why disney channel outfits were ugly

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In today's video, I explore the ugly 2000s Disney channel outfits.
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Disney Channel’s Former Costume Designer Doesn’t Get the Y2K Resurgence Either
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The Rise and Fall of the Pop Star Purity Ring
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[@moonniieee]

I personally think it's to echo how actual little girls (6-10) liked to dress at the time. Little kids don't really coordinate outfits: they just wear stuff they find cute

[@gbbs9]

Honestly you’re right with this take. If we think about who was watching Disney - suite life, Hannah Montana etc - it was the tweens and younger. The shows might have been about 16 year olds, but 16 year olds irl were not watching Disney😆 In real life teens that age are the prime audience for mtv. Disney was trying to appeal to the kids! I was 9 years old watching London Tipton and Raven thinking they killed the looks everytime😂 I miss those days lolol

[@LovelyLittleLillies]

​@@gbbs9 exactly. This yter is waay off bc those outfits had nothing to do with modesty as real modesty conceals your body shape with *loose* garments. Meanwhile, Self Miley and Demi and everyone before them - you can literally tell the outline of their bodies... If they were all about modesty they'd be wearing baggy hoodies or the baggy outfits early Avril Lavigne was wearing.

[@lalaland2107]

I was in high school when Shake It Up debuted and I loved their clothes!!!! I really wanted to dress like them!! I was also constantly on WeHeartIt, so I was seeing similar outfits. The clashing of prints was fashionable to me at the time.

[@oooh19]

These were teens though not little girls

[@viviangarcia5696]

Does that mean shows like the fresh beat dance or hi 5 should have dress like their age then?​@@oooh19

[@sagittariusbeauty]

The more important question is why did I liked and wanted to dress like them when I was younger?? I wore boots on a dry, warm day from inspiration of Zendaya from Shake It Up. 😭😂

[@LoneWulf278]

😂

[@shinstantramen5169]

Bc you were an impressionable kid. Pls don't beat yourself up because Disney had us ALL in a t-shirt, tank top and vest combo on the daily 😂

[@LordDomielOfElysium]

Wym, you can wear boots whenever? Lol

[@cloudsurfer73]

Never felt that to be honest. I thought they looked ridiculous even back then. But I did wear a dress with jeans and je ne regrette rien

[@sketchycat6223]

I tried to wear a dress over jeans after I saw it on Disney Channel & my mom wouldn’t let me😭

[@Chuuzus]

Raven on the other hand was serving looks! her fashion was y2k at it's peak

[@jovanym2931]

Nah

[@TheAncestors1738]

Sometimes

[@BozeDoesGodsWork]

Um YEAH! Raven had one of the best closets in the Disney channel peak.

[@humansolarian]

True, even that stripey top she's wearing is something Raven would dawn

[@Kimmy_95]

So true. I LOVED most of her outfits & hairstyles as well.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Ashley Tisdale’s red carpet outfits are just another unsolved mystery in the universe.

[@LoneWulf278]

😂

[@Itoshimi]

Honestly because what was with the eye mask and the handheld keyboard?

[@Dazzlinglylauren]

😂😂😂

[@ipsilonia]

“at best ‘camp’, and at worst ‘in the dark’” is such a perfect line wow

[@uhuhuh1966]

Hilary Duff said Lizzie McGuire was built around her interests, personality and style, which is fascinating to me that a company as huge as Disney let her pick her clothes for this massive hit show

[@pukeachu]

The 2000s were a different era of Disney

[@thisisavivistanaccount7866]

at the time they weren’t the powerhouse that we know them as. Lizzie Mcguire/ Hilary Duff was the “blueprint” so to speak. Once they cracked their formula the disney machine was CRAZY.

[@oooh19]

She had cute style especially for a girl her age at that time (and I’m her age too and I would have loved if I was on a popular show but could select my own outfits)

[@TheStreetFoolosopherMr187]

It was very memorable

[@Nikki-ks6wi]

@thisisavivistanaccount7866 Not really the machine has been around since Mickey Mouse club

[@sketchycat6223]

Real ones remember when Disney Channel did tie in deals with department stores, so you could buy the same outfits at your local JCPenny or Dillards!!

[@Shewhospeakesinverse]

Only thing my parents were willing to buy was ... I think a hannah montana belt?

[@bimpadimp]

i remember seeing those series at target and wanting them so bad omg

[@MichellaneousMe]

I remember having the same pants and shirts as Miranda and felt sooo cool lol

[@alexkass5548]

And you bet your butt that i owned so much Hannah Montana clothing!

[@MoodyMickey]

I remember that! Got a couple shirts from the shake it up line

[@lockheart619]

I tried dressing the same way they did on Shake it Up and my mom REFUSED to let me out of the house looking like that. I was heartbroken cause I wanted to look like Rocky so bad 😅.

[@xxSome3Girlxx]

I tried dressing like CeCe and got asked if I was trying to wear everything in my closet before donating it

[@larissabrglum3856]

I remember noticing this even when I was a kid. I thought, "I don't see people wearing this many layers in real life"

[@Metaphoreign]

Meanwhile my friends and I thought we were geniuses for wearing skirts over jeans in the 90s. Because we wanted to look cute but didn't want to be cold. Tight leggings and skinny jeans weren't a thing yet though so we were doing it with flared jeans lol.

[@Eloraurora]

Trying to look stylish in a layering boom _and_ in a hot climate was a miserable combo. I still remember the T-shirt culture clash with my mom - thick and durable vs. tissue tees so I could wear three shirts without dying.

[@TindraSan]

the multilayered gaudy getups are to disney channel what physics-defying colorful hairstyles are to anime, I feel

[@perrip2355]

Raven said, “Not I.” She stayed serving looks❤

[@lisah8438]

Some of her looks were too much.

[@nalalalalala9946]

@@lisah8438THATS WHAT MADE THEM SLAY ✨✨✨

[@americandragon8612]

Yassss is even in the cheetah girls movies she was the best dressed

[@mimigigihere]

i’m pretty sure the victorious kids were meant to be older than most disney channel characters - they were all meant to be around 16-17. if you go back to icarly season 1, where the characters are meant to be younger, the outfits carly and sam are wearing are definitely more similar to the disney channel girls thsn to the victorious characters

[@FullmoonPhantom-dn2sr]

Yeah, Victorious was a teen Nick show. Well, I suppose it played on the normal Nick channel as well, but the kids were definitely older there. Vs Carly and Sam were only 13. Maybe Freddie was 12, idr. They were younger in s1 though.

[@scissorcorn9956]

I’m so glad you mentioned dress codes! I think the Victorious outfits were a bit more true to life what highschoolers were actually wearing (if a bit aspirational). While the Disney shows were what elementary schoolers/middle schoolers WANTED to dress like if that makes sense lmao

[@gbbs9]

Yes! I think Disney was trying to appeal to an even younger audience

[@cupfulofeathers]

This was a really fascinating video! As someone who grew up in Christian purity culture, voluntarily wore a purity ring (because all my friends were doing it), and watched Disney Channel, all of this makes so much sense. It explains so much of the weird Disney channel fashion I grew up imitating! As you mentioned, purity culture was no joke in that era! On a serious note, I’m still a Christian but I have totally deconstructed purity culture and “modesty” culture. Modern Christians use the word “modesty” to mean “all of your provocative skin covered” but when “modesty” is used in the New Testament of the Bible, it actually means something more like “not flaunting one’s wealth to avoid excluding people who can’t afford clothes as nice as yours” - it has nothing to do with sexuality. People can be sexually assaulted regardless of what they are wearing; most victims are not dressed provocatively. Jesus never told women to cover up, he told men to have self control, but the modern Christian church has wrongfully put all the responsibility on women. Purity culture got so much wrong and did a lot of trauma and sexual shame. A book that has been really helpful for me in healing from purity culture is “She Deserves Better” by Sheila Wray Gregoire. It was primarily written to parents of daughters to help have healthier conversations about sex and self-image in a Christian context, but it can be helpful to anyone, regardless of if you have kids. I think it could even be helpful for people who are no longer Christian to heal from purity culture trauma, as well. It’s based on a ton of psychology and survey research, not just someone’s opinion. The book doesn't say "Let's do the opposite of purity culture", it just explains healthier ways of thinking about sex that aren't based in shame. Sorry for leaving a novel of a comment, but I’m really passionate about this topic and I hope this comment helps someone! ❤

[@louisachalarca6494]

Hey I was raised catholic and idk what I think but just thank you. The shame of what I was wearing and of having a chest; it helps to hear Christians who know being sexually assaulted has nothing to do with what you are wearing. Thanks for speaking out loud that learned knowledge. It matters Thanks A skimpily dressed survivor

[@hannahpense9973]

Christian raised during the purity movement here - whole-heartedly agree! My parents were never into the movement themselves, but it was big at my private Christian middle school. Nearly all of middle school, I wore frumpy and oversized outfits because I was afraid of attracting unwanted attention to my body. Nobody ever told me I had to, but I read stories of girls getting assaulted, lived in a neighborhood that was not the safest, and we had regular assemblies at school reminding girls not to stumble our brothers in Christ. It took me until the end of my freshman year of high school to finally realize no one was actually judging me to ditch the oversized fleece I wore everyday. Despite all of that, even though my friends got purity rings and even made public declarations of staying celibate until marriage, I never jumped on the bandwagon of purity rings. I had already made up my mind to stay celibate, and felt the ring was unnecessary for me to stay committed to my own decision. It just felt like what we would call virtue signaling today; a pointless action to make yourself feel good and look righteous, without actually benefitting anybody. I also didn’t agree with the name “purity ring,” as it’s name implies that sex in and of itself is impure; it’s not. It felt wrong to me that everyone was over stressing to abstain from sex without stressing or explaining the parameters that sex should be experienced in. Did that mean that our very existence was an unholy manifestation of sin? I also felt that purity rings and purity culture in general made it easy to burden teens who had been sexually assaulted or abused because they weren’t virgins. What you wear does make a statement of how you feel about and present yourself, but ultimately, the one responsible for sexual assault is the perpetrator. Purity culture swung too many families, Christian or not, hard into ideals that are just not possible for everyone and that shouldn’t have to be criteria alone for making a “pure” person. As Christians, we shouldn’t be uncomfortable with talking about sex and all of the complexities that accompany it in marriage, in dating, or in puberty, or we’ll raise kids who don’t get a complete healthy view of it and don’t know how to handle themselves when they do get married. How many people of our generation still have trouble interacting with each other due to the affects of purity culture? That book you shared sounds like a great resource; I’ll check it out. Thanks for suggesting it here!

[@EmL-kg5gn]

I’m a survivor of sa in my childhood and young adulthood. Most of it happened at church and then christians blamed me for it (they also further sexually harassed and emotionally abused me because of it, the emotional abuse was so bad it honestly did more harm than what happened). It is really reassuring to know that you exist somewhere. I’m so so thankful that some people have questioned this mindset!! It encourages and creates so many perpetrators…

[@kimberleywilliams7802]

Love this comment

[@TaMeuBem]

The big question is, who was the costume designer/stylists for all of these shows? that's the REAL question

[@gbbs9]

This!!😂

[@LordofFullmetal]

It's also worth noting that a lot of Disney stars also didn't feel comfortable in those clothes. Miley Cyrus has now come out and said she's pretty sure she got body dysmorphia from Disney; as well as an identity crisis caused by the incredibly blurred lines between Hannah, Miley Stewart, and Miley Cyrus.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

RAVEN WAS THE BEST. She never missed with her looks. Consistently fabulous!

[@bleeka325]

Raven was serving looks!

[@sarahthomas8670]

I AGREE

[@JenniferBrigitteOpticalVortex]

Raven Baxter, London Tipton, and Harper Finkle.

[@oooh19]

@@JenniferBrigitteOpticalVortexoh yeah I love harpers style so unique

[@JenniferBrigitteOpticalVortex]

@@oooh19 she was avante-garde. The Moschino of Disney Channel.

[@SunnyGoesIn1D]

Honestly, in a day and age where it seems like everyone and their mama who’s even circling the spotlight has dropped $90k on plastic surgery bc they care about how they look -- I have LOTS of nostalgia for the 2000s crazy tween/teen trends. Wouldn’t wear those clothes. But I miss when doing things for fun and creativity was the main goal.

[@daniellaa_.]

correct me im wrong but in Lizzie McGuire, Hilary Duff never had a bad outfit. They were all super cute and still hold up today.

[@Shewhospeakesinverse]

I think its because that show was more grounded. Her best friend miranda was my style icon

[@lalaland2107]

@@ShewhospeakesinverseI wish more shows were like that. Shows for adults and kids alike now, not all, have the characters dress over the top and for what???? The stylists don’t know how to dress them normally??? Or would that be too boring???

[@Ray03595]

Also worth mentioning that there was an increase in teen pregnancies around this time. Whole shows dedicated to covering them like Teen Mom. I think Disney especially wanted to be on the other side and not ruffle any parents feathers as being a cause for the spike so they really committed to making their stars seem like the most innocent bunch of kids on television. I'm sure Disney currently longs for the days of being so uncontroversial

[@ipsilonia]

teen pregnancy was actually on the decline in the 00s-10s, but teenage hypersexuality was definitely an issue, and clearly these disney shows were an attempt to showcase another (quirkier) side of the teen experience

[@Ray03595]

@@ipsilonia you sure? Any graph I look at shows a small spike around that time. Overall since the 90’s the trend in general has been going sharply down for sure

[@camcat26]

⁠@@Ray03595the hiccup (which was nowhere near enough of an increase to be called a spike) was 2005-2006. JL Spears got pregnant in 2007, and the original cast of 16 & Pregnant all gave birth in 2008. The majority of media covering teen pregnancies didn’t start production until after the rates had declined again

[@cassiapeian]

those outfits drove me batty as a kid. 12 year old me loved the shirt + long sleeve combo, but living in a hot area the layers made 0 sense for anyone to actually wear.

[@embarrassedcap]

lol being from a hot area as well, I recall owning numerous tops with fake layers sewn in

[@jennifervasquez]

While it is incredibly creepy that dan schneider had so much control over the outfits in the show n actively pushed for the more revealing ones, i gotta say that the outfits in victorious werent too dissimilar to how i n other ppl at my school dressed in regards to amount of skin shown. Short shorts, tank tops, n crop tops were staples for me n lots of other girls n im pretty sure victorious ended while i was in high school so its not like it was a drastically different period in time w super different cultural expectations of teen fashion.

[@Steve19906]

No, but considering we live in a society where kids are actively over adultified due to how many people in power want to exploit children. It makes sense

[@st3458]

Looking back I’m really wondering how the shake it up cast didn’t lose there minds cuz imagine being dressed in all them damn layers and dancing under some hot ass lights like they really had them dressed in a long sleeve and then 2 shirts on top of that long sleeve and then they would throw a vest on top and then they would have some tight skinny jeans on with boots and knee high socks like I know our girls Bella and zendaya was sweating bullets during that show

[@totalrevengeance3904]

the best one being Raven aka aspiring fashion designer makes so much sense tbh

[@brunosalada7790]

i think it’s a mix of trying to get more visual attention and portraying young teens and kids as volatile and full of life through their wardrobe

[@WesleyLindsey]

These outfits have more personality and expression than what they’d wear today.

[@Physchwo]

clock it

[@WesleyLindsey]

@@Physchwo I’m not even a hater but these pieces are a product of their time. Give it 5 years and people are gonna say these fits are fire lmao

[@LovelyLittleLillies]

​@@WesleyLindsey y'all are fr??😂😂 Dis net is for kids - the tween and under demographic, that's why the stars were dressed so eclectic and eccentric (just like the show's material itself is so children coded that it's not even palatable to teens), it has nothing to do with modern fashion of that time nor modesty like this yter claims. So trust me nothing of these outfits is coming back as "fashionable". They had grown adults like Tisdale dress like this simply to attract attention and appeal to kids - a true and tried method bc shops catering to kids have a specific look that's different from teens and adults (think ponies, glitter, and sparkle). People are reading too much into these infamous outfits and taking them out of context. Once you realize why even older dsn ey actresses were dressed like this you'd stop dissing them for their outfit choices. Like most of their red carpet looks weren't chosen by them but clearly by a company stylist that's why you see so much common styling between all of them If Dsny could get away with unicorn rainbow shirts with pink glitter on someone as old as their teen years they probably would've done that, but instead they stocked to a more palatable "fun outfits" so that their stars wouldn't be made fun of so much by their peers - I mean just look at JoJo Siwa. She clearly dressed for kids but was made fun of by her peers

[@WesleyLindsey]

@@LovelyLittleLillies how does this take away from anything I said? If anything, it adds context. This is Disney’s take on the actual Y2K fashion that was happening. This is the same exaggerative expression and style that adult celebs were wearing at the time too lmao.

[@LovelyLittleLillies]

@@WesleyLindsey y2k =/= mid to late 2000's or 2000's fashion in general. It's a reference to a specific time period centring around the year 2000. So none of the infamous red carpet looks has anything to do with y2k or y2k fashion. You make a lot of claims but your ignorance shows how none of the claims hold any truth. And adult celebrities weren't wearing what most dis ney stars were wearing on the red carpet save for like a few experimenting with dresses over jeans. It's not an actual thing that happened. Dis ney outfits are comply separate from modern fashion as it's not a representative of what was worn in main stream and daily life - especially the infamous Shake It Up styling. Layering wasn't done the way it was done on the shows. Only someone who has affinity for the D machine would even create a dissection of fashion of that time through the show and it's stars on the red carpet instead of using literally any other media?? Y'all are just obsessed with dis ney so y'all want everything about them true

[@strohhut_tufi]

Personally I think this is what teenagers choose to wear when they are not heavily influenced by social media on how to look. I looked really awkward and bad as a teenager in the 90s/00s. Layering clothes with different styles because I had no style because why would I at that age. I just wore everything that I liked. Sorry for being a grumpy old lady but I really miss kids looking like unfashionable kids 😅

[@SpinelFan64]

this was just the iconic late 2000s early 2010s tween style

[@QueenZsWorld]

no Zendaya slander will be tolerated. Fashion was her kryptonite.

[@caitlingill]

She sung a song called that lol

[@hurricanejaney]

i agree with the sentiment you were going for, but that doesn’t mean what you think it means 😂

[@kimberleywilliams7802]

@@hurricanejaney If you think about it it sounds bad 😭😭😭 but if you don't, it just sounds like they're obsessed with it or something.

[@cocoaxo6126]

ngl this was peak style for me back then LMAO

[@growingupwithdisney]

"Lets keep up, find a girl who could sing really well...and make her the side character" 12:07 oh that was SICK🤣

[@westonsitton]

This just unlocked a core memory of eight year old me thinking wearing basketball shorts over jeans and a t shirt over my long sleeve was the pinnacle of cool

[@FlyForAWhiteTy]

I think the Shake It Up girls had to dress like that so Dan Schneider wouldn't try to steal them for his network 😂

[@oooh19]

Dan was on Nickelodeon though so he couldn’t

[@FullmoonPhantom-dn2sr]

@@oooh19Idk if Dan could or couldn’t. Though, I do believe Disney owned both companies. Disney and Nick.

[@PogieJoe]

As someone who was homeschooled for a while, I just assumed that's how all kids dressed. I didn't know it was excessive 😅

[@nikitayla3985]

Same I was homeschooled ! I wore my knee hi converse everywhere .

[@Patchwork101]

One thing I find interesting is that That's So Raven, Suite Life and Hannah Montana overlapped during airing more with iCarly, which did have slightly more layering (as well as younger characters/actors), but then again, Victorious ran exactly the same years as Shake It Up did, so it definitely feels like there's more than just 'trends' going on here and a lot of branding. (It'd be interesting to look not just at the layering as a trend, but specifically the clashing layers and colors! I feel like this was probably the worst on Shake it Up out of all the disney shows listed, which is funny because it aired the latest of them all)

[@gbbs9]

I always thought Nickelodeon ddnt have money like Disney😂 I Loved watching Nick but does anybody else think it was like discount Disney lol? That’s why they couldn’t layer as much

[@lalaland2107]

Shake It Up definitely had it the worst.

[@FullmoonPhantom-dn2sr]

@@gbbs9No. I was a Nick /CN fan and later watched both Nick and Disney channels in my tweens/teens. Even throughout HS. Although, I did have the little sister excuse. Little sister is watching so I have to watch HSM and iCarly / Victorious show/movie for the upteenth time. She won’t turn it off. 😂 No, I really did like it and said as much, but I’ll admit I was a tad embarrassed and did try to play it both ways. I enjoy watching and also I can’t say I don’t like this anymore with little sister around. She’s watched this a million times over now.

[@FullmoonPhantom-dn2sr]

Nick always did seem like it tried to be the edgier channel. Vs Disney was (almost) always on brand. That could be why there’s a difference. Although, I think the Disney shows were usually aimed younger. Raven cast were HS freshman in s1 iirc. Hannah Cast were still in middle school. Like 8th grade. Hannah was like 13 or 14 at that time. Then I think they made it quickly into beginning of HS. Suite Life was also younger. The boys were 12 and the sequel they might’ve been beginning of HS as well. Victorious starts out with the characters being 16 or so. Older teens vs younger teens basically. Then keep in mind younger viewers are in the audience so there is influence to skew even younger than the cast ages in show and irl. Disney aimed to be on brand the most between the two companies so, that could lead into the Shake it Up girls having to showcase that more than a Nick show.

[@clarityvee]

I say this in the best way possible when I say this video felt like an hour. I was so engaged, you fed a lot of information concisely, and the pacing of this video was fantastic. I was surprised when it ended and only 20 minutes passed! That being said, I think the layering was a good idea for the Disney kids. I watch Victorious and see how inappropriate a lot of those outfits were. If I wore clothes like that in high school, my mother would have disowned me. I don’t even dress like that now in my mid 20’s! I think the Disney kids having all the layers made them feel more normal despite the whacky scenarios of the sitcoms. They looked more like normal kids compared to Nickelodeon. I was say the fashion Carly Shay wore in iCarly was very similar and made her feel more real.

[@mjjae8122]

I went to catholic school and its so funny bc we were taught that all these stars were flaunting their purity and THAT was also wrong, so you really can’t win with religious people 😂

[@paperlionkid1787]

I loved the mid 2000's (2008 - 2013) swagg. I thought it was cool. It's always something I notice when looking up media from that period. I think things (fashion and other things have gotten degenerate) over time.

[@Bunnidove]

I still like that "hipster" look. The feather earrings, key necklaces, long shirts with leggings and cool boots. No goggles here.

[@lalaland2107]

How are 2008 through 2013 the MID 2000s?????

[@cloudsurfer73]

I think it was because they wanted to cover every inch of their body, but it still be stylish without looking too conservative. And they tried to be hip at the same time. so we got a lot of layering. Excessive layering.

[@lexuhbee]

Disney channel styles always reminded me of Mormon/Utahn fashion

[@emacias1473]

I moved from LA to SLC in 7th grade 2006 and I noticed this! I was like everyone dresses like Disney channel!

[@wordnerd9991]

Hahaha I still wear spaghetti straps over blouses and shorts/miniskirts with leggings or tights to get around my Mormon mom's modesty rules.

[@ChrissyFraser]

3:00 this is so funny because I have story time about when I participated in the layering trend so back when I was in elementary school I went to charter school so we typically always wore uniform but the school that I went to from kindergarten to second grade, they had this thing that every time we would have a holiday we could dress outside of our uniform as long as it was in holiday colors so, for example Christmas we could wear red white blue and green. So my last year at school for the holidays I didn’t know that they took that rule away and so I came to school in a Jonas Brothers shirt that was blue, and it had blue snowflakes on it, and it had a white long sleeve sewn onto it and it was a dark blue shirt. I love that shirt so much as a kid.

[@pinkerhero]

I wanted to look like that as a youngling too!! It was fun!!

[@Afhkklkdsd]

This is the y2k you guys all rave about nowadays tho. These looks were the style then.

[@yacrupni]

I am so interested in this phenomenon of tween media and stores disappearing! I’ve been noticing it a lot lately and it feels kind of sad… loved the video, amazing insight as usual ❤️

[@Shewhospeakesinverse]

Theres two preteen stores in my small city (city bc of population the stores are more town) Evsie came to my city last year

[@lisahoughton3262]

Cause it was in style when they were kids/Tweens/Teens

[@FullmoonPhantom-dn2sr]

I feel this way when I watch a lot of these videos.

[@keyarrma]

LOVE this video! i think teens/tweens rn have casts like the percy jackson tv show (walker and leah are 15/14), and i know a lot of people admire the friendship between child star icon mckenna grace, xochitl gomez, momona tamada, and their like 17 y/o friend group - but their shows are also pretty popular amongst young adults considering pjotv, atla, and the mcu all have a widely established audience before the kids were cast. another thing i'm reminded of is how teen stars from netflix shows like stranger things often showed up to red carpets in high fashion instead of dressing themselves, like there was definitely a big difference between the couture that millie bobby brown would wear at 16 vs ashley tisdale's red carpet outfits

[@hananalshammari4642]

Look as much as i hate disney outfits they had character specifically earlier ones so quirky and it fits them from lizzy , raven to alex it resembles the characters where as in victorious it’s just creepy iCarly at least was a bit less creepy

[@moonflower1616]

You finally put words to what I was feeling whenever I'd see Disney's live action content. I rarely watched any of those shows and now I realize it was because the clothing situation was so tragic that I rejected it with every fiber of my being. ☠️ Also, Justin Timberlake is misogynistic trash. ✌️

[@bethanybrookes8479]

Honestly, I like Disney channel outfits. I don't thing I ever thought abiut the purity or modesty side of things, I just thought they looked fun. There was a lot going on, and it made the outfits interesting.

[@nicatina]

All of their outfits pushed the pink and purple agenda on me as a kid when I never really liked pink at all, I only pretended to like those two colors to fit in. I mean, nothing wrong with others who did, it just not my color.

[@nefertitimontoya]

This!!!

[@johat1219]

I think they look like, kids, like they're supposed to look. Like they just matched things because it has fun colours. No stylists, no tik tok trends, not serious, not trying to look like sexualized adults.

[@leporinedivine]

UR VOICE IS SO CAPTIVATING i clicked on accident but i was like ummm this is actually interesting TYYYY ur amazing

[@riverotters]

In real life, layering peaked long before this, somewhere around 2003/4 where I'm from. I really liked this look on girls, and it didn't have anything to do with modesty. I didn't think that way at that age. I just thought it looked cool. The clothes definitely didn't clash as much as this, but I thought the busy outfits were a cool way to display stuff about personality. It was stylish, but it wasn't something adults could sexualize either. I think it was a reaction to how boring clothes were in 2000-2002. A lot then was beige/khaki, baggy, unflattering, genderless. Things had moved on from late 90s sportswear. Hair was still funky in the early 00s, and there were accessories like shell necklaces and an occasional Hawaiian shirt with flames on it or something, but by and large people on TV dressed a lot more colourfully and interestingly than real preteens/teens until 03. I respected that people didn't want to be loud, and wanted to come off extremely casual, but you start to get real sick of capris and tanktops or cargo pants and polos really quickly, so when the layering look started, it was a breath of fresh air. Things got increasingly colourful from 03-07/08. The 03/04 layered look involved long camisoles, with colourful tanks over that that were a little short, and then an even shorter hoodie or bomber jacket on top of that, and even the bottoms were layered, usually a pleated skirt over leggings or even a skirt over jeans. The jeans were sometimes flared. Low-rise, but like bell-bottom, and girls wore hoops and lots of rubber bracelets/bangles. Chunky highlights were in, and makeup was still very minimal, just gloss and mascara often. Every girl straightened her hair flat like Avril Lavigne. Some girls had straight across bangs, but side bangs only started to come in around 2005 when emo went mainstream and peaked with preppie girls around 06/07, right before bump-its started to dominate.

[@kerrychristensen7204]

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[@angelaburress8586]

Disney boot camp was rigorous at a certain point and time so was Nickelodeon’s training camps but they fell off for awhile especially after Nickelodeon was removed out amusement parks around the country

[@PokhrajRoy.]

2:13 Remember that sketch with Miley Cyrus parodying Disney Channel acting classes? There was an outfit that needed sunglasses because it was so bright.

[@panpan6222]

I have always loved fashion & personal style, and I look back and love the outfits just as much as I loved them then. The layering was iconic. It felt childish still, which was refreshing as a lot of kids wanted to grow up fast and wear things "beyond their age". I have to disagree about it not being what kids were wearing. A lot of shows exaggerate what would happen realistically, and you can break down the elements to be realistic. And at least in my area, they definitely layered up and wore similar clothing styles and colors. Side note, I grew up in a not crazy Christian home and I wasn't a purity ring kid though I had purity ring friends, but didn't really think about it for celebrities. Nick was definitely the "cooler" kids, and the fashion was more of what I enjoyed as I got older towards high school. But I think that's what we saw the Disney stars eventually wearing in their street-style so it felt more relatable.

[@MysticaEtherea]

The fact that I think these fits are still cute to this day tho 😗😂

[@vortexofself]

You have such a nice voice. It’s very crisp and relaxing. The way you annunciate is nice on the ears.

[@CemeterySpider]

I miss this fashion era idc

[@ChrissyFraser]

14:47 I know you are saying that Disney kids looked a lot younger but as a kid I used to feel like some of them looked older, depending on the role because when Miley Cyrus would wear her brown hair on the shelf, she looks like a young teen in middle school like that is very believable, but when she has the blonde wig and stuff she looks a lot older but when I go back and watch resident of Beverly, Selena Gomez looks realistically 16 in high school. I do think it would’ve been cool to see Victoria as a performing arts college because I do agree that I feel like they give older and more mature, and also I think it would’ve been cool to see what it’s like to go to performing arts college because those don’t get talked about a lot

[@demihau]

um idk, maybe because it was cool back then lol? every girl in my class wanted to dress like Hannah Montana

[@scarlettsmoak8977]

when I was about 12/13 I had a style book and vividly remember using CeCe/Bella Thorne as style inspiration

[@Physchwo]

the outfits had more expression & personality than whatever these celebrities are serving… i fear

[@TheMariangel95]

Comparing this fashion “as layered as an onion” is offensive to onions because the layers of an onion are more cohesive, harmonious and make sense together

[@theosomoza825]

I subscribed to you less than 5 minutes in, your voice is so soothing and you are hilarious and *exactly* what i needed to watch right now

[@Anonymous-mp5mt]

Say what you want but those coats with the fury cuffs are iconic and I remember having one when I was 5/6 I was obsessed

[@ShutupandListen]

I’m not even gonna lie, I still think those were some adorable styles 😂

[@kaelahamilton5062]

omgggg delia’s! that really pulled a memory out of my head, i loved that store 😭 the one in my mall got replaced with a windsor

[@ripe12345667]

Thanks for the vid. Also your hair looks great

[@nixthelapin9869]

While I wanted to mimic these outfits as a kid, I was cursed with living in Southern California, where layering might just give you heat stroke 😅 Side note: I grew up in church, but I never heard of purity rings until I watched a video explaining them. It’s just such a bizarre concept to me. It’s just forcing a contract onto kids without allowing them to fully understand what they’re agreeing to (not that it’s binding, but you are having them make an agreement to guilt them)

[@batgirlskywalker]

I now fully believe it was to dispell any of the same accusations as Nickelodeon of oversexualizing little girls with cleavage and skin showing. *cough cough* DAN.

[@reganlandau]

Your writing is great. I hope someday you'll publish a book of essays exploring the kinds of topics you do in your videos!

[@Allaiya.]

Well after the whole Quiet on the Set documentary showing what was going on over at Nickelodeon, I think considering modesty regarding children or preteen oriented show wardrobe choices isn’t a bad thing.

[@user-xp6xw8zl6z]

"Lets find a girl who can sing really well and make her the side character" 😂😂😂😂😂

[@yunabrooks]

I loved this outfit style back then and I still do. Nobody can change my mind about that! 🤭💜

[@melodysafo5437]

As someone who grew up watching Disney Channel and wanted to dress like the characters in these shows, I found this video very insightful. I always preferred Disney Channel as a kid and now I see why!

[@NickSharpx]

I love the adjective that you used, "spunky" lmao

[@Steve19906]

So glad you made this video. Most people are focused on the Nickelodeon exploitation. But Disney has its own secrets that everyone ignores.

[@constantreader1422]

i just want to add: tween fashion hasn't existed for a long time. i'm 34 now, but in middle school i got laughed at for wearing jean overalls. the girls were all wearing abocrombie tight shirts by then, and it was NOT OKAY to wear anything baggy. the layering thing happened, but the fits were much tigher at the time. it seemed modest, but most clothes fit like catsuits so it really wasnt.

[@SaraxAdam]

young teens/tweens aren't over-- just mostly! Percy Jackson is a prime example that the market is still out there & that the content can be enjoyed by all ages!

[@jaelikesjackalopes]

Mormon girls really thrived in this era.

[@Shewhospeakesinverse]

I tried wearing a tank top over a tshirt as a muslim girl and i couldnt ever get it to not look weird. But with my strapless top it was a hit (to me)

[@OvSpP]

Fashion is subjective though. Even though they had an agenda/protocol/Disney look to push they probably convinced themselves they were thinking out of the box.

[@AmandaE329]

I’m so glad I’m not the only one puzzled by Disney stars’ bizarre outfit choices! Random comment but I love the design of that mic! May I ask what kind it is?

[@bleeka325]

This was the height of fashion. Lol you had to be there

[@Moon0525_]

This... Hit me in a very specific way. Fundie Evangelical kid, abstinent until 25, wore a purity ring, had a strict dress code of what I could/couldn't wear because I "don't want to send the message of an attention seeking wh*, God wouldn't want that"... And forbidden from Hannah Montana once Miley began getting edgy. Yup. I was forbidden from squeaky clean Disney because Miley wore shorts and used a stability pole on an ice cream cart. This video makes me laugh in sardonic anger because tbh, I feel pretty traumatised by my adolescence. My entire relationship to fashion and sex has been irrevocably harmed by being an early-2010s teen

[@MySkinnydip]

Omg! The dress with the jeans underneath! I was so guilty! But I definitely wore anything similar to Zoey 101. I think I still might have shirts in storage😂

[@ambored24]

The way that I thought the outfit on the far right with the stars at 0:33 was the epitome of fashion when i was a kid lol 🤦

[@whttmn]

I don't even gonna watch this video but I just want to say that all this outfits is ICONIC

[@user-xu5ym4jd3m]

In my opinion, these outfits perfectly represented the culture of that time. They look nice for me, even if unrealistic.

[@tomashoney6780]

You should do a video about outfits of high-school fashion in Pretty Little Liars ❤

[@crazysavvyloverlee]

Not me and my boot cut jeans with a pink ruffle miniskirt SEWN into the waistband that my mum insisted would be the highest form of on trendy. I am still not convinced mum. Also the denim fabric had glitter threads running throughout..

[@samiyaferguson9177]

I dressed like this ❤ I wore a lot of limited 2, lots of sequins and clothes were often brown paired with light blue, pink and peach 😂

[@egobruiserr]

Disney channel star dressed like middle schoolers and victorious dressed more like high schoolers. Girls did wear leggings under skirts tho and I did wear jeans under dresses sometimes. I was a high schooler during the time of Hannah Montana. Girl wore 2 layers usually but it was more so a tank top under a shirt.

[@Keriedawayy]

Capitalizing in a different way, that part was so well explained

[@terribletimesone8702]

The way I wanted to wear leggings under my jean shorts like Emma did on Jessie 🫢 good thing my mom told me to change

[@screamingbegins4688]

my mom made me wear leggings under shorts and dresses, no matter how long😭

[@traesmith9822]

Finally the hard hitting subjects! Fashion icons!

[@cloudsurfer73]

I just noticed something interesting about Disney stars. When I think back to Disney TV shows, I can only recall as far back as the 2000s. Did Disney have TV shows in the ‘90s and before that? Even popular Disney movies today only seem to date back to the ‘90s. When I compare the clothing worn by teens and children in ‘90s sitcoms with what I see in Disney TV shows, it’s intriguing. For instance, in ‘Boy Meets World’ or ‘Gilmore Girls,’ the characters dress normally, but those shows weren’t just aimed at children; they also appealed to their parents. In contrast, Disney shows seem to target a younger audience and over time have become more simplified, almost as if they’re talking down to kids.

[@DrinkYourNailPolish]

I was an older teen during that time and used to visit a fashion website that would constantly lampoon Ashley Tisdale for her fashion choices. So for me the Disney look was uncool.

[@sashapitt5480]

Harper ate it up tho

[@Greg2thaBosher]

Glad I grew up in the UK in the 2000’s where the fashion for most teens was looking like we were in a hip hop video