Within the first five minutes, you know that Little Fires Everywhere is going to a) deliver a small town mystery just as juicy as Big Little Lies and b) give us some serious nineties throwbacks. You’ve got car phones, magazines with the Spice Girls as cover stars (who else?) and enough nostalgic style moments to make you dig out old Kodak envelopes over the long weekend.
The two women at the centre of the story, Reese Witherspoon’s Elena and Kerry Washington’s Mia, have very different style stories. Elena is almost as cookie cutter as the town in which she lives - Shaker Heights has a specific height limit for grass, and infractions will not go unpunished - with perfectly coordinated pearl earrings, waist-cinched shirt dresses, skirt suits, cardigans and polo shirts that could be modelled on Hillary Clinton. Mia, a travelling artist, prefers a more down-to-earth approach, with bootcut jeans, aviator jackets and ribbed cotton tops.
Their teenagers’ outfits, on the other hand, are straight from the nineties hall of fame. Who remembers twirling up their hair and fastening with a sausage clip? Or posing for pictures as a teenager wearing a strappy top and choker necklace? Scroll through our gallery of the best nineties fashion moments - and cringe over those you recognise all too well...
SEE: The Best Nineties Fashion Moments From Little Fires Everywhere
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Does anyone else remember that Melissa Joan Hart played Clarissa before Sabrina Spellman? She was also a fan of nineties denim hits like sleeveless jackets. Side note - Moody's checked shirt totally has Kenan & Kel vibes.
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Elena's wardrobe of white blouses, pearls and power dresses, not forgetting her perfectly fluffed hair, is straight up Hillary during the White House years.
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Mia's tees and jeans have us questioning why the nineties bootcut ever gave way to the noughties skinny.
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Mia's daughter, Pearl, has the kind of cool-girl clothes (think scrunchies, ribbed cardigans, choker necklaces and cropped jeans) that we used to buy at Tammy Girl.
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Elena's oldest, Izzy, is going through a 'phase', hence the too-cool-for-school tank top and dungarees.
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Lily-Rose Depp is a fan of this less-known nineties classic - the denim jacket lined with sheepskin. We would.
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Elena's brood, forced into festive plaid skirts, look like an army of Cher Horowitzs.
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Elena's power coats remind me of rifling through my mum's wardrobe of shoulder-padded blazers and gold costume jewellery. Anyone else?