Teenager in the 90's

Black cherry lipstick
Samsara perfume
Just17 magazine
Cappella and La Bouche
20/20, Thunderbird and pints of Kangeroo
Black hair with blonde streaks at front
Short grunge dresses with doc martins

• loved streetmate and my so called life!

not sure if im just thinking back with rose tinted glasses (which I did have at some point, round john lennon type ones ) but jobs seemed easier to come by, I always hard part time work and often several jobs at once as needed to fund my social life and left home at 17 so had rent to pay as well as studying. Leaving uni and going straight into a job, no problem getting more part time work, whereas 17yr old ds1 has been applying for part time work for well over a year and not even an interview yet.

I turned 14 in 1990, so got to enjoy the whole of the 90's properly

I remember being in the 6th form and wearing coloured dm boots or ones with floral print, with thick black tights, tight short mini skirt and a denim shirt or check shirt undone with a tight fitting band t-shirt underneath. thought I was so cool, also my hair was curly permed , chin length bob, that was longer on one side than the other, and really crunchy with my giant can of 99p superdrug hair mousse (im sure it was a pink can)

Feeling sooooo cool when I was given a pair of mahrishi cargo trousers, plain khaki with an embroidered dragon on the back of the leg, with my tight shoestring strappy vests and gazelles, I was definitely cool lol.

I remember the local market sold t-shirts with brands on , champion, ellese etc something like 3 for £5 and we thought we were fab in them, I don't think we ever really thought that they were fakes.

then once older was heavily into the dance scene going off to raves and parties in halls of residence in unis. Driving off to leeds (I was in York) and Manchester to go clubbing and driving home at 6 in the morning, or waiting for the first train back to York.

Had ds1 in 1997 so partying was curtailed at 21, but still managed to go clubbing right up to the week before having him, although have to admit wasn't so fun sober.

It was all satin wrapover short skirts and dresses like nighties, all topshop or warehouse finest.

bloody loved watching mel and sue at lunch time when I was on maternity leave.

Kensington Market.
Going shopping for clubbing outfits in Black Rose or Sex shops. (Trashy goth type... )
Reading Festival when it was still a rock festival.
Torn fishnet stockings with everything.
PVC hipsters for college (WTF was I thinking?! )
Lusting after men with longer hair and better makeup than me.
LSD on bank holiday weekends
Being bloody thin!
Furry hair bobbles
Foam parties
Crunchy perms

If anyone fancies a bit of nostalgia look up the series Beautiful People. It's set in the 90's and is amazing!!

Ankle length gypsy skirts both floaty and their closer fitting high waisted bretheren which involved a lot of buttons.

Babydoll dresses.

Velour dresses.

That weird fabric which had a black base and then a metallic colour running through it. Always sheer, usually black and red or black and blue or gold.

Blouses with a tie waist.

Brown make up with a distinct orange hint (not just foundation). everything had it, eyeshadow, lipstick, blusher.

Tartan mini skirts.

Chunky heels.

Butterfly clips in all shapes and sizes. A seemingly natural progression from the closely related banana clip.

Back combing.

Wet look mousse.

Hair scrunched to within an inch of its life.

Dewberry and white musk.

Patchwork leather jackets.

Patchwork dresses.

Resurgence of paisley.

Body suits.

Cat suits.

Buttons. There was a real attention to buttons in the 90's. either chunky and out there or just sheer numbers. Everything had to have the buttons be some kind of feature.

Explosion in coloured jeans.

Huge jumpers.

DM's and all their various spin offs.

Really thick opaque black tights with everything.

Music telly was amazing back then. What was that BBC2 weekday evening 'yoof' TV slot called? I bloody loved it. With the Fresh Prince, that music clips show I can't remember name of...

That Saturday morning music show on ITV with the graphics of 'play', 'pause' etc (the Vault?)

The word on a Friday night

Dance energy with Normski

TOTP on a Thursday every week

The Brits with all the various shit presenters

YY to smash hits poll winners party and Jarvis Cocker still love him

And the charts every Sunday on radio while doing homework

Hi everyone.. first MN post

I also had navy coloured skirt/pants

Tv Shows - Not sure if all are 90's.. maybe earlier

Blossom
Mork & Mindy
Finders Keepers
Fun House
Crystal maze

Sweets

Push pops
Dummy rings
Dweebs
Nerds
Runts

Fashion

String necklaces with dolphins/crosses/star signs on etc
Combat pants
Vest type t shirts cut in like a diamond at the bottom

Toys

TY Beanies
Slinky
Furby
Trolls
Polly pocket
Stretch armstrong
Sky dancers
And a giant yellow teapot that everybody had but this may have been late 80s as not a teenage type toy

I loved the 90's:

Happy hardcore
Drum and bass
Trance and techno
Illegal warehouse raves
Ecstasy
Clubs where I went dressed as a fairy and handed out homemade cupcakes

I turned out just fine

Tasted like*

This thread is fab!
Can anyone remember Castaway? Came in a green bottle with a yellow label and treated like alcoholic lilt. Loved that!
My clubbing outfit consisted of black dolly shoes, knee high Black socks, kilt and a shiny satin shirt (my favourite was my baby pink one). Bliss!

Oooh I've loved this thread! Forgotten how much I enjoyed being a teenager in the 90's. Anyone remember popswatch watches? I had 2. I looked on eBay a few years ago to see if I could buy one but they were ridiculous prices I also remember 10 Regal king size being £1.09

The x-files mania.

Pedal pushers. My mum complained about them constantly. Not to mention the attractive kickers shoes.

I remember a geography teacher trying to look up what the latin name for 'supergrass' was during a lesson about habitats. She overheard someone talking about it...

forgot lulu, white musk & charlie perfume. & dewberry. & impulse vanilla.
roseanne on the telly
fresh prince of bel air
more, just 17, smash hits song lyrics

in no particular chronolgical order:

Nafnaf jackets
bennetton duffle bags
enormous plastic dummies on ribbons
trolls (before the internet variety even existed!)
"eez' are good e's are good...etc"
blur n oasis, suede, lush, echobelly, pulp
bloody boyzone, takethat, boyz2men, gabrielle & kavanagh! (had forgotten about that last one until i caught a really crap documentary the other night)
kurt cobain dying
massive puffa jackets
dms
mood rings
camden market
east 17 (didn't like 'em but they were local boys dun good & their songs have aged surprisingly well
face glitter
platform trainers like ginger spice

jelly bean sandals

Ananya body spray from the body shop. I have to wonder what it smelt like now.

Tommy Girl perfume. I still have some.

Remember pretty much all of the above.

I was 16 in 1992 and went to work for the company who made global hyper colour tshirts

Oh yes so many of these - NafNaf is something that had entirely slipped from my consciousness!

Arranging to meet someone at a specific time and place before mobile phones

BT chargecards for us uni students in the 90s so we could phone home from the halls pay phone & it would charge the home phone bill

Richey Edwards of the Manics going missing

omg I remember late night love with GT!!! We used to sit in my friends bedroom with the lights off warbing along to power ballads!!

My So Called Life - I still love Jared Leto now!!
X Files (I was obsessed....you can tell from my username!)
Heather shimmer lipstick
dewberry spray from body shop
fruit of the loom jumpers
kickers shoes
checked shirts
shopping at tammy girl!
wella colour mousse
diffusing my curls
boybands
dawsons creek - pacey, sigh!
CK one - or the cheap knock off we used to buy from the market!
satin shirts - I had a shiny blue one and I thought I looked the bees knees. I recently found out that my elderly gran had the same shirt lol!!
radio one roadshows
those wedge trainers that the spice girls used to wear
all the boys having curtains
penpals
snogging boys down the local park!

I LOVE this thread! I have literally nodded at every single post and Google is going to get a bashing once I've finished typing this!

I can't believe thought that no one has mentioned Late Night Love with Graham Torrington! I believe it's still on now but the sound of GT's voice takes me right back to being 15 sat in my room surrounded by my posters of Paul Nicholls.

Passing notes to friends in school and drawing a peace sign, a heart, a smiley face, and a yin yang at the bottom of every one, which of course stood for peace, love, happiness, and harmony. 4-eva, naturally :o

Had forgotten about the two stringy hair bits in front! I had those, shimmer lipstick, and a ridiculously tight lycra green striped shirt with a turtleneck. Fetching! Then I tried to be grunge with ripped jeans, my dad's flannel shirt overa Cranberries tee, and bangs in my face. And angsty poetry. Still later I wore huge pants and tiny Hang Ten tshirts and lusted after the skater boys with their yo yos and hacky sacks and curtain hair. :o