I've Waited 10 Years for This: The Tumblr Aesthetic Is Back

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- KIM DUONG

It was my DSLR-selfies-in-my-high-school-bedroom era. My index-finger-ballpoint-pen-mustache-tattoo era. My hashtag era.

It was 2010, and I was wearing circle skirts and polka-dot tights with "acid-washed" band tees cut into crop tops. I had successfully hunted down a pair of sold-out Jeffrey Campbell Lita platform boots and wore them everywhere despite suffering a sprained ankle. I even fell for an internet scam over $12 studded denim cutoffs because I wanted them so badly but my local mall was selling only low-rise Bermuda shorts. Anything to be the epitome of fashion-of ~Tumblr fashion~.

I rabidly thirsted for the very specific aesthetic, something I'd spend the next decade making fun of myself for. But now that said look is once again in (see: Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly, Kravis, the grungecore-meets-Jess-from-New-Girl vibes all over your feeds), I've realized something: I may have been cringe, but at least I was free.