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If you didn't wear tendrils as part of your prom hairdo, were you even a teen in the 1990s? Actually, come to think of it, my hair was too short to wear tendrils as part of my prom hairdo in 1997, but Sarah Michelle Gellar more than made up for that by wearing the very ‘90s face-framing pieces to just about every event she attended that year, including the premiere of the iconic horror movie I Know What You Did Last Summer (as you can see in the photo above). And for the premiere of the film’s reboot, she also rebooted her tendrils in a very 2025 way.
You may recall—otherwise, spoiler alert—that Gellar's character, Helen, doesn't survive the original I Know What You Did Last Summer, but her costar and husband, Freddie Prinze Jr., does, and he's back for the latest chapter in the long-dormant franchise. So when he walked the premiere's red carpet on Monday, July 14, of course, he brought along his real-life leading lady. And both looked like total knockouts.
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Gellar looked especially elegant in a strapless, butterfly-inspired Oscar de la Renta dress. Her hair is longer and blonder than it was 28 years ago, with waves reaching down to her waist and pulled partially back with a loose twist that left the shorter front pieces free to frame her face.
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Tendrils may always feel definitively '90s to those of us who lived through their ubiquitousness, but this much more modern take on the look proves that a few pieces left out of an updo or ponytail can always look pretty.