‘It’s happening’: Fashion trend Millennials want to forget makes comeback

A photo of a mannequin dressed in a loathed noughties fashion trend proves it’s back, and one generation of Aussies are less than pleased.

Gen Z’s dogged pursuit to resurrect every noughties fashion trend truly knows no bounds.

In news that will chill teen Disney starlets of the aughts to their core, the latest look to rise from the dead is that of the dress over jeans. Hannah Montana and Ashley Tisdale have a lot to answer for.

The unfortunate public service announcement came courtesy of TikTok user Liv Rian, who shared footage of a dress with a ruffled hem styled over a pair of flared jeans in the window of fast fashion retailer Supre.

“It’s happening,” Rian captioned the cursed vision, which swiftly went viral.

“Walked past Supre to find the DRESS AND JEANS COMBO.”

The unfortunate public service announcement came courtesy of TikTok user Liv Rian. Picture: TikTok

Nobody is asking for this! Picture: TikTok

Nearly 10,000 people have taken to the comments in the 24 hours since Rian posted the video, and their message is clear: no self-respecting person with even a modicum of taste wants this to happen.

“I can’t go through this era again,” one wrote, to which someone else responded, “Literally. There’s a reason everyone stopped wearing these trends I am physically hurt by this.”

I don’t want to dress like this, and neither should you. Picture: Gregg DeGuire/WireImage

“I feel like this didn’t stay out of fashion long enough,” commented another.

“NOOOOOO WE WERE DOING SO WELL,” a third said.

Some expressed excitement at the prospect of wearing such an outfit, but that is not a viewpoint I wish to represent here.

Of course, as one user pointed out, the threat of this particular trend’s revival has been looming over us for a while: lest we forget last December, when Katie Holmes deigned to walk the red carpet at New York City’s iHeartRadio Jingle Ball in a strapless bustier (that some called a minidress) and loose straight jeans.

Katie Holmes attends the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball. Picture: Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images

It was the outfit that launched a thousand think pieces – The New York Times darkly asking us whether we were, in fact, ready for the dress-over-jeans return – and Holmes and her stylist were (rightly) urged to atone for what they’d unleashed.

The latter, Brie Welch, told The Times the choice was a combination of her styling and Ms Holmes’ own taste and practicality.

“We decided the rich colour and subtle bustier effect detailing of the top was elegant and would be fun if paired with jeans, creating a more youthful feel for Jingle Ball and the atmosphere there,” Ms Welch explained.

Holmes, she added, is “more than capable of looking cool in an unintentional trend 20 years later”.

The actor later told Glamour she was shocked by the mass hysteria, calling the declarations she should go to prison for the outfit “powerful language”.

“Come on, women, let’s hold each other up here. Let’s look a little bit past what we’re wearing. That’s our duty amongst each other. I feel like the woman’s journey is deeper.”