There’s a fine line between cheap-looking costume jewellery and a statement piece which turns heads for all the right reasons, as reflected in the cringe-worthy historical evidence that lies in Facebook and Myspace albums from the 2010s and earlier.
Filed to the brim with side fringes, concealer lips and owl pendants galore, these digital artefacts illustrate how many of us were known to layer everything from Hollister vests and badly bleached highlights to mousse foundations and – of course – inexpensive yet ostentatious beaded necklaces.
