The look: RichBitch-ValleyGirl-FashionPlate

Key Pieces: Ballerina skirts, party dresses, say-something hats, leggings, cropped jackets, bold-shouldered blazers

Desginers to Wear: Jeremy Scott, Proenza Schouler, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Nathan Jenden

Defining Fashion Moment:  Season 1, Episode 1 –  ”Dancing to the Max”

There’s a dance contest at the Max hosted, for some reason, by Casey Kasem and Lisa is super jazzed…that is until she sprains her ankle. The resulting dance, appropriately titled “The Sprain,” stands not only as Lisa’s greatest moment — and proof that she can make anything look good, even crutches and a cast — but as the second greatest moment in SbtB history, behind only Jessie’s epic freakout when she gets hooked on caffeine pills. (I’m so excited! I’m SO excited! I’m so …*sobs* SCARED!)

The look: RichBitch-ValleyGirl-FashionPlate

Key Pieces: Ballerina skirts, party dresses, say-something hats, leggings, cropped jackets, bold-shouldered blazers

Desginers to Wear: Jeremy Scott, Proenza Schouler, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Nathan Jenden

Jeremy Scott AW10

Proenza Schouler AW10

Marc by Marc Jacobs SS10

Nathan Jenden AW10

Defining Fashion Moment:  Season 1, Episode 1 –  ”Dancing to the Max”

There’s a dance contest at the Max hosted, for some reason, by Casey Kasem and Lisa is super jazzed…that is until she sprains her ankle. The resulting dance, appropriately titled “The Sprain”, stands not only as Lisa’s greatest moment — and proof that she can make anything look good, even crutches and a cast — but as the second greatest moment in SbtB history, behind only Jessie’s epic freakout when she gets hooked on caffeine pills. (I’m so excited! I’m SO excited! I’m so …*sobs* SCARED!)

Photos: Style.com

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Soleil Moon Frye aka Punky Brewster from The Punky Brewster Show

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Danica McKeller aka Minnie Cooper from The Wonder Years

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Tiffani Amber Thiessen aka Kelly Kapowski from Saved By The Bell

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Tatyana Ali aka Ashley Banks from The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air

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Nicole Eggert aka Jamie Powell from Charles In Charge

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Alyssa Milano aka Samantha Micelli from Who’s The Boss?

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Thanks to Dwyer & Michaels for the amazing display of failing careers!

So what exactly is the definition of vintage? We’ve been wondering ever since a buyer friend of ours tried to claim her H&M skirt was vintage cause she bought it two seasons ago. We found an answer to the question on Catwalk Creative, an online UK shopping site that specializes in goodies from a past era.

As a relatively new term, its meaning is open to much interpretation. Dealers haven’t officially established what defines and differentiates vintage from antique, recycled (secondhand) and retro. Consumers – and some dealers – use the word ‘vintage’ as a collective term that defines anything old. For clarification, purists would categorize ‘old clothes’ as the following:

• Antique clothing refers to any garments that pre-date 1920 (the nineteenth century; the Belle Epoque era).
• Vintage is anything that dates after 1920 and up to the mid 1980s.
• Retro mainly refers to Sixties’ and Seventies’ casual wear.
• Recycled (secondhand) is anything post early Eighties – not strictly ‘vintage’ clothing in the generic sense of the word.

If you can’t remember all of the above, remember only this: anything less than twenty to twenty-five years old is NOT ‘vintage’.

So rocking a pair of bleached overalls you found at Goodwill that look like they fell of the set of Saved by the Bell doesn’t make you a vintage queen. Keep that in mind indies as style quickly falls into 90′s.  You’re not rocking vintage, you’re rocking recycled.