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The Best Going Out Tops From The OC Now Have The Instagram Account They Deserve
But were you a Marissa or a Summer?
For those among us who remember a world when self-esteem hung like a very delicate thread based on your current position in your best friend's Top 5 on Myspace and Tuesday evenings were spent glued to the TV as you enjoyed the latest installment of The OC, then you might agree that Instagram has really delivered a thing of joy. Among the pouting selfies and countless humblebrags so ubiquitous on our Insta feeds is now an entire account chronicling, and I quote, "the best tops from the best show". Never a truer word spoken (or written, for that matter).
Established by The Cut's fashion writer Emilia Petrarca – also responsible for the excellent account @sopranosstyle, which documents "All the best looks from your favorite gaudy goombahs and stylish Italian stallions" – @spaghettistrapsoftheoc is a celebration of the sartorial brilliance displayed by Marissa Cooper and Summer Roberts. There's even a bit of Anna thrown in for good measure – although, presumably because she posed a threat to the Greatest Love Story Of All Time (otherwise known as Summer and Seth), there's only one picture of her.
What can we all learn from this genius use of social media? Well, nothing that we didn't already know. Which is to say that 2004 sure did love a low-rise pair of trousers and also that I'd forgotten the fact that the gap between top and trousers essentially defined the epoch.
In other news, fashion is truly living up to its cyclical reputation given that many of Summer and Marissa's outfits wouldn't look out of place in a completely-natural-and-not-at-all-posed-for picture on countless Instagram feeds belonging to a multitude of influencers merely following the path that The OC's best women forged. Sort of. All I know is that I, along with my very own Marissa (known as Charlotte to her parents) spent most of 2004 wearing matching Lacoste polo shirts in pastel shades that were too short to meet the low-cut jeans we both bought on a shopping trip one Saturday, in loyal homage to The OC's BFFs. If that's not being influenced, I don't know what is.
Do you, too, want to celebrate the mid-noughties style so perfectly encapsulated by @spaghettistrapsoftheoc? Of course you do. So, shop the best tops below.
