Early-mid 00s Fashion

It was a mess OP.

Worse than anything the 80s threw at us.

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Britney and her pale denim.

Velour tracksuit trend

Von Dutch Hats

The Juicy Couture tracksuit AND the ironed hair AND the skinny crochet scarf in one coke addled package.

Daytime sequinned dress over jeans.

🎵Bye bye bye🎵

Ed Hardy

What bothered me the most was that people in the US were at their very fattest, yet you had all of these hipster type pants, which meant if you didn't have a iron flat stomach, it looked bad. Can't believe how long these low waisted slacks were a thing.

What is this monstrosity?!

Who in the hell is that above?! Should I know it? Looks like a kid version Anna Wintour.

R13 it's Ashley Tisdale, she was in High School Musical.

The hideous fashion was eventually replaced with hideous hair and makeup

J.Lo

Oh and a lot of current fashion is ugly too, and will seem uglier over time. I wish people just dressed in whatever they wanted to instead of following meaningless trends. A variety of ugly shit is better than inane repetition.

Oh, superior R2...

The 80s made Z. Cavaricci, Vuarnet & Body Glove. Remember Chess King & Merry Go Round? Yeah.

How much of that was adopted by the masses though the way 70s and 80s fashion was?

I watch Friends now (okay once, not regularly) and the clothes and hairstyles in the later seasons, after Aniston got rid of "the Rachel" don't look dramatically different than what people wear today. A little looser, especially for the guys, but not that dramatic.

A lot of dead careers in the OP's pic...

Avril and her necktie trend.

R20 My only shock: No one actually dead yet.

And was that the last time the Olsen Twins didn't look strung out and/or starving?

We lived through different 80s R18. I've heard of Vuarnet (sunglesses, right) and Body Glove (they made wet suits) but not the other brands.

Vuarnet was da bomb! I worked as a babysitter to save money to buy one. Bought it. 3 days later, my dog ate the fucking shades.

I don't know what Eva was thinking with the bag [italic]and[/italic] top.

Trying to think of what my version of 80s brands would be R18 -- Guess, Girbaud, Benetton, Ray Ban Wayfarers-- that's what comes to mind.

I remember reading a comment somewhere by a guy who loved jailbait describing how excited he was to see the cover of that magazine, how difficult it was to control himself while he was going home with it, and how forcefully he exploded on the pages once he got home.

I don't even remember this.

It's hilarious that someone thought these jaded whores were "jailbait".

OP leave Amanda Bynes out of this, she’s genuinely very funny & talented and has been through it all.

She doesn’t need your censure & ridicule for an outfit was wearing over a decade ago.

Love this thread. Thanks, OP.

Capri pants and ugly belts!

My god, I had no idea how bad it was.

How quickly they forget.

Distressed, ripped, embroidered or sequinned jeans. For men.

Bustier tops and lace crotch pants.

Layered necklaces

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Was Ashton ever not a douche?

Nowadays it's all uggs and yoga pants

I've seen people wear distressed jeans and bustier tops consistently over the years. I really hate what are obviously intentionally distressed jeans. They just look stupid.

After the 90's, styles starts to blur together for me, except for the obvious tragedies like Kelly's jeansdresses and high-contrast, chunky highlights.

Also popular were orange spray tans, excessive hair extensions, comical platform shoes that gave women Miss Piggy feet and the word "Juicy" emblazoned across women's butts, which made me associate the wearer with diarrhea.

No worse than any other decade in fashion. Someone should post those pics of people in a New Jersey mall in 1990, and how everyone looked like cave people with late 80s big hair.

I think the 50s and 60s (especially the mods) were nice. It's started getting bad in the 70s and stayed that way.

^ It

Brought to you by a generation with no new ideas of any kind. Do we need to talk about music?

I don't see much of a difference in today's fashion compared to the early-mid-00s.

Let's see -- boot cut pants have been replaced by straight leg/skinny pants. Black and white sneakers are de rigueur Boots, boots, boots. And the boots are pointy toed. I went to a funeral recently and saw the first pair of square toed boots since 2002. It was an oldster who is too cheap to buy new boots. Tights, jeggings, dresses as shirts.

R30, of course, commits the usual sins of illiteracy that cunts usually offend us with as they pretend to bleed down their legs in outrage, with a ketchup bottle in their purses.

I see four errors and three additional dubious usages and questionable rhetorical cliches.

Amanda is "genuinely very funny" and "has seen it all" and therefore "does not need" CENSURE!

What a cunt. The type that wishes she "actually" had a pussy so she could claim someone tried to grab it.

I'm not sure but I think people wore pointy shoes in the late 90s/early 2000s too, R47. People are wearing boot cut jeans again I think along with skinny jeans.

R46 It's because the boring and stupid now have much more influence on culture than they used to. It's not that there are no interesting young people.

R50, I agree that Christian Siriano and Chloe Dao have fashion lines. But they are not successful in the same sense that Alexander McQueen or Thierry Mugler are. Please cite designers from Project Runway who have achieved that level of success. After, this is what was promised by Heidi Klum.

^after all

This awful *fashion* trend: when women wore 'lingerie tops' as blouses under jackets.

R51 I mean that regular people and Kardashian types influence trends more, whereas it used to be (seemingly) mostly designers creating trends. On the other hand, it seems like there are only "micro trends" in the age of the internet. Major trends are few and far between.

^ influence trends more than they used to

R46, advances in fashion, music, and even politics have always come from younger people, not older ones.

This is not a situation where an older group has control over a younger one. Instead, we're all looking for the younger generation to step up to the plate and blaze a trail into the next societal trends. As a baby boomer, I was thrilled to death by GenX's move into punk and new wave. We haven't seen anything like that since.

Sorry, I meant R51. And I meant to include electronica in addition to punk and new wave.

R40 are you posting from 2010?

Here in 2018 everyone is wearing Docs & ankleboots again because we all desperately wish it were 1994 and we had less to panic to wake up to every morning.

R53 You made me think of this. And that was last year.

[quote]And was that the last time the Olsen Twins didn't look strung out and/or starving?

They were always draped all over each other back then, it was creepy.

Uggs are one long-lasting trend though. You still see middle school girls in Brentwood and the Upper East Side sporting them, maybe not as frequently as 15 years ago, but if they're still a thing in those places, I'm guessing they're still a thing in less trendy precincts as well.

In OP’s example, it’s piquant & amusing that La Lohan is the only one wearing sensible slingbacks & a well-fitted bra. She looks almost office-ready, it’s a clean look.

Hilary Duff has always had a strange magnetism, and it shows here. Her curvacious self clad in the most shoddy plastic cuts & fabrics and highlighted brassy as can be still catches the eye. She looks cute in anything. Is it pure confidence?

It’s quite a disturbing cover, and one wonders exactly who it was targeted to.

Did anyone in New York shop at "Bang Bang" during that time period? Although there was a Chelsea location, I preferred going to the West Village one on 8th Street. They had some great 00s cheesy fashion being sold there.

[quote]This awful *fashion* trend: when women wore 'lingerie tops' as blouses under jackets.

The "teddy as top" was hot during the disco era too, frequently paired with spandex pants.

[quote] [R40] are you posting from 2010?

2018, posting from NY. And it's all yoga pants/tights and uggs.

Raven-Symoné's cargo pants in the OP are reviled today for men and women alike.

This article was posted January 10, 2018. It shows celebs wearing their ugg boots

What a shame Kitson closed down.

Seriously, R58? UGGS have been back in style since 2015. Do try to keep up.

R66 I was convinced that Chester Bennington’s sad & sudden death last year would bring nu-metal culture & style roaring back into retro fashion as is the wont these days.

This has not yet happened, so I suppose the 20-year rule abides. Give it 5 years and everyone will again be sporting gelled spikes & ICP-size baggy jeans with wallet-chains.

I'm at a complete loss these days when it comes to what to wear and how to cut my hair.

Yeah, looking at the current rollouts in stores today... ruffles on the bottom of my pants? Cold shoulder tops? Poly schlub blouses? Ripped jeggings? Ruffles ruffles everywhere...

Gee, no thanks.

[Quote] Give it 5 years and everyone will again be sporting gelled spikes & ICP-size baggy jeans with wallet-chains.

R71 wear what you like. My opinion is that trends are generally stupid, but older people should definitely NEVER follow them unless they actually like the trend. It's not ageism. I think at a certain age it becomes even more pathetic to blindly follow trends. It seems like you know what you don't like; figure out what you do like (of course, maybe you already do).

Oh and either look for new stores or look for vintage clothing either online or in person.

r68, Kitson has re-opened as Kitross:

So Lohan only being on the foldout instead of the proper cover under the masthead - was this the start of her downfall?

Fashion was over by then. It's even uglier now.

Leggings look disgusting and very low class.

[quote]So Lohan only being on the foldout instead of the proper cover under the masthead - was this the start of her downfall?

It’s funny but I’d say the most talented cover girls are bookends Amanda and Lindsay.

Amanda is NOT very talented. I saw her Twelfth Night movie and and there is not a natural bone in her body. She is not a gifted comic and tried way too hard. And unfortunately she was not beautiful enough to make it on her looks.

As far as having healthy contemporary careers, the placement of the three center girls was prescient. Moore(This is Us), Duff (Younger), and Bledel (strong performance in A Handmaid’s Tale). None of those ladies should be disappointed with where they are at the moment.

It’s incredible how fast the Emo-twink/diesel fashion for kids has aged.

Flat-ironed peek-a-bangs, Chucks, studded belts, messenger bags & long plaid shirts were uniform for gay teens a decade ago. For a long time it seemed like every gay or misfit kid had bleached or color-streaked ‘anime’ hair and some sort of acid-gothic-preppy combo attire. It was like a gay club style mixed with an awkward 80s hipster wardrobe and run through the Valley.

I have no idea what the babygays all wear now but it’s not that passé indie style.

R76 I had no idea. I still prefer the name Kitson over Kitross.

The 80s has been back for a few years now; leggings, long shirts, slim fit jeans, boots. There doesn’t seem to have been a genuinely new idea since 1982. Everything is a rehash of a previous look.

I noticed the lack of excessive tats in the older pics.

r85, I give you Iris Van Herpen:

GOOP bringing the punk unsuccessfully, to the 2002 Academy Awards.

What was she thinking? Her breasts look malformed.

r83, hipster milennial fashion is still skinny jeans, chucks, plaid shirt and hoodie. Not the emo hair, though. Basically Shailene Woodley in BIG LITTLE LIES.

You're correct R82, and also Evan Rachel Wood, next to Bleidel. She's riding high with WESTWORLD.

2000 - David in super wide leg pants and Victoria in lingerie top, sans jacket!

[quote]GOOP bringing the punk unsuccessfully, to the 2002 Academy Awards.

Remember when she said other celebrities were copying her style? She said something like, I see so many mini-mes running around LA.

2000 - Shemar Moore

Goop has the worst breasts in Hollywood

You know what was the most hideous? The skinny eyebrow trend that Marcia Cross seemed to be the poster child of. Gross. Even celebrities like Celine Dion and Belinda Carlisle were doing it.

I think that was started by Kevyn Aucoin, r96.

Remember the cropped shrug cardigan?

Your sister's jeans, your sister's eyeliner and your sister's Starbucks.

Hip-hop/R&B videos from that time period look so twee & basic compared to now. Everyone was wearing a lot more Chintz.

Think lipgloss, baseball caps, ridiculous tank/crop tops, hip-hugging lo-rise jeans (sparkly belted) & ‘boots with the fur’ on the gals. The same minus gloss and plus Timbs & chains (so many chains) for the guys.

The hair on men & women was sleeker & more styled back then, I’ll give it that.

I’m an Elder Frau in Flyoverland. Would not be caught dead wearing much of the current fashions either. Not a farm wife, in fact, retired CEO.

Pendleton, LL Bean, Orvis, Lands End, Talbots, Ralph Lauren are okay.

For the love of God please kill the leggings trend. Unless you’re 90 lbs. So tired of looking at badly shaped, overweight women in leggings.

Gap was always great, especially 2004!

Pretty Khaki - Gap Spring 2005.

HOW

DO

YOU

WEAR

IT?

Gap - Fall 2004

Crazy! Cool!

Gap - Spring 2000

You could dress like Madonna and Missy in July 2003!

I liked those GAP ads. Get busy child.

R109, that's 1998.

These clothes are from Spring 2000:

Gap - Spring 2000

Check out those Sateen Capris!

Are You A Jean?

or

Are You A Khaki?

Gap - Spring 2000

I felt like everyone was trying to look trashy in that era.

A mess hunny!

Is that RDJ, r114?!

Black Barbies !!

I hate women's lank, dirty looking hair nowadays. Use shampoo and get a fucking hairbrush.

[quote][R109], that's 1998.

Oop. I was going to post the Gap ad that rips off Bob Fosse, but I think that was 1999.

Pretty sure I had that skirt in two colors from the R105 Gap link.

I'd still wear that look now.

I agree that women's hair doesn't look healthy anymore. Prell and Breck were apparently bad for our hair back in the day, but it frankly looked healthier and shinier back then.

R98 Aww Ashlee's old nose.

R101 I still love that song.

R106 Lenny's hair 😳

R114 What would Iron Man say??

Queer Eye showed Straight Guys how to comb their hair and vacuum their apartments, but man, the clothing of the era was something else.

What the hell is going on here?

[Quote] You know what was the most hideous? The skinny eyebrow trend that Marcia Cross seemed to be the poster child of. Gross.

Yeah, it was not a good look. And i think it made them look older too.

Beyonce

Most of these links show photos of teenage popstars, not classic fashion. I have clothes and shoes that I wear that are at least 20 years old and don't look dated. I also have a pair of Z. Cavaricci's from the 80s that I don't wear but they still fit!

R113

Got dizzy dancing tango...

Forever young....

God, R94. Was Shemar trying to look like Sisco there!?

R81 Bynes was an excellent Penny Pingleton in HAIRSPRAY.

I am glad the damn soul patch on guys fad is gone!!

Yesterday there was a PacSun outlet near my house that had a 90% clearance deal. My boyfriend and I went to see if they had any steals. I was shocked that one of the new trends is what looks like rodent bites on all the men’s shirts. At first I genuinely thought there was a rat in the store. No wonder it was closing.

Fake bleach stains are also a trend now. You just know that rich teenagers are spending seventy something dollars on shirts that make them look like poor white trash.

Kids had fun and flashy fashion trends in the 00s, but people in their 30s or above back then looked lost. Iirc there were a lot of tragic cuffed jeans, oversize button-ups and ugly tees circulating back then.

The early 2000s gave us the metrosexual look. Men were finally able to once again embrace their inner homosexual.

Nothing can top the tackiness of the 1980s.

It was a kinda funny time, i like the fashions and musics from the early 00's

I remember blue mascara in the early noughties. Also these incredible black flares with metallic blue flames up the leg. There was a Disco revival in the late late 90s that spilled over into 2001, especially in gay circles.

R16 Channeling her inner Willie Nelson

Jessica Simpson in gaucho pants

The first half of the 00s was better than the second.

The later years were depressing. Just Ugg boots & dead hair & sweatpants on everyone, everywhere.

I want all the scarves and the gloves back, I’m feeling insecure these days.

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Oh yeah I forgot Raven Symone and Lindsay Lohan were once roommates.

R142 stg I’m not Dan Schneider but I gotta say Drake Bell has really attractive bare feet.

Like, they’re just really pretty for a man.

Men’s Fashion back then...

Calf boots over dark stonewashed jeans and pashmina wrapped over low scoop-neck tees & cardigans don’t look good on many women, let alone their boyfriends. This is saying nothing of fedora, ruffled button-ups, ugly plastic watches & DIY brassy/strawberry hilights. Disastrous.

Mandy’s pants

At least Kate Moss looked chic back then.

Most of what she wears here you could still wear today.

R146 I have never heard of Mandy, but she was a better singer than Jamie-Lynn and arguably had better taste in himbo tricks (but not so in her pants, which didn’t fit).

R147: She was dressed in a casual and understated outfit but it's not particularly "chic".

Loving the purses

Flava

R151 Miranda always dressed cooler than Lizzie.

Funky outfits

In OP’s image, Mandy Moore is dressed like a Canaanite.

Dont speak

Most of these examples are young women/girls being dressed by stylists not much older. They all look awful, and this was the moment when the focus of the fashion rags went full-force into presenting Hollywood/pop music over models. And it shows.

I'm sorta shocked to say it, but the best stuff above are the Kate Moss photos and the pic of Beckham and Victoria. Even dressed down in off-the-rack gobbledygook, those three still look chic, fashionable.

This is a great photo of the stylish man and woman of 2003. It's lovely.

Shane about Vicky’s tits and bag ruining everything

Here is a grown ass woman in 2003 looking like shit.p

And another. But I cut CZJ some slack as she was only 19 in 2003.

R157: Are you serious?

R154 What the fuck was Shannon thinking?! Also r.i.p Tara Reid's.... [italic]everything[/italic].

The Olsen twins in the OP’s picture from Vanity Fair look so much healthier . Like cute little muppets . What happened to them ? Drugs ? Sad how a few women on that cover fell apart in one way or another . Mainly Amanda Bynes and LiLo .

And everyone trying to thrust their piggy little HOCKS into strappy sandals. It made their legs, hips, and asses look enormous.

R163 Yeah they were pretty cute back in the day. I don't know why they bothered getting nose jobs. Unless it was from all the coke?And I think we can put most of the blame on Lilo's parents for her downfall. In Amanda's case i think DS had a lot to do with it.

Whale tails and tramp stamps.

There was a lot of skin on the red carpet.

Either plunging necklines or transparent piecing.

At least with the hipsters of the 2010s, they st least try to dress themselves. People in the 2000s looked like white trash. It was anti-fashion, just rolled out of bed, let me go outside in pajama bottoms.

Call me crazy,but I love the transparency look when its done tastefully like in R167. If your young and beautiful and have a flawless body,of course.

[quote] Remember the cropped shrug cardigan?

I was a high-schooler in the late '00s, and I can't forget it because it's all over my fucking yearbook.

The bully girls at my HS were into a Western variation of the 'kogal'/'gyaru' ('gal') look, which basically means you do big ratty hair & pancake makeup in the biggest sloppiest way possible to the point it scares people then behave in a loud abrasive manner to match. You also need the darkest tanner and the biggest designer tote bag and the shortest skirts you can find if you're going to class (could even tie up your school shirt to show off that belly-button piercing), then tight leisurewear and crop/spaghetti tube tops to change into for clubbing after (maybe with a blingy pendant). Uggs, aforementioned shrugs and leggings get you A to B. It was a Pineapple dance studios-cum-Paris Hilton-cum whoever-was-big-in-reality-TV-that year look. Interestingly the girls wearing it were the ones who had the money to dress in Vogue/Gossip Girl-esque fashion if they wanted yet they chose to dress like delinquents. I guess it does make sense in retrospect.

Thinking back on it, though, clothes don't make the woman. I knew cruel bitchy MGs who wore emo/goth, hipster, chic and street styles as well as the Plastics - the latter style has just aged the worst, I think.

I hated all the stripes.

I say bring back neo-disco. I’m bored of grey and wool and catalogue-everything.

I am sooo guilty of having worn this hideous crap. Especially the low rise jeans, cropped tops, and velour track suits.

But at least I had a BANGING body, and I got all of the superficial attention I sought out. Yes, I hang my head in shame. But my ass and abs were on POINT. All real, all natural, no butt implants or lipo.

I still have a pretty decent body, and I give credit to that moment in tawdry fashion history, for making me a dedicated gym attendee.

R173:

Kate Moss. Crushing it with the thin fabric belt.

Spring 2001.

Fall 2001 at Gap.

Summer 2002 at Gap.

Holiday 2002 at Gap (I still have that scarf!)

Fall 2003 at Gap.

Spring 2004 at Gap.

Holiday 2004 at Gap.

Holiday 2004 at Gap!

GIFTS THAT TOUCH

Spring 2005 at Gap!

Enjoy Being A Girl!

Holiday 2005 at Gap!

Idk if many of the fashions listed here from '01/'02 can really be considered "'00s fashion" at all. Trends don't strictly alter at the start or end of every decade like clockwork. Personally I couldn't notice any perceptible shift in Western cultural style away from '90s staples until we hit 2005, particularly in fashion & music, and imho there's negligible difference between the look and sound and attires of 1997-8 and 2001-2.

It's the same this decade around, where only in the last few years (around 2016 onward) has anything significantly changed or evolved from the '00s in terms of trends or artistic styles. Think back; objectively examining the way people dressed and talked and made art, 2013-4 may as well have been 2009-10.

Wrong, R186. The cargo pants and skater-wear-as-fashion that ruled 1997-1999 were long gone by 2001.

The baggy look of the Nineties gave way to a more streamlined look for men as early as 2001. By 2002, Men's clothing was much more fitted and neat.

Women's fashion changed hugely with the advent of trouser pants (2001-2002) that were not seen in the Late Nineties. Stripes were much more prominent for women starting in 2000.

Denim??? Goodbye lighter washes and looser styles! 2001 was all about darker denim and fitted pieces.

2000 to 2005 is distinctly different from the Late Nineties. 2006 would hold over some looks but veer off wildly in other directions as well. 2000 to 2005 is its own entity.

Kelly Clarkson's look should be studied by anthropologists.

Look at all that fresh camel toe...

that mag is failing, subscriptions way down. theyr desparate for attention.

is becoming a shit mag

Remember these?

American Apparel + Terry Richardson + a terrified model = the 00s Hipster Porn Aesthetic.

Hide yo wife, hide yo kids, Y2K fashion is back.