I have become insane, and the fault is, of course: Y2K nostalgia. It’s not my fault. It’s just time, and a thousand teenagers who were presumably all hatched from waterlogged river eggs last Wednesday. They want the tight long-sleeved t-shirts in muted green colours that drape over the hips with extra long fabric for alien-length torsos and contain a cute, feminine little neck detail - perhaps a few nonfunctional buttons.
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| Bella Swan in her beautiful white marl long-sleeved Henley top. She is a genius. |
In 2008, or thereabouts, I had a red striped Primark t-shirt. That was my favourite thing, and sometimes I still miss it. This was when Primark was exciting and hyper-cheap and trendy, before the Rita Ora lines and non-stop licensed IPs. Topshop was around. The little buttons were there for us.
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| How many Friends clothing items can the world possibly need? |
Anyway, I try not to look at clothes because I feel the allure taking hold of me. I feel the curse flaring up within, but I have enough clothes and I think at this point I always will. There is no need to ever buy clothes aside from when something in particular disintigrates in my very hands. Nevertheless, I am a sucker, and numerous things that I never really wore in the 2000s myself now capture my attention.
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| The strappy top brigade. |
Largely, strappy tops. This is something I wear now (and do already own), but I was not a vest owner back then. I needed to be t-shirted up. But I love the cute and sometimes cluttered look with a simple little top. Nice.
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| Literally me. |
I did wear the simple long sleeve in green or black. And there’s just something about a tight, long-sleeved shirt. With some jeans. I love it. That’s a simple woman’s outfit. And I could be her.
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| Bella Swan wears her long-sleeved top under a short-sleeved top. She is a genius. |
My aunt has had a mystery black hoodie lurking in her house for some time. It’s not mine, it’s not, seemingly, anyone else’s. But after maybe a year of trying to locate its owner, she told me she was going to throw it out. So it’s mine now.
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| Really good picture of the hoodie. |
And in a way, this is the perfect clothing item of the 2000s. It just needs a Slipknot logo to really take me back there.
I feel I will be forever frozen in the Y2K. ♥ That is because it's my comfort aesthetic.
ReplyDeletelove all of bella's outfits, so effortlessly cool everytime - though i feel like her hair adds a lot to it as well
ReplyDeleteDon't forget the khaki skirt for the complete Bella lookπ
ReplyDeletethe phrase “presumably all hatched from waterlogged river eggs last Wednesday” is my new favourite collection of words, thank you.
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