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

[sammyfrog.livejournal.com]

Certainly I do! The 90s was the last decade in which I didn't hate EVERY fashion. X) I think people mainly concentrate on the ugliest bits as examples for every decade because they're the most memorable. (Twenty years from now they'll be hard pressed to figure out what that is for THIS decade, IMO!) I don't remember the 80s being nearly as ugly as it's portrayed. After all, men used to wear pants that fit, and you could admire their nice derrieres! :D I never thought I'd see anything uglier than the pants five times too big and hanging halfway down the hips with the boxer shorts showing, but the tight legs and saggy ass combo is definitely worse!

[laridian.livejournal.com]

I miss a lot of the 80s fashions, including skinny ties and fitting clothes, and the bright colors. Dreary colors and grunge were very depressing.

But all decades have some overlap. Like, WW2 had carryover for several years after 1945, and the 1950s really lasted until about 1963 in terms of styles and fashions. The 1960s, a lot of people immediately think "hippie", but that didn't get started until 1966 earliest, and didn't really get going until 1967... and lasted for several years into the 1970s.

What I mostly remember from the 1990s is grunge and flannel.

I really don't like low-rise jeans though. I guess it's leftover from when I grew up, but I prefer a higher waist on my jeans and pants, and low-rise feels uncomfortable and wrong.

[lollipoplegacy.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. I grew up in the 90's and its hard to find a lot of stuff on Ebay from when I was a child. Now a days the 90's toys and stuff would be collectibles but back then they were just new. Tamagotchi's are back and they are like 50-60 dollars and I think as a adult back in 97 when they came out and I had to have one...now I am like "what was the hype"

[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.