What would you wear to a 90s theme party?

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I went to a 90s theme party the other day. Lots of people were wearing plaid and NIN t-shirts and torn-up jeans.

― Sym (shmuel), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

last i wore a nkotb jacket and dollar sign earrings, but it ws a specifically early 90s party

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

flares

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

cross colors jeans, a "bugs-bunny-in-rap-wear" oversized t-shirt, and a matching jean jacket.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

no wait, a hypercolor t-shirt

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

top hat

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

cross colors are hot

― Sym (shmuel), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

strongo's outfit ws worn by my friend julian, plus he had stussy shaved into his hair

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

everyone takes 90s to mean 90-93. What if it was a late 90s party?

― Sym (shmuel), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

people do the same with the 80s Sym

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

No they don't!

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess I think of 1987 Jason & Kylie look as typifying 80s pop style as much as I think of new romanticism.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)

actually i'm totally lying but his hair ws perfect because he always looks like that kind of puffy haired guy from color me badd anyway

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

i would have "strongo" shaved into mine of course

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

i mean my pubic hair

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

and i mean do have

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

you must have a lot of room down there

― Sym (shmuel), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)

broader than broadway

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Long black wool skirt, mohair vest, crisp white shirt, bunches, glitter makeup, little nylon knapsack.

Gucci hipsters from first Tom Ford collection, Adidas old skool or Patrick Cox loafers (no socks), tight teeshirt, hairslides, Rouge Noir nail polish/lipstick, long black leather coat from Camden, Issey Miyake perfume and little nylon knapsack, possibly Prada.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah if i went to a 90s party now no way would i go early 90s! i wd maybe do mid 90s slick minimalistic aaliyah with wraparound sunglasses and silver jewellery or spice girl giant shoes or late 90s britney sportswear

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Aphex twin mask.

― hmmm (hmmm), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think I know anyone who wore NIN t-shirts, Spice Girl giant shoes or late 90s Britney sportswear. WHERE WERE MY 90s?

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

you were too old n.

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

If you remember the 90s you weren't there

― Sym (shmuel), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

not in america?

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

in an INDIE GHETTO, you antimainstreamist you

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

yes clearly my 90s fashion choices would actually be not particularly different from their 80s/70s/60s(?) counterparts

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

My perception, on watching things like Oprah in the mid-90s, was that large sections of America seemed to hang onto 80s looks for a very long time.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

actually i would probably go in dreadlocks, neon glow-in-the-dark facepaint, and a zoot suit, but only if there was some way to achieve a fisheye effect as i walked around.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

It was a fabulous ghetto, Ricardo.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Spice Girl giant shoes began the '90s as either raver platforms or klunky riot grrrl shoes.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

or maybe a pair of black dickies, doc martins, funkadelic t-shirt, and compton hat

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

N you may think of '87 but the general consensus with 80s revivals focusses on the first half of that decade (new wave haircuts, compilation adverts, and the hits from '80-'84 sold more than the hits from the later half and tend to be remembered more)

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

white gloves, vicks smeared face mask and glowsticks ahoy for that authentic early 90s voibe

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

for that one we shd set you up with lens flare strongo!

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually I take it back - some people I know did have trainers with big platforms. Including me, actually.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

stuff i actually wore in the 90s

fluoro jogging bottoms
paisley shirt
lumberjack shirt
shellsuit jogging bottoms
black denim
adidas sweatshirts
thick fleece jumpers
brown cords
white Sonetti jacket
MA1 flight jacket (bog-standard junglist attire)

i should really be killed

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

The thought of you wearing shellsuit bottoms and paisley shirt combination DOES make me think that you might be a terrorist

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

It all seems OK bar the jogging bottoms (and probably the paisley shirt), steve.

x-post

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)

hawaiian shirt, converse one stars, bindi, eyebrow ring, pink hair

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

leather pants, "zero" t-shirt, shaved head

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)

All blerks should have dressed like Boyzone in the Love Me For A Reason video (1994, fact fans). Did anyone have an East 17 baseball cap?

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

My friend had a Take That scarf but I didn't want one, I thought it was rubbish.

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

ringer tshirt w american youth camp logo, a-line mini skirt, knee high socks, mary janes

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

the paisley shirt was 1990 only - AND I WASN'T THE ONLY ONE (except to combine it with the sports casual perhaps...christ on a Marin)

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

stussy jeans, ben sherman shirt, adidas tracksuit top, fat laces

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

what's terrifying is how much of this is still the identikit uniform for their particular subculture

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

particularly the last one which cuts a little close to the bone haha

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Bjork buns, A-line mini skirt, angora crop top, mini-backpack, glitter, Adidas shelltoes.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't believe no-one has yet bought up bodysuits, the most useless things in the world ever ever. Were they actually called bodysuits? Yes they were, weren't they.

Surely a white shirt with cropped jumper over the top, and floppy hat with flower on it, yesno?

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

hahahaha

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

god the 90s were awful

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

sarah maybe one of those white shirts with the bodysuit attachment underneath with those weird plastic clippy things in the fanny

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

i dont normally say fanny, it just seems like a 90s kind of word

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

We say "intimate feminine area" these days, or at least the adverts for Vagilast Soothing Cream do.

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

surely the name vagilast defeats that

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

though i'm not sure "vagisil" is any better

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

those it does make me think of genitals with a place to store your books and knick knacks

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

New single by Wire = Vagilast Beats That?

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

(Admittedly I may be making up the name, it's more the image of a huge pink inverted triangle which fills the screen for what seems like hours but is in fact about four seconds which sticks in my head).

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

sadly i am not making up "vagisil"

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:56 (twenty-two years ago)

skecher rollerblades, colourful stripey jean shorts, mirrored indian top, resin jewellery, swatch watch

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

tshirt with THIS on it:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc400/c475/c47514tgdf1.jpg

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Monday, 15 March 2004 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't remember what I wore in the 90s. football shirts and tracksuits I think, until I was 15 or 16 and then erm, jeans and t-shirts, like now, I was baggier back then though.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 15 March 2004 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

a three-button blazer and a Fred Perry?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 15 March 2004 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

ETHANP23: 'jazz attire'
ETHANP23: black clothes w a stylish horn player embroidered into them
ETHANP23: lots of purple
ETHANP23: black pants with tucked-in purple button up shirt
ETHANP23: musical note embroidered on the breast pocket
ETHANP23: sam l jackson backwards puma hat
ETHANP23: accessory white person

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Monday, 15 March 2004 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Nike Airs, 3/4 combat trousers with pockets in the knees, Urban Decay black glitter nail varnish, "Cool As Fuck" tee-shirt, Matalan denim jacket with an Ugly Kid Joe patch sewn into the back, Bagpuss backpack, Hello Kitty lunchbox, CAT baseball cap on backwards.

There's the 90s.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 15 March 2004 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

ETHANP23: shiny black shoes

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Monday, 15 March 2004 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

one giant big fat dreadlock, ethnic pants, sandals, those great big ear plugs, djembe

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Monday, 15 March 2004 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

chartreuse and/or mustard anything

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Monday, 15 March 2004 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

starter jacket, "jams", la gear sneakers, charlotte hornets cap

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 March 2004 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

http://take-that.co.uk/graphics/main.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 15 March 2004 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

ETHANP23: haha i can totally see the white t shirt w planet drum on it
ETHANP23: it wd be well stitched and quality for a promo shirt but the sleeves wd be slightly too roomy around the shoulders
ETHANP23: or it might be something youd order from a public television catalogue for like $30

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Monday, 15 March 2004 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh god... unbuttoned shirt over white tee-shirt... what the fuck was going on in 1995?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 15 March 2004 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Naff Jackets, Joe Bloggs jeans, huge wolly jumpers, Alien hoodies

― Michael B, Monday, 15 March 2004 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

delicate floral dress & big brown blundstone elastic sided boots

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Monday, 15 March 2004 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

A purple jumper?

― the bellefox, Monday, 15 March 2004 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

ETHANP23: i had a black hornets sweatshirt in 1994
Dubplatestyle: the colors were weird...aqua and purple??
ETHANP23: haha 'the 90s: aqua and purple??'

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 March 2004 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

'dyke' tshirt with swoosh

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Monday, 15 March 2004 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

hair pulled tight on top of head in scrunchy, black cropped shiny quilted jacket, tight black pants, black platform stilettos, black lipstick, hoop earrings

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Monday, 15 March 2004 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

dark brown lipliner, lips filled in with lighter mocha lipstick

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Monday, 15 March 2004 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Black T-shirt over long sleeve dark red shirt or other dark colour, plaid shirt, battered trainers, jeans with the knees completely worn out of them.

I also remember for a brief period around 1995 - 96 loads of girls wore black dresses over white T-shirts.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Monday, 15 March 2004 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh god!!! I had forgotten about them AND I WORE THEM!!!

*faints*

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 15 March 2004 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

A BAJA jacket!

― Mandee, Monday, 15 March 2004 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

A hooded shirt with FUCKING FUCK written on the front. I wore it when I went bowling.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Monday, 15 March 2004 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

http://elt.britcoun.org.pl/grunge.jpg

― LITTLE LAMB [Jon Williams] (ex machina), Monday, 15 March 2004 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.anti-statik.com/whale/music/sonic_youth/washing_machine.jpg

― LITTLE LAMB [Jon Williams] (ex machina), Monday, 15 March 2004 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

AND I had a flowery dress I wore with a tshirt under it'n'all.

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 15 March 2004 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Getting meta -

http://www.alborde.com/images/bosstones.gif

+ a pork-pie hat

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 15 March 2004 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

"ironic" thrift-store t-shirt w/'80s hair-metal band iron-on almost completely faded underneath flannel unbuttoned shirt, ripped blue jeans, Docs and/or converse, hemp backpack

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Monday, 15 March 2004 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

suzy what's so 90's/dated about issey perfume?
unless...u don't mean the men's one?
surely ck one is the dated stuff! issey's beautiful stuff!!
you're talkin' like its' the hai karate of the era!

― piscesboy, Monday, 15 March 2004 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

It's like a fever dream.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Shades, cornrows, flannel-shirt with only the top button done, Cypress Hill baseball cap, pants too big falling off.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:39 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.auntie.com/dustcatchers/barbie/91mchamfash.jpg

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Some babydoll dress/platform shoes ensemble like Tori Spelling would wear on 90210, that would wonderfully horrific.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

It's good to see all this (perverse) love for that brief period of time from January 1990 to September 1991 when the nineties wasn't yet The Nineties.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Whatchoo talkin' 'bout essaaaaaaaaaaaaay, don't you know I'm LOCO?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Some babydoll dress/platform shoes ensemble like Tori Spelling would wear on 90210, that would wonderfully horrific.

Emma Bunton to thread!

What Starry has said upthread about big shirts and little jumpers, floppy hats etc reminds me of Jacqui Dixon from Brookside. Who must therefore be the style icon of the 90s. Or at least a TV producer with a Top Shop account card's idea of a style icon of the 90s.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

The HIV

― dean! (deangulberry), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

a cardigan

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually the correct answer to the thread, which I omitted to give, was that I wouldn't go to a 90s theme party, so nothing.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

not just a cardigan btw.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean, a 90s theme party? wtf? Oh, let's relive those fantastic memories of 5 years ago?!

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Pisces, Issey is no way Hi Karate but was ubiquitous amongst people at the time (cool girls anyway). CK One so ripped off Issey Miyake, which was the first of the 'cool/crisp/floral' fragrances to launch in the '90s, taking people away from murkier fragrances like Obsession. M&S had a ripoff of Issey called (cough) Isis by '95. Now every soccer mom wears Davidoff Blue Water, the sickly end of this trend.

I started the '90s in Gigli by Romeo Gigli, then Escape or Ananya on cheap days, then L'Eau d'Issey, then Chaos by Donna Karan and now it's Comme des Garçons variants all the way.

Ned: Deee-lite own the timeframe mentioned above in terms of faddish fashion. Pucci leggings! Anyone who knew from Pucci leggings in '90 clearly had some art-based love for fashion.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 15 March 2004 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002L0I.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Monday, 15 March 2004 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

suzy that's some knowledge of perfumes u got.

i'm loving herme's eau d'orange myself but you'll be telling me that's
like so '99 or whatever.

― piscesboy, Monday, 15 March 2004 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)

The cardigan would have holes in it.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 15 March 2004 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I spent much of the 90s in a holey cardigan. I also had a NIN t-shirt, but I didn't know N. at that time so he can maintain his status of not knowing anyone who wore anything so terribly 90s.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 15 March 2004 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I still wear my holey cardigans from the 1990's, I have issues about replacing things.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 15 March 2004 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

http://rock_afire.tripod.com/pics/allstarpics/asc13.jpg

― kephm, Monday, 15 March 2004 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Hermes anything is kind of timeless, as with yer Guerlain family of fragrances, the numbered Chanels (Coco being a late '80s thing) and certain pre-1980 Diors and YSLs. My grandmother wore Diorissiomo.

Also currently working Donna Karan Black Cashmere as it smells like both Chaos (very discontinued when DK sold to Estee Lauder) and Comme des Garçons Avignon aka 'sex in church/Catholicism/guilt'.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 15 March 2004 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't read every single word of this thread, but I don't think anyone mentioned BIKER SHORTS! with a neon yellow/purple strip on the side
http://www.acsportswear.com/store/graphics/00000001/Lycra_Shorts_tights.jpg

Also, when I think 90s, I think of the girl dancing on the stairway in the "Bust A Move" video.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 15 March 2004 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I held an early nineties party for my 21st last year. I went as the brown-haired piano-playing singer guy from East 17. I had torn jeans, a white shirt with open collar, a really raffy waistcoat and a yellow badge that said "blam!".

This is what happens when you leave organising the costume for your own party until the night of the party.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I still think the best theme party idea is to have everyone dress (and act) like another person at the party.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 01:01 (twenty-two years ago)

can't forget the godawful shit that was Tribe perfume -- "A Fragrance Uprising," apparently.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 03:25 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.ricmusic.de/wrhage1.jpg

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 03:42 (twenty-two years ago)

a question about these perfumes.... do you perfume listers all really smell an old perfume and immediately think 'gee thats so 90s!!' or is it just a brand thing? i mean i guess it's possible that perfumes contain all sorts of olfactory cues just like the visual cues everyone picks up abt clothes but i really wouldnt have a clue about it!

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 07:55 (twenty-two years ago)

no it's for real. I mean what about CK one and CK be? Every little skank was wearing those ones when I was in year 9 (around 1994)

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 08:06 (twenty-two years ago)

what's wrong with paisley shirts?!

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 08:12 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah i guess i mean were there general trends in perfumes in the 90s? like would there be generic perfumes the smell really really 90s, or is just that certain brands happened to be popular then, but didnt smell much like eachother?
i don't think i'm explaining it very well but is there a perfume that is to the 90s what patchouli is to the 70s?

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 08:13 (twenty-two years ago)

did anyone mention the short-sleeve t-shirt over long-sleeve t-shirt thing yet?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 08:14 (twenty-two years ago)

by 'a perfume' i mean a certain smell, not a brand name

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 08:14 (twenty-two years ago)

jeremy jordan: i think the whole oceany citrus scents are a hallmark of the 90's.

esoj: No, I don't think anyone has yet. We can blame sonic youth for that particular 'look' i think.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 08:21 (twenty-two years ago)

haha sorry to harp on abt it so much but i find it really interesting! i think mainly cos i have a pretty bad sense of smell and i often find perfumes kind of confusing

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 08:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I wear men's scents. I don't like many women's one. They're all too flowery for me.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 08:27 (twenty-two years ago)

what are the defining notes of 00's perfumes?

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 08:44 (twenty-two years ago)

spicy: cardamom, cinnamon, wood tones.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 08:46 (twenty-two years ago)

"Oceany citrus scents' is a good way to describe the '90s in perfume terms; so is 'green' scents. When I think '80s, I think of Giorgio and Coco and Dior Poison (none of which I wore), all really heavy and clingy and there to be noticed: 'hey, she's wearing EXPENSIVE perfume there'. '70s were spicy, hence Opium and Charlie. Preppies and my aunt wore White Linen by Estee Lauder.

Right now I've got a bunch of Comme fragrances that are experimental: one of them has essence of burnt rubber, another has gin, another has frankincense.

Also yes of COURSE there are fragrance trends. Do you have any idea how the fragrance wing of various ateliers actually pays for the whole operation? Almost the second that those efficient, light fragrances coalesced as a mainstream trend, people wanted to be different and sought out things like Chaumade and Opium, or educated themselves about vintage scent like they did with the corresponding clothes. People also buy themselves fragrance if they're looking for an affordable way to have Gucci or Fendi or whatever.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 08:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I find it odd that no one has mentioned combat trousers yet.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 12:07 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.demotelco.com/fb/photos/resources/217114166216105612301474000001/drew.jpg

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I am listening to Utah Saints' 'What Can You Do For Me', The Prodigy's 'Charlie', Ned's Atomic Dustbin's 'Happy' and Lush's 'Single Girl' with deference to this thread.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)

and early nineties pop-dance is

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 12:30 (twenty-two years ago)

i refused to wear combat trousers

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

But you had a shell suit Steve. I feel much better about not having worn a shell suit, but having owned combat trousers.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

i refused to wear combat trousers

i was already wearing them, and was confused to find myself in fashion for about six months. this is what comes of hanging around with crusties. i still have a pair. is that VERY bad??

has anyone mentioned nose-piercings yet?

also - we're missing the mid-90s period. 70s print shirt, obtained from a charity shop before the charity shops caught on and hiked up the prices. flares. platforms. afghan coat.
i still have most of these things, too.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I wore combat trousers, but never a shell suit, stevem, i'm shocked!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I refused to buy them too, until about 1999, when for some reason I caved to a dying fashion and bought some summery white ones. The first day I wore them, I sat on a cheap rug that got wet and bled colour into my new trousers. My combat experiment was thus brief and unhappy.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 12:37 (twenty-two years ago)

B&W camo combats are across the line, though.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh God, with a cord mini-skirt sometimes instead of flares. This was the uniform of my sixth form common room.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

AF OTM

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

although, I don't approve of any kind of combat trousers/camouflage gear, maybe.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 12:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I vaguely remember wearing tartan hotpants. I had forgotten all about them until I saw some similar ones in Urban Outfitters recently!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

then there was that horrible waistcoat thing that happened in the 90s. for a while, even fluffy furry ones were acceptable. or perhaps that was just in gay clubs..

i would not wear one of these. even to a 90s party. even to a very bad 90s party that i didn't want to go to.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)

i didn't have the shell suit TOP i should add. also, this was 1990 and i was 12 - half the stuff i mentioned in my original list was stuff i wore just when i was 12 in fact. they were crazy times, anything felt possible.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

1997 was all about the mustardy/beige jeans tho

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 13:06 (twenty-two years ago)

when i was 12, i wore a parka. it was deeply unfashionable. i hated having to wear it.

now i'm ahem... a little older. i have a parka again. it has become unfashionable again, now. i like wearing it.

i'm sure there's a statement about something there. if i was clever i'd say it was an indictment of the emptiness of post-modern cultural recycling.
but it isn't. its just kind of...sad, really.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

http://moc2002.cool.ne.jp/impression/shoes/palladium002.jpg

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Combat trousers should never be worn in novelty colours, patterns or fabrics, otherwise they are just Zubaz with more pockets.

Also combats are the trousers of any and all clubbing. Dance to jungle, shop at Jungle. In the mid-'90s Levis were shitting themselves because of the fall in their sales/rise in combat sales.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

1997 was all about the mustardy/beige jeans tho

My mustardy/beige jeans phase started in 1993 after a trip to Glasgow.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Combat trousers are the one example I can think of of indie fashion anticipating high street by about 5 or 6 years.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

What about crap t-shirts?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Aargh if we're talking personal fashion disaster back-catalogue, I'd be wearing a lot of tie-dye. *brrreurgh*

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, Liz.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I know, the shame etc. I was living in full-on chav horror Medway Towns oblivion, and felt the need to express myself against the Kappa tracksuits and teenage pregnancy. I wore DMs with long flowery skirts.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I wore paisley shirts in 1987 'cause I was into the Hoodoo Gurus and Three O'Clock, etc. It was SO OVER by the 90s that only Miles Hunt wore them. Speaking of which, Mr. Rhyming Slang to thread!
lotsa Mary Janes
Sebadoh lyrics felt-tipped on my stomach by my boyfriend
shorts/tights combo
the flowery dresses that you could still get at the thrift store before Natalie Merchant killed them and they became 90210 material
I am SO depressed right now

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Man, it was bad. But I was a horrible teenager, so it kind of fitted.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

A shorts and tights combo?!

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Aha surely you jest.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

'fraid not :(

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

this thread is illuminating as i understand better why i didn't have a girlfriend for the entire duration of the 90s. worst decade ever.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Hold on... shorts and tights WITH BRACES is ringing a hideous "Blossom" bell.

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

no braces, as that would be reserved for a VERY SPECIAL "Blossom"

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

The one where they went to go to see C&C Music Factory and ended up dancing with them in the queue, perhaps?

GRATE NEWS FOR ALL OUR VIEWERS!

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

The floppy flowery hat thing mentioned upthread is also applicable to the Bialik-monster.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

she is in fact responsible for the sartorial shame inflicted upon women in that era. Her and Jennie "Rabbit-Face" Garth

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Let's hunt them down and BURN THEM! Although they are unfortunately not responsible for my own nasty past: that is entirely down to my misguided youth.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

At my primary school the big thing was to wear sheer black nylons with your skirt. Also:
Guess? jeans
These shirts you would blow on and they changed colour
A floral slip-dress worn over a tiny tshirt
cK One

― Genevieve, Tuesday, 16 March 2004 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I know, the shame etc.... I wore DMs with long flowery skirts.
-- Liz :x (lizd4ply...), March 16th, 2004.

liz, you say this like its a BAD thing?!?

i would like to see the print-dress and docs look come back. for men.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

No-one's mentionned chokers? Ubiquitous in '93

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www1.usen.ne.jp/~koji/otbs/stussy-kubrick_3.jpg

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Chokers, yeah, though I have them down from 92-99 (started with ribbon chokers and was CHAINS by the end).

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh God, slip dresses. I wore them with everything. Trainers and a feather boa were popular for that Sarah Cracknell look. Now I wear my nineties slip dresses as nighties.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 12:27 (twenty-two years ago)

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