2004: Fossil Hippie Belt

Please don't ask me why I bought this belt because I don't know. It's damn ugly, Thing is, I actually really liked it at the time, but I never wore it because it smelled like fish. How leather can smell like walleye guts is beyond me. I even put this thing outside on the patio in the dead of winter to air it out in hopes of getting rid of the tuna smell. It didn't work. Can you blame me for not wanting to walk around smelling like I have a personal hygiene problem?

Old Navy "Magic" the Dog Easter Bunny Plush

No, it's not an article of clothing...But remember when Old Navy sold these stuffed dogs? These "Magic" stuffed toys were sold at Old Navy in the early '00s. I always thought they were so cute! I had a bunch of them -- and apparently I sold this lil' guy on eBay. :( I kinda regret it. I wish Old Navy still sold these things.

2004: Maurices Maroon Fair Isle Sweater

I could lie and tell you I bought this in 1994 and wore it in high school, but I won't. I'll be honest and admit that I purchased and wore this matronly marvel in 2004. If you wore a sweater like this in the '80s and '90s, and were a high school student or young adult, that'd be fine. However, if you're a young twenty-something and wearing a bulky, shapeless, boring sweater like this in 2004, well, it's simply not stylish.

This is something a senior citizen named Mable would wear to the 2pm seating at the Old Country Buffet. But I wore it on dates with my boyfriend to TGIFridays for DRANKS and dinner.


I tried selling it on eBay a few years ago with no luck. I even paired it with a necklace to make it look nicer, but no bites. Today, it's probably dying a slow death in the bowels of a thrift store.

2000: Gap Khaki Shortalls

From about late 1999 until the spring of 2001, I was obsessed with wearing overalls. Overalls briefly revisited the fashion scene in the late '90s and early '00s. My signature outfit during those years (my college year, mind you) was a pair of denim, khaki or corduroy overalls paired with an Old Navy logo baby t. During the winter, it was an Old Navy logo-bearing long sleeved t-shirt or a tight-fitting ribbed sweater.  I lived for wearing this stuff. I had enough overalls to last me every day of the week, so if I wanted to look like Farmer Johnson's daughter (who just pulled up in a Jeep), I could.

Thankfully, I didn't tie a shirt around the waist. No, I did that fashion trend in 1996's "tie your sweatshirt around your waist of your overalls so that your ass looks like the back of the bus" epidemic.

I retired from wearing overalls in the spring of 2001, when I realized I was the only one still wearing this stuff.