Now I have a question...

[tigeranne]

Why does the entire Internet seem to think that the 90s ended in 1992?

If you google "90s fashion," all you get is images of stuff that carried over from the 80s, and disappeared quickly as grunge took over casual fashion. It's like no one remembers the last 7 years of the decade, for some reason.

When I think of 90s fashion, the first thing that comes to mind is earth colours and muted palettes. Olive green, grey, brown, beige, baby blue, off-white and mustard yellow. Orange actually being the new black, for a periode between 93-95. Pink being outlawed, along with belts. Dark denim. Extremely fine-wale cordury. Un-bleached linen. Low-rise, bootcut jeans. Button fly or laces instead of zippers. Plaid flannel shirts. Striped, rib-knit henleys and t-shirts. Spaghetti strap tops. Biker and combat boots. Floral button-down dresses worn with big shoes. Thin, cropped cardigans. Layered polo-shirts. Bucket hats. Everyone cutting their hair in layered styles like Jennifer Aniston, and/or dyeing it red like Claire Danes.

Anyone else remember this?

Comments

[holaspis.livejournal.com]

A bit of central-European 90s kid perspective: I remember most of those things perfectly, but some of them only arrived where I live in early 2000s. For example - laced pants were only a thing around the same time coloured sunglasses were, button flys definitely started earlier though. And when bucket hats arrived, it was already something lame.
What I remember the best is denim. Lots of denim. Everything denim (I even had a denim pencil case). Short-sleeved turtlenecks and spaghetti straps in tops and dresses, sometimes all worn together. And cargo pants.
And I wonder if you had something like what we did: in late nineties it was possible to buy safety pins in other colors than silver. We used to pin lots of them everywhere on our jeans, mostly on parties or some bigger outings. I actually still like this look.

[tigerannesims2.livejournal.com]

I remember the coloured sunglasses! Pink and green were the big colours around here. :) That was definitely in the early '00s. :) My best friend back then had a pink pair with a little glitter heart on one side. x)

Around the same time, we made bracelets out of safety pins and beads. I still have two of them, that I made right before college.

I forgot to put cargo-pants in the post. x) Remember the draw-string ones, from the 98-03 era?

[holaspis.livejournal.com]

Around here pink or yellow were seen the most. I had a pink pair - to go with red hair and leather jacket. So it must have been 00's - you're right about the ban on pink.

I do! But those came back around 2008, in an "envirronment friendly" incarnation (supposedly made out of recycled fabric). And looking at skinny jeans surrounding me now, I wish came back again.

I wonder... Were the safety pins part of grunge style? Or was it more generally rebellious? I just realized we sort of never had true grunge music - most of our 90's mainstream had arisen from underground punk rock scene, and then people turned to hip-hop in what seemed like a fortnight.

[tigerannesims2.livejournal.com]

The safety pin bracelets weren't seen as particularly rebellious. If I remember correctly, the early 00s didn't really have angry, woke young people, the way this decade has. It had angry, frightened conservative people and sad, disillusioned liberals. The bracelets were more of an arts and crafts DIY thing.

I come from the land of corpse paint and lyrics consisting entirely of wovels and the letter "r." At least that's the music we're known for exporting. x) It's not mainstream even here, so our taste in music is very Americanized.