My early years after college were the first time that clothes became a way to express myself-not just who I was, but who I hoped to be. But the show’s use of fashion, still a pop culture obsession 22 years later, to communicate striving to make it in a big city? That I did have in common with Monica and Rachel. Unlike the show’s spacious, shabby-chic apartment, ours was so cramped that my twin bed touched my bedroom walls on three sides and a divot had been made in the bathroom wall to squeeze in the toilet tank. I moved to New York City two weeks before the first episode of Friends aired, in September 1994, and the exterior of the show’s apartment building was filmed just a few blocks from the crumbling West Village walk-up where my roommates and I watched the pilot episode. My nylon Kate Spade bag was more than an accessory-it was a symbol of growing and becoming myself in the big city.
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