Students are walking around campus wearing platform shoes, checkered flannel and cargo pants, keeping up with a national fashion trend that harkens back to the 1990s.

When the weather was warmer, women students wore throwbacks like slip dresses, tennis skirts and crop tops to class. Now that the weather is cooler, maxi skirts, Doc Martens and cardigans are back in style.

Some students wear ’90s fashion to express themselves.

“I definitely think the ’90s is really cool,” Kendal Waters, a second-year business student, said.

“I think everyone expressed themselves through their outfits that they wore every day. … Everyone wore something unique. It wasn’t like now. Everyone’s wearing black leggings or, you know, a sweatshirt and T-shirt and stuff like that.”

Baggy clothes, like wide-leg jeans, leather jackets and oversized sweatshirts, were also popular in the 1990s.

Second-year visual arts student Tamaya White said the baggy aesthetic is useful for layering and keeping warm for the winter months.

Still, some buy and wear pieces from the period passively.

First-year nursing student Carly Tryon said she didn’t realize the high-waisted mom jeans and crop top she wore on campus recently were ’90s throwbacks.

“It’s not like shown as like, this was popular in the ’90s,” Tryon said. “Like, I just saw it at a store, and I liked it, so I bought it.”