( Dec. 21, 2010 ) — With the start of a new millennium comes a new approach towards fashion. Now that a decade has passed since 2000, I look back at the past years and find it amazing to see the fashion industry bringing in and pulling out apparel every year. Some styles from the ‘90s passed into the new millennium. One of the styles was Bohemian: long skirts, headbands, gypsy tops, tunics and cut-off jeans which were very fashionable in 2000. Even today, I see many students at Clark who dress in the bohemian style making it seem as though the style never got old. A lot brands started becoming very popular among the youth, like American Eagle. In popular stores, shirts for men were bought in all colors, including pink. Now, this is one of the advances I believe men have made, becoming a little more in touch with their feminine side, and realizing that pink is not just for girls! New designs in fashion made it possible for clothing to be worn by both women and men. It broke down the borders between the general expectation of what men and women had to wear. The idea that boys wear blue and girls wear pink was changing to boys and girls could wear the color they wanted. In the fall of 2007, the scene style kicked in along with the new rock bands. The scene style of teased hair (a hairstyle popular in the ’50s), skin tight jeans, band shirts, and eyeliner dominated the youth. Guys started to let their hair grow longer than girls’ hair, allowing the fringe cover half of their faces. In my generation, I saw a lot of my classmates adopting this style and some people really rocked it. Punk was also coming back, along with modern accessories like the infamous Hello Kitty necklaces, bows and piercings. As I saw it, punk was merging with skateboarding, and that was merging with the scene, so we had a mixture of all these styles popping up from ’08-’10, making people indecisive. One day it was cool to wear black and tease the hair, the next day it would be about wearing plaid with some skinny ripped jeans and a pair of chucks. I have a feeling we’ll probably look back at these moments and think, “Gosh, I wore that?!” But fashion isn’t just something we will be embarrassed by for years to come. It’s something that lives on as memories. Looking back at what we wore and what was “in”; sometimes, there are trends that never die. It’s a memory that tells a story and who knows what chapters there are to come in the years that follow.