Fashion Flashback

HAPPY NEW YEAR LOVES!!! I've been gone for a minute, but I'm baaaack! For this Friday's fashion flashback I'm gonna switch things up a little bit and share my fav trends from the first decade of the new millenium...

Trend #1: LEGGINGS!!!

Trend #2: Statement/Waist belts

Trend #3: BOOTY BOOTY BOOTY BOOTY ROCKIN' EVERYWHERE!!!

The new millenium brought on the booty craze and widespread acceptance of curvier women. Gotta love that!

Fashion Flashbacks

HAPPY BLACK FRIDAY SHOPAHOLICS!

ChiomaB

GOLDEN GIRL FLY

I used to dress these gold peep-toe wedges up, down, and I def wore them all around. I wore them ouuut the summer of 2007! I really can't explain why I loved them so much...Needless to say I wouldn't be caught dead in them now!

POSH Powell

Inspired by ChiomaB, I'll let you see some of my favorites from way back. Thank goodness they're not that embarrassing. Here we go.

Juicy Couture Velour Bowler Bag, 2006

Actually this one is very embarrassing. I look a mess...blame it on the AWFUL Massachusetts weather we were experiencing at the time, it rained the entire time. I digress. I looooooooved that bag. At the moment I was such a Juicy girl. I think the shape of the bag was what I love most, I love structured bags, give me a floppy bag and it's like giving me rare meat in that "what the hell am I supposed to do with that?" sense. I wouldn't be caught dead with one of these bags now, a Juicy Velour Bowler is not for the grown and sexy.

Gap Corduroy Jacket, 2006
I can't lie, I'm looking quite cute and fabulous! I looooooooved this jacket. It was such a pretty color on me. And the handbag I'm wearing is definitely one of my all time favorites. It was a mustard color Marciano bag, a birthday gift from my darling of a mother. And come to think of it another one of my favorite items is in this picture, the grey shirt I have on, which had nothing much to it, but I loved the sleeve openings.

What I need is a scanner so you can see from REAL fashion flashbacks, LOL.

And, for some reason or other, Teyana Taylor's dopelips.com is no longer up and running. I hope she's not taking an L.

ENJOY YOUR SHOPPING!

Fashion Flashbacks

ChiomaB
CELEB FASHION FLASHBACK

Amber Rose (back when she was just Amber lol) and her Wet Seal looking top/dress. Before Forever21 took over Wet Seal was the shhhhhh...I know ya'll remember that!

POSH Powell

Now I don't know if these were only popular in the DMV:

That's right, mini backpacks! Can you say 1996-97? LOL. I had two or three of them, and I carried them both at the same time. I was such a bag lady in middle school. I had my bookbag, a small tote bag, my purse, and the bag with my cd player and CDs...I shudder to think. Like really, what was I doing??? I was literally carrying 13 year old life around. Are people still wearing these somewhere? I'd actually really like to know.

Fashion Flashbacks

ChiomaB

So I'm in line at Marshalls one Sunday evening feeling really good about the bargains I just found when I look down and notice a well pedicured foot entrapped in a pair of high heel thong sandals (or as I like to call them high heel flip flops). I say entrapped because I know if the lady's foot had a mind of its own it would have refused to have taken any part of being put in that shoe. First of all it was quite chilly outside and every other part of her body was covered up (she was wearing jeans and a sweater - why she chose to make her toes suffer is beyond me), and second of all that shoe trend is a blast from the past that, I believe, should be left in the past!

Posh Powell

Before I begin my Fashion Flashback, I have to say that I owned two pairs (black and white) of "high heel flips" back in the day. If I recall correctly, it was circa 2002-2003 when those were in style. I thought I was too cute!

Anyway, remember these ladies:

Yes, that would be THE good ol' Old Navy Performance Fleece from 1998. Do you remember the pandemonium??? Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE had performance fleece; entire families were clad in performance fleece, looking like fleece rainbows. At the moment this is the only trend I can think of where children didn't mind dressing like their siblings, parents, aunts, uncles, and grandparents. My mother and I were no exception to this trend, hers was black and mine was a periwinkle-like color (yes periwinkle-like, not purple!). I basically lived in my performance fleece. I did everything but sleep in it...aaahhh the good old days. That was when shopping at Old Navy was soooooo cool. The lines in at the Old Navy near my house used to be outrageous every single weekend. And remember the commercials? Old Navy and Gap used to have the best commercials. I still remember them quite vividly. Does Old Navy even sell performance fleece anymore???

Because I love you guys:

Performance Fleece

Oh, it's fine.

Performance Fleece

I'll be there at nine!

Old Navy, Old Navy

Old Navy Performance Fleece!

Old Navy, Old Navy

Old Navy Performance Fleece!

And I had to do this:

Old Navy Performance Fleece commercial with "The Jeffersons"

YOUR THOUGHTS?

Fashion Flashbacks

ChiomaB

This pic was taken in early 2006, right when leggings first came back out. I remember being very pleased with myself when I bought them from Express, and even more pleased when I completed the outfit because it came out exactly how I had envisioned it. Minus the kitten heels, this flashback pic doesn't make me cringe at all...I don't mind laughing at myself so please believe there will be some fashion blunders up very soon! Stay tuned...

POSH Powell

I purchased my fir pair of destroyed denim in 2003; a pair of light blue faded Abercrombie boot cut jeans. They were absolutely fabulous! I adored them. They were laid to rest in 2007 due to an ever-widening hole-that-used-to-be-a-just-a-slit right below my butt. Sigh.

WHAT'S YOUR FASHION FLASHBACK?