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Cher’s high-tech (for the time) closet

Pop culture has given us some memorable closets. There was the jaw-dropping one Big built Carrie as a grand apologetic gesture in the Sex and the City movie. There was the one under the Dursleys’ stairs where Harry Potter spent his pre-Hogwarts years. And then there was Cher’s closet in Clueless. Sure, today we have Trunk Club and Stitch Fix and apps to keep us looking fashionably fierce, but back in 1995 when this movie came out, Cher’s computerized closet system was the epitome of cool.

Like many features on this list, Cher’s computer program that acted as a high-tech paper doll carousel and its corresponding rotating clothing rack was an example of an elaborate, unnecessary splurge. Sure, there are custom closet systems, but one that literally creates your outfits every day? That would likely cost an arm and a designer-denim-clad leg. If the ’80s were a decade of Wall Street excess, the decades that followed those years continued to fan those flames by way of  TV and movie sets that no actual person (save, maybe Michael Jackson at Neverland) would build in their home.

Lucky for us, Cher was loaded. Watching her computer pick out her yellow plaid skirt suit was fun because we wanted a computer that would tell us when our clothes didn’t match (it really would have come in handy in junior high, personally), too. And because we couldn’t quite convince our parents to spend our college savings on a rotating closet system, we had to settle for those fluffy feather-topped pens Cher used in the movie instead. Which were, admittedly, still pretty cool.