Leave it to Jenna Ortega to breathe new life into a dead trend.
While everyone was busy talking about her jaunt on the beach in a black leather trench coat and boots, Ortega was preparing for her next fashion disruption. On August 16, the Wednesday star and her bleach blonde brows attended a fan event in Australia wearing a tea-length dress that, from the back, appears to feature black and orangey-brown leather stripes, pairing the look with fishnet stockings and spiked booties in the same autumnal color combo.
In multiple photos from the event, Ortega accessorized her dress with matching gloves and a opulent fur coat with belted details on the sleeves, styling her waist-length hair à la Morticia Addams.
But the spookiest part of this look was not the Halloween-coded color story or weaponized footwear, but the shuttering reveal that those leather panels actually meet in V-shaped point at the front of the dress, creating a pattern known as chevron.
Consider this the coolest possible update to the pattern once beloved by millennials so much that we put it on our rugs, bedding, nails, and even peplum tops; preferably in mint and paired with a coral statement necklace.
As pointed out by multiple TikTok users, millennials were known to top off these chevron ensembles with nude lips, as demonstrated by Jenna Ortega, who managed to revive the combination without making me full-body cringe.
The 2010s were truly such a wild time for fashion, and its trends are making their way back into the zeitgeist about ten years ahead of schedule. So far, we’ve already seen the return of ballet flats, skinny jeans, and skull-patterned scarves, with the statement necklace poised to make a comeback any day now. Even so, I thought we’d seen the last of chevron—at least without a Missoni label attached.
Of course, Jenna Ortega is the only witch who could cite the deep magic quite like this. But then again, if Wednesday Addams can come out of her coma, why can’t chevron?
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Not to be outdone by Y2K style, the years that immediately followed—characterized largely by statement necklaces, peplum tops, skater skirts, and infinity scarves—are slowly winding their way back.
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