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Every Outfit Rachel Ever Wore On 'Friends', Ranked From Best To Worst: Season 6
Could Season 6 of Friends be Rachel's best hair season? Possibly. It's a great outfit season, with it being the start of her career with Ralph Lauren, and her adopting the classic, clean, all-American lines of the brand. The worst of it is pretty bland, but not as particularly offensive as her bad outfits have been in the past. Continue with me on this journey of ranking every one of Rachel's outfits on Friends, season by season, from best to worst...
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Season 6, Episode 12
Guys there’s embroidery on the bottom of her cropped pants. Maybe if we ignore it it will just go away…
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Season 6, Episode 16
I love the cow print, I love the pink leopard pants, but together, this is like the firey depths of Rachel style hell.
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Season 6, Episode 15
No wait, THIS is the depths of firey Rachel style hell. WHAT IS THAT BAG?
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Season 6, Episode 3
It’s like she went on vacation to Fiji, thought it would be a good idea to buy that sarong-y skirt, came back, realized she’d made a mistake, but tried to make it work with a “casual” shirt anyway.
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Season 6, Episode 6
I bet those pants have many sections that zip off and that they could be used to put out a small grease fire.
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Season 6, Episode 14
Is she Rachel, works at Ralph Lauren, or Rachel, dropping the kids off and doing the groceries?
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Season 6, Episode 11
If only the t-shirt didn’t have that little flower picture, and the pants were better, and she was wearing something else entirely.
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Season 6, Episode 19
This is the Matrix meets Stepford wives meets Carmella Soprano. It’s all the worst of Rachel’s favorite cinematic fashion references rolled into one.
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Season 6, Episode 17
Things are fine until you see the cheap polyester sheen in the pants and the square-toed boots.
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Season 6, Episode 11
I don’t want to be judgmental (wait, actually I do), but homegirl is looking a little run down. Also those pants are ugly.
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Season 6, Episode 12
I’ve talked about Rachel’s penchant for poo brown before. This is poo green.
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Season 6, Episode 20
Does this top look like Rachel’s stuck a name tag to the side of it or is that just me?
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Season 6, Episode 3
There’s that embroidered top again, this time without a cardigan so we can see it in its full hideous glory.
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Season 6, Episode 12
SERIOUSLY THOUGH WHAT IS WITH THE SLACKS AND CASUAL SPORTS TOP LOOK IT’S KILLING ME?
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Season 6, Episode 1
There’s something about the terrible fake tan I can’t avert my eyes from…
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Season 6, Episode 4
I don’t know what’s going on with Rachel wearing weirdly overly-formal slacks with casual outfits this season, but it seems to be a thing. Also, I’m so glad long sleeves under short sleeves isn’t a thing any more.
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Season 6, Episode 1
It’s casual sleep wear, and it’s not terrible, but it’s not life changing either.
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Season 6, Episode 9
I would have loved this (the apron is adorable!) if it weren’t for the BEADED FRINGING at the elbows.
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Season 6, Episode 13
And this is where the Ralph Lauren gets a little bit too “bland Upper East Side” for my tastes.
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Season 6, Episode 13
Again, weird slacks, bizarre layering and inappropriate sporty stripes on the top.
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Season 6, Episode 19
This season Rachel came out of her ill-fitting clothing rut, and this powder blue suit is her one misstep in that area.
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Season 6, Episode 8
I mean, this would be FINE, but then you notice the drawstrings at the elbows and you realize it’s not fine at all.
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Season 6, Episode 15
I love flashback Rachel but these pants without the giant dead puppet fur just don’t pack the same punch.
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Season 6, Episode 14
There’s way too much going on here: ugly pants, weird layering, turtle-neck with sporty lines on the elbows. It’s confusing.
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Season 6, Episode 21
I’ve loved this skirt before, but with the red patent pointy boots the outfit is a total misfire.
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Season 6, Episode 8
RALPH LAUREN. It’s hard to tell what Rachel is wearing in this scene but it seems to be a black turtleneck, which is just fine.
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Season 6, Episode 6
I don’t know about this outfit as a concept but honestly, she looks good.
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Season 6, Episode 5
I’m going to ignore the knee-high boots, because the outfit is pretty cute.
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Season 6, Episode 23
I don’t believe that Bruce would be anything other than aroused with Rachel sitting there in that dress.
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Season 6, Episode 7
Again, people aren’t supposed to look this good when they’re working out.
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I CANNOT LOOK AWAY FROM FLASHBACK RACHEL. That coat is something.
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Season 6, Episode 10
Rachel wears a couple of these fitted (neoprene?) turtlenecks this season and they’re incredibly flattering.
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Season 6, Episode 15
I love this jacket. Everything else is spew but the jacket is so good it puts the outfit in my top ten for the season.
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Season 6, Episode 24
Rachel looks so good in evening wear, it’s making me vomit in my mouth.
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Season 6, Episode 15
More flash-back Rachel, more incredible cow-printed things that we can’t wear now, but are still incredible to look at.
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Season 6, Episode 18
Of course the word “girls” has a different connotation now, but this t-shirt is still pretty sweet.
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Season 6, Episode 1
JUST MARRIED. I wish my boobs fit into boob cups in dresses that way, but alas, we can’t all be so perfectly chested.
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Season 6, Episode 18
A leopard print wrap dress is timeless. Diane Von Furstenberg would be proud.
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Season 6, Episode 24
This dress is very Catherine Keener in Being John Malcovich, which is to say, if you need a translation, perfect.
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