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How, and Why, to Dress Like the Powerpuff Girls

By Nicola Fumo

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  • The Powerpuff Girls make their triumphant return to Cartoon Network tonight, Monday, April 4th, after over a decade off the air. Cartoon Network
  • Blossom: Red bow, pink dress, white tights, black May Jane shoes.
  • These contact lenses are horrifying, and freaky-similar to the opaque pink that defines Blossom's iris. Pink contact lenses, $29
  • Blossom the garden wedding guest attendee or Blossom the pastel VP of revenue ops. Fendi, $2,000
  • When you wear white tights every day, you can't be spending your entire allowance on high end hosiery. Merona tights, $8
  • Weekend Blossom. Equipment, $300
  • A suggested shake-up for Blossom: Mary Janes in her own signature pink. Miu Miu pumps, $990
  • Self-referential Blossom. Moschino bag, $895
  • "Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory, but not your signature hair bow." — Coco Chanel Hair bow, $17
  • Bubbles: Pigtails always, blue dress, white tights, black Mary Jane shoes.
  • Same creepy contacts, but in sky blue. Blue contact lenses, $29
  • An all-purpose wrap dress for Bubbles' busy sched. Maje dress, $295
  • An edgier Bubbles. Marques' Almeida dress, $715
  • Metallic silver shoes will take Bubbles's signature blue in a fittingly retro-future direction. Miss KG shoes, $85
  • Feeling herself Bubbles. (Amazing work with the tassels as pigtails, Moschino.) Moschino bag, $995
  • Buttercup: Green dress, white tights, black Mary Jane shoes, no frills nor f*cks.
  • Yep, they come in kelly green, too. Green contact lenses, $29
  • Copyright lawyer Buttercup. Lanvin dress, $1,690
  • Pointy slingbacks as sharp as Buttercup herself. Zara shoes, $50
  • Cozy girl Buttercup. Moschino sweater dress, $695

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The Powerpuff Girls make their triumphant return to Cartoon Network tonight, Monday, April 4th, after over a decade off the air. Blossom (the pink one), Bubbles (blue, with Baby Spice vibes), and Buttercup (green, gets the brunt as the "mean" one; the Miranda, if you will) made their series debut in November 1998, airing through March 2005.

The superhero trio was originally developed by Craig McCracken in 1992 as a short called "Whoopass Stew!" (Fun fact: 1992 is also the year Selena Gomez, Cara Delevigne, Miley Cyrus, Kate Upton, Demi Lovato, and Nick Jonas were born. Meditate on that for a moment.)

As little girls consistently bailing out their dopey mayor in The City of Townsville, the PPG were badass icons for those of us coursing elementary school in the late '90s. Their ascent was in concert with the height of the Spice Girls, creating a tornado of "girl power" messaging in pop culture. It's not terribly dissimilar to the moment of high-profile feminism we're in now, making the show perfectly ripe for a comeback.

If you should want to embody your PPG fandom, both Moschino and Hot Topic (what a spectrum!) have designed Powerpuff Girls collections. You can shop logo sweater dresses and iPhone cases from the high-end Italian fashion brand now, but the alt mall store won't have their ode to the cartoon in stores 'til May. For something more subtle, see our gallery above to mimic the girls' uniforms.

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