Draw a straight line back from any of today’s lady-blogs, like Jezebel, The Gloss, or The Hairpin, and somewhere around 1994, you’ll crash right into Clarissa Marie Darling. Together with Blossom, The Baby-Sitters Club’s Claudia Kishi, and basically everyone who worked at or was featured in Sassy magazine, Clarissa personified what so many girls—myself included—at that time aspired to be: smart, funny, and wearing the hell out of some badass Doc Martens.