Are you prepared for clothes over denims once more?

To some, the early 2000s have been a style fever dream. Juicy Couture tracksuits. Hoodies below blazers. Wrists crowded with rainbow rubber bracelets. Graphic tees, vests, V-necks and skinny scarves. Unironic fedoras. Double denim (or all denim every little thing, à la Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake). The listing goes on.

However for many who have been of sentient age throughout these years, the return of a few of these traits can elicit robust reactions, like a jarring go to from the ghost of your previous. Now, because of Katie Holmes, we have now a stirring new entry to the continued Y2K type revival debate: The dress-over-jeans look.

On Friday, the actress, 43, attended the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball live performance in New York Metropolis, strolling the crimson carpet in a dressy, deep-blue strapless Tove prime (which some have known as a minidress), unfastened straight denims and Margiela sneakers. On the live performance, the place Dua Lipa, Lizzo, the Backstreet Boys, Demi Lovato, the Child Laroi and different artists carried out, Holmes took the stage to introduce musician Charlie Puth. She had attended the Jingle Ball earlier than, together with the 2017 occasion when she and her daughter, Suri Cruise, launched Taylor Swift’s efficiency.

We are saying goodbye to traits, packing away our cargo pants and bedazzled child tees — solely, in some circumstances, to see these very traits return with a vengeance. As predicted early this 12 months, low rise pants have returned in a giant means, together with liminal spinoffs just like the purposefully unbuttoned look.

Some members of Gen Z embrace the chaos of the early 2000s’ boldest appears to be like, imbuing their private type with nods to the aughts and even operating TikTok accounts devoted to Y2K style. Twenty-something characters in a few of this 12 months’s standard movies and tv exhibits — like Portia in HBO’s “The White Lotus” — put on classic items from the ‘90s and early 2000s.

Images of Holmes’ crimson carpet outfit made their means throughout social media over the weekend, igniting dialogue of her outfit and the dress-over-jeans pattern of yore. Folks shared images of celebrities who donned related appears to be like years in the past, like Anne Hathaway on the “Ella Enchanted” premiere in 2004, Miley Cyrus on the 2006 Teen Alternative Awards and Ashley Tisdale throughout her years starring in Disney hits like “Excessive Faculty Musical” and “The Suite Lifetime of Zack and Cody.”

Brie Welch, Katie Holmes’ private stylist, labored with the actress on her search for the Jingle Ball. In line with Welch, the selection was a mix of her styling and Holmes’ personal style and practicality.

“We determined the wealthy shade and delicate bustier impact detailing of the highest was elegant and can be enjoyable if paired with denims, making a younger really feel for Jingle Ball and the environment there,” Welch wrote in an electronic mail. (A consultant for Holmes didn’t reply to requests for remark.)

At first look, some individuals on-line assumed the crimson carpet images of Holmes have been snapshots from 20 years in the past, when her starring function as Joey Potter on “Dawson’s Creek” made her an icon of the late ‘90s and early 2000s. She was identified around the globe for the quintessential woman subsequent door function, and the character continues to resonate with followers as we speak — together with on TikTok, the place clips and fan-cams have racked up greater than 99 million views on the #JoeyPotter tag.

Some onlookers appreciated the outfit, whereas others fiercely opposed the notion of bringing again the flamboyant dress-over-jeans look. One Twitter consumer wrote, “That is what true y2k is however y’all aren’t prepared for that dialog,” garnering greater than 177,000 likes.

This isn’t the primary time the fancy-ish dress-over-pants mixture has captured consideration. Over the previous few years, publications like Vogue and InStyle have written in regards to the pattern, discussing methods of creating it stylish and trendy.

As for the sneakers, they felt applicable for the event, Welch shared. “On the day of (and since Katie has her personal easy type that ought to be appreciated right here), she stated she needed to put on sneakers, as a result of it was a live performance and clearly there can be a variety of dancing to Dua Lipa (and nothing is extra comfy!),” she added.

Whether or not Holmes supposed to pay homage to her days as Joey Potter or just needed to put on applicable footwear for a live performance, Welch added that the actress is “greater than able to trying cool in an unintentional pattern 20 years later.”