Twelve years is an uncomfortable length of time in fashion. Long enough ago to feel outdated, but not quite long enough for nostalgia to erase embarrassment. It’s like bumping into a friend you haven’t seen since that time a few months ago when you bumped into them and made vague plans to get together which you never followed up on. If you could avoid them for another few years, you could be long-lost soulmates, but for now it’s just a bit awks.
So next month’s almost-reunion of the cast of Friends, who will appear together in NBC’s tribute to director James Burrows, doubtless won’t get the style fanfare it deserves. But, no matter that Perry has thrown the symmetry off by being unable to attend – typical, can you BE any more Chandler? – this should be, if there was any justice in the world, an all-time Fashion Moment. Sex and the City, which, like Friends, left the small screen in 2004, gets all the airtime for being the iconic style show of its era. But it was Rachel and her floppy-shiny-haired crew who truly defined not just what to wear in the 90s, but what to wear as a grownup in a post-business-suit world.
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