ean Girls was just extraordinary for its time. It was adapted from a nonfiction book to a fictitious movie, starring some of the most memorable characters ever, and featuring some of the most quotable movie dialogues of all time. Yet what was so extraordinary about Mean Girls was that in 2004, it released amid a cloud of teen movies like First Daughter, Raise Your Voice, The Prince & Me. These were all great movies, but mostly focused on achieving a goal + getting the guy, which is what passed as strong role models for young women in the early ‘00s.

By no means was Mean Girls strong on role models, but it acknowledged the politics of ‘girl world’ which isn’t about boys at all. It’s more about: in this patriarchal world, who will be top dog among women? And therein lies the rub (for girl world and the actual world, both).

Surprisingly for a film so focused on being stylish - the wardrobe was a vision of how kids would dress in a near future when it was conceived - with everyone from Queen Bee Regina George to Damien serving absolute lewks throughout the film, the red carpets the film’s stars appeared on were less than fashionable.

This points to the fact that the years 1998 - 2007 were just a hotbed of bad fashion. Terrible fits, ill-advised haircuts, strongly warm-toned makeup and bright under-eyes no matter your coloring, overplucked eyebrows, and concentric circle upon concentric circle of black kohl around eyes mark those years clearly. Or it was a simpler time, when celebs dressed themselves for events. If a stylist was indeed involved in any of Lindsay Lohan’s red carpet looks, that is truly infuriating, and once the technology to time travel is developed, should be ford immediately.