Oh, the 2000s. It was a time when we were all watching Lizzie McGuire and Even Stevens and listening to “Dirrty” by Christina Aguilera while typing our AIM away messages LiKe ThIs. For millennials, looking back on this period of our lives is like reopening a time capsule filled with some of your fondest memories and most devastating embarrassments; our personal sense of style during those years probably falls into the latter category.
For a lot of us born in the late '80s and early '90s, the 2000s were when we first started thinking about how our appearances could be an extension of our identities. As embarrassing as some of those old pictures may be, we should think of the clothes we wore and the way we styled our hair as a rite of passage. If nothing else, it made for some great memories.
