90s fashion - weirder than people remember? (girl, permed, look)
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There were a ton of changes in the 90s as it transitioned from the wild 80s stuff to the more casual 00s stuff
Some of the colors/fads of the early 90s would look as odd today as some of the 80s ideas - hypercolor shirts, pinchrolled jeans, big & bright colors ......... washed away into grunge and the hippy look ..... eventually morphing into a style that keeps the casual elements but brightens them up a little bit with a bit more individual style
Skids, Zubaz, and Cross Colours. Italy Style and Taxi Studio matching tops and bottoms. Z. Cavaricci pleated pants. Overalls with the one strap hanging down. This one lady who came into the restaurant where I worked was complaining about that last one. "These kids, that looks so stupid. What if I walked around with my one boob hanging out?" LOL.
Jewelry - doorknockers and obnoxiously large hoops. Necklaces with your name in the front. Bolo ties.
You can't really avoid talking about the 90's hair, either. The big huge teased bangs, with the little bit curled under in the front, perm or no perm, with or without the "wings" on the sides. I remember getting leaves caught in my hair on my walk home from school. Some girls had the short haircut that was still sort of teased on the top and then this little "tail" on the side. The Gumby. The mullet. Also, a lot of guys had the haircut that was long on the top and short underneath. Some of the guys permed the top of their hair.
And I had the nerve to make fun of my mother's yearbook pictures. LMAO.
I remember it was super cool to wear black bicycle shorts (or just black stretchy shorts) underneath plaid boxers that you bought at The Gap. Later, it was awesome to have your plaid flannel wrapped around your waist, while wearing jeans and Doc Martens. And then of course, there were the Birkenstocks, as another poster mentioned.
I have a totally 90's photo of me wearing jeans, with a flannel wrapped around my waist, wearing another flannel, with a knit beanie on, while postin' up with a just-chillin'-bro pose, but instead of Docs, I had on a snowboard. Yeup - I wore my grunge while snowboarding. (Also, "to post" or "postin' up" were also totally 90's, along with "hangin' on his jock" or something similar, to describe a chick who was really into a boy.)
Super awesome radical fashion, yo!
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Originally Posted by Wry_Martini
I miss the baby doll dresses with chunky boots (combat boots, Doc Martens, etc).
Remember the slip dresses worn over baby doll t-shirts? (spaghetti strap cotton jersey dresses).
Oh yea. The baby doll dresses, sort of like 90's Courtney Love in Hole. I wore a slip dress over a baby doll t-shirt to my homecoming, freshman year in HS - with my green suede Docs, of course.
Yes it's quite odd. Today's fashion is very different from even 1998, but barely distinguishable from say 2003. Only difference I can think of is that tats, blue jeans and piercings have become even more common, teenage girls seem to wear more makeup and you had that emo/scene look going on for a few years that's kinda died out.
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Originally Posted by Jay F
At least things kept changing back then. People dress the same in 2014 as they did in 2004. We never had such long stretches of no change before.
I noticed this too. Like if I had to go to an 00s party, what would I wear? I could pull something together for an 80s or 90s party.
One thing I miss about the 90s is the bright colors and ethnic fabrics; kinte cloth and Africa Medallions were popular. I miss that.
I LOVED the babydoll dresses and chunky shoes, too. And when the movie Clueless came out, I started wearing the pleated skirts and knee socks. And I wore the slip dresses with the shirts underneath too; I worked at The Gap and got several of them there with my discount.
One lingering and unfortunate fashion from the 90's is the low rise women's jeans. Low risers went through passing fads of popularity from the 60's onward, but they gripped the female blue jean industry just as it was rising into high fashion popularity again.
And from then on, girls and women who aren't narrow hipped and very slender have looked good. The country has been exposed to female butt crack and muffin top ever since, along with extra-long tops to cover them up. Viewing a pale, chicken-skinned waist in the middle of winter is never a great look, either.
For some reason, females have forgotten that high waisted jeans make even stocky or overweight girls look very good. The high waist accentuates the waist, not the hips, and makes a girl's butt look good at any weight or body type. And a slightly relaxed fit still looks equally good on the aging female figure.
The over-decorated back pockets, with all their bangles and fancy stitchery only magnify the problem. They only look great on little girls, just as they always have. Back in the day, girl's jeans often had no back pockets; the smooth look always made a lady's posterior more attractive at any age.
The other unfortunate in women's pants is the popularity of the cropped legs, which also began in the 90's. Unless a gal is very tall, very slim, and has very nice ankles, the crops make all others' legs look shorter, and the crops accentuate all the hips and heavy legs that women try so hard to conceal.
I think that the 90's were the beginnings of a great fashion change, when women began dressing more for other women's opinions of what is attractive, and less of what men considered attractive. 'Cute' for gals is not necessarily what men consider cute at any age.
It's all the more ironic now; there are more single females than ever before. It's as if all the single gals have either given up or are too explicitly sexy looking these days.
Where I lived in the 90s (California and Las Vegas) tattoos totally took over by the 90s.
Yes, I lived in San Francisco then and knew many people whose arms were completely tattooed, and some who had facial tattoos and multiple facial piercings, as well as genital piercings. Not my thing, but to each his or her own.
The 90s fashions will never be as revolting to me as the 80s, with the big, permed hair, overalls, and high-waisted jeans.
Early nineties had the most hideous waist lines for women. Rewatch the movie Singles and notice Bridget Fonda's outfits. So bad.
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