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I'm pretty sure style is regional. We in So. California are known for being very casual.
The blue jeans & t-shirt look has been popular in So. California for decades or more, still popular today. Women dress it up with a blouse rather than t-shirt, and fancy up their shoes or boots. And accessorize of course.
Men spend their time looking at women's chests so I wouldn't know anything about hair styles. J/K, I'm a man and not an authority on women's hair styles, most of we men prefer long hair. We actually do look at women's faces. Smart men gaze into women's eyes.
A few nights back I was on Amazon curious about henna tattoes and following links led me to unicorn snot (makeup for raves) to rave pants or panties... and I finally had to switch to "hot underwear for men" to cool off. (That category was pretty funny!) I wouldn't mind if we discussed undergarments since that too is part of style.
I found it interesting that bell bottoms were back... for a while. With a different name.
I had blocked out the slip dresses with t-shirts! Such a hideous look, particularly for those of us that are top-heavy.
I don’t even know shy I tried to wear them. They did not fit me lol. I went through puberty early and was busty and hippy.
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Those sheer blouses were big at my junior high school until they were banned. I remember teachers safety pinning the crop tops worn underneath to the waist of students’ mom jeans.
The cut off shorts were worn over shredded black tights in San Diego, and always with big clunky Doc Martin shoes and dark burgundy lipstick.
I wore the sheer hops with my leotard.
And I remember the shorts and tights look. That was too alternative for me.
I am talking about women that would be in their teens/20s in the early 90s. And a few additional questions: 1. Far as clothing goes how different would you say women in the same age group compare to today?
2. I realize women have always been under pressure to look young and physically attractive, would you say there was still a lot of women trying to get away with wearing the shortest/revealing attire? Like teen girls/20-something women trying to show off as much cleavage and shortest skirts/shorts/outfits as possible?
The more things change ... the more the stay the same.
This was the junkie sheik error.
All my friends had eating disorders ....
And walking around as little as possible as a teen in those days were still a thing.
Young girls are testing their sexuality at that age.
I spend most of that decade getting dressed up just to turn head.
The CFM boots were still consider provocative at that time. Now it is the "norm".
I had to wear a uniform to school... but most of us were wearing our Catholic School uniforms more like Britney Spears and the "Hit me Baby One More Time Video".
At that age. I was wearing strappy healed shoes, short ripped jeans shorts ( DYI), a black V-neck mid drift top... chest out ... and cruising for around hoping to catch the attention of prince charming.
It took until my early 20s to realize that prince charming can't find you because when you dress like that you get surrounded by the looser which are blocking his view .
Teenagers don't dress all that much more differently now.
You have ones that are a bit more risky with conveying their sexuality and ones that are a lot more tom boyish.
That decade is about experimenting with your look and having fun.
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The key to not getting you parents to freak out was always leave the house with a lot shirt which you could later take off and tie around your waste LOL!!!
I have a pre-teen already trying to pull those tricks.... as I told her "I evented that trick. Go change your clothes you are not going to the beach!".
In the 90s, I was a 20-something, working in software in Seattle, when grunge began. Having a lot of musician friends, it was the funnest time of my life. We could wear cut offs with Doc Martens to work, as it was the first casual office place I'd ever worked. Hair was everything from carry-over, 80s, big hair to 60s straight to dreads on white boys in bands. Platinum, non-conditioned hair was all the rage, too, for boys & girls.
From the pics posted, I don't recall all the bare stomachs & girls wearing mere bras... that was seen more with bands or celebs, in my experience. But, I loved baby doll dresses with Docs, short, black, lycra skirts with black nylons & an anything is accepted spirit, which was probably due more to where I lived at the time... because when I left Seattle in '94 & moved to SoCal, the "heroin chic" grunge look was a little too grungy there. It was more CA casual... short, strappy dresses in light colors with heels or sandals & maybe a leather jacket at night... instead of lots of dark eyeliner & red lips in Seattle, the sunkissed bronzy look was more popular in the OC.
But, what I have noticed is how much bodies have changed since then. Girls were far thinner & fitter back then. I didn't have 20-30 yr old friends who were out of shape or who didn't walk miles/day, to & from work, by the beach, around town. And, if anyone did hit a pudgy time for a bit, they knew how to dress to less accentuate it. Now, I see a lot of big girls (boys, too) & no desire to hide stomach rolls & muffin tops, over-stuffed cleavage in tiny tops & back fat. They'll wear whatever style is out there & just squeeze into it. Although, body type preferences have changed, too. In the 90s, stick thin models were the aspiration for younger girls or boys... now, it's thick bodies & implants have shifted from chest to butt. Different times.
I'm never nostalgic... but, if I had a moment in time when I did think about the good ol' days, as far as fashion & music, it would be back to the 90s. The one sad side effect is so many are now gone from heroin. It wasn't a cultivated look, it was a lifestyle for many, especially being in Seattle at that time... bands I used to listen to, friends... many are long gone. Glad I was never the curious type with any sort of drug... 1 microbrew is my limit, unless I'm driving & then it's zero... & even sometimes 1 zones me out.
I am talking about women that would be in their teens/20s in the early 90s. And a few additional questions: 1. Far as clothing goes how different would you say women in the same age group compare to today?
I was in high school and college throughout the whole of the 90s.
What is really funny is that I'm in a graduate program now, and the youngest people in my program (those who are 22-23 and just completed undergrad) are in many regards wearing what I wore as an undergrad in the 1990s. The woman who sat next to me in class last night, who is midtwenties, was wearing something I could have worn/did wear as a college freshman in 1995...cut-off high-waisted "mom" jean shorts, an unbuttoned flannel over a tank, Birkenstock sandals, a fabric scrunchie holding her ponytail, and big, roundish, owl-like wire-rim glasses identical to the ones I owned then.
From looking at baby pictures, my mom (22-25) wore leggings/stirrup pants...higher wasted jeans/shorts...loose t-shirts, sundresses, some short overalls..etc. Lots of spaghetti straps (on dresses and tops).
I also used a lot of my mom's older clothes for "dress-up" as a kid, so some pieces stick out in my mind. She had a black sundress with sunflowers on it that I always loved.
I was in my twenties during the 1990's. The biggest change from today is nude stockings. Everyone wore nude stocking to work. I don't remember anyone wearing colored stockings either. Just nude, transparent stocking. Going bare legged to work seems so odd to me.
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