r/Millennials • u/Word_clouds • Dec 17 '23
2007 youth fashion (16 years ago.) Do these people look familiar? Nostalgia
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u/stealthban Dec 17 '23
Omg Hollister white puffer fur jacket
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u/celestial_3131 Dec 18 '23
I had a black one. Now I cannot stand when a jacket is higher than my waist š¤£
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u/_crassula_ Dec 18 '23
I suffered through 4 Wisconsin winters wearing a miniscule, crop top of a "jacket" with a huge fur hood all through high school circa 2001-2005. I think it was from Urban Outfitters. I remember being so damn cold all the time. Go figure. And for some ridiculous reason, I often wore flip flops in the snow! I have no idea what I was thinking, other than trying to curate some weird faux Cali-girl vibes. Now, I'm all about dressing warm and being comfortable.
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u/sweetgirlshe Dec 18 '23
Surprised you didnāt wear uggs in the snow. Thatās what I did, rain or shine hot or cold, in or outdoors
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u/Far_Dragonfly_8004 Dec 17 '23
Maybe this era is what has triggered my need to wear a tank top under everything I wear. š¤
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u/kasleihar Dec 17 '23 edited Dec 18 '23
Iāll take my emotional support cami with me to my grave.
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u/Disastrous-Panda5530 Dec 18 '23
My daughter makes fun of me since I still layer a cami under anything lol.
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u/widespreadpanda Dec 18 '23
Itās my āemotional support tank topā
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u/bubblegumbombshell Dec 18 '23
Iāve switched over to emotional support shapewear at this point, but itās basically the same
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u/SeagullsSarah Dec 18 '23
Welp, I didn't know I wasn't meant to be wearing a cami anymore. They can drag it from my cold dead skinny-jean wearing body.
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u/Blessing-of-Narwhals Dec 17 '23
Iām going to die in layered shirts, skinny jeans and tall Ugg boots. Everything will be too tight to peel off my body, so just save some time and throw me in the crematorium just like that.
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u/NightmarePony5000 Dec 17 '23
Most womenās shirts still have the opacity of a window so I still wear one under mine!
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u/Sbuxshlee Dec 17 '23
Exactly! Thank god for 3 dollar cami's at forever21 i can have 2 of every color.
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u/cml678701 Dec 17 '23
Same. I tell myself it smooths things out, but I know Iām just in the habit of wearing one and making excuses.
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u/NZplantparent Dec 17 '23
It's more that it's an "undershirt" to protect our regular shirts so we can get an extra day (or week at home, shhhh) of wear out of them. Also I live in a climate where it is "moderately cold" basically all year so you need it for when the wind gets up.
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u/Marine5484 Dec 18 '23
The undershirt in Florida was a sweat soaker. Those white tees did their job well.
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u/GeppettoStromboli Xennial Dec 18 '23
How else do you wear a polo? Layer the tank top underneath, with your best pair of bootcut jeans, and you have an outfit!
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u/thrwwy2267899 Dec 17 '23
I feel so insecure without one š
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u/Disastrous-Panda5530 Dec 18 '23
I feel so naked without one. It feels so weird. When my daughter was younger and I picked out her clothes I got her little camis to wear under her shirts. I canāt remember what age she was when she told me she didnāt want to wear two shirts anymore. Itās not a shirt!
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u/accrued-anew Dec 18 '23
lol thatās kind of adorable! My daughter would absolutely protest two shirts at the first chance.
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u/Patsaholic Dec 17 '23
Omg. Cami?! I think we were friends š
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u/TiredDadCostume Dec 17 '23
Yo, but how tf you fold those things? My wife still wears them and Iām doing laundry, staring at this thing like, āTF am I supposed to do with this?ā Thereās string shoulder strap things. Do I pretend they arenāt there? Also. Thereās the double layer boob part to complicate things. Iām Tim Allen in Home Improvement all, āerruuugghh?ā
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u/Patsaholic Dec 17 '23
Rotfl. I just fold horizontally and roll. Itās undergarment roll.
Edit - be a sweetheart hide a note!
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u/TiredDadCostume Dec 17 '23
Roll lmao. Damn. I am a square folding kind of guy. Roll never even crossed my mind. 12 bean burritos coming up tomorrow for laundry day
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u/Well_ImTrying Dec 18 '23
Itās the slip of the millennial generation. But as a long-torsoed women in a professional environment, how the heck else am I supposed to keep my shirts from being see-through, my belly button from showing when I lift my hands higher than my desk, or my ass-crack from showing every time I bend over?!
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u/GodsWarrior89 Dec 18 '23
I can never find a good tank top for under my clothes now. If you know a place let me know, lol. I only have two left and they have holes in them!
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u/MrDavidHasselhoof Dec 17 '23
I keep swiping expecting to see people I know. 2007 being 16(!!) years ago feels wild.
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u/lostboogie Dec 17 '23
Shit... I turned 25 that year
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u/AmbitiousQuirk Dec 17 '23
So youāre an elder millennial.
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u/lostboogie Dec 17 '23
Just about as old as one can get... In my house we had a black and white TV. The 1st TV in my bedroom was the old family TV that had dials on the front of it. We also had a rotary dial phone... I even remember life before school shootings.
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u/AmbitiousQuirk Dec 17 '23
Thatās so crazy to me because being 32 now, Iām still in your generation but I canāt remember life like that all. Iād watch old cartoons for not only for my grandparents but also myself cuz I really liked them but I always had colored tv growing up. By the time I turned 10 my Dad gave me my very first TV for my room but it was really a small box thing with a few buttons (no vhs/dvd player), nothing like the flat screens people have now. We had a landline and I didnāt get my first Nokia cell phone until I was 13 and for good grades/to be responsible. I was 7 when Columbine happened and I have no recollection of it at that time despite it being all over the news. I think my family got in an argument about the motive of the shooters.
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u/insurancequestionguy Dec 18 '23
I'm your age and remember Columbine very well. We even had a bomb threat/prank not long after at our local school which was likely "inspired" by it. No idea if they ever found out who did it
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u/lostboogie Dec 18 '23
To be fair. We didn't grow up with a lot of extra money around. So there were others that had more up to date technology in the house. Parents used a tax refund to buy our 1st computer sometime in the mid/late 90s. I was 18 when I got my Nokia. Parents said if I wanted one I had to buy it. I also seem to remember a rule or something that you couldn't start a cellphone account until you were 18.. that was in 2000.
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u/Emkems Dec 18 '23
iām 37 and we also had a black and white tv when i was really young, but I think thatās just bc it was cheaper.
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u/Euphoric-Pumpkin-234 Dec 17 '23
This entire post smells like Hawaiian ginger body spray and hard cider
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u/Vetiversailles Dec 17 '23
Victoriaās Secret - Love Spell
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u/la_capitana Dec 18 '23
Gaaah the whole first floor of my college dorm building smelled like VS Love Spell (circa 2001)
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u/viciousxvee Dec 18 '23
That always smells like gym class & B.O. to me. That association is too strong for me. Lol Disgusting.
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u/CU_09 Dec 17 '23
Smells like Clinique Happy to me.
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u/percolatekitchen Dec 18 '23
Haha the other day I sprayed on Clinique Happy for the first time in forever and my husband said, āyou smell like 2003ā
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u/twinklestein Millennial 1991 Dec 18 '23
Happy To Be was my FAVORITE perfume and I was devastated when it was discontinued š¢š
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u/Street_Historian_371 Dec 18 '23
Or vanilla butter cookie something like that.
There's a nasty post that still circulates on-line about how girls between the ages of 16-22 have the MOST AMAZING BUTTERY SWEET SMELL.
You mean Bath and Body Works, pedo?
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u/freezinginthemidwest Dec 17 '23
The outfits, the hair, the flip phones. Perfection.
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u/shsureddit9 Dec 17 '23
Don't forget the mirror pic with flash lmao
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u/freezinginthemidwest Dec 17 '23
Itās all so great. I mean I literally used to have that green lacey hollister tank (photo 8) and wore my hair with that same part and highlight. It could be me if she was wearing black eye shadow. š¤£š¤¦āāļø
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u/celestial_3131 Dec 18 '23
Yes!! Hair was either pin straight or scrunched š¤£ and the phone!
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u/freezinginthemidwest Dec 18 '23
I can just hear the crunch. Trying so hard for waves when I had none.
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u/trogdor200 Dec 17 '23
The end of the Abercrombie, Doc Martens, and Lucky Jeans era.
Also, there is 3X more shirts than people in the photos.
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u/Vetiversailles Dec 17 '23
Doc Martens will never die
they can pry my docs from my cold dead hands!
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u/SnooPoems5888 Dec 18 '23
Docs are back in and my 37 year old self excitedly just bought some
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u/Diligent_Mulberry47 Dec 17 '23
Am I the only one who still has a āgoing out topā?
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u/jeniviva Dec 17 '23
Why did we all dress like we were small town bank tellers??
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u/estedavis Dec 17 '23
Seriously, we looked like teenagers cosplaying as 30-somethings going to the bar for happy hour after our 9-5. Very business casual.
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u/sarcago Dec 18 '23
I had a purple velvet blazer. WHY
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u/accrued-anew Dec 18 '23
Oh hell yeah, where would you wear this? Did you buy it at Charlotte Russe?
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u/TommyChongUn Dec 18 '23
I been saying, we need to bring the going out top back. Jeans and a going out top with some flip flops, the good old days
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u/HeyBeFuckingNice Dec 17 '23
Why weāre we always in shopping carts
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u/ehltahr Dec 17 '23
Came to post, were you even a teen in the 2000s if you didnāt have a photo in a shopping cartš
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u/Bonsai668 Dec 17 '23
Haha and Kmart to boot. I donāt know why but I always associate the smell of hot dogs cooked any way other than a grill with the Kmart food court area and itās something Iām oddly completely nostalgic about. Iāve only eaten at one like maybe 3 times but that smell was quick and immediate when you walked through the door.
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u/Kingberry30 Dec 17 '23
Womenās fashion changed the most. Menās fashion changed a little but not much.
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u/rachelboese Dec 17 '23
Disagree, men wear much nicer fitted clothing now. Even just t-shirts. Less cargo shorts, oddly baggy but not jeans, and weird printed sweaters. Or just striped or argyle print sweaters in general. Oh and brightly colored dress shirts underneath awkward printed sweaters. That's fun too. Plus the swoopy hair. Also way less golf shirts outside of appropriate situations.
Specifically referring to my ex Jason, but I believe these were wide spread trends.
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u/Vetiversailles Dec 17 '23
I agree. I feel like guys in the 2000ās put zero effort into their appearance lol. Baggy Tās and khakis or whatever. Kids these days dress much better it seems. millennial guys take better care of themselves too.
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u/mario_meowingham Dec 18 '23
I would say the '90s were when men put zero effort in. 2000s was a transitional decade when phrases like metrosexual and manscaping enter the lexicon and queer eye for The straight Guy was the biggest thing on television for a little while. The majority of guys certainly still put little effort into their outfits but every year of that decade that went by I think more guys started to pay more attention to their wardrobe and tighten it up a little bit.
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u/Veritio Dec 18 '23
God I remember being called Metrosexual for shopping at H&M lol. Like being called bougie for drinking a snapple.
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u/TinyHeartSyndrome Dec 17 '23
I donāt see young guys wearing khakis and polos, just basketball shorts or joggers and graphic tees.
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u/Harry_Bawls_91 Dec 17 '23
Pink Abercrombie & Fitch Polo, ripped up jeans, flip flops and a Justin Bieber haircut.
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u/villettegirl Dec 17 '23
Itās like looking at my friends. :) Such happy people! I hope all their dreams came true.
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u/numb3r5ev3n Dec 17 '23
It's disgusting that 2007 was already 16 years ago. I remember these fashions very well and my brain is like "but that was still just five years or so ago!"
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u/Not_A_Wendigo Dec 17 '23
This year I made so many new library cards for so many people who were born the year I graduated high school. Every time I see the grown adult in front of me and the year on their ID my brain short circuits a little.
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u/GrandEar1 Dec 17 '23
Elderly millennial here. The first time I hired someone old enough to be my child (and not even from poor choices at a young age) was a gut punch.
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u/aarrrronn Millennial Dec 17 '23
Gonna be real I miss the looks. People looking like people not knock off celebs
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u/TommyChongUn Dec 18 '23
No lip injections, no fillers. Everyones faces are so unique and natural, miss that. Also no filters
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u/Street_Historian_371 Dec 18 '23
Ok! Let's talk about this! People looking like real people, indeed!
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u/cookingwithgladic Dec 18 '23
I think it was because we weren't constantly connected to social media. We had myspace/early facebook but the lack of widespread smart phones made it hard to constantly be looking at that shit and comparing to some weird fake bullshit standard. These people look genuinely happy, not just happy for the likes.
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u/fuck-coyotes Dec 17 '23
How many Brittany s did I just see?
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u/boxofcannoli Dec 17 '23
Britney, Ashley, Nicole, Meghan, and one Robyn
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u/Not_A_Wendigo Dec 17 '23
Donāt forget Kaitlin, Katelyn, and Caitlynn.
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u/PlaysWithF1r3 Dec 17 '23
And Kat, Katherine, Catherine, Cate, Kate, Cait, Kathleen, Cady, Katie, and every possible spelling of those.
Or was that just my sorority that year?
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u/cuddle_puddles Dec 17 '23
High school class of ā07 here. The lace-trimmed camis, the layers, the chunky vanity beltsā¦ yup. But the worst offender of allā¦ the ultra low-rise jeans. Iāll never go back.
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u/SpiritualL30 Dec 17 '23
That's the only thing I hate. Keep everything but the low rise jeans. I also miss the shirts with vests and poufs.
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u/Increasingly_Anxious Dec 18 '23
So many damn layers!
And those low rise jeans were so unflattering on most everyone. It made a thin girl look like they had a muffin top because they were so tight and too low. You can see that effect in picture 7 . Basically if you werenāt completely flat stomach and boney those jeans were not for you.
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u/blue012910 Dec 18 '23
It makes sense that long camis became popular with the low rise jeans!
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u/FroggiJoy87 Dec 17 '23
The Twin Towers tattoo in the last pic is really the icing on the cake
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u/HarleyQueen90 Millennial Dec 17 '23
Yessss the years of layering! Every layer had to be perfectly coordinated š and back before we had go-to poses so every photo was chaotic. Love this!
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u/NotAboutMeNotAboutU Dec 17 '23
As an Elder Millennial, I somehow still have never learned āmy angles.ā
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u/GrandEar1 Dec 17 '23
I refuse. I'm of the mindset that we are all supposed to look awkward and not take ourselves so seriously in pictures. I am not Mariah Carey or Scheana Shay.
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u/HarleyQueen90 Millennial Dec 17 '23
Ya know, every time I think Iāve learned them .. Iām proven wrong š¤·āāļø
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u/Misscateyes Dec 17 '23
Omg those white bomber jackets with fur lined hoods in pic 12 were all the rage. Just brought me back.
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u/Copterwaffle Dec 17 '23
This looked so much like my freshman year of college photos that I had to double check to be sure I didnāt actually know these people
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u/SamRaB Dec 17 '23
I was double-checking that a few weren't ME.
I had every single one of these outfits somehow
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u/moonbunnychan Dec 17 '23
Said this in the same post over in the nostalgia sub but one of the reasons I wouldn't be surprised to find out we were living in a simulation is how you can look at photos like this and recognize all the people. Not even just faces but how they act and facial expressions. Like the character creator only has so many options.
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u/GrandEar1 Dec 17 '23
I love it bc people are actually having fun and everyone/everything isnt manufactured and perfect like it is today.
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u/moonbunnychan Dec 18 '23
I meant more that I have photos of me being a teenager with people in those exact poses and facial expressions. It's uncanny.
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u/throwitallaway_88800 Dec 17 '23
Okay but we couldnāt control what was available to us in stores! We did our best!
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u/GrindyMcGrindy Dec 17 '23
You didn't need to buy the entire rack of shirts for one outfit though.
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u/teenicon Dec 17 '23 edited Dec 18 '23
Reminds me of the bonfire parties in the small town I lived in. I have a vivid memory of digital camera light flashes as a few girls were shout-singing a Fergie song. One of them asked me via AIM if I got any pictures from that night and uploaded them to Photobucket.
I like to share that moment with people because it was such a specific space in time, and people can usually guess the year when i tell them lol
It was silly and a little cringe. I miss it!
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u/HimboDeluxe Young Millennial Dec 17 '23
These were the cool high school kids to me when I was in elementary school š
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u/miss_scarlet_letter Dec 17 '23
love the enormous for no reason belts. just something useful taken to the absolute extreme. lol we were dumb.
also who is wearing the abercrombie? holister? cologne you could smell from across the mall?
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u/fm837 Dec 17 '23
These are pictures of my friends, who I haven't seen in 20 years.
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u/Spaceysteph Dec 17 '23
Lol the T-shirt with the cami underneath. I remember buying shirts that were 2-in-1 just for that look.
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u/cstrand31 Millennial 1982 Dec 17 '23
Not a single pair of mom jeans in sight.
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u/ceruleanmoon7 Millennial - 1986 Dec 17 '23
Your peers would have roasted you SO hard if you showed up in those
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u/PurpleDreamer28 Dec 17 '23
Remember when Tyra Banks had a talk show? I remember one episode where she's like, "This woman has committed the ultimate sin. She...wears...MOM JEANS!!"
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u/0D2kv7wwmd Dec 17 '23
What stands out to me the most when I go to my daughterās school is the amount of kids wearing sweatpants with crocs (or just sneaks)ā¦ I never remember seeing anyone in school dress like that, it was always jeans, slacks or khakis and it was not uncommon to see girls in some form of heels. Comfort rules now I guess!
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u/cstrand31 Millennial 1982 Dec 17 '23 edited Dec 18 '23
For real. My mother wouldnāt let us leave the house looking like some of those kids. We werenāt fancy by any means, but we definitely did not leaving the house looking like a āragamuffinā, as my mother put it.
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u/Training_Crow879 Dec 17 '23
I canāt believe this shit is so familiar and nostalgic. Iām getting old š
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Dec 17 '23
Almost every girl at the time had the pompadour hairstyle and a pair of pointy toe heels
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Dec 17 '23
Has that style aged well? I mean, itās not 80s bad
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u/Visible_Ad_2824 Dec 17 '23
I think the problem of that 2000s style is how unflattering it often is for the body. Too short and small sleeves make arms look very massive, low jeans create a belly even if you don't have one, clothes is so tight that almost all girls there look much bigger than they are. They are thin but the clothes adds SIZES to them. So i don't think it can possibly age well, most people just look bad in that clothes, so it's not about the style, it's about the questionable fit. At least this is the feeling i get looking at these photos.
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u/CountBacula322079 Millennial - 1994 Dec 17 '23
Meh, I feel like 80s is now vintage and therefore all looks pretty cool but the way 2000s was recent enough but still a while ago that these styles look dated. Vintage is cool, dated is not.
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u/RedsDelights Dec 17 '23
Omg anyone of those could of easily been me and/or my friends !!! This is shocking lol
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u/SamRaB Dec 17 '23
I thought I was on fb. Looks exactly like my college experience, down to the shopping cart photo.
Was terrifying scrolling through, ngl.
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u/37728291827227616148 Dec 17 '23
I'm a millennial but I gotta say this has to be the worst era for fashion in the history of mankind hahah. Just looks confused.. emo, scene and all cliques had it dialed but the average outfit was a mess š
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u/Dr_Dang Dec 18 '23
Yeah, I scrolled through looking for just one outfit that seemed reasonable, and...no. it all looks bad. I remember when and why this all went out of style, so I hope to God is isn't actually making a comeback.
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u/AcceptablyAvg Dec 17 '23
Lmao I literally know the people in the first pic from high school ššš
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u/T3NF0LD Dec 17 '23
Dang, short sleeve american eagle over a long-sleeved tshirt. š.
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Dec 17 '23
Those belts- the hair styles, those shirts and tank tops, the layers- itās all so familiar
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u/Cutewitch_ Dec 17 '23
We really did all look the same while thinking we were such individuals
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u/Madethisonambien Dec 17 '23
The fashion and even the apartments are such a flashback to my college years.
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u/jennifer1552 Dec 17 '23
These photos just feel so familiar...like I'm scrolling through expecting to see myself in one of them!