For Esquire's style editor, hindsight hasn't hampered the shine of music's most maligned era
The Offspring’s Dexter Holland then...But despite this overdue reckoning of its behaviours, the dress code remains oddly current. XXL T-shirts with bands you've never heard 0f. Shin-length, yacht sail-wide shorts. Marshmallow hoodies. Licks of bleached hair. Baggy jeans. White tank tops. Rope-like chains. Wraparound sunglasses. Backwards caps. Bandanas.
There's a level of comfort, sure. Massive clothes will do that. But there's also a rebellious streak to it, a feeling that you're intentionally upsetting the old way of things, upending the traditional understanding of 'style'.
It's still a divisive way to dress. But the guilty pleasure goes beyond the cyclical trend carousel. It's a reminder of the excitement of what was to come. Teenage years, no matter how monstrously soundtracked or how poorly dressed, are magical and damaging and rose-tinted all at once. Watching my sister pack-up for the festival of a lifetime exhilarated 1o-year-old me.
But fire up the rousing, jarring intro of 'Movies', and I'm folding my sister's clothes in her room. I'm actually in an XXL t-shirt and baggy shorts, and I'm an adult, and I know all the words this time. I've brought much of it with me into adulthood. The facial hair of Durst and co – soul patches, goatees, or any topiary carved by the sort of man who drinks Monster for breakfast – can stay in 2002. The flame shirt, however, still burns bright.
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