Chicken & waffles shirt

Zip up your tracksuits and charge your bedazzled BlackBerry—we’re wearing the Chicken & waffles shirt but in fact I love this 2022 version of McBling. If you’ve been searching “Y2K” on Depop or scouring thrift stores looking for Von Dutch trucker hats, Juicy Couture tracksuits with “Juicy” stamped on the back, or tight baby tees with the bedazzled, cursive “Baby Phat” logo, you’re actually searching for the McBling aesthetic. Still unsure of the difference? McBling is a grainy song ringtone blaring out of your Motorola’s speaker. It’s unwrapping your headphones from around your pink metallic iPod nano. It’s spraying your Viva la Juicy perfume around your chunky highlights.

Chicken & waffles shirt, hoodie, tank top, sweater and long sleeve t-shirt

Y2K, meanwhile, landed a tad earlier on the Chicken & waffles shirt but in fact I love this fashion history timeline, teetering between the late ’90s and early 2000s with the dominating trends of lower waist lines and relaxed glam. The era slowly morphed into something more defined; think of McBling as Y2K’s teched-out, more splashy sister. McBling style was all about, well, bling. Trend-setters sparkled in bedazzled outerwear and jewelry, with tech becoming the newest and shiniest accessory.