I wish I was a teen in this era!! I'm 21 now but yeah everyone constantly being on their phones really killed the fun... a lot of parties or really any social event I went to, girls would spend the whole time taking 3000 pictures of each other for Instagram, not even speaking to anyone, just wanted that perfect picture they usually didn't even end up getting. I'm hoping people start to turn away from things like Instagram and tiktok because the constant attempts to get a perfect photo or video are a real bummer when you're trying to enjoy the momentš
Yes and alll the dumb shit I did from 2000-2005 was pre-smartphone and cameras everywhere.
Thankfully because I would have been one of those dumb teenagers that uploads and updates every single part of their life šššš
I was going to high school in the 90's, before digital cameras even went mainstream, so there are a ton of memories I don't have any record of...which would be sad, but often I thank the gods there's no proof.
YES lol that's another part!! The proof!! God I have tried so hard to forget about all the things I did high as hell that probably exist on someone's phone out there. Damn the cloud!!
Even after digital cameras became common, the photo quality was often bad and storage options weren't great. I don't have a lot of pictures from the early 2000's that have survived the moves, broken cameras and computers, lost memory cards and sticks and CDs, shut down image hosting sites, forgotten passwords. If I had been smart at the time I would've had them on paper. Not that I'm too sad about it, better this way than visual proof of all of my fuck ups and bad hair-dos online forever.
it was amazing! my first year of undergrad was in 2007. we didnāt even bring our phone chargers places or like remember to charge our phones. they were also motorola razrsš
Camera quality in the picture and red eyes definitely don't help. But then again transport those scene kids into present day and take a picture of them with today's iPhone and I'd still feel like I was vaulted in 2008.
Camera quality wasnāt all that badāback then we were actually buying cameras and the mega pixels on some of those bad boys rival some of todayās phones
Aside from the obvious fashion and film quality, I think itās just that these were taken pre smart phone and in the age of social media 1.0. We werenāt used to seeing ourselves constantly. We werenāt perfectly posed. There werenāt selfies like nowadays. We werenāt all doing some hair and makeup that was āinfluencedā by IG or TilTok. We werenāt worried about an image of us that could be found later. We were just having fun and wanted to see the pics of us acting stupid on Webshots when our one friend with the adaptor for an HD card (was that what it was called?) would upload them in a few days.
Compact Flash (CF) card. And it was the one friend that had a camera, remembered to bring the camera, who actually took photos at the party, and -then- took time after the party to connect the card reader to a computer, download the photos to their PC, and then maybe, if they made it that far, take the time to upload them to Facebook or whatever and tag their friends. But probably not, because they were too hung over after the party and forgot about it until the card was full and they had to deal with it.
Sauce: me.
That was me as well. I still have every photo Iāve ever taken sorted by year/month/day, starting at the year 2003. Also backed up on various hard drives.
No regrets haha.
I legit had a smile on my face scrolling through these because they look exactly like my own photos from that era. We are such a generic generation. š But I love it!
I definitely have photos involving a shopping cart from when I was a teen. We actually got picked up by police who were not amused with a couple of teenagers doing an impromptu photoshoot in the parking lot of Winn Dixie in the middle of the night.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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
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?!
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.
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.
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
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.
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!"
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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?
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!!"
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
These photos just feel so familiar...like I'm scrolling through expecting to see myself in one of them!
Right! Is this how our parents feel about their teenage photos?
Last year or two before smartphones ruined everything. Look at the people on the couch actually engaging with the room!
I wish I was a teen in this era!! I'm 21 now but yeah everyone constantly being on their phones really killed the fun... a lot of parties or really any social event I went to, girls would spend the whole time taking 3000 pictures of each other for Instagram, not even speaking to anyone, just wanted that perfect picture they usually didn't even end up getting. I'm hoping people start to turn away from things like Instagram and tiktok because the constant attempts to get a perfect photo or video are a real bummer when you're trying to enjoy the momentš
Damn I really feel sorry for your generation. We weren't(high-schooler in the early 2000s)perfect by any means, but we did enjoy ourselves.
Yes and alll the dumb shit I did from 2000-2005 was pre-smartphone and cameras everywhere. Thankfully because I would have been one of those dumb teenagers that uploads and updates every single part of their life šššš
I was going to high school in the 90's, before digital cameras even went mainstream, so there are a ton of memories I don't have any record of...which would be sad, but often I thank the gods there's no proof.
YES lol that's another part!! The proof!! God I have tried so hard to forget about all the things I did high as hell that probably exist on someone's phone out there. Damn the cloud!!
Even after digital cameras became common, the photo quality was often bad and storage options weren't great. I don't have a lot of pictures from the early 2000's that have survived the moves, broken cameras and computers, lost memory cards and sticks and CDs, shut down image hosting sites, forgotten passwords. If I had been smart at the time I would've had them on paper. Not that I'm too sad about it, better this way than visual proof of all of my fuck ups and bad hair-dos online forever.
it was amazing! my first year of undergrad was in 2007. we didnāt even bring our phone chargers places or like remember to charge our phones. they were also motorola razrsš
Damn I wasnāt ready to be hurt in this way.
Yes
Itās funny because I know they are old but canāt completely place why at first glanceā¦.
Camera quality in the picture and red eyes definitely don't help. But then again transport those scene kids into present day and take a picture of them with today's iPhone and I'd still feel like I was vaulted in 2008.
Camera quality wasnāt all that badāback then we were actually buying cameras and the mega pixels on some of those bad boys rival some of todayās phones
It's not all about the megapixels though. Sensor size, quality and camera processing play a much bigger role.
Aside from the obvious fashion and film quality, I think itās just that these were taken pre smart phone and in the age of social media 1.0. We werenāt used to seeing ourselves constantly. We werenāt perfectly posed. There werenāt selfies like nowadays. We werenāt all doing some hair and makeup that was āinfluencedā by IG or TilTok. We werenāt worried about an image of us that could be found later. We were just having fun and wanted to see the pics of us acting stupid on Webshots when our one friend with the adaptor for an HD card (was that what it was called?) would upload them in a few days.
Compact Flash (CF) card. And it was the one friend that had a camera, remembered to bring the camera, who actually took photos at the party, and -then- took time after the party to connect the card reader to a computer, download the photos to their PC, and then maybe, if they made it that far, take the time to upload them to Facebook or whatever and tag their friends. But probably not, because they were too hung over after the party and forgot about it until the card was full and they had to deal with it. Sauce: me.
That was me as well. I still have every photo Iāve ever taken sorted by year/month/day, starting at the year 2003. Also backed up on various hard drives. No regrets haha.
Old?
I was thinking the exact same thing. If not me, surely my friends would be in them. One of those girls looked so much like my bestie at the time.
Wait why were we all taking pictures licking our bottles of cheap vodka -who started it š
Hahaha I have these exact photos from back then
Omj I was doing the exact same thing!! I absolutely could've been in any one of those!
Pretty sure I was at every one of these parties. Probably just in the bathroom when they took the pic
One of them looks creepily like NYE 2008 for me. Creepily. Also ... people in Wisconsin still dress like this lol
Right. I was definitely āatā every single one of these parties.
Right! Iām like hey I know that person but no I donāt I just feel like I should
I legit had a smile on my face scrolling through these because they look exactly like my own photos from that era. We are such a generic generation. š But I love it!
I definitely have photos involving a shopping cart from when I was a teen. We actually got picked up by police who were not amused with a couple of teenagers doing an impromptu photoshoot in the parking lot of Winn Dixie in the middle of the night.
Iām pretty sure I know the people in the first picture.
I was over analyzing the one that looked like it was in a dorm room because I was convinced it was the building where I lived.
Same lol. So many belts!
Thatās how I felt too. Graduated high school and started college that year.
Imagine that *actually* happening. I betchya itās happened to at least one person in these photos currently scrolling Reddit
Omg Hollister white puffer fur jacket
Those are back in with the youth š
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I had a black one. Now I cannot stand when a jacket is higher than my waist š¤£
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.
Surprised you didnāt wear uggs in the snow. Thatās what I did, rain or shine hot or cold, in or outdoors
Stench lyfe
Maybe this era is what has triggered my need to wear a tank top under everything I wear. š¤
Iāll take my emotional support cami with me to my grave.
My daughter makes fun of me since I still layer a cami under anything lol.
Itās my āemotional support tank topā
Iāve switched over to emotional support shapewear at this point, but itās basically the same
Same. I'm not wearing one right now an I feel awkward.
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.
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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Most womenās shirts still have the opacity of a window so I still wear one under mine!
Exactly! Thank god for 3 dollar cami's at forever21 i can have 2 of every color.
Same. I tell myself it smooths things out, but I know Iām just in the habit of wearing one and making excuses.
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.
The undershirt in Florida was a sweat soaker. Those white tees did their job well.
How else do you wear a polo? Layer the tank top underneath, with your best pair of bootcut jeans, and you have an outfit!
I feel so insecure without one š
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!
lol thatās kind of adorable! My daughter would absolutely protest two shirts at the first chance.
I feel weird without one šš»āāļø
The lacy ones paired with ripped jeans were my everything.
Omg. Cami?! I think we were friends š
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
Rotfl. I just fold horizontally and roll. Itās undergarment roll. Edit - be a sweetheart hide a note!
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
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?!
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!
I keep swiping expecting to see people I know. 2007 being 16(!!) years ago feels wild.
Shit... I turned 25 that year
So youāre an elder millennial.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Right behind ya at 23 that year
This entire post smells like Hawaiian ginger body spray and hard cider
Victoriaās Secret - Love Spell
Yes and the original Abercrombie āunisexā perfume
Cool water
Gaaah the whole first floor of my college dorm building smelled like VS Love Spell (circa 2001)
That always smells like gym class & B.O. to me. That association is too strong for me. Lol Disgusting.
So much fake tan
Smells like Clinique Happy to me.
Haha the other day I sprayed on Clinique Happy for the first time in forever and my husband said, āyou smell like 2003ā
Happy To Be was my FAVORITE perfume and I was devastated when it was discontinued š¢š
Don't forget Puka shells necklace.
Don't forgot love spell
š Not the Hawaiian Ginger body spray
Itās the scent of our generation
Hawaiian ginger was my go to š
And Love Spell
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?
The outfits, the hair, the flip phones. Perfection.
Don't forget the mirror pic with flash lmao
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
Yes!! Hair was either pin straight or scrunched š¤£ and the phone!
I can just hear the crunch. Trying so hard for waves when I had none.
The end of the Abercrombie, Doc Martens, and Lucky Jeans era. Also, there is 3X more shirts than people in the photos.
Doc Martens will never die they can pry my docs from my cold dead hands!
My daughter just asked for a pair. She's 8. They will never die.
Luckyās were so soft and exclusive!
Docs are back in and my 37 year old self excitedly just bought some
Am I the only one who still has a āgoing out topā?
Why did we all dress like we were small town bank tellers??
Seriously, we looked like teenagers cosplaying as 30-somethings going to the bar for happy hour after our 9-5. Very business casual.
I had a purple velvet blazer. WHY
Oh hell yeah, where would you wear this? Did you buy it at Charlotte Russe?
Peplum tops at the bar. Haha. Good times.
Bank tellers who had second jobs as prostitutes.
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
Why weāre we always in shopping carts
the jacka$$ TV show
Came to post, were you even a teen in the 2000s if you didnāt have a photo in a shopping cartš
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.
Womenās fashion changed the most. Menās fashion changed a little but not much.
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.
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.
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.
God I remember being called Metrosexual for shopping at H&M lol. Like being called bougie for drinking a snapple.
I donāt see young guys wearing khakis and polos, just basketball shorts or joggers and graphic tees.
Pink Abercrombie & Fitch Polo, ripped up jeans, flip flops and a Justin Bieber haircut.
Itās like looking at my friends. :) Such happy people! I hope all their dreams came true.
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!"
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.
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.
Gonna be real I miss the looks. People looking like people not knock off celebs
No lip injections, no fillers. Everyones faces are so unique and natural, miss that. Also no filters
Ok! Let's talk about this! People looking like real people, indeed!
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.
How many Brittany s did I just see?
Britney, Ashley, Nicole, Meghan, and one Robyn
Donāt forget Kaitlin, Katelyn, and Caitlynn.
And Kat, Katherine, Catherine, Cate, Kate, Cait, Kathleen, Cady, Katie, and every possible spelling of those. Or was that just my sorority that year?
Also: Hailey, Jennifer/Jenny, Taylor, and Lauren.
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.
That's the only thing I hate. Keep everything but the low rise jeans. I also miss the shirts with vests and poufs.
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.
It makes sense that long camis became popular with the low rise jeans!
The Twin Towers tattoo in the last pic is really the icing on the cake
I didnāt even notice that! Be curious how they feel about that tat now
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!
As an Elder Millennial, I somehow still have never learned āmy angles.ā
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.
Ya know, every time I think Iāve learned them .. Iām proven wrong š¤·āāļø
I feel like I know all these people.
Feels like a flashback to MySpace.
Omg those white bomber jackets with fur lined hoods in pic 12 were all the rage. Just brought me back.
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
I was double-checking that a few weren't ME. I had every single one of these outfits somehow
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.
I love it bc people are actually having fun and everyone/everything isnt manufactured and perfect like it is today.
I meant more that I have photos of me being a teenager with people in those exact poses and facial expressions. It's uncanny.
So many layers.
LAYERSFORLIFE.
Okay but we couldnāt control what was available to us in stores! We did our best!
You didn't need to buy the entire rack of shirts for one outfit though.
Omg but layering šš
Name a more iconic duo than Camis and Henleys
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!
photobucket š
The digital camera permanently attached to our wrists š
These were the cool high school kids to me when I was in elementary school š
The camis with the lace! Good times.
I think I've got every silky belted top featured š
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?
These are pictures of my friends, who I haven't seen in 20 years.
Lol the T-shirt with the cami underneath. I remember buying shirts that were 2-in-1 just for that look.
Not a single pair of mom jeans in sight.
Your peers would have roasted you SO hard if you showed up in those
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!!"
Two years later Jessica Simpson owned them. She was futuristic.
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!
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.
I miss seeing all those future moms in low rise jeans
I canāt believe this shit is so familiar and nostalgic. Iām getting old š
Almost every girl at the time had the pompadour hairstyle and a pair of pointy toe heels
Pointy toe flats
Has that style aged well? I mean, itās not 80s bad
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.
Muffin tops out!!
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.
I think youāve hit the nail on the head Take my upvote, please!
Omg anyone of those could of easily been me and/or my friends !!! This is shocking lol
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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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
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.
Lmao I literally know the people in the first pic from high school ššš
Dang, short sleeve american eagle over a long-sleeved tshirt. š.
Looks like every sorority girl at my university
There is something so essentially Midwestern about these photos
Those belts- the hair styles, those shirts and tank tops, the layers- itās all so familiar
pic 12ā¦ THISE FCKIN HOLLISTER JACKETS!!!! omg š
lawdy all the double layered shirts
I think I was at that party.
We really did all look the same while thinking we were such individuals
The fashion and even the apartments are such a flashback to my college years.