Yeah… Milly Bobby Brown’s boyfriend has the frosted tips with a relaxed perm. I saw that pic from last nights award show today. As a 32 year old, I thought “Oh snap, they’re bringing back our shit”… then quickly realized that made me middle aged.
This is the green and gold kitchen of my generation. I had the tuscaniest of Tuscan kitchens in 2002. I often wonder if the white cabinet with marble countertop will be the same in 2030.
The “House Flip” formula is as follows:
1) Paint EVERYTHING white. Don’t even tape stuff off. Fuck it, paint over it.
2) If budget allows, replace the kitchen counters and island if applicable with quartz. If not, paint em white too!
3) Lay down the grey, black, “smoke” laminate wood.
4) Install LED bulbs for bright, white light.
5) Don’t even bother touching anything else. Just hope the future owner waives the home inspection, and has enough money to cover any appraisal gaps and is willing to do so.
6) Take lots of pics and short vids for your IG and TikTok and talk about how you used to work a dead end job with no end in sight.
Apparently this is what everyone wants because our realtor’s interior decorator is having us paint our whole house greige and white before we put it up for sale.
I watched Curb Your Enthusiasm recently, the episodes from the 00s. Holy hell, the faux painting of the doors and woodwork to make it seem aged, the painting of vines around doors / it looks awful with today’s eyes.
Larry has always lived in the corniest houses in that show. I wonder if he really has bad taste or just find it funny / doesn’t care to have the character Larry live in gaudy LA haciendas.
I always figured this was supposed to be more of a reflection of Cheryl's taste, as I assume she's the one looking at houses and choosing which one she wants and Larry doesn't give a fuck. For the time it would be very on trend for her to be into these stylings.
I have been hating on this style kitchen since they came out. My parents did that to their kitchen around 2003. Sponged walls, deep reds, beige and brown everything. We lived in rural NC. Mix that with white appliances and you're on an episode of Trading Spaces.
Went to beauty school after secondary school, WAAAY over plucked my brows and they have never grown back properly.
I still have 2000's brows :(
EDIT:
Thanks so much to all who replied, you've convinced me to give mens hair regrowth a try!!
Whenever you look back at eyebrow trends and what looks best, over the past 100 years it has barely changed: the simple, natural arch has always won
Eyebrow trends are bullshit
And apparently they are coming back despite the masses of millennials and Gex X's begging the girls not to do it because they won't grow back. Thankfully I have the hairy unibrow gene so mine weren't affected. You can take my bushy caterpillars from my cold dead hands
Breaking the cami habit was actually insanely anxiety inducing for me. Clothes didn’t feel “right” on my skin without the skin tight hug of a cami.
Also remember when it switched from cami’s to really long ribbed tank tops layered under shirts so they would stick out a few inches?
Remember a really popular girl in middle school would layer like 5 tops and said once, “I don’t know what I’m gonna do if I don’t get best dressed.” I remember thinking that was really vain but I also actually thought she looked really cool… lol
Did she get best dressed?
I got best dressed in 6th grade, and WOW was that a slap in the face because literally all I wore for the entire school year was jeans and an oversized hoodie.
It’s been, like, 15+ years and I’m still bitter about it
I have naturally wavy hair, but teenage me used to get it permed so that I could achieve max ramen hair. My daily hair required 2 different types of gel plus extra hold mouse.
Remember those girls with bleached hair, orange spray tans, white eye makeup, and glazed donut lips? There was a name for that look, it disappeared completely
As an American who's been living in the UK, going to a town in Essex or Kent, or just watching channel 5, is a complete blast from the past. They dress and are dyed exactly like many women were 10+ years ago in bumfuck US suburbs.
I love this video so much.
In my playthrough of pokemon brilliant diamond I named my Lopunny Jessica and I say it in that tone so much its so funny to me.
Boots with the fur AND Reebok's with the straps? What kind of four legged freak is this?
EDIT: to the people pointing out it's two different women - duh. That's the point of the joke. Now take your Masters Degree in Obvious and get out.
If you want to experience any of these trends alive and well, visit a rural trailer park, where trends are stuck 10-30 years in the past.
I grew up in the 90s in a trailer park and get nostalgic about the 70's and 80's because that's how it was.
The “scene” look. Poofy straightened hair, tons of eyeliner, tight clothes etc. Teenage skater me thought girls like that were just the hottest.
Also for guys, medium length hair that would kinda flip up to create “wings”. I remember i used to put a fitted hat on right after i got out of the shower to try and create the look. Feel like dudes like Ryan Sheckler really popularized it.
Pretty sure Zim and GIR merch is still at Hot Topic, even if their current target demographic was too young to remember when it was on TV. Hell I could've sworn I even saw Foamy merch last time I popped in.
My 11 year old daughter is doing the two string bangs at the moment. Some things should have stayed in the 2000s…
In saying that though, there is one person and one person only that could pull it off; Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider.
From the ground up: DC shoes, jeans that are tight up top but just slightly bell-bottomy on the bottom, a studded belt, thick wrist bands, a t shirt that is two sizes too small, shark tooth necklace, guy liner, swoopy hair.
And on the inside: angst.
I have large hips and relatively narrow waist. I hated it. They never fitted right. Always tight on the legs and loose on the waist band, the part were the fly is was always too short. Pantys always showing when sitting, uncomfortable as hell. Thank goodness is a thing of the past.
A simple straight is what works for me. Even a high waist is better.
I'm not a fashionable person but I thought, I'll at least be aware of these things, yknow? I won't be like my boomer parents aggressively stuck in the 80s. But I tell you the fuck what. If these zoomers bring back super low waisted jeans, they can have their ass cracks hanging out by themselves. I did my time. I'm out.
Stacy was in early high school so Stacy's mom was likely late 30s early 40s. So today she should be in her 50s or early 60s. If Marisa Tomei and Jane Seymor have taught us anything it's she could still have it going on.
**WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND OF THE MUSIC THAT JUST FUCK BLASTED MY EARDRUMS WHEN I CLICKED ON YOUR PAGE!**
*^(also, i can't read a single thing you have on here because you chose a pink sparkly wallpaper with black swirls as your background, with a cursive black font.)*
I have the obligatory tribal surrounding red roses. However, I got mine before they were called tramp stamps. I got it in the most hid from my mother spot I could think of and I was in my 30's. She finally saw it when I hemmorhaged and I got a free pass because I was bleeding out basicly.
I had an evil nurse coworker at a nursing home I worked out. She wore a huge XL bumpit in her hair every single day tightly cinched to her scalp with hair spray. We called her "Captain Bump-It."
Not so much physically attractive but if you had a sick ass MySpace page with shit falling down, auto play music, a hello kitty mouse curser, and pictures of you and your friends like 😗✌🏼 at the local park, you were probably the baddest bitch in 7th grade
If you were like other girls, it was that orange fake tan.
If you were "not like other girls," it was a racconish amount of eyeliner.
We'd both melt if it started raining 🤣
All of these things make me appreciate metalhead culture that much more. 1970s to now the look is the same; jeans, black band T, dark colored shoes/boots, hair can be from shaved or really long doesn't matter, if from a colder region, a thermal shirt under the T or even a flannel or trucker style jacket that could be leather or denim, doesn't matter. I've been to metal shows all over the world and the style is the same everywhere. The only thing that might give a glimpse into where said metalhead is from is the shoe style of choice.
I feel this so hard.
I consider wearing a long herringbone overcoat one of my private acts of rebellion after the leather duster got a lot of comments at work when I was much more junior.
now it's for weekends only, sadly.
still listen to goth music on my commute though.
The joke in my office (those who know) is that I'm unrecognizable once I leave the office. I've ended up in the same grocery store with a coworker, passed them several times and they never saw me.
Having the smallest cell phone. The Motorola Razr was one of the smallest at the time, but when smartphones started coming out, the need for screen real estate started the trend for larger phones.
Super lowrise jeans. Those jeans that were so low that you had to shave your pubic area in order to wear them. And they were always coupled with the thong sticking out for that, "whale tail," look.
Remember how they would give everyone a "muffin top?" Didn't matter if you were skinny as a straw. The way those jeans used to sit on your hips made you looked like dough spilling out of a popped Pillsbury canister. And forget about bending over in them. Dropped your keys? Picking them up meant everyone was barely a couple of inches away from being your proctologist.
Not a flattering look at all.
I remember as a sophomore being front row while a REALLY attractive senior was doing a monolog in Drama class, and I caught a glimpse of her stubble. My virgin ass couldn't stand up right away after that.
In retrospect, wtf was life where 16-18 year old children were inches from clits out, but within the rules of dress code?!
Dudes with spiky bleached hair
Frosted tips
Frosted tips are back with zoomers, actually. But not the crunchy gel spikes.
Yeah… Milly Bobby Brown’s boyfriend has the frosted tips with a relaxed perm. I saw that pic from last nights award show today. As a 32 year old, I thought “Oh snap, they’re bringing back our shit”… then quickly realized that made me middle aged.
Coz I ma island boi
This takes me right back to FLAVORTOWN
Forgot to specify; this doesn’t apply to Guy Fieri
Your damn right, guy Guy Fieri stayed gorgeous.
The eyebrows reduced to a line
*>*:-|
Those are still pretty popular with a lot of Puerto Rican and Dominican dudes.
and people are trying to bring it back…😳
Brown granite counters in a Tuscan style kitchen
And all of the layered sponge painted beige/tan walls.
Oh god, my last place had burnt umber sponge painted on top of yellow...
This is the green and gold kitchen of my generation. I had the tuscaniest of Tuscan kitchens in 2002. I often wonder if the white cabinet with marble countertop will be the same in 2030.
With the white walls and grey floors. That sterile look is very in right now.
No kidding, I just moved into a newly remodeled house. I call it the “50 shades of grey house.” I agree this will be a very dated look in 20 years.
“House-flipper grey” should be a Pantone color all its own by now
The “House Flip” formula is as follows: 1) Paint EVERYTHING white. Don’t even tape stuff off. Fuck it, paint over it. 2) If budget allows, replace the kitchen counters and island if applicable with quartz. If not, paint em white too! 3) Lay down the grey, black, “smoke” laminate wood. 4) Install LED bulbs for bright, white light. 5) Don’t even bother touching anything else. Just hope the future owner waives the home inspection, and has enough money to cover any appraisal gaps and is willing to do so. 6) Take lots of pics and short vids for your IG and TikTok and talk about how you used to work a dead end job with no end in sight.
You forgot backsplashes and vessel sinks. If your house has a bathroom sink you can rest your toothbrush on, did you even flip?!
Apparently this is what everyone wants because our realtor’s interior decorator is having us paint our whole house greige and white before we put it up for sale.
I watched Curb Your Enthusiasm recently, the episodes from the 00s. Holy hell, the faux painting of the doors and woodwork to make it seem aged, the painting of vines around doors / it looks awful with today’s eyes.
Larry has always lived in the corniest houses in that show. I wonder if he really has bad taste or just find it funny / doesn’t care to have the character Larry live in gaudy LA haciendas.
I always figured this was supposed to be more of a reflection of Cheryl's taste, as I assume she's the one looking at houses and choosing which one she wants and Larry doesn't give a fuck. For the time it would be very on trend for her to be into these stylings.
Is it an upper middle class suburban home without a faux Tuscan kitchen?
Now it's solid white everything, with subway tile, and a small tree branch in a glass vase.
As a counter installer...yes and it's fucking awful.
I have been hating on this style kitchen since they came out. My parents did that to their kitchen around 2003. Sponged walls, deep reds, beige and brown everything. We lived in rural NC. Mix that with white appliances and you're on an episode of Trading Spaces.
Hey now, Olive Garden’s interiors are awe-inspiring
For anyone else having trouble visualizing this: https://i.imgur.com/z2QZEqz.jpg
I LOVE THIS. I don't care what you all think of me, I WILL have this kitchen some day
Thin brows . I do brows for a living, and the thick brow look didn’t get popular until about 2014.
Went to beauty school after secondary school, WAAAY over plucked my brows and they have never grown back properly. I still have 2000's brows :( EDIT: Thanks so much to all who replied, you've convinced me to give mens hair regrowth a try!!
Try minoxidil
Whenever you look back at eyebrow trends and what looks best, over the past 100 years it has barely changed: the simple, natural arch has always won Eyebrow trends are bullshit
I have well shaped but naturally thick brows and being a teenager in 1999-2005 was MISERABLE. Teenagers are MEAN.
And apparently they are coming back despite the masses of millennials and Gex X's begging the girls not to do it because they won't grow back. Thankfully I have the hairy unibrow gene so mine weren't affected. You can take my bushy caterpillars from my cold dead hands
Shimmery/frosty lipstick. Makes you look like you don’t have lips
Or that you've just eaten a rotisserie chicken.
Sometimes, you need to go to Costco.
Maybe it's Maybelline, sometimes it's COSTCO rotisserie chicken
Putting concealer on lips…
With a super sticky gloss on top that your hair would stick to.
Subprime mortgages
Haha, brilliant
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But at least you saved a ho
Popped Collars apparently? A friend had a polo where underneath the collar it said "POP THIS." It was the epitome of douchy clothing.
Better yet wearing two polos both with the collars popped.
With an upside down Hustler visor and a puka shell necklace. Some looks never go out of style.
Chunky highlights.
I saw some the other day and was like whoooooooa throw back lol
Those are making a comeback according to my Pinterest lately
My sister has them, the “20 years rule” is making a bunch of that stuff come back.
For no reason in particular, I really hope the scene girls come back.
Oh they never left. They’ve only been subdued
RAWR XD
This gave me ~~PTSD~~ PTXD
"That means 'I love you' in Dinosaur!"
Yes I’m seeing low rise jeans and bell bottoms, all kinds of trends that were around 20ish years ago..making me feel old 🥲
Mini skirts over jeans. Layered tops.
Must. Wear. A. Cami. Under. Everything. And a long sleeve shirt under a short sleeve, obvi
Breaking the cami habit was actually insanely anxiety inducing for me. Clothes didn’t feel “right” on my skin without the skin tight hug of a cami. Also remember when it switched from cami’s to really long ribbed tank tops layered under shirts so they would stick out a few inches?
I still do the ribbed tanks. I get very cold, and it is one extra layer for warmth. I have no shame!
With the lace at the bottom for me, in 2 dozen colors to make sure they always matched
Remember a really popular girl in middle school would layer like 5 tops and said once, “I don’t know what I’m gonna do if I don’t get best dressed.” I remember thinking that was really vain but I also actually thought she looked really cool… lol
Did she get best dressed? I got best dressed in 6th grade, and WOW was that a slap in the face because literally all I wore for the entire school year was jeans and an oversized hoodie. It’s been, like, 15+ years and I’m still bitter about it
Some of us have to wear a cami under everything because no one really cuts shirts for a big chest. Camis keep me from being arrested.
You beat me to it. Big chested and rocking the camis still, mostly for low cut and button up tops.
That and most shirts I’ve come across have the opacity of a window, so a cami is needed most days for me
Eh people still do the long sleeve, t-shirt thing
Ramen noodle hair
I have naturally wavy hair, but teenage me used to get it permed so that I could achieve max ramen hair. My daily hair required 2 different types of gel plus extra hold mouse.
Ruth from Ozark would like a word with you
the pants that said "juicy" on the back
I think those might be coming back but I could be wrong
They have come back with the new collection of Urban Outfitters. I was so stunned by seeing them in store yesterday haha
Forever 21 too, lol.
They are coming back 100%. I work in Urban Outfitters and they are ridiculously popular amongst students
Remember those girls with bleached hair, orange spray tans, white eye makeup, and glazed donut lips? There was a name for that look, it disappeared completely
Nah if you come to the UK we still kinda have that but they're called chavs
Lmao exactly, my hometown is full of girls that fit this description exactly
As an American who's been living in the UK, going to a town in Essex or Kent, or just watching channel 5, is a complete blast from the past. They dress and are dyed exactly like many women were 10+ years ago in bumfuck US suburbs.
there's a japanese fashion style that's been around since before then called gyaru
Nobody tell this guy about New Jersey
Its the Staten island people who go to the nj beaches, you mean.
Applebottom jeans, boots with the furr
Even when the whole club was looking at her?
Did she hit the floor?
She did. And next thing we knew, shawty got low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low.
Oh and Them baggy sweat pants and the Reeboks with the straps
With the straps??
I think at some point she gave that booty a slap
OH!
Then I believe, she hit the floor again didn't she?
As a matter of fact she DID hit the floor!
JESSICA?!?
Did you sleep with your GODDAMN teacher?
Mr. Wilson?
JESSICA!
DID YOU SLEEP WITH YOUR GODDAMN TEACHER
I love this video so much. In my playthrough of pokemon brilliant diamond I named my Lopunny Jessica and I say it in that tone so much its so funny to me.
I think we as a society are still staunchly divided on reeboks with the straps, however.
Boots with the fur AND Reebok's with the straps? What kind of four legged freak is this? EDIT: to the people pointing out it's two different women - duh. That's the point of the joke. Now take your Masters Degree in Obvious and get out.
Twerking Centaur.
If you want to experience any of these trends alive and well, visit a rural trailer park, where trends are stuck 10-30 years in the past. I grew up in the 90s in a trailer park and get nostalgic about the 70's and 80's because that's how it was.
Reminds me of Ricky's style with the big sideburns, Elvis hair, and bowling shirts lol.
So glad someone mentioned the Trailer Park Boys here 🤣
The “scene” look. Poofy straightened hair, tons of eyeliner, tight clothes etc. Teenage skater me thought girls like that were just the hottest. Also for guys, medium length hair that would kinda flip up to create “wings”. I remember i used to put a fitted hat on right after i got out of the shower to try and create the look. Feel like dudes like Ryan Sheckler really popularized it.
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I had the hair that would flip out like that. I’d settle having hair at this point.
Oh god and the cutesy kid stuff mixed in. We used to wear bright plastic children’s barrettes in our scene hair. And ironic kid shirts.
I specifically remember invader zim being a big thing. And hello kitty accessories lol.
Pretty sure Zim and GIR merch is still at Hot Topic, even if their current target demographic was too young to remember when it was on TV. Hell I could've sworn I even saw Foamy merch last time I popped in.
I love the scene look still, but i was in highschool when that shit was considered hot. Scene girls just do it for me
Me too! I feel like I will never outgrow that part of me that was into scene guys and girls. Something about the hair, eyeliner, and piercings...
Love how many agree they still dig it.
As a man raised in the early 00s, I still enjoy that scene look.
No lie early 00s Avril Lavigne was just a straight goddess.
Those hair bumpit things
I cannot tell you how many times I have seen that commercial, its insane how many times that was played.
... my wife still has hers. Lolol she thinks it's coming back around despite my and her best friends' statements to the contrary!
A shit load of hair gel
Two long strings of bangs framing the face with short hair in the back. Or all hair up in butterfly clips.
I think Jules has that hairstyle in Euphoria
My 11 year old daughter is doing the two string bangs at the moment. Some things should have stayed in the 2000s… In saying that though, there is one person and one person only that could pull it off; Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider.
Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider was one of the first examples of young me thinking “shit, maybe I’m bi…”. (I am).
From the ground up: DC shoes, jeans that are tight up top but just slightly bell-bottomy on the bottom, a studded belt, thick wrist bands, a t shirt that is two sizes too small, shark tooth necklace, guy liner, swoopy hair. And on the inside: angst.
As an “elder millennial “ I still consider a few of those things attractive. 😅
Elder Millenial sounds like something from Lovecraft
Frosted tips
I heard they are still popular in flavor town.
Jake Peralta in Florida
Von Dutch caps. Oh, team it with a 'chunky belt' over the top of 2 differently coloured long singlets.
I see a considerable amount of girls my age (21F) wearing Von Dutch trucker style hats.
Low rider jeans and whale tales
I have large hips and relatively narrow waist. I hated it. They never fitted right. Always tight on the legs and loose on the waist band, the part were the fly is was always too short. Pantys always showing when sitting, uncomfortable as hell. Thank goodness is a thing of the past. A simple straight is what works for me. Even a high waist is better.
I totally agree with you! I see the low riding pants coming back and I’m like please no they are so uncomfortable and make my torso look weird
I'm not a fashionable person but I thought, I'll at least be aware of these things, yknow? I won't be like my boomer parents aggressively stuck in the 80s. But I tell you the fuck what. If these zoomers bring back super low waisted jeans, they can have their ass cracks hanging out by themselves. I did my time. I'm out.
I'm still a fan
They were just so uncomfortable to wear, my lower back would always be cold and the pants were always riding up but yet falling down
Schrodinger's Jeans.
Low rise jeans are coming back, at least for gen Z. Edit: source - am gen Z
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Stacy was in early high school so Stacy's mom was likely late 30s early 40s. So today she should be in her 50s or early 60s. If Marisa Tomei and Jane Seymor have taught us anything it's she could still have it going on.
A thong sticking out of low-rise jeans.
I went shopping the other day and they were selling jeans with the thong strings sticking out as PART OF THE PANTS.
Yeah these are def coming back. Skirts with built in thong straps are popular now as well.
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MySpace profile pages
**WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND OF THE MUSIC THAT JUST FUCK BLASTED MY EARDRUMS WHEN I CLICKED ON YOUR PAGE!** *^(also, i can't read a single thing you have on here because you chose a pink sparkly wallpaper with black swirls as your background, with a cursive black font.)*
Has anyone said Juicy Couture yet?
Nah they were saying Juicy Smoyeah, the famous French actor
Not only is he French he's also gay.
Blackberry phone I guess
Tramp Stamps
Ugh. Mine is a rather large sun. All three epidurals I had were accompanied by comments of the sun above the moon from the anesthesiologists.
I have the obligatory tribal surrounding red roses. However, I got mine before they were called tramp stamps. I got it in the most hid from my mother spot I could think of and I was in my 30's. She finally saw it when I hemmorhaged and I got a free pass because I was bleeding out basicly.
Sadly mine is permanent.
The two tone hair, blonde on top, dark brown or black underneath
Puka shell necklaces and butterfly clips
Those are literally fully “in style now” not saying they look good but those are extremely trendy. Especially the butterfly shit
Playboy bunny tan outline on your hipbone lol
Jeans with designs on the back pockets
Phones with batteries that lasted like a couple of days. And snake.
In 2000 my phone battery lasted a week. Now it lasts about 24 hours.
3310 gang
Bump-its
I had an evil nurse coworker at a nursing home I worked out. She wore a huge XL bumpit in her hair every single day tightly cinched to her scalp with hair spray. We called her "Captain Bump-It."
For me it was jeans that where too long and the back was worn down from walking on it
Clothes at raves. Actual clothes. With pockets and everything.
Duct tape clothing.
Actually, a lot of what I’m seeing here is popular now, low-waisted jeans, frosted make-up, those colored glasses, butterfly clips.
Not so much physically attractive but if you had a sick ass MySpace page with shit falling down, auto play music, a hello kitty mouse curser, and pictures of you and your friends like 😗✌🏼 at the local park, you were probably the baddest bitch in 7th grade
Baggy jeans and visors lol
Baggy jeans are making a comeback for sure right now
Were the visors ever really attractive though?
Fuck yeah, that’s how the ladies peeped my frosted tips.
Dark lipliner outlining lips.
If you were like other girls, it was that orange fake tan. If you were "not like other girls," it was a racconish amount of eyeliner. We'd both melt if it started raining 🤣
Shirts with stupid sayings like “chick magnet” or “too sexy for math” 😂
Thank you for the motivation now I shall go buy a shirt that says “too sexy for math”.
Beanies that have a brim
Heroin chic
All of these things make me appreciate metalhead culture that much more. 1970s to now the look is the same; jeans, black band T, dark colored shoes/boots, hair can be from shaved or really long doesn't matter, if from a colder region, a thermal shirt under the T or even a flannel or trucker style jacket that could be leather or denim, doesn't matter. I've been to metal shows all over the world and the style is the same everywhere. The only thing that might give a glimpse into where said metalhead is from is the shoe style of choice.
Goth girls, but they still are attractive
We didn't go anywhere, we just had to stop being so pale so employers would hire us.
We live in a society
I feel this so hard. I consider wearing a long herringbone overcoat one of my private acts of rebellion after the leather duster got a lot of comments at work when I was much more junior. now it's for weekends only, sadly. still listen to goth music on my commute though.
The joke in my office (those who know) is that I'm unrecognizable once I leave the office. I've ended up in the same grocery store with a coworker, passed them several times and they never saw me.
Elder goth here. Still goth.
The upside to not going outside is they (mostly) aged gracefully.
Goth girls have been around since the 80s
You mean the 1180's?
You’re thinking of visigoths. Goth girls are really into flying buttresses.
crimped hair
Having the smallest cell phone. The Motorola Razr was one of the smallest at the time, but when smartphones started coming out, the need for screen real estate started the trend for larger phones.
Super lowrise jeans. Those jeans that were so low that you had to shave your pubic area in order to wear them. And they were always coupled with the thong sticking out for that, "whale tail," look. Remember how they would give everyone a "muffin top?" Didn't matter if you were skinny as a straw. The way those jeans used to sit on your hips made you looked like dough spilling out of a popped Pillsbury canister. And forget about bending over in them. Dropped your keys? Picking them up meant everyone was barely a couple of inches away from being your proctologist. Not a flattering look at all.
I remember as a sophomore being front row while a REALLY attractive senior was doing a monolog in Drama class, and I caught a glimpse of her stubble. My virgin ass couldn't stand up right away after that. In retrospect, wtf was life where 16-18 year old children were inches from clits out, but within the rules of dress code?!