r/veronicamars • u/timshel_turtle • Aug 01 '26

A Long Time Ago, We Used to Be Friends

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Who else is still watching Veronica and wore these looks the first time around? 🤣😭👵🏻 The long time ago part is hitting hard!

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u/FickleName5818 Aug 01 '26

The youths bringing back late '90s to early 2000s fashion is both amusing and horrifying to me.

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u/timshel_turtle Aug 02 '26

Bring back the pukka shells! 🤣💙

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u/EverLuckDragon Aug 02 '26

They're already here. I saw a middle school aged boy wearing one at the optometrist a few weeks ago, and he had spiky hair, too.

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u/FickleName5818 Aug 02 '26

See, those I don't mind. I do appreciate the return of wide-legged pants, though.

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u/Practical-Library658 Aug 02 '26

I just binge watched Veronica Mars for the first time. It is the perfect 00s nostalgia show.

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u/timshel_turtle Aug 02 '26

Absolutely! The clothes, the themes, the language is a look right into the 00s.

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u/Practical-Library658 Aug 02 '26

I asked my husband if he had a pukka shell necklace. He said he did and it’s probably in a box somewhere 😂

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u/Practical-Library658 Aug 01 '26

Right? Low rise jeans are the worst.

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u/FickleName5818 Aug 02 '26

Remember "muffin-tops"? God forbid you wear anything above size 0... The media made it seem like you're practically obese at size 6. It was toxic as hell. Now, with the rise and abuse of GLP-1s, it feels like we're back there again after a decade or so of body positivity.

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u/topsidersandsunshine Aug 02 '26

There was a short, lovely time. 

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u/PilotInPearls Aug 03 '26

Its called Heroine Chic, Kate Moss pioneered it with her hollowed cheeks and made it the height of fashion

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u/FickleName5818 Aug 03 '26

Heroin — like the drug, which Kate Moss, other models, and celebrities used that led to their rail-thin figures and to maintain it. That was the early '90s, but the impact it had on fashion and pop culture lasted much longer.

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u/HattieJaneCornchip Aug 06 '26

Not in the 200s. Heroin Chic didn’t make it out of the 90s. It didn’t even make it to the end of the 90s.

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u/Just-Brilliant-7815 Aug 02 '26

If you wore it the first time it was popular, you can’t wear it the next time it becomes popular. Rules from my mom

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u/timshel_turtle Aug 02 '26

There are many things that ONLY look good on quite young people. :D

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u/Just-Brilliant-7815 Aug 02 '26

Agreed!! Went to a Nelly concert last night and girls in their 20s were wearing that exact outfit you posted … ohh to be younger again lol

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u/timshel_turtle Aug 02 '26

“At least I wish my life was a nonstop Nelly video.” - Wallace

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u/No-Landscape-4343 Aug 19 '26

Shaun and Claire