Twitter is going wild over some early 2000s trends controversy.

Fashion, like history, is cyclical. We see the same trends coming back around in waves. Most recently, the world has been creeping ever more closely to a celebration of the ever iconic early-2000s fashion.

Well...at least Gen Z seems to *think* that's what they're doing.

People who were born after, or are too young to remember, the true 00s, are excited to bring back low rise jeans (which...why?) and crop tops.

The inclusion of crop tops on this list confuses many who were there.

True Gen-Zers seem to think that 15-20 years ago, everyone was wearing a crop top the entire time. Us Zillenials and young Millenials who were there, are genuinely confused by this. A Tweet today said it best when they wrote:

"Will never get over the fact that teens today are dressing in what they think is '2000s fashion' in cute mid-drift bearing tops, but when I actually had a cute mid-drift to bear in 2006 every shirt actually looked like this," followed by a picture of the longest tank top in the world, with lace at both the top and bottom.


This is the heart of the confusion. Early 2000s shirts were *anything* but crop tops. They were the longest shirts known to man, in a way that suggested there was a surplus of fabric that the fashion industry was using teen and tween fashion to rectify (which would also explain the sheer number of layers that Disney Channel stars were always dressed in).

The OP responded to her own post, remarking, "You couldn't even FIND our middriff in these tops. It could literally be anywhere in the 6 feet of fabric."

Looking back at old fashion, it is no wonder that we had a strange Disney-red carpet obsession with wearing dresses over jeans. Our shirts were basically the length of dresses, so what's the point?

To illustrate our point: In a powerful nostalgia flashback, someone posted a picture of a 00's Limited Too ad with the longest shirts ever known to mankind.

So yes, for all of you placing early 2000s fashion on a pedestal, don't forget your floor-length gown of a t-shirt. 

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