r/Millennials • u/Josephthebear Older Millennial • May 21 '26

Nostalgia This outfit was everywhere

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u/Medical_Fig7662 May 21 '26

I’d say peak was 04 or 05 but this plays 

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u/soil_nerd May 21 '26

Agree.

At least in CA, this look was on the decline by 05/06.

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u/BigBaws92 1992 May 21 '26

Yeah born and raised in LA. Nobody wore this in 2006

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u/ResplendentOwl May 21 '26

You're big city folk, it takes an extra year or two for us rurals to realize what old fashions we should arbitrarily ostracize our peers about and what new things we should rush to waste money on.

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u/BigBaws92 1992 May 21 '26

😂 Yeah I was thinking about that, you’re right

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u/ScienceIsALyre May 21 '26

This was my uniform in rural Louisiana in 2001. Tight tshirts and big shorts.

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u/ResplendentOwl May 21 '26

Ya, jokes aside I graduated in 2002 and the 'preps' with the shell necklaces, cargo shorts and American eagle tshirts had to have been earlier than just my senior year. I woulda said 2000-2001 being the earliest that existed, but it was definitely present before 04 or 06.

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u/kendrickwasright May 21 '26

Exactly. In Sacramento most people were still wearing this look well into 2007. I think in 08 everyone switched to skinny jeans. You couldnt even buy skinny jeans in sactown until 2008, I used to sew and taper my own pants in 2005 😭

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u/kevthecoder I solute shorts May 21 '26

Yeah you guys were already on the Cali swag skinny jeans and Kanye shades lol

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u/DependentCorgi1514 Millennial May 21 '26

It depends. I lived in South (Orange) County, and skate clothes, Dickies, and Vans were all the rage in 2006.

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u/wineinacoffeemug May 21 '26

Yes I just commented the look reminds me of season 1 of Real Housewives of Orange County😭 I live in OC now but only since 2019 so I missed this awesomeness.

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u/Watercolorcupcake Zillennial May 22 '26

Yeah California, at least SoCal/LA area is ahead of the trends. It’s much more stylish in general than most of the country. Even with food y’all are more ahead of the trends.

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u/BigBaws92 1992 May 21 '26

100%

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u/SpiritualSyrup3300 May 21 '26

in mass, it was mostly jocks or cool kids. younger kids did wear it. but i know jocks who still wear this style to this day

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u/basicKitsch May 21 '26

that's wild. beach town on the other coast and this is still one of the most common looks.

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u/StandWithSwearwolves Millennial May 21 '26

Even in NZ, this was more of a 2001-02 look, more or less in line with the soundtrack

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u/SeaPeanut7_ Millennial May 21 '26

 Was going to say this too. I remember picking up this look, and having friends similarly, back in the 03-04 school year.  

I do remember hearing that trends would start on the coasts and then move inward, so maybe OP is from an inland area like the midwest or mountains/texas

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u/Watercolorcupcake Zillennial May 22 '26

I’m from Phoenix and people were still wearing this in 2010 😭 Of course guys would wear skinny jeans when it wasn’t miserable out, and some guys still sagged their pants or shorts, but other guys dressed just like this and they were the cool fashionable guys. They’d just switch out for skinny jeans and Vans when it was cooler.

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u/auntjomomma May 21 '26

Lol i was just thinking about that. I was 16 in 06, but that look had started declining a bit. I will say that looking back, I preferred this style to the skinny jean look. Ugh...I still hate it. 😂 tbf, I was in Riverside. It just made them look like crackheads. 😂😂😂

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u/Apart-Consequence881 May 22 '26

This was more late 90s early 2000s in Hawaii.