the obsession with different aesthetics is, I must say, fascinating. Girls will get in knock down drag out fights if their aesthetic is either mislabeled or misidentified.
A wild sort of localism we surfer uncles/fathers can only dream of.
Commented on Disqus? Log out, tap the Disqus button, and your old name and comments come back. The box is ours.
Your comments are still here. Every one of them.
Twelve years of BeachGrit comments came across from Disqus. Connect and we will show you how many are yours. We get your username, nothing else.
Connect Disqus to reveal.
Cocaine is a minor regret from my 80s fun BUT I was better able to explain it to my kids as a boring drug having experienced it without it being laced with fentynal.
fucken he’ll I’m going to repeat myself here for the last..repeat..last time.
Adblocker + No Script
= NO fucken ads 😒
Joke kind of back fired on you man
Wait. Didn’t the Blue Crush crew all switch teams by now?
Very clever subtle word exchange “Coastal” replaces Surfer look , for fashion designers its now very hard it intergrate surf wear into a look if the basic product is no longer on trend ( ie current chic or underground alternate edgy ), surfwear is none of those.
In my day, pink sunglasses earned, none of my crew had time for all the competing trends.
I was a punk, but the fashion of punk was lame and mostly Hollywood. I cut my hair short and fucked up, but I wore the same shit I did as a Zep head.
There was no “surf” clothing, something I am grateful for. We would not have worn advertising anyway….
Ska, Rockabilly, New Wave…. you would not believe how some kids at Orange Coast College dressed. I would never spend the time shopping or figuring out outfits. I was surprised anyone did. “Oh there’s Duran Duran dude”.
As empty nesters now that the boys are adults, we thanked our lucky stars last night as we watched teenage girls celebrate the 4th wearing outfits that the boys they were hanging with surely appreciated…BUT I have some doubts as to how the dads successfully try to negotiate fashion choices with their girls these days.
Best Friend parenting has had so many negative affects.
I was a mean parent. No regrets
there’s a site manager?
speaking of fashion, it appears the WSL has now released the hot new swag with the Chopes Olympic logo … high fashion indeed, only $95 for your very own USA or Aussie or Brazilian (or Japanese, Italian, French, etc) themed Olympic comp jersey
The key is to put on discarded clothes from your bedroom floor and the back of your Jeep, but still look great. Some of us dress this way, and always have, but you’d never know. 🤣
So you’re a cross-dresser and a thief? Hardly things to brag about.
You forgot to add creepy teacher 🤣
I don’t care what chicks pick up off the floor to wear as long as its not baggy jeans. I miss the PINK sweatpants and Lullemon yoga pant days.
I went for a meeting at a home in a golf community above Malibu. Large Mc Mansions overlooking the club.
She answered the door, Mrs Gretzky, herself and walked me around the property. She was wearing PINK sweatpants, painted on. No spring chicken, hot as fish grease. We joked around and she was playful and exceptionally attractive.
As we concluded our first walk through, her daughter pulled in the driveway and as I shook the daughters hand, Mrs bent over to collect an errant flier and all I could think of was PINK.
What a combo those two are.
Kelly slater paddled on the July 4 turtle bay to Waimea bay paddle board race and all we get is this? Hippy lying about meeting Mrs Gretzky? Bg is as toast as sleepy joe
What r you doing ol man?
Surfed all day pops. You?
Remember the wars we had on another site?
Great times.
Are you even within driving distance of the coast?
Yeah yeah bla bla but is Kelly wearing a Shark watch? Much respect and big hugs if so. Keep it real Kels. Fuck that Richard Mille nonsense.
By the way Charles, your devoted readers expect you to be on top of this sort of detail. It’s what we’ve come to expect from your devotion to fashion (and all things fashionable!) and your world renowned attention to detail. Tschuss and much love etc….
He touts for Breitling.
https://beachgrit.com/2018/…
Stole it off his chinese girlfriend?
Per Fashion:
Quintessential surfer chick, Chas Smith is another good reference:
“The goal is to look like you just threw together your outfit last minute, plucking discarded clothes from your bedroom floor or from the back of your jeep, and they just happen to look phenomenal together.”
“perhaps a white tee layered over a slip dress with Tkees sandals and a raffia bag?”
More fishnet and choke chains!
Apologies for not reading the article… but where is Kelly‘s right hand and what is going on with Gabby‘s right trunk leg? Coincidence?
I don’t think anyone reads the articles!
This is one of the many that wasted every second reading.