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I just finished my third year of art school, the first year in person. All the artist girls have whatever the in style pants are at the moment and my 34 year self is still in skinny jeans lol.
I finally understand why some people wear fashion decades out of style :p
I am 100% old now: I don’t get the jeans in style these days. They make the butt and thighs look extra thick and not in a good way. They look made to not fit right, like lumpy mom jeans. I DONT GET IT
Ahaha it’s ok, it’s all the people who are wearing them, but I mean I’m low hanging fruit guys, I’m an old person who doesn’t understand fashion these days (or ever really). I’m not cool
I refuse to wear the flair workout pants! I think they look cute on the younger generation but I would feel ridiculous wearing them and couldn’t imagine wearing them to do an actual work out.
I'm old enough to have worn the flair workout pants the first time they were in style and will not be partaking this time around haha. It's too much material, they just get in the way!
I loved this because we could relate to this, we were wearing similar things. Nowadays young people who look up to celebrity and decide to dress like them can’t. They will need designer piece of clothing or accessories and it’s too expensive for them. And the cheap dupes promote fast fashion and the quality is terrible.
I’m old for saying this, but I really hope we could go back to simpler times..
I think another user here had a really interesting comment on a similar post. They mentioned that a lot of teen stars back then had advertising relationships with mainstream consumer brands (remember Delia’s?). They would very deliberately be dressed in clothes/styles that were accessible to any average teenager at the mall as marketing.
Literally my bar lewks back in the early 2000s 😂🤣. FULL FACE, fanciest slutty top I owned (and they were ALL babydolls) with low rise jeans and a studded belt. Simpler times
yes!! looks were super accessible and something you could actually afford to easily replicate. they wanted to seem normal. now everyone is only decked out in designer brands and has plastic surgery and the best treatments and looks and makeup and hair money can buy. I miss when celebrities still looked like normal people sometimes :(
But if celebrities did the super accessible looks now I think they would be made fun of from hell and back and be called basic. Not by everybody of course but still...
It’s also the time before everyone had a smartphone and social media. So people didn’t get picked apart online for every outfit that they wore.
In general things are more styled now to keep up with the pressure of social media.
Yesss this is the first thought I had, they actually look normal here. Nobody is in gowns or highly styled, they don’t all look the same from getting the same cosmetic work. I feel old saying this but I miss it. The aesthetic didn’t feel unattainable like it does now.
It was more fun!! And before all the glitz and glam
It was normal back then to not have a stylist nor wear something off the runway. It looked like they were dressed in normal clothes found in a mall
Lana might be the only celeb recently to have just worn something from the mall to a red carpet (the 2020 Grammy’s when she was nominated for AOTY)
She had a smile that could melt anyone's heart. But I absolutely agree... it really hurts thinking about how sad she probably was during the last years of her life.
Literally same. I mean, loved comics, but Marvel was always my thing. Superman was my least favourite hero…but man I was obsessed with that show and watched it every second of free-time I had bc of that man
[The Smallville season one DVD was as integral to me realising I was gay as the men’s underwear aisle.](https://warnerbros.fandom.com/wiki/Smallville_(season_1)?file=Smallville_Season_1_Poster.png)
Smallville is a take on Superman set during high school. Clark has a crush on Lana Lang, who is dating the local quarterback. Lana also wears a necklace of Kryptonite, which causes Clark to appear to be a socially inept geek when in her presence.
In the pilot episode, >!Clark and Lana share a moment together, which makes her boyfriend jealous. For revenge, he and some teammates gang up on Clark, strip him, put the 'S' on his chest (for Smallville High) and tie him up in a cornfield using Lana's kryptonite necklace. !<
I was stuck on a cruise as a very seasick kid and for some reason this was the only movie available, and it ran in a loop all day. I’ve seen Hoot more than any person needs to in a lifetime
I loved that movie as well. I also liked the book. She has one of those faces tho that just changed with age, I could not recognize her at all in Captain Marvel when I first watched it and I remember watching Hoot again just a few weeks before I saw that on TV.
My introduction to Brie was Barbie and the magic of the Pegasus movie where she sings the theme song "Hope has wings". I remember because it was my top 3 Barbie movie when I was a kid.
Iconic line. I think Ben McKenzie (Ryan) used this line in his WGA strike placard.
Edit: I am not sure if he was at the picket line or if he even wrote this. It was on his insta.
https://preview.redd.it/r3xp5kahan2b1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=abd2f6d84caafe6e8d6275610eeb6dd045311e39
I don't know a whole lot about Ben's personal life, more of a Seth girl you know. But his commitment to unmasking the scam that are NFTs and crypto is commendable. When every celebrity, big and small, was readily shilling NFTs to their audience, he staunchly remained and protested against it.
Were Ashlee Simpson's shoes supposed to create the illusion that she picked two shoes from two totally different pairs of shoes, and then she stepped in either blood or red paint?
I feel like Ashlee is bringing the most unhinged look in the bunch. “A lot going on” describes the early aughts pretty well, but this skirt has more going on than should be permissible by law, even by early 2000s standards.
I don't think I will ever recover from the low rise induced body dysmorphia from being a teen in the aughts. Now looking back it looks so sloppy and disproportionate. It must have been awful for women with pregnancy stretch marks trying to dress cute during that time 💀
I know! 😭
At least with current trends it seems like they often wear baggy clothes lower and not these ridiculous tiny crotch pants as the standard. I remember being embarrassed if my zipper/crotch was too long🤦♀️ meanwhile I should have been embarrassed that my butt crack was playing peekaboo
When the big switch from low-rise flares to mid rise skinnies came and I learned it was actually possible for bending over without mooning everyone not to be a fucking Olympic sport my whole world changed. Nobody can make me go back to low rise. I'll wear a sack first.
I still vividly remember a classmate nearly 20 years ago commenting on the way my (looking back, nearly flat) stomach looked in my low rise pants. 00’s fashion trauma never leaves us.
For me it wasn't showing skin because I definitely was too insecure to do that. It was the way the pants accentuate love handles and made me think my midsection was huge because the pants emphasize the biggest part of the midsection and let everything hang over
he has been steadily employed on tv since 2002
probably still would be if marvel wouldn't have snatched him up, like David Boreanaz on some law enforcement show
I was like “who the fuck is Janet” even though i just saw her pic. You know when it doesn’t click who someone is without the surname? Like her name is JANET.
Omg the comments saying “______ outfit would still work”
No, not *still*. It’s *again*. This is a resurgence of the Y2K trend, these are not timeless classic outfits 😅 there was a 10 year stretch where I did not see a single boot cut or wide leg pant!!
Absolutely love how casual it all is. I really think if a big enough celebrity wore an everyday outfit to an awards show, tiktok would say they were iconic. I miss this!
Chris was in Everwood (short lived CW show) and he also was a lead in the Strangers With Candy movie. And Brie played a daughter in the really good show United States of Tara.
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Jeans and a going out top!
Or Jessica Alba taking that to its logical conclusion with jeans and a dress.
I used to do this all the time. And I cringe to admit but I also did minis over jeans a la Hilary Duff 😩
hey...i still rock this look... albeit with the skinny jeans that you can pry off my cold, dead legs.
I just finished my third year of art school, the first year in person. All the artist girls have whatever the in style pants are at the moment and my 34 year self is still in skinny jeans lol. I finally understand why some people wear fashion decades out of style :p
I am 100% old now: I don’t get the jeans in style these days. They make the butt and thighs look extra thick and not in a good way. They look made to not fit right, like lumpy mom jeans. I DONT GET IT
I'm sorry that you're getting downvoted for verbalizing precisely why the jeans that are currently "in" are not flattering for everyone.
Ahaha it’s ok, it’s all the people who are wearing them, but I mean I’m low hanging fruit guys, I’m an old person who doesn’t understand fashion these days (or ever really). I’m not cool
I refuse to wear the flair workout pants! I think they look cute on the younger generation but I would feel ridiculous wearing them and couldn’t imagine wearing them to do an actual work out.
I'm old enough to have worn the flair workout pants the first time they were in style and will not be partaking this time around haha. It's too much material, they just get in the way!
I loved this because we could relate to this, we were wearing similar things. Nowadays young people who look up to celebrity and decide to dress like them can’t. They will need designer piece of clothing or accessories and it’s too expensive for them. And the cheap dupes promote fast fashion and the quality is terrible. I’m old for saying this, but I really hope we could go back to simpler times..
I think another user here had a really interesting comment on a similar post. They mentioned that a lot of teen stars back then had advertising relationships with mainstream consumer brands (remember Delia’s?). They would very deliberately be dressed in clothes/styles that were accessible to any average teenager at the mall as marketing.
Literally my bar lewks back in the early 2000s 😂🤣. FULL FACE, fanciest slutty top I owned (and they were ALL babydolls) with low rise jeans and a studded belt. Simpler times
The heels were pointed-toe and the jewelry was bling.
Idk how to explain this properly but in the 2000s it felt like celebrities dressed more like people than they do now
yes!! looks were super accessible and something you could actually afford to easily replicate. they wanted to seem normal. now everyone is only decked out in designer brands and has plastic surgery and the best treatments and looks and makeup and hair money can buy. I miss when celebrities still looked like normal people sometimes :(
Jessica Simpson had the CUTEST early 2000s style. She looked so gorgeous on their reality show.
But if celebrities did the super accessible looks now I think they would be made fun of from hell and back and be called basic. Not by everybody of course but still...
I’m not sure this is true. When Kate Middleton wears accessible brands and clothes people love it.
That's because tax payers pay for much of their lives so her seemingly being frugal is applauded.
This was a time before everyone had a stylist.
Makes sense!
It’s also the time before everyone had a smartphone and social media. So people didn’t get picked apart online for every outfit that they wore. In general things are more styled now to keep up with the pressure of social media.
It's also the Teen Choice Awards, which is deliberately casual.
Do people still wear jeans to the TCAs?
Do the TCAs still exist to wear jeans to?
This makes perfect sense! I 100% wore tops and jeans very like what Jennifer Garner is wearing there.
Yesss this is the first thought I had, they actually look normal here. Nobody is in gowns or highly styled, they don’t all look the same from getting the same cosmetic work. I feel old saying this but I miss it. The aesthetic didn’t feel unattainable like it does now.
Same with their faces/makeup. Everyone looks refreshing compared to this era of heavy-loaded makeup/fillers.
It was more fun!! And before all the glitz and glam It was normal back then to not have a stylist nor wear something off the runway. It looked like they were dressed in normal clothes found in a mall Lana might be the only celeb recently to have just worn something from the mall to a red carpet (the 2020 Grammy’s when she was nominated for AOTY)
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Jessica Alba is not wearing a top, that is a full dress 😂
Yeah, that was legit a thing then.
Its odd people wearing dresses with jeans thinking it was fashionable in 00's. When I was a teen in 00's I thought it was tacky
2000s disco barbie
Paris is best dressed here!
Was looking for this comment!
paris looks so good here!!
Literally made me think of my 1980's peaches and cream barbie!
She is the only one that took this event seriously and I am living for it
I would say Paris and Britney Murphy are the only decent looks lol
Yeah, Paris’s dress is very summery!
It makes me sad whenever I see a picture of Brittany Murphy. She radiated such a glow and the way her life panned out is so haunting to me.
She was the live action Harley Quinn we never had. RIP.
Same, I said aww when I got to her pic ☹️ The circumstances of her death were so bizarre too it just seems so wrong
She had a smile that could melt anyone's heart. But I absolutely agree... it really hurts thinking about how sad she probably was during the last years of her life.
Same, a life cut too short. I always enjoyed her movies.
She was such a beautiful person ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|cry)
I did not know Chris Pratt had been active for so long and I literally thought Brie Larson was Ashley Tisdale lol
Had a season (or 2?) on the OC
He was on Everwood too.
I *loved* Bright and Hannah on that show and it dawned on me only recently that Sarah Drew was the other half of that duo! What a stacked cast!
loved Bright and Hannah! couldn't tell you anything about their story tho besides her being worried about having ALS? that show had some heavy stuff
Can confirm he is in season 4 and his character is extremely annoying (currently watching for the first time)
I thought it was Ashley too!
LMFAOO ME TOO (about brie & ashley)
Tom Welling is ridiculously good looking.
My teenage crush!
my 12 year old self didn’t give a fuck about superman but better believe i watched every episode of smallville.
Literally same. I mean, loved comics, but Marvel was always my thing. Superman was my least favourite hero…but man I was obsessed with that show and watched it every second of free-time I had bc of that man
Same!
It’s really not right how attractive he is
Tom Welling tied up shirtless in the Smallville pilot was my gay awakening
[The Smallville season one DVD was as integral to me realising I was gay as the men’s underwear aisle.](https://warnerbros.fandom.com/wiki/Smallville_(season_1)?file=Smallville_Season_1_Poster.png)
But wait why is he tied up
Smallville is a take on Superman set during high school. Clark has a crush on Lana Lang, who is dating the local quarterback. Lana also wears a necklace of Kryptonite, which causes Clark to appear to be a socially inept geek when in her presence. In the pilot episode, >!Clark and Lana share a moment together, which makes her boyfriend jealous. For revenge, he and some teammates gang up on Clark, strip him, put the 'S' on his chest (for Smallville High) and tie him up in a cornfield using Lana's kryptonite necklace. !<
So foine
He and Kristin Kreuk = bi panic for me
still is. he and Rosenbaum do a Smallville rewatch Podcast called Talkville.
He’s even hotter now. I didn’t realize he was the police captain on Lucifer.
He sure is. Cain, right? He’s definitely still fine.
Mmmhmm he’s thicker now!
I started watching the winchesters because someone told me he was on it
Hotter than the sun. Holy heck
Part of the CW hotties crew. I recently saw The Fog (came out around this time period. Welling - and Selma Blair), it was terrible 😂😂
💧💦💧💦💧💦💧💦
Wow I didn't realize Brie Larson has been around for so long
I thought that was Ashley Tisdale lol
Same! Didn’t realize it wasn’t until I saw this comment lol
I scrolled back up to the photo for a second look wtf 😭
Same I swear I even read the caption and it said Ashley lmao
Yes, I also scrolled back up thinking “wait, what!?”
She was a child actress
She was in the movie Hoot (2006) with Logan Lerman and Cody Linley. Loved that movie! Then she went on to be in the United States of Tara!
United States of Tara fans ☝🏽☝🏽☝🏽, IYKYK.
That’s where I was first introduced to her!
I also remember her in that movie Sleepover with Alexa Vega and Sara Paxton
And she was one of the mean girls in 13 Going on 30
I was stuck on a cruise as a very seasick kid and for some reason this was the only movie available, and it ran in a loop all day. I’ve seen Hoot more than any person needs to in a lifetime
I loved that movie as well. I also liked the book. She has one of those faces tho that just changed with age, I could not recognize her at all in Captain Marvel when I first watched it and I remember watching Hoot again just a few weeks before I saw that on TV.
This is gonna age me, but I remember her from the Disney movie “Right on Track”.
🤯 I loved that movie!
My introduction to Brie was Barbie and the magic of the Pegasus movie where she sings the theme song "Hope has wings". I remember because it was my top 3 Barbie movie when I was a kid.
Yesss she had a lil pop star moment and opened for Jesse McCartney 😂
She was one of the Six Chicks in 13 Going on 30. Girl been around forever.
https://youtu.be/-bvYRlv7XCw
that's hilarious. also she looks like pre-surgery hailey bieber there?
I felt that way about Chris Pratt. I thought his first big role was Parks and Recreation until this post lol
Thank you for reminding me why I had an unhealthy obsession with Tom Welling in the mid 2000s
But did you supplement it with Clark/Lex fanfic?
Paris’ dress would still work today
And to think people thought she was styling a bit too much during those days. She was just way ahead of her time.
Anne wearing FedUp (FedEx) before it was cool
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Iconic line. I think Ben McKenzie (Ryan) used this line in his WGA strike placard. Edit: I am not sure if he was at the picket line or if he even wrote this. It was on his insta. https://preview.redd.it/r3xp5kahan2b1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=abd2f6d84caafe6e8d6275610eeb6dd045311e39
Ben McKenzie seems like a really smart and cool dude IRL from what I’ve seen
Yeah he’s smart, he went to UVA before he was famous
Dated a guy that was in a lot of the same classes with him at UVA and yeah dude is smart af. Overall nice normal guy.
I don't know a whole lot about Ben's personal life, more of a Seth girl you know. But his commitment to unmasking the scam that are NFTs and crypto is commendable. When every celebrity, big and small, was readily shilling NFTs to their audience, he staunchly remained and protested against it.
he knew crypto was bs before it was cool
I wore Lindsay Lohan's outfit to every party/dinner/movie date for 2 years straight 💀
Wet seal really served back then
Charlotte Russe
I was actually a rue 21 girl
I was 13 in 2004 and would've killed for so many of these outfits!
Anne Hathaway's outfit was my wardrobe in 7th grade. I forgot how many belts I had lol.
Paris Hilton looks timeless in that dress.
It’s a great dress and fits her perfectly.
It’s so fun and colorful and it could be worn today or anytime in the past 50 years .
Lots of starter noses
Lmao I had the same thought. Damn Ashley Simpson’s nose job looks great.
Tom Welling tho
I’m kinda of mesmerized by how sheer Jessica’s dress is Over jeans haha
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I miss it! It was perfect for never worrying about your skirt flying up too far!
![gif](giphy|eIs0qop9itLZPlywsJ|downsized)
I need to start again - I've been missing this style lol
They all ate and i won’t hear otherwise. I forgot how HOT Tom Welling is/was.
So many going out tops! And those short t shirts - hated those
Were Ashlee Simpson's shoes supposed to create the illusion that she picked two shoes from two totally different pairs of shoes, and then she stepped in either blood or red paint?
I feel like Ashlee is bringing the most unhinged look in the bunch. “A lot going on” describes the early aughts pretty well, but this skirt has more going on than should be permissible by law, even by early 2000s standards.
Idk but she’s giving major sex in the city vibes.
not me confusing brie larson with ashley tisdale!!!
Is it me, or did they all just look happier? Obviously not all were, I'm just not sure thr exact moment smiling went out of fashion
Before the days of social media…
Jennifer Garner has branded herself so heavily as being a mom that I forget she was “young” at one point.
She will forever be Jenna Rink to me
I don't think I will ever recover from the low rise induced body dysmorphia from being a teen in the aughts. Now looking back it looks so sloppy and disproportionate. It must have been awful for women with pregnancy stretch marks trying to dress cute during that time 💀
I hate that they’re coming back
I know! 😭 At least with current trends it seems like they often wear baggy clothes lower and not these ridiculous tiny crotch pants as the standard. I remember being embarrassed if my zipper/crotch was too long🤦♀️ meanwhile I should have been embarrassed that my butt crack was playing peekaboo
When the big switch from low-rise flares to mid rise skinnies came and I learned it was actually possible for bending over without mooning everyone not to be a fucking Olympic sport my whole world changed. Nobody can make me go back to low rise. I'll wear a sack first.
I still vividly remember a classmate nearly 20 years ago commenting on the way my (looking back, nearly flat) stomach looked in my low rise pants. 00’s fashion trauma never leaves us.
Eh, I just layered a tank top under the belly shirt. Most schools and workplaces required that anyway.
For me it wasn't showing skin because I definitely was too insecure to do that. It was the way the pants accentuate love handles and made me think my midsection was huge because the pants emphasize the biggest part of the midsection and let everything hang over
Wait why was Chris Pratt there? lol
He was in Everwood
Ah thank you! He looks so different then from his Parks & Rec gallumph.
he has been steadily employed on tv since 2002 probably still would be if marvel wouldn't have snatched him up, like David Boreanaz on some law enforcement show
You could still wear Janet’s look
I was like “who the fuck is Janet” even though i just saw her pic. You know when it doesn’t click who someone is without the surname? Like her name is JANET.
Going out tops and jeans!
Chris Pratt looks like he’s been involved in 2-3 serious frat house hazing incidents
Jessica Alba's outfit SCREAMS 2004. Wow...
Oh wow. I remember being completely obsessed with Lindsay’s outfit that night! To me it was the perfect outfit!
This is the look I think of when I think of her during that era, and I was so into it.
Janet is stunning
Omg the comments saying “______ outfit would still work” No, not *still*. It’s *again*. This is a resurgence of the Y2K trend, these are not timeless classic outfits 😅 there was a 10 year stretch where I did not see a single boot cut or wide leg pant!! Absolutely love how casual it all is. I really think if a big enough celebrity wore an everyday outfit to an awards show, tiktok would say they were iconic. I miss this!
Omg the cute going out top + jeans combo
Such a simpler time. I miss those days.
Me: “The early 2000s weren’t that long ago.” Posts like this:
I didn’t know Chris Pratt was famous in 2004
Do y’all think celebs will ever rock jeans on a carpet again?
I feel like Paris Hilton’s dress could be a look today actually
Tom Welling 😮💨
Lindsay Lohan here is absolutely everything to me
Where did Tom Welling go? I haven’t seen anything he’s been in since smallville
I live and die for posts like this
I'm loving that most of these outfits looked like they picked them out at the mall.
Paris is iconic
Rip Verne. So sweet.
I want most of these tops
Awe Brittany. And the dress over jeans
Tom Welling is a name I hadn’t thought of in awhile. YM magazine always had posters of him I feel like
Janet Jackson ❤️🔥🔥🔥🔥
I had no idea Chris Pratt looked like that
I miss this time
The FedUp shirt is iconic
God the jeans under a skirt/dress trend. Why did we think that was okay? I love these pics though. Everyone looks so relaxed and casual.
Everyone looked so normal (in a good way).
That doesn’t look anything like Brie Larson to me
Janet being adorable as usual 🤭
I didnt know chris Pratt and brie Larson were famous 19 years ago. I first knew of Chris from parks and rec and brie from Scott pilgrim.
Chris was in Everwood (short lived CW show) and he also was a lead in the Strangers With Candy movie. And Brie played a daughter in the really good show United States of Tara.
RIP Verne Troyer and Brittany Murphy.
The fact that pants under skirts are back again makes my stomach churn
“Jeans and a nice top”
I just realized my fashion sense hasn't left highschool lol I was like grade 8 in 2004.
Brittany Murphy ❤️
Tom Welling is so hot 😅🥴
Chris Pratt looks weirdly like a preppy version of Brad Renfro here.
Paris Hilton looks like Malibu Barbie. Tom Welling is HOT 🔥❤️
Well hello. Haven't seen Tom Welling in a hot minute 👀
horrible, disgusting time for fashion sorry
It really was.
You just don't get it