The year was 2016... So start many of the throwback posts taking over our social media feeds this week—a viral trend that has us looking back at that memorable year, now officially an entire decade ago.
Vine was the height of comedy, "Closer" by The Chainsmokers and Halsey was on every radio station and the Snapchat dog filter reigned supreme. And the fashion? Oh, we could tell you about the fashion. Chokers, studs and lace-up tops. Skinny jeans and faux fur coats. All accessorized with those Dior sunglasses and a trendy cup of matcha in our hands.
Was some of it cringe? Perhaps. But ten years later, it turns out we'd still wear plenty of the same items that were in our closets back then (and, TBH, actually still own some of them). To prove it to you—and jump on the nostalgia train—my fellow PureWow staffers and I dived into our own archives to pull some of our favorite looks from the era...and sniffed out the modern equivalents we'd shop today.
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