Whilst this blog is really aimed at looking at our favorite toys of the 1990’s, we mustn’t forget our ghastly fashion mistakes. I have gone through the family album and pulled out some of the greatest fashion mistakes of the 1990’s:
1. Padded “lumber jack shirt”
Every young male in 1990’s had at least on of these bad boys. I had a red, blue and even one the rarer green varieties. They were warm but needless to say they where hideous and many of us are glad to see the back of it.
2. The bowl cut
Whilst not exactly a piece of clothing, this hair cut defined the 90’s for many us. Barbers no longer needed to spend time and effort getting the right cut when all was needed was a good sized mixing bowl and a razor.
3. The Fleece
Whilst every young male has the lumberjack jacket, everyone else had the fleece. From your great grandmother down to a new born baby everyone had to have it. This led to the fleece now being placed in fashion room 101 for all except middle aged mid-life crisis victims.
4. John Lennon sun glasses
These glasses where what the aviators used to be a year or two ago. John Lennon’s could be seen in the worlds parks,shops,bars and even in the ecstasy fueled raves that the decade was so famous for.
5. Baseball Caps
Ok i know people still wear baseball caps but not like they did in the 1990’s! We wore them everywhere and anywhere. It was not just the chav/pike class that wore them back in the day! It was cool to wear a cap in a bar/club rather than a statement that you wanted to beat the shit out everyone. New anti-cap rules have led to a real reduction in baseball caps but mainly their downfall was due to people realizing they looked like chumps.
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Hey, I used to resemble that look. Remember the hooded flannel.
When i read your post about fashions from the ‘90 i must laugh a little. First about the fantastic photo’s in your post and later about my memory and the clothing that i wore in the ‘90. I come from Holland and in the ‘90 rave clothing was a big hit. I was also one of many that had rave clothes and went to a lot of raves. It was a fantastic time but when i think of the rave clothing i must still laugh a little. A lot of bright colored colors and very tight clothing. But after all it was a nice memory…
Paisley shirts (1989). Some fashions don’t ever make a comeback. For a reason.
Rave was the last proper new “scene”. Everything else that’s followed is a re-emergence of a past scene.
Ah, good post - gave me something decent to read while I am bored at work. I’ll have to check your site out more often
Thanks!
Oh well! You remind me those old good days when I was nothing else than that. I could see the same thing all around me all around the world. Thanks.
My favorite fashion invention of the 90s? The Thong! That and belly shirts. Nice!