Now I have a question...
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tigeranneWhy 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?
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?
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Date: 2017-12-03 11:01 pm (UTC)80s cartoons were from the satelite dishes, and had addictive powers over children. VHS taught teenagers how to KILLLLLL people. Especially old ladies. Teenagers in the 80s loved killing them. We knew, because adults we knew had seen it depicted in TV dramas. (But those were on the state channel, so they were safe to watch.) Music videos could make you stupid, allegedly. And narcotics. It had something to do with drugs. "Boys don't LIKE that music, they listen to it because of peer pressure." Boys with mullets were most likely violent to kids smaller than them. Video game consoles were literally a crime against nature.
I'm not joking, I spent around 25 years of my life being very relieved that I wasn't a teen in the super-dangerous 80s. x) To be fair though, there were a LOT of young people killed in car accidents in the 70s and 80s, because getting a driver's license was a lot easier. Children were run over, because people couldn't really drive. In the 80s, the drug deaths also started mounting. It was still a problem when I was in high-school, but by then it had gone from "We are powerless to stop this," to "You can choose not to do this stupid thing."
I love low-rise jeans, but I never wore the extreme kind that was briefly popular in the early 2000s. When you need to do a Brazillian wax, so your bikini line doesn't pop up from your jeans, your pants may be riding too low.