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.
@@MsHedgehog I've got exactly the same issue. I've inherited wonderful photos of my mum's family in Ireland, but so few have any details, so I don't know who they are and can't attach them to family stories, It makes me so sad.
Thank you for sharing this. I didn't appreciate my grandmother and mother's careful labeling of pictures until recent years (I'm in my 30's). I realize now how details can fade from memory over time, and that's what can make notes and journals so precious. On my current vacation, I am taking pictures and carefully noting where they were taken (via text messages to myself/others). I want these memories for all my life. 💜 Be well!
@@s.f.8867, by all means. But technology changes faster than pencil and paper. A written note tucked into a pocket or folded in with the item is more apt to stick with the garment and be useful to a future clothing historian.
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.
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 loved the slip dress and chunky cardi and boots combo! I've got mixed feelings about Y2K fashion coming back, but I'm kinda leaning into it - I've bought a couple of pairs of combats and got myself a Nirvana tshirt today 😅🙃
Omg in Björk’s Human Behavior video she’s wearing a silvery slip dress with a grey chopped up sweater with combat boots and I *still* think that is the coolest outfit ever in history. Also rhinestones in the corners of her eyes like tears. So cool!
Those NIИ necklaces sound really cool. And yeah, that grunge look that consisted of slip dresses, baby doll dresses, ripped up tights, and more is called Kinderwhore style. It's creation is often accredited to Courtney Love of the band Hole, but Courtney actually got the style from her friend Kat Bjelland of the band Babes In Toyland.
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!
Agreed! If I had the time I would 100% make one of those in all-natural materials, embroider it, & wear the hell out of it! 😄 The embroidered skirt Nicole showed was pretty cute too?
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 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!
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 😅
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.
So true! I'm also an early '97 baby and I wore some shockers. Having flashbacks to super low-rise pink and khaki camp 3/4 cargo shorts (that's a mouthful!) *screams of horror 😂
Same! I was born in ‘01 and I remember in elementary school when we’d all have to sit criss cross applesauce on the rug at the beginning of class it was just a row of exposed buttcracks since nobody’s pants were high waisted enough to cover anything when you sit down. The colorful cami tops from justice really were the only thing keeping me and my sister decent
Oh man! I was born around the same time & definitely remember some of that! 😂 Thankfully, I had a grandmother who sewed most of the cargo shorts I wore during that time so I never had to worry about walking out of the house in ill-fitting clothes. But, I definitely remember seeing a lot of the low rise pants, tube tops, & platform shoes on teenage girls around that time & just being like why? 😂😅
Don't forget rhinestones on the butt of jeans and pajama pants that said stuff like "kitten" and "princess". Nothing creepy there, and certainly not painful to sit on.
I purposely went for the weird as well at school. Because that way the school bullies bullied me for my fashion choices, and not for me as a person. It was very definitely a conscious protection mechanism. It worked really well. But then it became part of me and I am still embracing the weird!
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. 🤣
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
I'm right around your age and oh my god, yes, absolutely seconded--I remember being way too hot in all those layers, too. I think there was also a very brief trend for lace bike shorts, too
@@sofdemi8042 I actually found a horde of them in some old stuff recently all tangled together. I can't believe I still had them. Smelled of cheap metals.
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 😂
The 3/4 sleeves from hell. As a tall person it was tough enough to find sleeves long enough to cover my arms up to my wrists, those shorts sleeves being the fashion made it even harder.
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 had a gunnesax dress in the early 90s as a kid, I remember my mother being so thrilled to find one at a thrift shop that I absolutely had to have and wear it
My mom was born in 61. She went to her high school prom in a beauuuutiful powder blue Gunne Sax dress and I’ve been obsessed with them ever since first seeing her prom pics as a little girl. 🥰
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 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.
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 had the most amazing kick flared jeans, 2002-2004 that I wore literally to death. It kills me that I never attempted to repair them I just threw them out! Don't even have a photo of me wearing them! 😢
My regret is a velveteen cropped zipped hoodie, olive green with burgundy vertical stripes. It was awesome and I should never have let it go😢 Never seen anything like it again, even though it was part of a trend (for a microsecond).
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.
It also goes to show, that fashion trends weren't quite as ubiquitous before social media. I mean ... obviously, I guess. But it still kinda hit me, watching this. I was 20 in 2000 and grew up in Germany and we dressed markedly different than that. In fact, the most popular 'uniform' for girls for school was probably Levi's 501 (don't ask me why that specific brand and model, but every girl in my class had at least one pair), and simple, form fitting shirts. Sweaters or hoodies in winter. And either Converse or Doc Marten's. All very low key. Band shirts were popular. Guys predominantly wore skater pants and shoes or just regular Jeans and t-shirts. Weird 'out there' stuff wasn't fashionable at all. I mean, you would see low rise jeans (with a string or tattoo peeking out) occasionally around that time. But I think, we pretty much made fun of that, right from the start. It was considered 'white trash', so to speak.
The hoodies!! Omg the hoodies 🥲 i loved being absolutely swallowed in them! It was so comforting, like you said, a comfort blanket. An introvert's dream lol! I'm 36 btw. Oh also Discmans! I distinctly remember wearing a hoodie, listening to SOAD on full blast, stoned, smoking a cigarette walking down my street 😆 i was 14 btw 😅 Thank god for music bc that time in my life was so crushing, family falling apart, etc. At least there's some comfort in nostalgia 🥲 & we're still alive, so there's that lmao
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.
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.
Yea I had a lot of capris, pedal pushers and Bermuda shorts because they were so popular and I hated showing my legs so it was a godsend. Now, i wish capris were still popular. I mostly wear capri length leggings in the summer.
I still wear the 3/4 length sleeves and the cowl neck sweaters. I loved pedal pushers too. I wore them in college with those oversize capes or a top that had mirrors sewn into it!
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 ! 🥰🥰
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!
I didn't start dipping my fashion creativity toe in until I moved out of my parents house at 22 after getting my college gen eds. but I really got into fashion at 28 fit and colors after feeling frumpy as a mom and needed clothes to fit my mom bod . so your not alone . conservative dress to fit in fashion sucks ! and so does wearing a cami under clothes ! Pieces I wish I'd never gave up like a lacy bell shaped cuffed white button up shirt I got and a buckle up steampunk skirt in drab olive green , pieces I paid good money for .. just to "fit in" 😭
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.
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") 😂.
Opposite end of the spectrum, being in elementary school but a big alternative fashion fan. I also somehow found the Y2K mostly ridiculous loll except cargo pants since comfort and pockets. I still can't take the popcorn shirts seriously and wonder if one of the reasons I love alternative fashion is because I gave up on mainstream fashion a bit when I saw the velour juicy tracksuits with the branding on the butt XD
Nah, tunics/leggings were a thing in the 80s too. Granted, it was mostly stirrup pants for those who could wear 'em, but yeah. (My legs were too long for stirrup pants. Every time I tried to wear them, I'd end up with the stirrup part around the back of my ankle. And then leggings became available, & I was *thrilled* because I could get the look without the wedgies.)
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.
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.
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!
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!
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. ❤
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 😝
I love how your teen style is still identifiable as something you would choose. I've been an Old Navy jeans and t-shirt devotee since I was a teenager. Your choices were so much more of a statement and I love it.
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 was a small child during this era and I remember my mum having the hardest time finding long sleeves for me. We lived in a fairly cold place, especially in the winter, and none of the girls in my class ever had long sleeves, so we all just froze in the winter. And we all wore a lot of cheetah print, button ups with puffed sleeves, and really flared yoga pants. We were all probably too young to have actual senses of fashion at the time, and our mums all dressed us the same. Early 2000's child fashion was just great, I wish I had old enough to wear the cowl neck sweaters, especially that brown one.
That’s weird I found plenty of long sleeves then. Then again I was a teen already but I’m surprised. Sweaters were not fashionable back then but I wore plenty of long sleeve tees and cute tops.
@@mastersnet18 Were sweaters just not as popular in your area? Since half of what Nicole showed were sweaters and sweater-like garments? Also, I imagine child fashion is slightly different then teen fashion, though the gap keeps getting smaller (but that's its own topic)
@@joanderson6880 yea they weren’t popular at all back then where I live. Idk why too because I live in New England and you would think they would like that. Most people wore long sleeve tees, t-shirts over shirts, long sleeve button down shirts, or fleeces, sweatshirts and hoodies worn over short sleeve shirts. Although I was a teen for most of the 2000’s I was 11-12 in 2000-2001, so I wore mostly Limited Too and Fashion Bug. The fashions were really not that different from teen clothes, just slightly less skimpy.
@@mastersnet18 Ah, I see. I was thinking more 2004-06, since that's when I was a small child. I'm not American so the styles might have been a little different from yours too.
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.
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.😂
God! I wish!! I’m in Highschool at the moment and am obsessed with honestly anything 60s-90s. However, nowadays, thrift stores are riddled with mostly (awful)2000s-2010s clothing 🥲🥲 so jealous !!
Follow up video idea of re-creating your favourite items matching your style today. The massive cowls are huge in the knitting community and are in fact a great piece to have with you in winter when they are not attached to an item of clothing for obvious reasons. I miss seeing teenagers figuring out their styles and mixing and matching things. Nowadays they all look totally polished and all look the same. oh and the mini skirt from London? Would totally still wear this today :P
Oh god, the sheer blouse! I had one (would have bought it about '08/'09) that was sleeveless and really tight in the armpits and it had a contrasting black collar and the strip where the buttons went. I never actually got to wear it because my mother had gotten it for me when I was at school and I needed something to do museum docent volunteering in. She didn't notice how sheer it was until I put it on and went "oh nooooo!" Haven't thought about it in years, thanks for the flashback lmaooo
it's so weird seeing nicole with at gremlin-esque cackle at 5:01 😂😂😂 like it's a complete 180° from the calm and collected nicole i know from most of her videos
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 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)
You and I are of an age, approximately (I graduated HS in 2004) and everything you pulled out just made me flash back SO hard. Honestly though, what really confuses and delights me is the unexpected return of the circa 2003 "freak pants" trend - those wide legged black cargo pants with the chains and straps, that were kind of the brief transition point between the earlier goth/rocker subculture style and the later emo/scene style. My brother's friend group, and to an extent my own friend group, was REALLY into that style and every time I see something similar pop up in like a modern KPop video or something it just makes my inner weirdo teenager SO HAPPY.
@@bellablue5285 I'm really only seeing it in very specific contexts, but yeah, in the last year or so they've started to make a comeback, especially on women in a stage dance performance context. I think they're actually doing them better now - they're higher-waisted this time around, and a little less over-the-top on the decoration. (Specifically, I spotted a very obvious pair on KPop idol Wendy in this performance a few months ago, and my brain kind of shorted out lol. th-cam.com/video/ex046XcQCVo/w-d-xo.html )
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
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 😅
Daaang this threw me through a flashback RIDE. I was 12/13 in 2000, so since that's usually the time you start to pay attention to fashion, I have so vivid memories of what I was wearing in junior high. I thought the early 00's were so cool because it was still remnants from the 90's at that time, but as we moved on from ca. 2003 and onwards, and me getting more into alternative fashion, I started resenting mainstream fashion more and more lol. I absolutely hated a particular sweater that was popular in my area; acrylic, hip-length, cowl neck, 3/4 sleeves, with rhinestones down the front.. like, stop already, it's too damn much haha
Oh the flashbacks. My trendy aunt got me a pair of pink (barbie pink) rhinestoned flares that were low-rise. I was in sixth grade and they had no waistband. I loved everything but the low rise about them. I wore them to school for one day and then they immediately went in the donation pile. I have been a high-waisted girl ever since.
I know this would be a big project and I'm sure you have others, but I would be excited to see you remake some of these you like. The jacket and lace dress and maybe a real version of that corset top. It could work as an outfit all together.
I wasn’t into fashion until 2011 or so, and even then it was MY brand of fashion, not what was actually fashionable. Even so, my overarching memory of 2000s fashion was how much my crotch hurt because of how far I had to pull up and belt low-rise jeans to meet my dress code. 😂
We weren't allowed to show any belly at my school. I'm tall and the combo of low rise jeans (which was all I could find) and short tee shirts (again all I could find) made meeting dress code impossible. I ended up tying a sweatshirt around my waist pretty much every day to cover the gap lol.
i had like 6 different camis that only went with some clothes and not all my clothes for that gap problem, and covered the chest for the low necklines. my parents are very conservative- I had no style ..at all until I got a car, a job and could buy my own clothes .@@TheDesertMarmot
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.
This was so much fun to watch!! I was middle school aged in the early 00s. I definitely wore peasant blouses and asymmetrical tops. But cropped tops and tube tops were something I wanted but wasn’t allowed to wear.
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🤗
I do have a time capsule box too! I started it quite early, around 12 years old... The starting piece : I kept THE Addidas side buttoned srtiped pants that was so popular in mid 90's!
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 buying a lot of my clothes from Hot Topic in the early 2000's. My favorite was a dress I wore for my senior college pictures in 2001, a red silky dress lining with black lace over it with tight black lace sleeves. I loved that dress so much I hadn't the heart to get rid of it when it no longer fit me. In fact, it is still in my closet. I should put it into a fashion time capsule, because I don't think I could ever get rid of it. I honestly didn't wear a lot of these trends, as I was not trendy, but I did own a lot of peasant blouses and shirts with fairies on them. This was a lot of fun. Your embarrassed but fond reactions to each was priceless.
I have so many band shirts from Hot Topic, it was like the more acceptable version of Spencer's that my parents were okay with shopping in while I was still in high school (weirdly still have some which I know I had in college, so they have to be at least 15yrs old now, but held up well). I was (well still am) a Torrid sized person though, I do recall there were some amazing clothes for straight sizes that I wish had stayed in style long enough to show up at Torrid.
@@bellablue5285 Torrid-sized here, too. Although it always irked me that Torrid never had enough cute pop culturey stuff like Hot Topic and Hot Topics clothes always ran small. I could fit into them better in college, though.
I love the comments on this video, I love how this has made everyone nostalgic for their own Y2K life choices, I had similar items but I was 30 in 2000, my youth was spent in 90’s grunge- I would still wear it if I had them now xx
_"We want creativity. Go for the weird."_ ~ And that, my friend, is my motto 😊I've never even been _able_ to dress 'normally' and luckily at some point I had stopped trying & embraced my weirdness ^^ Also, I absolutely want that blue faux suede thingy, although not asymmetrical. It gives me kind of medieval fantasy elven vibes and I'm all here for that 💚
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.
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.
This is so fun to see as someone who mostly focuses their knitwear reconstruction efforts for Y2K! I was born in 2000 but have an incredibly long memory so I definitely remember female relatives wearing those.
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.
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! 😂💕
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 was a Y2K preteen who got most of my clothing from thrift shops or on clearance at limited too,Jcpenney,Kmart or Sears. So it was a mix of skorts,knee length and maxi skirts skirts,jumpers,sweater set,peasant blouses,Mandarin collars,polos ,word and graphic tees/tanks and capris. I was half preppy boho and half 90s art teacher.
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 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!
It's so interesting to see this, I was a teen at the same time but over here in the UK, and while some things were common over here (giant cowl necks, halter neck, "corsets") there's a few styles that I don't remember being such a thing here (bubble shirts) - though I do remember seeing them in movies.
I am reminded of this old dress my mom gave me. She got it in the 90s, in a style that was calling back to a style from the 70s, that was in turn CLEARLY calling back to an even earlier square torso shape which I believe was the 20s.
It would be great to see you make that black jacket again. What would you change? What would you not change? I think it would be a really fascinating project.
Omg yes! The gothic-adjacent vibes of the late 90s/early00s were so much fun! It's what all the cool alt girls were wearing. I wasn't a cool alt girl, but I still tried lol. My most cherished item, that I have - and still wear! - to this day is my black, long, open crochet cardigan with bell sleeves. Back then, it was my attempt at a The Craft witchy boss bitch vibe, nowadays it's my "one of the aunts from Practical Magic" fit. My black and silver chinese brocade halter tops though, those stay in the vault LOL
That long black dress at the end reminded me of a broomstick/tiered skirt I bought around 2006 at a small independent store in north Portland--it was alternating tiers of brown satin and lace, trimmed with ribbon bows. I loved it and wore it for years but eventually, it no longer fit me and the structure was such that altering it to fit was a pain in the butt. I wish I'd kept it, but alas. I would love to recreate a version of it in more natural fibers since I'm pretty sure it was all polyester.
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.
god that 70s skirt reminds me so much of one i got when i went away to college around 2004. i got to go to a vintage and artsy store for the first time and fell in love with the classic "kilt made of 50 different plaid ties"....
The last jacket! I had exactly that style in black taffeta, huge puff sleeves and a black puffball skirt in the 80's. Forgotten all about that outfit so thank you for the memory prompt.
So late 90s/early 00s I was really into the tie dye/acid wash era, but in that time frame it was very much black and darker colors. I remember having a pair of chunky Steve Madden Mary janes that i loved and cargos. I'm mid 00s when I was in high school (I graduated in 2007) i started out in my Hollister era (lots of Hollister polos and burmuda shorts) while towards the end i had migrated to full out emo kid. Lol Edit to add: I'd totally wear that patchwork skirt now lol
This was fascinating to watch. I would love to see you recreate the last two pieces given the joy they obviously give you. It would be fun to compare and see what you change and what you keep. Thanks for the look into the past.
Those little cardigan/shrug/mini-sweater things were a godsend for me in high school - I considered them my automatic "make any shirt school appropriate" device! I loved my tube tops and my spaghetti straps. XD
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!
oh my goodness the bubble clothes - I hated them so much at a early teen in the late 90s ! this was a weird mind trip and reminded me of all the stupid annoying fashions of my teens and early 20's ! I remember the weird dolman sleeves in 2006/7😬 and the sweaters with beads... so many beads... 😮💨.I didn't really get into fashion until after I got sick of my frumpy mom clothes- jeans and tees and yoga pants when I had my kids ! my style is still evolving but I have found styles I love & i know know how to dress myself in clothes that fit made out of good fabrics and in my colors - thank heavens ! thanks for a trippy trip down memory lane !
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.
This. We have run into this problem with old family photos, unlabeled the meaning disappears when the memories do, from forgetfullness or death.
@@MsHedgehog I've got exactly the same issue. I've inherited wonderful photos of my mum's family in Ireland, but so few have any details, so I don't know who they are and can't attach them to family stories, It makes me so sad.
Thank you for sharing this. I didn't appreciate my grandmother and mother's careful labeling of pictures until recent years (I'm in my 30's). I realize now how details can fade from memory over time, and that's what can make notes and journals so precious. On my current vacation, I am taking pictures and carefully noting where they were taken (via text messages to myself/others). I want these memories for all my life. 💜 Be well!
She can (try to) keep this video.
@@s.f.8867, by all means. But technology changes faster than pencil and paper. A written note tucked into a pocket or folded in with the item is more apt to stick with the garment and be useful to a future clothing historian.
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.
And then there was the inverse: my mom would only buy trendy things second hand so mine we already stretched out versions on my smaller body 😭
I feel your pain so much! I got a breast reduction and it changed my life!
sexism is alive an well. :( i relate.
I feel this in my soul
FELT
Oh man...we definitely need to see a current-Nicole-informed, up-skilled remake of that goth dress and jacket combo.
yes please !
Absolutely
Yes please! I love that jacket!
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 loved the slip dress and chunky cardi and boots combo!
I've got mixed feelings about Y2K fashion coming back, but I'm kinda leaning into it - I've bought a couple of pairs of combats and got myself a Nirvana tshirt today 😅🙃
Omg in Björk’s Human Behavior video she’s wearing a silvery slip dress with a grey chopped up sweater with combat boots and I *still* think that is the coolest outfit ever in history. Also rhinestones in the corners of her eyes like tears. So cool!
Those NIИ necklaces sound really cool. And yeah, that grunge look that consisted of slip dresses, baby doll dresses, ripped up tights, and more is called Kinderwhore style. It's creation is often accredited to Courtney Love of the band Hole, but Courtney actually got the style from her friend Kat Bjelland of the band Babes In Toyland.
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!
Agreed! If I had the time I would 100% make one of those in all-natural materials, embroider it, & wear the hell out of it! 😄 The embroidered skirt Nicole showed was pretty cute too?
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 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!
I have about half my goth stuff in my actual closet, and wear pieces once in a while (if they still fit)
Please do I’m trying to find inspiration for a y2k rave and I was 6 at the time 😭😭
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 😅
You totally should! I recall it being a lot less lace and a lot more Laura Ashley. 😆
I turned 20 in 1983 and it was my fashion era for sure. I have strong opinions haha!
You have to split the 80s into early and late...Kind of Pre-Like a Virgin/Desperately Seeking Susan/Miami Vice and Post
Right? Those things are not meant to be worn together!
@@pmclaughlin4111the Flashdance/Olivia Newton John Let’s Get Physical era. Oh, and the Footloose era!
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.
So true! I'm also an early '97 baby and I wore some shockers. Having flashbacks to super low-rise pink and khaki camp 3/4 cargo shorts (that's a mouthful!) *screams of horror 😂
Same! I was born in ‘01 and I remember in elementary school when we’d all have to sit criss cross applesauce on the rug at the beginning of class it was just a row of exposed buttcracks since nobody’s pants were high waisted enough to cover anything when you sit down. The colorful cami tops from justice really were the only thing keeping me and my sister decent
@@christinegallo4983 hahaha omg flashbacks! I used to stretch my tank tops (lots of layers in the 00s) over my butt to cover my crack 😂🤦♀️
Oh man! I was born around the same time & definitely remember some of that! 😂 Thankfully, I had a grandmother who sewed most of the cargo shorts I wore during that time so I never had to worry about walking out of the house in ill-fitting clothes. But, I definitely remember seeing a lot of the low rise pants, tube tops, & platform shoes on teenage girls around that time & just being like why? 😂😅
Don't forget rhinestones on the butt of jeans and pajama pants that said stuff like "kitten" and "princess". Nothing creepy there, and certainly not painful to sit on.
Go for the weird is a GREAT tag line. I'm stealing it!
I purposely went for the weird as well at school. Because that way the school bullies bullied me for my fashion choices, and not for me as a person. It was very definitely a conscious protection mechanism. It worked really well. But then it became part of me and I am still embracing the weird!
I would love to see a video where you remake items from your Y2K wardrobe to fit your aesthetic and understanding of clothing construction!
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. 🤣
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
I'm right around your age and oh my god, yes, absolutely seconded--I remember being way too hot in all those layers, too. I think there was also a very brief trend for lace bike shorts, too
I'm right there with you! Remember the crazy amount of long necklaces all worn together?
@@sofdemi8042 I actually found a horde of them in some old stuff recently all tangled together. I can't believe I still had them. Smelled of cheap metals.
I had TOTALLY forgotten about the cowl neck madness. Memory unlocked. Also the mini made out of textured fabrics is SO cute.
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 😂
+1 for remakes / reimagined
+2! It would be wonderful to make an updated/evolved version of that jacket ❤❤
I want to see a recreation
The 3/4 sleeves from hell. As a tall person it was tough enough to find sleeves long enough to cover my arms up to my wrists, those shorts sleeves being the fashion made it even harder.
Our forearms were so cold for basically two decades.
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 had a gunnesax dress in the early 90s as a kid, I remember my mother being so thrilled to find one at a thrift shop that I absolutely had to have and wear it
My mom was born in 61. She went to her high school prom in a beauuuutiful powder blue Gunne Sax dress and I’ve been obsessed with them ever since first seeing her prom pics as a little girl. 🥰
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 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.
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 had the most amazing kick flared jeans, 2002-2004 that I wore literally to death. It kills me that I never attempted to repair them I just threw them out! Don't even have a photo of me wearing them! 😢
My regret is a velveteen cropped zipped hoodie, olive green with burgundy vertical stripes. It was awesome and I should never have let it go😢 Never seen anything like it again, even though it was part of a trend (for a microsecond).
Nautical trends will come back from time to time. I like your piece.
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.
Same lol
@@ladyethyme Oh goodness. I think our pics say it all, huh?
It also goes to show, that fashion trends weren't quite as ubiquitous before social media. I mean ... obviously, I guess. But it still kinda hit me, watching this.
I was 20 in 2000 and grew up in Germany and we dressed markedly different than that. In fact, the most popular 'uniform' for girls for school was probably Levi's 501 (don't ask me why that specific brand and model, but every girl in my class had at least one pair), and simple, form fitting shirts. Sweaters or hoodies in winter. And either Converse or Doc Marten's. All very low key. Band shirts were popular. Guys predominantly wore skater pants and shoes or just regular Jeans and t-shirts. Weird 'out there' stuff wasn't fashionable at all. I mean, you would see low rise jeans (with a string or tattoo peeking out) occasionally around that time. But I think, we pretty much made fun of that, right from the start. It was considered 'white trash', so to speak.
The hoodies!! Omg the hoodies 🥲 i loved being absolutely swallowed in them! It was so comforting, like you said, a comfort blanket. An introvert's dream lol! I'm 36 btw.
Oh also Discmans! I distinctly remember wearing a hoodie, listening to SOAD on full blast, stoned, smoking a cigarette walking down my street 😆 i was 14 btw 😅 Thank god for music bc that time in my life was so crushing, family falling apart, etc. At least there's some comfort in nostalgia 🥲 & we're still alive, so there's that lmao
Same, but I was never trendy, and I don't think my parents would have let me splurge for half that stuff
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.
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.
Yea I had a lot of capris, pedal pushers and Bermuda shorts because they were so popular and I hated showing my legs so it was a godsend. Now, i wish capris were still popular. I mostly wear capri length leggings in the summer.
I still wear the 3/4 length sleeves and the cowl neck sweaters. I loved pedal pushers too. I wore them in college with those oversize capes or a top that had mirrors sewn into it!
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 ! 🥰🥰
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!
I didn't start dipping my fashion creativity toe in until I moved out of my parents house at 22 after getting my college gen eds. but I really got into fashion at 28 fit and colors after feeling frumpy as a mom and needed clothes to fit my mom bod . so your not alone . conservative dress to fit in fashion sucks ! and so does wearing a cami under clothes ! Pieces I wish I'd never gave up like a lacy bell shaped cuffed white button up shirt I got and a buckle up steampunk skirt in drab olive green , pieces I paid good money for .. just to "fit in" 😭
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.
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") 😂.
Opposite end of the spectrum, being in elementary school but a big alternative fashion fan. I also somehow found the Y2K mostly ridiculous loll except cargo pants since comfort and pockets. I still can't take the popcorn shirts seriously and wonder if one of the reasons I love alternative fashion is because I gave up on mainstream fashion a bit when I saw the velour juicy tracksuits with the branding on the butt XD
Wow you sound awful and judgmental.
oh my god you just made me remember how we were bedazzling everything. Do you remember VAGAZZLING? 🤣
Nah, tunics/leggings were a thing in the 80s too. Granted, it was mostly stirrup pants for those who could wear 'em, but yeah. (My legs were too long for stirrup pants. Every time I tried to wear them, I'd end up with the stirrup part around the back of my ankle. And then leggings became available, & I was *thrilled* because I could get the look without the wedgies.)
@@ultimateskillchain i thought vajazzle was a parody
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.
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.
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!
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!
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. ❤
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 😝
I love how your teen style is still identifiable as something you would choose. I've been an Old Navy jeans and t-shirt devotee since I was a teenager. Your choices were so much more of a statement and I love it.
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 was a small child during this era and I remember my mum having the hardest time finding long sleeves for me. We lived in a fairly cold place, especially in the winter, and none of the girls in my class ever had long sleeves, so we all just froze in the winter. And we all wore a lot of cheetah print, button ups with puffed sleeves, and really flared yoga pants. We were all probably too young to have actual senses of fashion at the time, and our mums all dressed us the same. Early 2000's child fashion was just great, I wish I had old enough to wear the cowl neck sweaters, especially that brown one.
That’s weird I found plenty of long sleeves then. Then again I was a teen already but I’m surprised. Sweaters were not fashionable back then but I wore plenty of long sleeve tees and cute tops.
@@mastersnet18 Were sweaters just not as popular in your area? Since half of what Nicole showed were sweaters and sweater-like garments? Also, I imagine child fashion is slightly different then teen fashion, though the gap keeps getting smaller (but that's its own topic)
@@joanderson6880 yea they weren’t popular at all back then where I live. Idk why too because I live in New England and you would think they would like that. Most people wore long sleeve tees, t-shirts over shirts, long sleeve button down shirts, or fleeces, sweatshirts and hoodies worn over short sleeve shirts. Although I was a teen for most of the 2000’s I was 11-12 in 2000-2001, so I wore mostly Limited Too and Fashion Bug. The fashions were really not that different from teen clothes, just slightly less skimpy.
@@mastersnet18 Ah, I see. I was thinking more 2004-06, since that's when I was a small child. I'm not American so the styles might have been a little different from yours too.
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.
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.😂
God! I wish!! I’m in Highschool at the moment and am obsessed with honestly anything 60s-90s. However, nowadays, thrift stores are riddled with mostly (awful)2000s-2010s clothing 🥲🥲 so jealous !!
Follow up video idea of re-creating your favourite items matching your style today. The massive cowls are huge in the knitting community and are in fact a great piece to have with you in winter when they are not attached to an item of clothing for obvious reasons. I miss seeing teenagers figuring out their styles and mixing and matching things. Nowadays they all look totally polished and all look the same. oh and the mini skirt from London? Would totally still wear this today :P
Oh god, the sheer blouse! I had one (would have bought it about '08/'09) that was sleeveless and really tight in the armpits and it had a contrasting black collar and the strip where the buttons went. I never actually got to wear it because my mother had gotten it for me when I was at school and I needed something to do museum docent volunteering in. She didn't notice how sheer it was until I put it on and went "oh nooooo!" Haven't thought about it in years, thanks for the flashback lmaooo
it's so weird seeing nicole with at gremlin-esque cackle at 5:01 😂😂😂 like it's a complete 180° from the calm and collected nicole i know from most of her videos
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 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)
Asymmetrical came back briefly 2017-2018 maybe? It's the high-low that seems to have come back in force (long torso, I need low-low 😭)
You and I are of an age, approximately (I graduated HS in 2004) and everything you pulled out just made me flash back SO hard. Honestly though, what really confuses and delights me is the unexpected return of the circa 2003 "freak pants" trend - those wide legged black cargo pants with the chains and straps, that were kind of the brief transition point between the earlier goth/rocker subculture style and the later emo/scene style. My brother's friend group, and to an extent my own friend group, was REALLY into that style and every time I see something similar pop up in like a modern KPop video or something it just makes my inner weirdo teenager SO HAPPY.
Wait the bondage pants are back? Was not aware of that.
@@bellablue5285 I'm really only seeing it in very specific contexts, but yeah, in the last year or so they've started to make a comeback, especially on women in a stage dance performance context. I think they're actually doing them better now - they're higher-waisted this time around, and a little less over-the-top on the decoration. (Specifically, I spotted a very obvious pair on KPop idol Wendy in this performance a few months ago, and my brain kind of shorted out lol. th-cam.com/video/ex046XcQCVo/w-d-xo.html )
Wow I remember as a fellow Y2K teenager. I finished high school in 2002.
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
Okay honestly the vaguely 70s miniskirt is giving and I would totally wear it today 😂
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 😅
Daaang this threw me through a flashback RIDE. I was 12/13 in 2000, so since that's usually the time you start to pay attention to fashion, I have so vivid memories of what I was wearing in junior high. I thought the early 00's were so cool because it was still remnants from the 90's at that time, but as we moved on from ca. 2003 and onwards, and me getting more into alternative fashion, I started resenting mainstream fashion more and more lol. I absolutely hated a particular sweater that was popular in my area; acrylic, hip-length, cowl neck, 3/4 sleeves, with rhinestones down the front.. like, stop already, it's too damn much haha
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.
Oh the flashbacks. My trendy aunt got me a pair of pink (barbie pink) rhinestoned flares that were low-rise. I was in sixth grade and they had no waistband. I loved everything but the low rise about them. I wore them to school for one day and then they immediately went in the donation pile. I have been a high-waisted girl ever since.
I was finishing highschool and starting college in 2001 and oh that bubble shirt! I had one and they were just weird.
I know this would be a big project and I'm sure you have others, but I would be excited to see you remake some of these you like. The jacket and lace dress and maybe a real version of that corset top.
It could work as an outfit all together.
I wasn’t into fashion until 2011 or so, and even then it was MY brand of fashion, not what was actually fashionable. Even so, my overarching memory of 2000s fashion was how much my crotch hurt because of how far I had to pull up and belt low-rise jeans to meet my dress code. 😂
Ouch, relatable 😂
Low rise jeans 😢 I've always hoped they'd never come back.
We weren't allowed to show any belly at my school. I'm tall and the combo of low rise jeans (which was all I could find) and short tee shirts (again all I could find) made meeting dress code impossible. I ended up tying a sweatshirt around my waist pretty much every day to cover the gap lol.
i had like 6 different camis that only went with some clothes and not all my clothes for that gap problem, and covered the chest for the low necklines. my parents are very conservative- I had no style ..at all until I got a car, a job and could buy my own clothes .@@TheDesertMarmot
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.
This was so much fun to watch!!
I was middle school aged in the early 00s. I definitely wore peasant blouses and asymmetrical tops. But cropped tops and tube tops were something I wanted but wasn’t allowed to wear.
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🤗
I do have a time capsule box too! I started it quite early, around 12 years old... The starting piece : I kept THE Addidas side buttoned srtiped pants that was so popular in mid 90's!
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 buying a lot of my clothes from Hot Topic in the early 2000's. My favorite was a dress I wore for my senior college pictures in 2001, a red silky dress lining with black lace over it with tight black lace sleeves. I loved that dress so much I hadn't the heart to get rid of it when it no longer fit me. In fact, it is still in my closet. I should put it into a fashion time capsule, because I don't think I could ever get rid of it.
I honestly didn't wear a lot of these trends, as I was not trendy, but I did own a lot of peasant blouses and shirts with fairies on them.
This was a lot of fun. Your embarrassed but fond reactions to each was priceless.
I have so many band shirts from Hot Topic, it was like the more acceptable version of Spencer's that my parents were okay with shopping in while I was still in high school (weirdly still have some which I know I had in college, so they have to be at least 15yrs old now, but held up well). I was (well still am) a Torrid sized person though, I do recall there were some amazing clothes for straight sizes that I wish had stayed in style long enough to show up at Torrid.
@@bellablue5285 Torrid-sized here, too. Although it always irked me that Torrid never had enough cute pop culturey stuff like Hot Topic and Hot Topics clothes always ran small. I could fit into them better in college, though.
I love the comments on this video, I love how this has made everyone nostalgic for their own Y2K life choices, I had similar items but I was 30 in 2000, my youth was spent in 90’s grunge- I would still wear it if I had them now xx
_"We want creativity. Go for the weird."_ ~ And that, my friend, is my motto 😊I've never even been _able_ to dress 'normally' and luckily at some point I had stopped trying & embraced my weirdness ^^
Also, I absolutely want that blue faux suede thingy, although not asymmetrical.
It gives me kind of medieval fantasy elven vibes and I'm all here for that 💚
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.
I completely forgot about 3/4 sleeves!
I was all over the fitted waistcoat over a tshirt trend. Some of the styles we had growing up I’d happily wear today. 😎
YA Nicole being where Willow Rosenberg meets the Sanderson Sisters is so perfectly perfect.
I'd like to see a remake of that last black jacket. It's cool.
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 😍
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.
I'm slightly behind you timewise but I remember so many of these on the older girls!! That was a trip down memory lane 🤣I loved it!
I'd love to see you remake that jacket you love so much with your current skill set. That would be a fantastic video.
This is so fun to see as someone who mostly focuses their knitwear reconstruction efforts for Y2K! I was born in 2000 but have an incredibly long memory so I definitely remember female relatives wearing those.
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.
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 nostalgia this brings me is amazing. Also, the joy/memories on your face is beautiful.
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! 😂💕
That mini 11:27 skirt is actually so cute it’s so nostalgic looking to me modern fashion cannot replicate that at all!
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
This was so entertaining! I wish we all thought about keeping a time capsule. I love that you showed us the old photos!
I was a Y2K preteen who got most of my clothing from thrift shops or on clearance at limited too,Jcpenney,Kmart or Sears.
So it was a mix of skorts,knee length and maxi skirts skirts,jumpers,sweater set,peasant blouses,Mandarin collars,polos ,word and graphic tees/tanks and capris.
I was half preppy boho and half 90s art teacher.
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 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!
It's so interesting to see this, I was a teen at the same time but over here in the UK, and while some things were common over here (giant cowl necks, halter neck, "corsets") there's a few styles that I don't remember being such a thing here (bubble shirts) - though I do remember seeing them in movies.
I am reminded of this old dress my mom gave me. She got it in the 90s, in a style that was calling back to a style from the 70s, that was in turn CLEARLY calling back to an even earlier square torso shape which I believe was the 20s.
It would be great to see you make that black jacket again. What would you change? What would you not change? I think it would be a really fascinating project.
Oh Nicole, I think we are the same age. It was like unlocking a core memory seeing each of your pieces!
Omg yes! The gothic-adjacent vibes of the late 90s/early00s were so much fun! It's what all the cool alt girls were wearing. I wasn't a cool alt girl, but I still tried lol.
My most cherished item, that I have - and still wear! - to this day is my black, long, open crochet cardigan with bell sleeves. Back then, it was my attempt at a The Craft witchy boss bitch vibe, nowadays it's my "one of the aunts from Practical Magic" fit.
My black and silver chinese brocade halter tops though, those stay in the vault LOL
That long black dress at the end reminded me of a broomstick/tiered skirt I bought around 2006 at a small independent store in north Portland--it was alternating tiers of brown satin and lace, trimmed with ribbon bows. I loved it and wore it for years but eventually, it no longer fit me and the structure was such that altering it to fit was a pain in the butt. I wish I'd kept it, but alas. I would love to recreate a version of it in more natural fibers since I'm pretty sure it was all polyester.
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.
I remember BoHo chic being so big at the end of the 2000's, into early 2010s, especially when Coachella was blowing up.
god that 70s skirt reminds me so much of one i got when i went away to college around 2004. i got to go to a vintage and artsy store for the first time and fell in love with the classic "kilt made of 50 different plaid ties"....
The last jacket! I had exactly that style in black taffeta, huge puff sleeves and a black puffball skirt in the 80's. Forgotten all about that outfit so thank you for the memory prompt.
Just watching this...colors (especial the colors) details, reactions to the fabrics...you can see the seeds of the Nicole we see today
So late 90s/early 00s I was really into the tie dye/acid wash era, but in that time frame it was very much black and darker colors. I remember having a pair of chunky Steve Madden Mary janes that i loved and cargos.
I'm mid 00s when I was in high school (I graduated in 2007) i started out in my Hollister era (lots of Hollister polos and burmuda shorts) while towards the end i had migrated to full out emo kid. Lol
Edit to add: I'd totally wear that patchwork skirt now lol
You should totally make a video of you recreating the last two items, but with fabric and trims/notions you’d use today.
I love love love that last jacket! The fabric looks so gorgeous. If you were to remake it today I know I would love to see that.
This was fascinating to watch. I would love to see you recreate the last two pieces given the joy they obviously give you. It would be fun to compare and see what you change and what you keep. Thanks for the look into the past.
Omg I've been missing the huge cowl neck sweaters + shirts!
oh, and boleros! this is such a fun walk down memory lane!
I hate 3/4 length sleeves with a fiery passion and have NOT missed that trend
Those little cardigan/shrug/mini-sweater things were a godsend for me in high school - I considered them my automatic "make any shirt school appropriate" device! I loved my tube tops and my spaghetti straps. XD
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!
oh my goodness the bubble clothes - I hated them so much at a early teen in the late 90s ! this was a weird mind trip and reminded me of all the stupid annoying fashions of my teens and early 20's ! I remember the weird dolman sleeves in 2006/7😬 and the sweaters with beads... so many beads... 😮💨.I didn't really get into fashion until after I got sick of my frumpy mom clothes- jeans and tees and yoga pants when I had my kids ! my style is still evolving but I have found styles I love & i know know how to dress myself in clothes that fit made out of good fabrics and in my colors - thank heavens ! thanks for a trippy trip down memory lane !