Despite its great comedic chops and Fran Drescher’s iconic voice, the Nanny wasn’t known for it’s fashion. It never is lauded in listicles of TV’s Greatest Fashion Shows unlike Gossip Girl, Sex and the City and Mad Men. That, however, is a major oversight. Despite the show being off the air since 1999, repeat reruns have brought it again to the forefront of the fashion world, mostly helped by Instagrammer Shanae Brown of @whatfranwore.

The Instagram account is a tightly curated, meticulously researched collection of some of the best ’90s fashion around. Brown has said that researching the outfits is extremely time consuming, taking anywhere between 5 minutes and 34 hours. Each post chronicles the designer of the outfit, sometimes with the specific collection and images of contemporaries wearing the same piece, either as part of an editorial or on the runway.

While some of our personal favourite on screen style queens can be seen as a bit icy (Blair Waldorf and Chanel Oberlin anyone?) Miss Fine was the opposite of that. Her clothes were her way of expressing herself in a world that wasn’t totally accepting of her; bright, short and tight. Sure, it’s a bit ironic that the upper crust Manhattanites were looking down on her whilst she’s wearing thousands of dollars worth of designer gear (dear Mr Sheffield, please hire us), but Fran’s approach to fashion was always fun.

The show’s costume designer, Brenda Cooper,  is a fan of What Fran Wore, following along and even helping to identify pieces. She has commented on one image credited with being a Herve Leger dress saying that it was actually a replica she had to make because they didn’t have time to film Drescher in the dress before they needed to return it. She also worked closely with designer Todd Oldham, who lent a lot of the pieces for the show.

All we can say is that we wish we had Fran Fine’s endless rotation of Moschino, Dolce and Gabbana, Missoni, Anna Sui and Marc Jacobs. Mr Sheffield, are you hiring? Cos we’d definitely be available.