lets talk 90's aesthetics???

discolexy · #1 02-19-2007, 09:47 AM

i found the list below quite accurate? it's difficult to find loads of stuff about the 90s online... the 80s were easy but i guess the 90s were too recent to be properly retro????

but i'm making invitiations for my party, what kind of things are typically 90s?? like i'm going with the idea of a cartoon brickwall with "graffiti" over

90s things to me:
ecstasy, whistles, glowsticks, hammerpants, bindis, ****ty bjork hairstyles

i dunno. can we talk about the 90s?

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The 'Rachel' haircut
The 'do' that Jennifer Aniston who played Rachel on TV's Friends wore. Everyone had it - it was the 90's equivalent of the Farrah look.

Adidas Windpants
Light windpants. Made noises everytime you moved. Came in a bunch of colors with a white or black stripe down the side. Also had button down ones.

Attitude Dude Shirts
Shirts with line drawn faces that say one word or phrase beneath like. "I don't know"

Baby Doll Dresses
Everyone had one. They were the dresses that were adorable and made you look like a baby.

Back-Pack Purses
Exactly what the name describes; a miniture back-pack used as a purse.

Baggy Jeans
Worn by both girls and boys, the baggier the better

Butterfly clips
These became popular in 1998-1999. Little plastic butterfly clips that girls of all ages wore by the gross in their hair. The typical way of wearing them was to part your hair in several different places and to clip each section of hair so that the butterflies would be all in a row on top of your head.

Canvas Shoes
Worn with very tapered pants, and scrunch socks. Best brand is Keds

Caps With The Tag Still On It
In the early 90's baseball caps that still had the tag on it were in, whether it was the price tag or any type of tag.

Cargo Pants
Somewhat of a wide leg, with large pockets part way down the leg. Usually blue, black, whitish, or beige.

Diaper Pants
They were the pants that had to flaps of material that crossed in the front and buttoned togeter.

Doc Martens
They were boots and sandles that were very popular. They cost around $100 a pair, but almost every teen had a pair in the late 90's.

Double Shirt
Kids in the 90's would wear 2 shirts: one regular long sleeve shirt and one button up shirt. The button up shirt would be un buttoned.

Fanny Packs
Purses that buckle on to the waste. Very popular in the early 1990. Now it's considered to be a fashion faux pas.

Fishing Hats
Floppy cotton hats like the type that have been popular with fishermen for years. Came in an assortment of colors, kaki, tan, cream...The brim nearly covered the wearer's eyes.

Flannel shirts
Grungy, flannel shirts from dad's closet worn over concert T-shirts to complete the whole "grunge" ensemble.

Flare Jeans
Similar to bell bottoms with less of a flare!

Flower Pot Skirt
A skirt over trousers

Guess
Guess jeans comes in a vaiable of colors, even bright colors. They also have Guess shirts. They range in prices from $35.00 for jeans and $25.00 for the shirt.

Half-heart
Very popular in the early 90s, partly because of Laura Palmer's mysterious half-heart necklace on "Twin Peaks".

Hawaiian Prints
Everything from shoes to necklases to shirts and shorts, etc that had hawaiian flowers or sayings on them.

Levi
Levi brand T-shirt that had "Button Your Fly" written in very large letters. These were very popular in the early 90s.

MHENDI
Not quite a tatoo, but more than the stick on machine ones. You can get cool desings or make it yourself. Fun and lasts for a long time.

Mary Janes
Kind of like loafers 90's way. Everyone had to have them...

Mini ball-chain necklaces
Necklaces with a charm on them, usually a flower or a peace sign or a smiley face, or some didn't have a charm. Most people at my school wore them two or three at a time.

Nike
The Most Popular sports wear for most of the 90s

Overalls (coveralls)
As I remember, over-alls came back into style. In the early 1990's (approx. 1990 -1991 - I think) Teens wore their overalls in two ways: They wore their overalls with a belt, and let the 'front flap' and 'back straps' hang straight down. The other way, was to only hook together one side of the overal straps, and leave the opposite side open. I remember that this was popular when I was in was in the 6th grade. The popular over-all styles were: light blue; or gray stone-washed; overalls, with lots of zippers and metal buttons down the sides.

Piercings
Getting your tounge, belly button, eyebrow, nipple, ect. Just whatever you could get pierced. Everyone has one. It was something cool.

Plastic Rubbery Bracelets
Some glittery, some solid, some clear. Went with everything you wore, dressy or not.

Platforms
Shoes with large thick heels on them very similar to the look of the 60's and 70's. Some were made of plastic and some made of cork, even wood.

Polar Fleece
Everything fleece, vests, jackets, pants, socks, toques. Worn by everyone from little kids to senior citizens.

Sam and Libby flats
These were ballerina like flat dress shoes that came in assorted colors with a funky looking little bow. They were very popular in the 91-92 school year.

Spiral Perms
Long, spiraly curls ala Mariah Carey, were very popular in the early to mid 90s.

Stapled hems
This quick fix became a common style in the early 90's. High school students would staple the hems of their dickies so as not to trip on thier designer bedroom slippers

Starter Coats
Pull over coats that were big and puffy

Straw Hats w/ Flipped-up Brim
Very pretty straw hats that had a flipped-up brim with flowers on them. Inspired by the tv show "Blossom".

Tattoos
Formerly the preserve of gang members, jailbirds and other rebels, tatts are now so common that even the ****e Girls have them. You used to get a tattoo to stand out, now you get one to blend in...

Thigh-high Stockings
Basically over-the-knee stockings that girls wore with very short skirts. Introduced around 1995, the two basic colors were black and white.

Tommy
Tommy clothing is very hip and in style with teens in the 90's

Tube Socks
Calf-high socks that didn't have a little seam where the heel went. We wore them with our sneakers and shorts usually kind of squised down so they'd wrinkle.

withnail · #2 02-19-2007, 09:49 AM

I was so happy in the 90s that it makes me sad to look back now.

how tragic is that?

gelflinggirl · #3 02-19-2007, 09:52 AM

I look back on the 90s and miss it too. I miss my so called life mostly and being a teenager.

Discordant · #4 02-19-2007, 09:53 AM

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Double Shirt
Kids in the 90's would wear 2 shirts: one regular long sleeve shirt and one button up shirt. The button up shirt would be un buttoned.

I still know people who do this.

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Flare Jeans
Similar to bell bottoms with less of a flare!

Is this really considered 90's fashion? Most of my jeans I wear today have a slight flare to them, because my calves are rather large and boot-cut jeans don't fit me as well.

discolexy · #5 02-19-2007, 09:58 AM

well we picked the nineties cos it's when we were all kids.

80s parties just aren't that nostalgic, i was 7 when they ended.

the 90s: that's my childhood <3 and when i was a teen

i can only think of 80s imagery though????