Y2K Fashion Cannot Hurt Me

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.