Eight throwback style trends you can shop at Baton Rouge boutiques

November 13, 2025

The year 2005 felt like an “anything goes” kind of year for fashion. Dresses paired with jeans, low-rise bottoms worn with tiny crop tops, and so many belts. As chaotic and experimental as the style trends were back when 225 first launched, many of them are circling their way back into the fashion cycle. Find these at local boutiques.

1. Flyaway tops

LSU tie-front blouse, $150. From Bella Bella Boutique

All the fashion icons of the early 2000s wore flyaway tops: Britney Spears, Beyoncé and Lindsey Lohan, just to name a few. Whether or not the A-listers were showing off their hard-earned abs or were channeling their inner fairy goddess, they were onto something.

2. Chunky belts

Meet Me Halfway Pleather Studded Disk Belt, $28. From Frock Candy.

Remember when the solution to a boring outfit was a chunky belt? If you didn’t throw away all of your wide belts from the early 2000s, this year might be a good time to pull them back out to upgrade your outfit from “meh” to “bomb.com.”

3. Shoulder bags

When did we go from wearing purses under our arms to wearing them seatbelt-style across our bodies? Or holding them on our forearms like shopping bags? The return to shoulder bags is right on time.

4. Slip dresses

Bardot Capri Diamonte Slip Dress, $138. From Hemline Highland Road

Don’t remember slip dresses from the 2000s? Here’s your homework: Look up That’s So Raven, season 2, episode 8, when Raven models an iconic slip dress at a fashion show. Silky slip dresses can stand alone or be layered.

5. Micro mini skirts

The Mini Skirt in Rinse, $258. From NK Boutique

If you thought mini skirts were short, meet the micro mini. This leggy style worn by the models and it-girls of the Y2K era is a now Gen Z fave. Versatile, edgy and a little playful.

6. Low-rise pants and maxi skirts

Vintage Y2K Frankie B hand-painted colorful Hindu-motif denim maxi skirt, $265. From Time Warp Boutique

Can someone call Christina Aguilera? Because Gen Zers are trying to jack her style. The high-rise-versus-low-rise debate is like a swinging pendulum. Whether you love them or hate them, low-rise bottoms are so back.

7. Halter tops

Vintage Y2K Ema Savahl Hand-Painted Purple Floral Paris Hilton Halter Top, $1,200. From Time Warp Boutique

Living in Louisiana with high temperatures and humidity calls for halter tops. This sleeveless style, often paired with low-rise jeans in 2005, is bringing “Sexy Back.” (That’s a 2006 reference, but you get the point.)

8. Spiral and pendant cord necklaces

Large Labyrinth Pendant, $48. From Mimosa Handcrafted

Locals are swapping their classic gold and silver chains for a more earthy, natural look, with cord necklaces holding metal spirals, stone and shell pendants.

This article was originally published in the November 2025 issue of 225 Magazine.