I started high school in the early 1990s, so naturally I made a lot of questionable fashion choices that no one should repeat. (So. Much. Flannel.) One look from my grungier days I do think works (with modifications) for R, though, is tights with shorts.

Tights and shorts is a combination I like for early spring and fall. We can use her shorts for more of the year, and dress it up or down.

Except not weird holey gray tights with torn-up cutoffs, a yin yang T-shirt and an oversized button-down flannel. She’s not 14, it isn’t 1993, and my name isn’t Courtney Love.

All right, fine, yes. I also put her in Doc Martens. And 14-year-old me would have killed for these tights with the pandas on the knees.