Observations about growing up in the 90s

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At house parties there was always that one person in the long black coat who refused to take it off.
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Friends Reunited wasn't around in the 90s.

I remember everybody wearing either army jackets or shiny tracksuit bottoms with poppers up the side. People reeked of white musk. My mate Maxine had an awesome floppy, black velvet hat that I coveted. Eurotrash and The Word after getting in from the pub.

Meeting up with mates in town, wandering around the record shops, listening to the latest tracks on the headphones. Trip. To a pub for a couple discussing the plans for Saturday night. A wander around bay trading, mk1, miss selfridge, New look. Etc finding an outfit, boots for a lippy to replace the one lost/ used up scribbling a number last Saturday. Bus home, get ready then bus to mates to consume a bottle of cider before doing the city centre pub crawl and a club.

I was only a teenager for 1 year and 1 month of the 90s.
Miss Sporty eye gloss and Constance Carroll nail varnish in lurid frosted colours. Song lyrics printed in the back of magazines. Chris Moyles on Radio 1 on the way home from school. Taping the UK Top 40 every Sunday night.

Impulse 02 body spray, used to love that! Shame you can't get it anymore. Girls changing room at school used to smell of it constantly. Meeting your friends in town at an exact time at an exact place because nobody had phones. Being unable to phone your boyfriend on the landline because you dad was using the internet! Cherry red doc martens and stripy tights. Thinking you had the best boyfriend because he had curtains and a pager

The white lace dress was definitely the 90s. Can't remember the shop but I had that dress or very similar. My mum banned me from wearing it out.

I put another outfit on, went to my mates and got changed.

Skin-tight red/blue/yellow denims
Armani blue/red jeans perfume
Charlie Red perfume
10 fags for £1.20
Mad Dog/Thunderbirds/Merrydown gold/silver top
Sovereign rings
Name chains

@Foxes157

The white lace dress was definitely the 90s. Can't remember the shop but I had that dress or very similar. My mum banned me from wearing it out.

I put another outfit on, went to my mates and got changed.

Definitely remember crying on my birthday because I wanted this exact outfit to wear out that night and my ma had spent too long in the supermarket - the one wee shitty clothes shop in our town closed at 4.30pm...so I had to wear one of my 3 other dresses that I wore on rotation basis. Still salty about that

Wearing nail polish or lipstick or really any make up, or having a blow dry would have made you an old frumpy weirdo.

Even wearing a dress and high heels was only for very special occasions.

Combat trousers
What was that cheap Superdrug make up? Something 2000??

I used to have block high heel shoes 😂

Long popper skirts

Take that or east 17

Body Shop

A terrible hairstyle consisting of hair up and then curled ringlets at the top of my head

Drinking hooch!

Also, pagers.

I never had one, but my friend did. I remember having to go to a phone box, phone a number I had written down, tell the lady the number of his pager, and the message I wanted to send, and then... wait..:

And hope he would turn up at the right place at the right time.

Lots of waiting when we were young. And missed meet ups.

If you walked past a phone box and it was ringing, you'd answer it.

Casio PDA’s

@TheMurk I used to think it was just me who was a bit low maintenance as a teenager and couldn't understand why everyone started getting so dressed up in the mid/late 00's. Saying that, I always had my nails done. Usually bright blue. My friends and I used to go out with the smallest purses possible, just big enough to fit in your ID and £20. £30 if it was a Saturday and you were feeling flush.

I've been listening to a lot of the music I used to love in my teens lately, pearl jam and smashing pumpkins. Makes me feel old.

I'm just glad there was no smart phones and social media when I was at uni! No evidence of my terrible behaviour. I used to love going out and drinking hooch and bacardi breezers, with a shooter from baabar in Liverpool all for £1.50. I remember when smirnoff ice came out and we would all go out and get shit faced on what was essentially cloudy lemonade.

Did anyone else go to Reading festival in 1996?? I probably listened to it from my back garden

The white lace dress was definitely the 90s. Can't remember the shop but I had that dress or very similar. My mum banned me from wearing it out. My shop that sold it was called Top Class. I think it still exists. Probably still selling the same stock

What was that cheap Superdrug make up? Something 2000?? Collection 2000

There was also a shop that sold nail varnish, I think the brand was Spectacular. There were 100s of colours. Each one had a number and a name. It was my aim in life to collect them all I may still have some

Sun and Moon earrings and going to see the Levellers. Going to Glastonbury when people could still jump the fence and taking two days to find your friends (early 90s - pre mobiles)

Scraped back geled hair with 2 tiny strings of hair hanging in the front

The Box! So many hours spent watching the box.

Brit pop. Loved it.

Swatch watch.... Think that was 90's.

I was underage for most of the 90s so we used to gather at someone's house and order a chippy and ask/beg the delivery driver to go and buy us our 'carry oot' (Glasgow).

Tribe perfume.
Black cherry lipstick.
DM's
Tiny skirts but very baggy tops
And not a care in the world!

Coffee shimmer lippy

Glastonbury 1995 was the peak of my teenage years - Oasis, Pulp (because The Stone Roses pulled out), and The Cure headlined, and the mainstage had every indie band going. It was a beautiful hot and sunny weekend and I went back to college sunburnt and so so happy.

spiral perms, back combed fringes and mood rings. Slip dresses with a fitted t-shirt underneath, over knee socks and dolly shoes with pink glittery eyeshadow and sugar pink sparkly lipstick from Boots Natural Collection and a mini rucksack.

Tie dye tops, chunky hematite necklaces, beads and braids, with a good slug of body shop dewberry perfume. Getting drunk on Taboo mixed with Archers peach schnapps. CD walkmans , trying to find the loudly beeping pager at the bottom of your school bag in the middle of a maths test, listening to Ace of Base or UB40.
Getting your mate to ask a boy out on your behalf, getting your mate to call a boy you like from a phone box, hogging the landline for hours on end chatting on 3 (or 4) way phone calls. Keeping a spare fiver in your shoe on a night out (just in case you lost your bag, and to keep your mum happy), £1 a bottle student nights and walking home from the club with a mate at 2am because the taxi queue was too long.

@LadyMonicaBaddingham

Skinny white tee under a slip dress. Worn with Docs. Fucks sake.

I always quite liked the old fashioned tea dress with docs.

I remember most of my cassettes being copied from a mate. I had loads of long happy hardcore and techno mixes with the name of the DJ scrawled on them in marker pen. My bedroom wall was flyers from club nights, used to pick them up in the record shops.

A half fallen out perm with mousse scrunched through it was the in look and I fancied all the boys with curtains.

My then FWB drove an escort xr3i with blacked out windows and a baked bean can exhaust. He used to screech to a halt and pick me up when I was half cut at 2am from the local nightclub. I think he was 26 and I was about 17. All the cool boys had XR3i's with blacked out windows and subwoofers.

I never ever carried a handbag. Instead we had all our stuff in black leather bumbags which we slung over our shoulders. Going out outfit would be knee high boots, black mini skirt and a crop top. If you pulled in a club you would beg a pen/lipstick/eyeliner from someone and swap numbers. A woman always used to turn up in clubs selling roses for £1 in a plastic wrapper.

If we were going to a rave or a free party there would always be drama about getting there, trying to organise a lift and then finding the party based on rumours. Sometimes they were rubbish. Raving attire, if going to a big proper one would be hi-vis jackets, white gloves, whistles and hair in bunches.

Loved the 90's

@Fatted yes making a night of it on £20 not a chance Of that now!