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‘It Feels Enough Like Lingerie to Be a Little Scandalous.’ The Return of the ’90s Slip Skirt.

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Faran Krentcil

Aug. 23, 2023 5:00 pm ET

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CLAIRE DANES is a bona fide 1990s style icon. But as a teen, I wasn’t buying it. According to an entry in my 9th-grade journal, I found the grungy, oversize tartan flannels she wore as Angela on “My So-Called Life,” the decade’s must-watch high-school drama, to be “totally fake.” I scorned the look’s unearned angst and Danes’s instant fashion-darling status—that is, until she appeared on the Oscars red carpet in 1997. Then 17, the starlet swapped her sloppy, plaid pile-on for a blue, Narciso Rodriguez bias-cut silk skirt and matching cashmere T-shirt.

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