The Most Influential TV Wardrobe Of All Time? It Still Belongs To Rachel Green

In news that won't come as a surprise to anyone, Rachel Green has just been confirmed as TV's ultimate style icon. According to numbers crunched by Money.co.uk, who analysed search data over the last year from Google, Green's wardrobe is the most influential on TV, beating Euphoria's Maddy Perez, Gossip Girl's Blair Waldorfand roommate Monica Geller for the top spot with just shy of 450,000 annual searches.

Asking why, 27 years after the pilot first aired and she swept into our lives wearing a soggy wedding dress, Rachel Green is still influencing our wardrobes is kind of like asking why the sky is blue. She just is and she just does.

But of course, Green was always set up to be the show's leading lady when it came to style as she jumped from waitress at Central Perk, to assistant buyer at Bloomingdale's (or would have if her boss, Joanna, hadn't been hit by a cab before her promotion went through, landing our heroine in personal shopping). And her clothes reflected the best of the '90s, with straight-leg jeans, leather blazers, miniskirts and slip dresses all majoring in her wardrobe.

Some of her best Rachel-isms, to use a technical term, involved clothes, like when she compared the state of her life after she left her orthodontist fiancée at the altar to a range of accessories - 'What if I don't want to want to be shoe? What if I want to be a hat or a purse? No, I don't want you to buy me a hat daddy, I'm saying I am a hat. It's a metaphor daddy!' - or when she, along with her sister Jill, coined the phrase 'apartment pants'.

They might not have caught on as a category of clothing, but Green's wardrobe certainly has. If you own a shoulder bag, a pair of mule sandals or cargo pants, in fact, then you've almost definitely been Rachel Green-ed. And if you haven't, the shops are currently filled with '90s-era pieces that will fill you with the same nostalgic feeling that you get when watching Jennifer Aniston, herself a '90s style icon, trying to convince Ross to buy a jumper with padlocks hanging off it.