Christina Applegate
Look at all these overlong flowy pieces on recent Emmy nominee Christina Applegate! This was the year "The Sweetest Thing" came out, after she'd had an NBC sitcom for a couple years, so it was an Applegate renaissance.
Kate Bosworth
Perhaps she and Christina shopped at the same store. (This was ALSO the year of Blue Crush, which I think looking back turned out to be the peak of Kate Bosworth as an actor.)
Matt Davis
Blue Crush (and the previous year's Legally Blonde) also explains Matt Davis's presence. But what explains Matt Davis's man-bangs? NOTHING.
Milo Ventimiglia
Look at baby Milo! Now he plays TV's most insufferably sainted father figure but back then he was just a surly small-town rebel, wooing Rory Gilmore, and also perhaps insufferable but in a different way.
Mandy Moore
And here's his current TV wife, in a truly unfortunate pseudo-corset-dress. If only we could go back and tell them.
Gregory Smith
EPHRAM! Though he wasn't Ephram yet; he'd shot the pilot, but it didn't premiere until September, so he was just a kid in Tinseltown dressed like George McFly at a soda shop. That's not even a dis; it works on him. It just also is very evocative of The Past.
Mila Kunis
Ah, back in the days when "styling" sincerely was just "whatever stores are at the Glendale Galleria."
Thora Birch
I feel like Amber Tamblyn ended up sliding into the Thora Birch niche a little.
Jake Gyllenhaal
Jake here had been in several things by this point -- Donnie Darko, Bubble Boy (!!), and forthcoming was The Good Girl with Jennifer Aniston -- so he SHOULD have been recognizable to a Getty photographer as someone other than "Jake Gilmore," yet that's what the caption said. LOOK at this gelled-up teen angst!
Evan Rachel Wood
She has just always been so stunning. Those pants... sure are of an era.
Chyler Leigh
Midriffs, halter tops, and slip-on kitten heels, all present and accounted for. I DO see you, 2002.
Ian Somerhalder
He looks airbrushed. I'm not saying he IS airbrushed; I'm saying that his teen heartthrob features are so precise that he's practically cooked up and burnished in a lab. His cheeks are even rosy. (Dollars to donuts he had on a little blush.)
Elijah Wood
And here's a fancy Frodo!
Marisa Coughlan
This caption called her "Marissa Caufland" so maybe Getty photogs weren't as plugged-in back in 2002. Anyway, Marisa is here showing us why dresses over pants are so COMPLETELY confusing in so many contexts.
Jonathan Tucker
If he looks familiar to you, it may be because I BELIEVE he is the same actor who a) played a psychopath on Justified, or b) is currently the lead on NBC's Debris, which is not good and on which he is kind of a problem because as an adult he has Psychopath Eyes Par Excellence and it means I keep expecting him to go rogue in every single scene when he's actually the hero of the piece.
Selma Blair
Meanwhile, she looks sassy and great. She's currently wearing her hair like this, and I must say, it supremely suits her.
Kip Pardue
I have to applaud Kip for GOING THERE with color at a time when so few did. I also had forgotten about Kip, so here, ladies and gentlemen, KIP PARDUE.
Colin Hanks
If Colin Hanks ever tried to pull a Tori Spelling and claim he got parts without anyone knowing who his father was, it would be a LIE. Just LOOK at him.
Shannyn Sossamon
"Is this... a glass? Do I drink from it?"
Billy Zane
Billy, what are YOU doing here? He looks like some kind of bowling gangster.