Opening my Y2K fashion time capsule 

A suggestion from an old lady: before you pack those away again, write a description of each (what the fashion was, what year, where you got it, what it meant to you, where and how you wore it, etc). When you are old, those details will start to fade and you will be glad you did. Plus, someday someone with an interest in fashion history will inherit these and they will be thrilled that they're documented (imagine finding a box of 1920s clothes with that sort of documentation). I wish I had. I know that the full length, empire waist dress made of red velvet with white daisy trim which is hanging in my closet dates to about 1971 or -72. I think it was a bridesmaid's dress, but whose wedding? I don’t remember. I wish I had labeled it.

Hahahahaaa this is how I feel explaining to my kids that grunge was more than flannels, ripped jeans, and Doc Martens. Alot more slip dresses and band shirts and handmade beaded chokers. I remember bead looming 20 NIN chokers to sell at school and they sold out in under an hour. 😆 Also I think you looked super cute in that red peasant crop top. Not everything was terrible and what's important is that you had fun. ☺️

I was 21 in 2000 and dressed mostly in metal/goth style. And because my wardrobe was so small, I still have 90% of those clothes in a storage tub in the attic. Really feeling like I need to go open that up and get a hit of nostalgia!

Okay but as a short and tiny framed teen with a *gigantic* chest, the bubble shirts were life-changing because for the first time since I turned 12 I could actually wear something that other teenagers wore as opposed to Sexy Clothing For Adults. The bubbles were completely stretched out in front but I could *wear* it. It adapted so well to non-standard body shapes, the only time I've ever seen "one size fits all" even remotely true. They were also generally pretty high necked, which, again, almost impossible to find in tops that fit large chests, and therefore highly desirable to a teenager trying not to wear revealing stuff and tired of being openly oggled and harrassed.

You know what? I MISS THE PEASANT TOPS. There, I said it, I thought they were great, and you are reminding me I want to start wearing them again. BELL SLEEVES FOR LIFE!

This is so fun to watch bc I was born in '97 so I got the filtered kid version of lots of these which meant pink plaid shorts and low rise pants that never stayed up bc I wasn't even old enough to have hips. Ugh. The early 2000's did little kids dirty because it was just smaller versions of the same clothes made for high schoolers and fit our bodies so awkward.

Oh man...we definitely need to see a current-Nicole-informed, up-skilled remake of that goth dress and jacket combo.

Those little shrugs were for school so I didn't get dress-coded for my lace trimmed cami!! Also, EVERYTHING we were wearing was so itchy. I thought it was just me until I realized it was the cheap plastic material.

I would love to see a video where you remake items from your Y2K wardrobe to fit your aesthetic and understanding of clothing construction!

I could do an entire video on what teens really wore in the 80's(my era) I cringe when people dress up in neon and legwarmers and call it an 80's outfit. They weren't even popular at the same time 😅

I'm a late-boomer and the trend from my era that has been making the rounds is the Gunne Sax dresses. My Mom couldn't afford the actual Gunne Sax brand, but there were plenty of knock-offs. I kept several off the dresses (currently buried in a storage unit) and recently saw one of them on Pinterest! It funny how the adage "what's old is new again" still holds true. Thanks for sharing! Might we see a recreation of the jacket only make it truly Victorian?

I would love to see you recreate your goth baby college outfit 😊 it feels like it would be so much fun! Thanks for walking down memory lane! I had blocked out the 3/4 sleeves 😂

I'll be honest. We're about the same age. I don't think I owned hardly any of these items. 😅 I just wore band shirts, half of which were Hobby Lobby T-shirts with iron on letters, and ratty jeans. My favorite pair was so torn up I started sewing patches inside so the colorful fabric showed through the tears. And a zip up hoodie that was basically a socially acceptable security blanket. The most fashion forward I got was maybe a throw back to Neve Campbell in the early 90s with a mini skirt and shiny black button up and docs.

Can we take a moment to appreciate how early you figured out your color palette? And how wonderful you looked in clothes that were, appropriately, of your time? The style twists and vintage (adjacent) pieces were a foreshadowing of great things to come. Thank you for your walk down memory lane.

I had TOTALLY forgotten about the cowl neck madness. Memory unlocked. Also the mini made out of textured fabrics is SO cute.

Go for the weird is a GREAT tag line. I'm stealing it!

I wasn't fashionable at all, but I definitely recognize some of these styles from my more fashion-aware classmates in middle school/high school... except the 3/4ths sleeve, that was about the only thing I wore besides just t-shirts from 2002-2008 or so. Also I seem to recall capri length pants being "in" again in the early 2000s.

That asymmetrical blue suede top would have blown my mind as a tween - the combination of it being the fashion as well as being obsessed with lotr (especially the elves) meant I thought droopy, pointed pseudomedieval sleeves and an asymmetric hem were the most beautiful details any clothes could have 😂

That mini skirt from the UK had just about all the fabrics from my Granny's front room in the 70s in the uk. 😂😂 I'm a late 80s teen so over sized batwing sweaters , long skirts then skin tight jeans with no stretch that you had to lay down to zip up and left seam lines on your legs 😮

I'm one of the youngest millenials (30 is staring me down 👀) and I definitely remember most of these trends. ESPECIALLY the chonky cowl necks and the coloured stripes and the sparkly jumpers. I was a teenager when LAYERS dominated the market. Frilled miniskirts and leggings, with layered tanks and a chunky belt. Oh and a rediculous statement necklace. That was the look about 2008/9

This gave me flashbacks to being in grad school or early career in the early 2000s & needing professional clothes. The clothes in one half of a store would be too big & honestly matronly looking while the clothes in the half that actually fit me were all low rise nightmares. 😳 I had to sew a lot just in self defense. 🤣

This is such a fun video! I was a child and tween in the 2000s, and wasn’t really allowed to experiment much with fashion, due to having a very traditional mother. However, in the late 2000s, I acquired a replica pair of Alice’s buttoned, lacy, fingerless gloves from Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland remake at Hot Topic. I wore them to school every day with my otherwise woefully average outfits, and felt SO cool. I’ve admired vintage-inspired fashion for a long time, but am just now trying to dip my toes in at age 25. I look forward to watching more of your content!

The wild thing is I grew up wearing very similar styles in 2010-2018; I had a *lot* of clothes from goodwill, and basically never wore whatever the current trends were. I absolutely loved the bubble shirts and cowl neck sweaters, plus bootcut jeans and graphic tees.

Nicole is definitely showing the things that I wanted to wear in the 2000s but my super conservative super practical parents would have never😂 so I got stuck with layered polos and tank tops under low neck T-shirts.

Such a great idea to make such a memory clothing box! 🤗 Too bad I only kept 1 outfit from that time 😅 In the early 2000’s I was very much in the tight Tshirts or band Tshirts, fingerless gloves with low rise, wide legged or cargo pants or plaid skirts with bucket hats and doc martins boots (and yes to chokers) 😂 If I had kept some stuff I am sure my niece (soon 10years old) would have a field day! 😂 Maybe that’s what all the american teens wore at the time but in my tiny home town in the Netherlands it was pretty “alternative” 😅😂 I was usually referred to as “that quaint girl” “quaint” being a polite way to say “strange” 😂 Embrace your weirdness and run with it! 😂 At least I have really fun pictures of the time 😝

The equestrian aysmmetrical skirt is my favorite. I would make the hem straight across for today and wear it in a heartbeat. Thanks for sharing.

I was born in 1993, so I remember some of that but didn't have them myself, except that tiny bubbly stretchy shirt I got from some older family friend. It was ugly purple with yellow flowers, and it felt horrible, but somehow I still liked it.

I love this!! I'm a few years younger than you and I grew up in a very conservative family, so I did not get to enjoy clothes like this when I was a teen. But I remember these styles! and I think it is so awesome that you were all over the place with your style🤗

the lightweight knit shirt with copious amounts of beading... I had two of those but in a sort of tank-top version. One black, one plum. They were great if one wanted something a tad more "fancy", but still comfy. I was slightly confused about the lack of tie-dye that seemed to be super common where I lived early 2000's. Had so much tie-dye clothing, often matching sets of tops and bottoms.

That mini 11:27 skirt is actually so cute it’s so nostalgic looking to me modern fashion cannot replicate that at all!

I loved the walk down memory lane during this fashion era because this was back when I was getting into fashion and dressing for myself too. I was definitely a 2003-2007 era mall goth/emo and loved anything vaguely Victorian or "witchy" I could find for "looking nice". (I mostly lived in an oversized hoodie covered in safety pins and a pair of converse on the day to day, but I had a Tripp pants and punk plaid skirts that I loved) My mom was into catalog shopping and I loved the Pyramid Catalog which was full of that cowgirl, hippie, peasant blouse witchy goth stuff that I loved to look at. I was not allowed to show my midriff however, so the era of low rise denim was a constant struggle against parental oversight and having any hips at all.

As much as I loved seeing the individual items of clothing. I LOVED your responses as you picked them out of the box, the moment when memories trigger is incredible and fun ! 🥰🥰

What a fun episode! Have you continued to keep time capsules of each decade? It's fascinating what one will happily wear at various times in life, then later they seem so strange one can hardly imagine being that person! In the early 90s I used to wear enormous, cartwheel hats with everything. I don't know how I even fitted on public transport in them!

I mostly don't regret getting rid of clothes that don't fit me or my style (either to charity or to friends/family), apart from one: my wool flannel checkered shirt (burgundy, white, grey, and black). As a teenager in the 90s, this was my uniform 94-97, with black jeans and my burgundy docs I wore to death. I gave it to a charity shop in the mid 2000s after a breakup and still think about it to this day.

i was born in 2000 but that shade of blue at 16:16 is SO quintessential to my childhood i remember wearing that color ALL THE TIME especially bc my family used to go to resorts on vacation every summer and that turquoise blue just screams water fun holiday i loved it though i havent touched that color since 😂

I was a little bit younger - and lived in rural Australia - so my exposure to fashion trends was basically zero (until we moved to the UK in '04) but you've reminded me of my favourite white peasant blouse from about 2002 which had full-length sleeves with a slit the whole way down the arm!

I remember these crazy synthetic fabrics of that era that I couldn't wear because my skin was sensitive and became itchy. And those designs, you could see a garment and couldn't figure out how you could wear that, lol. Thank you for that time travel and reminding me to keep admiring natural fabrics.

Oh the nostalgia!!! I was 16 in 2000 and there was so much more than the low-rise jean with baby tee. There was so much wonderful texture and the colour combos were so much, braver might be the word? 😂 Anyhoo! Nicole, could you be persuaded to do a video on your neo-victorian jacket you showed at the end please? I'd love to see what your current choices would be when re-making this. With commentary on what someone stepping into clothes-making could do instead of e.g. pad-stitching. Just an idea. Love your videos and thank you for sharing your time capsule. ❤

My xennial self actually loves a lot of that clothing you pulled out - even now! Big fan of those sparkly batwing sweaters and I LOVE your goth ensemble. Both pieces are really cool! Imma try and find some photos of me from back then, you've made me all nostalgic haha

Y2K, who were you? OMG...😂. I was in college 1974 to 1979. When I graduated, I was wearing all distressed jeans with ripped knees because those were the same jeans that I graduated high school with. I stopped sewing in college because, you know, no time and no money for fabric. Except I made one brown jersey knit wrap skirt to go over a purchased spaghetti strap body suit so I could go to a new disco. In 4 years I only bought one cowel neck top and one denim jumpsuit that I wore to shreds. That's it. I felt vastly out of style wearing all my high school sewing projects: high-waist wide-leg trousers and empire waisted peasant blouses. It was Little House on the Prairie meets Pink Floyd in Earth Shoes dancing The Bus Stop. 😂❤😂❤😂❤😂❤😂. Loved your humorous video. Thanks for the courageous sharing and pictures.

Oh wow! Did some of these bring some memories! I was a kid in the early 2000s so most of the stuff that I wore was either what my mom bought me at Walmart or whatever my grandmother made for me. Which wasn't actually that bad since they always made me look cute. 😄 But, I definitely have vivid memories of what all the teenage girls where wearing during that time. Especially, the low rise & flaired pants paired with either baby tees or tube tops & platform shoes. Not to mention the tattoo chokers, butterfly clips & spiky bun hairstyles. I also definitely remember the off the shoulder sweaters & the cardigans with the faux fur trim because I actually had the kiddie version of those pieces & absolutely loved them to death. They made me feel like such a little fashionista! 😂💕

Back around 1999, I filled a bin with clothes I loved, but we're no longer in style. (Even for a 40 year old woman.) Last summer my 17 year old granddaughter and I opened up the 1999 bin. She was thrilled with some of the (now retro) clothes. She pulled out the high waist jeans, several dresses and a corduroy overshirt. Remember the shirts where every piece of the pattern was cut from a different primary color? As she is one of the handful of "artsy" students in Ozark Alabama, she wears Grammy's vintage clothing everywhere. 😊 And with the removal of some shoulder pads, I have reclaimed a few dresses too. I love your channel and the videos. Keep them coming.

I've never been fashionable or interested in fashion but I do remember how awful the Y2K trends were. I was in my early 30s, so I mostly observed the horror from afar. What I remember is lots of sparkles, velour track suits, bedazzling, tiny tops and low rise pants, and I think that's where the tunic and leggings trend started. I lived in Las Vegas at the time, so I saw all of this TO THE MAX. Y2K was a weird time, to be sure. Oh and the platform stiletto shoes ("stripper shoes") 😂.

I love the red peasant crop top. I'd immediately find a simple high-wasted strappy dress with built-in bra and layer it on top to look like a fancy dress. Few people enjoy bearing their midriff for their whole lives, but layering with these in the right way can actually be versatile and interesting at moving the waistline above a belly, so I may acquire some for those kinds of outfits. It's funny to me that such waist-emphasizing clothing can so easily be just as effective at doing the opposite, depending how you wear it.

The asymmetric skirt definitely brings back memories. I was a mosher in the early 2000s but had to have some "normal" clothes for family stuff. I definitely had a black asymmetric skirt.

Layering shirts was such a huge thing at that point. Multiple camis under sheer top, or cami with lacy bottom hem

I love your time capsule video... all the feels. I was a teenager in the 1970s... I still love peasant blouses, long tiered patchwork skirts, and vests that lace up like renaissance faire bodices. I got over the halter tops aand ultra short shorts about 1980 or so. I would probably nab your asymetrical tied top and embroidered skirt for a fairy costume if they fit me!

Oh damn, I was still in primary school when the Y2K fashion went down so even though I barely wore any of the stuff shown that's still somehow giving me weird nostalgia, especially that lace-up asymetrical top - the lace up tops and oversized collar sweater tops are usually the first thing I think of along with those god awful low-rise jeans and the short-sleeved shrug boleros It's got me thinking, out of all the things in your time capsule from back then was there anything in it that you would want to try and recreate using what you know now about sewing and historical fashion? It'd be cool to see you try and remake that "corset" tube top for example

I got a little teary when I saw the nautical top! We didn't have much money, so it was a stretch even to shop at Goodwill. But somehow I got a nautical top at Kohl's for something like a million percent off, AND it was a super soft breathable rayon. It felt amazing to have made the choice to buy something brand new for myself, no doubt with some birthday money. That top, along with a navy cotton jacket that looked like a cross between a mechanic's uniform and a military coat were probably the basis for what I really love these days: natural fabrics, vaguely 1950s inspired feminine styles with a slight edge. Thanks for dredging those mental images out of the far reaches of my mental archives.

My memories of 2000s fashion are mostly of kids’ clothes. I remember my mum complaining time and time again that ‘little girls don’t have hips!’ And she was so right. I walked around with a builder’s bum and painful indentations from the waistbands on my jeans for years.

Oh the memories! I'm quite a bit younger than you, but I loved my dolman sweaters and sheer blouses (to be worn over camis or at minimum skin-toned bras). Also, the final outfit was a Look. I had a similar neo-Victorian thing in late high school/ early college, in brown, cream, and grey (mori kei-ish, or cottage core pre-cottagecore) and now I'm wishing I saved more of my clothes!

I was 40 in 2003, so obviously I wasn't buying teen styles, but I did have some overlap with you. I liked suiting fabric, especially pinstripes. I still have a pinstripe skirt with an asymmetrical hem from the time, if you can believe that! I also liked the non-corset top that looks like a corset, and the neo-Victorian/goth stuff, as long as it was a bit on the mature side and not too teen-looking. A trend I really wore a lot was the spaghetti-strap, mid-calf, bias-cut dress, usually over a baby T. I was into bands like The Cure, so I loved dark colors mostly, and goth-leaning styles. I'm glad you saved your clothes, I still have a couple of pieces from that time myself. Since I was a grownup, they still fit me! l wear them once in a while.

I'm feeling slightly validated in my band tees and flares/wide leg jeans (uh, and flannel), but still bracing for some of the pieces I saw in the short 😅 Edit: oof - item 3. I did get into the peasant blouses, I grew up in my mother and aunts' 70s hand-me-downs so those I glommed onto (see above cmt about flares as well)

I am few years younger than you, so most of what I remember of early 2000s fashion is kids' clothing. I didn't really care much about fashion at the time and I distinctly remember hating that I couldn't find jeans that weren't bedazzled and super low rise. I ended up stealing my older brother's clothes for a while, just to have clothing that didn't advertise to the world that I was going through puberty earlier than most of my classmates.

My college fashion was also eclectic even for the 70's. I was a drama major who ran the costume shop through a work study program. I was ran the gambit of jeans and t-shirt that later got turned into jean skirts. My favorite style was a boho look of tiered skirts, peasant tops always with a head scarf. When I did dressed up in my finest it was usually one of my handmade creations that I designed. One night I was in the Green Room after the opening night performance of my first show that I designed, so U was so totally dressed for the occasion. I strange guy sat down and started talking to me. After a minute he looked at me and said "You must be the costume designer." I asked him how he knew. He said "You just look like one." I loved that my style reflected who I was. Now many years have passed and I wish I still had that freedom of dress. Maybe one day my boho will emerge again. I have discovered vintage patterns of the 70's calling my name.

I'm jealous of your collection! I wasn't allowed to keep anything from my childhood except a toy that was taken off the market for hurting kids. I still have it and sometimes play with it even with all the dangers to my old bones and eye sight! It was fun seeing your high school self. Some of the outfits were questionable but the polyester pantsuits of the 1960's were beyond hideous in hindsight. Back when polyester was good. So I can't say anything. There doesn't seem to be as big of a set style anymore which is good everyone should wear what they enjoy!

At 50 years of age in 2000 I saw this fashion so different. seeing these styles from Ur perspective was so fun. Thanks 4 sharing. 😊p

My daughter in 2003 had a plaid mini skirt and wore a tee that had fishnet sleeves. She was soo cute in it.

Love this time capsule! 💕 Grommets were a total vibe. I had tight low-rise jeans with grommets running down the outer pant legs that opened up to laser-cut, faux suede flares at the bottom. I felt SO cool. 💀 💀 💀

My youngest sister was in highs school in the late 90's and trendy urban fashion (no velour). Same size as my daughter is now. Interestingly, my oldest sister is last of the Baby Boomers (yes, 10 kids over 20 years plus one week)...and my daughter fits those too and My mother was the end of the 50s and although she didn't save much, she kept a few dresses she had made. My daughter went through middle school and high school (She's a Senior this year) wearing an odd combination of 70s/90s with a touch of 50s thrown in.

I love the spice girls skirt! If it were tea length and waist high it would be really nice. Ooo and the brown skirt is even better!!! And then sequins! Man the skirts get better and better and better!

Omg I graduated HS in 2004 so this is so fun! That Bebe add with the powder blue cowl neck and mini skirt is everything 😍

i remember wearing those kind of clothes. I was born in 1999, so i wasn't a teenage when that was all the rage, but i was already quite tall in late primary school/early middle school, and I shoped in the adult sections, where my mother went. so yeah... huge collars, weird sweaters, questionnable decorations ... i remember those, that wasn't a great time (for a lot of reasons actually)

No, but the skirts, though! Both the mini skirt and the asymmetrical one you showed right after are incredible! 😍 This video was so much fun, thank you for bringing us down memory lane!

We all go through this in our formative years. No regrets. It makes us who we become and evolve to continuously throughout our lives.

The blue fuzzy bebe sweater….I had it in pink. It was soooooo itchy and I could never lift my arms. Constantly adjusting that cowl. Thanks for the memories!😂

I had a pair of those zippered leg tripp pants. I ended up removing the lower portion and wore them as everywhere!! They hit my leg at mid calf around the time when capris were really popular. I remember my grandmother complementing me on them!!

I have only very vague memories of this time period, and this is fascinating!

What a flashback! I used to love the bejeweled tops because it meant I didn't need to wear jewelry 😂

As someone who is probably about two years younger than you, I figured I would have lived through/worn most of these styles. What I *hadn't* realized was that my brain hadn't held on to the details. The giant cowl neck sweaters and those bubble shirts? Definitely wore, definitely hadn't thought about in twenty years, almost murdered me

Oh Nicole, I think we are the same age. It was like unlocking a core memory seeing each of your pieces!

Wherein I realize we’re legitimately contemporaries. Though where I’m from most of my friends who had the disposable income built their wardrobes from Charlotte Russe instead of Bebe. And I looooved the oversized sweater look, but rarely got to wear them because Arizonan seasons are hot AF or kinda chilly. My biggest clothing memories of the time period involved the super low-v tunic tops that were basically dresses, paired with a spaghetti-strap tank that somehow managed to not cover cleavage, leggings that came just below the knee, and ballet flats. Peak 2000s fashion for me. That and JNCO jeans and t-shirts. Lol

I remember in like th late 2000s i had this skirt that i thought was so that, it was a cute little denim thing that had zippers at the hem so i could make it pleated or not whenever i wanted. I loved it because i loved it cause loved playing with the zippers during class so i could focus in on the lessons better ( adhd is a absolutely trip). This was around the time i was in 1st grade so that skirt is long gone either donated or handed down, but i remember it vividly and i loved it so much, and i wore it all the time, usually with of the shirts that had a built-in vest and skinny scarf, or a shirt with the fake jewelry designs. It so stranger to remember a time when the clothes i wore made me so happy. Like time went on and fashion just was as bright for me anymore. Edited for more details: the zippers on the skirt were in rainbow colours, and the shirts i paired with it were usually really bright with like hot pinks, and teals, and magenta/purples, with lots of glittery or lace details, and the sleeves were usually cap sleeves, or elbow/3 quarter length.

Oh wow! I am enjoying your past fashion Nicole, especially the red gown (2001) and the black dress? (2003?) with a red beret... so beautiful! I'm sure you and your friends had fun making friendship bracelets and necklaces, too. I still remember the early 2000s but not as fondly as you, I didn't have a say in what to wear until I was 16 and got a steady paying job, I finally bought a few garments for myself, in about 2010. When I could buy some cute items, there were very limited garments for someone as petite, slender and insecure about her body as me. Most girls flaunted their bodies and legs, and their backs. My uncle and aunt who is a seamstress, Aunt Nalia, they sent us girls customized clothes or hand-me-downs. I took over my independence when I turned eighteen and bought more early 1960s-types of clothing and fashionable items that fit my body type. Some people think that because you are petite and slender anything will fit you. That wasn't the reality for me unless it was customized to my body's specifications. ❤❤ You are such a sweet person and have a great sense of fashion then and today.

OMG! This is just a little creepy; this box could have been taken out of my closet! I had the red peasant blouse #1, a striped Ralph Lauren top with attached shirt collar, the green beaded top (but in black), the dolman sleeved top with a cowl neck, I made a gold sequin halter top for my cousin's prom dress, and I also made the black ankle length slip dress with black lace-up boots. But, sadly, all mine are gone except the black slip dress; I just couldn't bear to part with it...or the boots. So, thank you for walking me down memory lane. I've thoroughly enjoyed the journey.

I started high school in 2001 (that second week of 9th grade was an experience). I was a homeschooled kid who was starting my first year of full-time school since first grade, and I was at a small Christian private school with a dress code. I didn't have a big allowance, and a lot of my clothes were hand-me-downs from my cousin, stuff my grandma bought me, and stuff my mom bought me. I didn't get to dress like a lot of my classmates because I just didn't have the money for it, but I remember envying those peasant tops with long drapey sleeves and eventually picked a couple up at the thrift store when I was in university a few years later. I did have a fantastic sweater and skirt set in maroon--a fairly plain 3/4 sleeve sweater with a matching skirt that had a lace overlay with several-inch-long fringe. The amount of itchy synthetics in my wardrobe then makes me cringe now.

I wore a cameo necklace too Nicole, and peasant tops and corset tops. Corset top with peasant top underneath.

I was a goth girl since I was about 14. I'm now 41 and still a goth girl. My favorite trend of the 90s was layering vintage slips and wearing them with Doc Martins. I kind of want to go back to that.

You should 100% remake the jacket. You legit took a moment of silence when you pulled it out. It would make a cool video, the then and now evolution of it and the love of your style "in it's purest form"

I’m around 4 years older and all this was oh so what I wore in college, some I still have and wear! Art school, boho, victorian, goth gal chic 😂 I had to tone it down when I started working in an office. I’d wear that plaid patchwork skirt with opaque tights now. 💯

Such a fun trip down memory lane! I never wore the baby tee's which are around now but the vagely western and not-corset-corsets were so cool. Looking at your collection made me reminisce about the "going out top" we'd pair with jeans (dark ones as they were "formal"). I still find myself searching for tops like that today 😅

I would describe my current style as 'vaguely 70s' and i absolutely would wear a lot of these pieces today😊 I was in middle school/ high school during the early 2000s but i was not much of a fashion girly back then plus we were poor so i didn't have interesting clothing like this.

those little tiny shrugs were vital for surviving in a world where so many summery things had spaghetti straps and one's parents could not imagine one's bra straps showing in public.

I never quite got into the stuff that you did fashion wise. I did, however, have a craze for the babydoll sleeves that were hot at the tail end of the 90s, going into the early 00's- I had 3 that were, shall we say fairly questionable choices-1. was a white babydoll with a huge cherry on the L or R side, and the stem curled in between and over a breast, then back towards the side with the cherry on it, 2. was a definite pink, not pastel, not hot, and had 2 cherries placed right on the breasts area, that said "Pick me" on a banner, 3. was my FAVE, at that time, a all black, raglan-esque, lace cold shoulder babydoll, "Rebel" in pastel pink satin-like material, lace overlay, and bright red exterior stitching around the outside of the lettering. By the 2010's I transitioned into and out of the Goth styling. I had so much Hot Topic in that era of time. Those huge pants with the straps, grommets, etc, everywhere, the pockets so big you could hide a 2L bottle in each one...The 00's were ridiculousness realized. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

The foresight you had to do this is unhinged, I love. The y2k comeback has been so fun, it's just so cool to see the real things you actually wore!! Thank you so much for sharing!!!

I definitely wore the peasant blouses, bubble shirts, and low rise flares. I wasn't a fan of the cowl necks or the sailor look. I was also in late elementary school to early middle school and wore a lot of hand-me-downs of my more fashionable cousins. I definitely still have some faux corsets and the "Edwardian jacket" that I bought from Hot Topic in the later 00s in late high school and early college

The mini skirt is a definite slay!

Oh...that greenish shimmering dress at 15:37 is very pretty, though. I would totally wear that 😅

Omg, we had the same fashion as Y2K teens 🤣 Those were the exact same noughts trends I gravitated toward in high school. Thanks for that dose of nostalgia today!

I had a straight armed black sweater with pin stripes down each arm. thing was HUGE, but I got rid of it 4 years ago when I moved and I regret it so much now!

the turning point for when i decided to actually care about what i wear was when i decided to wear the worst combination of clothing i had to school when i was 13 for fun. and really i didnt get made fun of for it, either. it was a boilersuit blue workers that was 2 sizes too big, tied at the waist, a white cotton shirt and a pair of knee-high faux leather boots - and that experience really got me to start enjoying creative expression through clothes and to stop caring what other people thought of my clothing.

I would have LOVED that black dress! I went full goth as a teen, so I learned to tell my clothes apart by touch since they were all black. 😂 I still have a bunch of my old goth clothes that no longer fit, I just don't have the heart to get rid of them. I still love the aesthetic, but my patience for wearing uncomfortable things for fashion is mostly gone.

This is amazing. We are just about the same age and it hit me right in the nostalgia 🤣💗

I was also a teenager during y2k and this is all sooo familiar! Peasant blouses were my favorite.

I still have some of my Goth clothes from the late 90s to mid 2000s, everything earlier disintegrated.

Thankfully, sorta, in 2004 I was going through my vintage phase and was incorporating second hand clothing in my wardrobe from the 60's and 70's. I use to have some of the coolest vintage pieces. RIP camel brown patch-worked bell bottom pants.😂

I have no memory of what I wore in that era. I vaguely remember the bubble top, I would have never have worn it as I felt I was too old to wear the trendy styles. Maybe I was still in leggings and oversized t-shirts. I tend to practicality, and that was what I could stand to wear under my "bunny suit" at work. (Not a bunny suit with ears, it's what we called the horrid getup you had to wear when working in a clean room.)

I could win bingo with a lot of those clothes - I'd blocked out the memory of mega-necked sweaters and asymmetrical skirts until now

I had forgotten the bubble shirts. And dresses and skirts.

I'm jealous of all your bebe items! As a teenager during the exact same time period, I really only had access to Gap, American Eagle, and Dept store brands like Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger. The local malls were tiny! I remember lots of short sleeve polos, 3/4 or elbow length button downs and putting a tank top of a contrasting color under EVERYTHING. Bonus points if it had lace on the bottom edge lol